23 stories by "Edward Douglas"
While Production Design is one of the craft categories that infrequently matches Best Picture race, this year features four films (The Brutalist, Conclave, Dune Part 2, Wicked) that were nom…
When it comes to the craft categories at the Oscars, Costume Design is fairly self-explanatory. As with the Art Directors Guild, the Costume Designers Guild (CDG) nominates films in th…
After a terrific October, things settled down for the first weekend of November, as few major studios wanted to open the holiday movie season, and no new movies opened in more than 1,500 the…
Filmmaker Martin Scorsese returns to theaters just in time to take on Taylor Swift in the second weekend of her record-setting "The Eras Tour" concert movie. Read on for Gold Derby's box off…
This weekend, we'll be entering new box office territory, as arguably one of the biggest pop stars on the entire planet shares her record-breaking sell-out concert tour to theaters across th…
After one of the worst months of 2023 at the box office, we might have found the true savior for the month of October in a pop singer. Taylor Swift's return to theaters is with a concert fil…
In July, Tom Cruise's latest foray as Ethan Hunt, "Mission: Impossible " Dead Reckoning Part One" crashed into movie theaters like a runaway train, taking advantage of the fact it could get …
Rumors about this weekend have been swirling around the internet for many months as something lovingly referred to as "Barbenheimer" " this Friday, that potential summer feud comes to a head…
We're getting into the period of the summer movie season when there are so many new movies being released back-to-back, we're going to start to see some cannibalizing of theaters. Read on fo…
March really has been great at the box office, beginning with Michael B. Jordan's "Creed III," followed by two out of three franchise sequels that outperformed their original movies. This we…
It's hard to believe, but this weekend will be the fourth four-day weekend in the past two months as the nation celebrates Presidents Day, and schools and government workers get another Mond…
James Cameron's "Avatar: The Way of Water" has been doing huge box office business both domestically and overseas since it opened in mid-December, passing many impressive milestones while pl…
It's January, which doesn't exactly mean that awards-worthy movies will immediately disappear from theaters, but it has become somewhat synonymous with studios dumping notoriously bad movies…
This past weekend was essentially all "Avatar: The Way of Water" all the time, as James Cameron's sequel to the 2009 global blockbuster burst into over 4,202 theaters on Friday after making …
Some might say that second place is nothing to write home about, but not in the case of David Harbour's violent holiday action-comedy "Violent Night." It opened in 3,682 theaters against Mar…
Things didn't look great last weekend for the end of the summer box office, but the month of August may have been saved by the release of the animated sequel "Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero" …
July came to a close as movie theaters saw a minor drop that could very well be a portent of things to come, as August is expected to only have one major blockbuster. Warner Bros. decided to…
As we cross the midpoint of the summer movie season, Marvel Studios released its second movie through Disney into 4,375 theaters as director Taika Waititi looked to recreate the magic of his…
On paper, the idea for "Lightyear" seemed like a sound one, and for many, the return of Pixar Animation to theaters after two long years should have been seen as an event in itself, mainly b…
It's May and the summer box office season has kicked into gear with Marvel Studios' "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness," starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Benedict Wo…
May brings the start of the summer movie season, yet it's a relatively quieter month compared to April with only six or seven wide releases, at least so far. What's important is that this wi…
Over the weekend, Matt Reeves's "The Batman" scored big time in movie theaters with $134 million after making $57 million on Friday (including $21.7 million in preview screenings between Tue…
From the moment I first watched Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story," I knew I had seen something special. I immediately thought that this was, in fact, going to be the new Best Picture fron…