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I really enjoyed the pilot episode of Superman and Lois. It's a really nice take on Superman and Lois Lane dealing with parenthood and Superman having to figure out how to balance life as a superhero ...

I watched Wonder Woman 84 a couple of weeks ago. My take:

I'm fine with the story idea, examining greed and selfish desires, and the problems that come with them.

I was fine with the Maxwell Lor ...

Late on this, but Birds of Prey came out just as the pandemic hit the United States and, a few weeks after its release, people stopped going to movie theaters, and they were going to shut down anyway ...

Steve's right that there was more to Bozeman than Black Panther. I know he played Jackie Robinson in 42 and he had a major role in a number of other films.

His impact on films was pretty big. So sa ...

I will likely go to theaters when there is a movie I want to see. There are a couple that are to be released in the coming months that I want to watch.

Only issue then is making time to see those m ...

So my box office thoughts about the films in question:

July 24: Mulan

Disney was hoping this would be the latest animated to live-action/CGI film to go big. It will be one of the first major rel ...

Now that more states are easing restrictions and movie theaters are starting to open up, probably worth looking at planned releases and their scheduled dates.

I'll stick to those that would be the ...

Lots of evidence show that huge crowds of people, particularly when they are indoors, sitting or standing close to one another, and constantly talking, yelling, or cheering, where ventilation is poor, ...

They're airing Crisis on Infinite Earths again this week.

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/crisis-on-infinite-earths-april-rerun-schedule-released-by-the-cw/

They put a bunch of movies that were supposed to hit theaters straight to On Demand, or moved quickly there.

Won't be surprised if more titles get moved there, just to get them out to the public.
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Lot of movie theaters are closing because of the coronavirus.

No way to do any more comps given the circumstances.

Won't surprise me if we see a lot of films get their releases pushed back, so a ...

Pixar's next film, Onward, will debut March 6.

Pixar films usually do good business, so it will be interesting to see how that release does.

In the meantime, it's probably Sonic's business to lo ...

Rise of Skywalker is up to $513M. Though it's still in a few theaters, it's going to fall short of Rogue One, which drew $532M.

Probably a sign they need to take a break from Star Wars movies for a ...

Sonic the Hedgehog opened at $57M. Mojo is projecting it could reach $70M with its four-day total once President's Day estimates come in.

The $57M is a better opening than the Pokemon movie that de ...

Birds of Prey opened at $33.25M, below the studio's projection of $45M.

The studio seems to be thinking of Shazam as a comp, because Shazam opened at $53.5M. The studio did take into account that B ...