According to a Variety article that I commented on yesterday, during the past four years new sources of funding like private equity money have created a ‘surplus of movies’ that are forcing Hollywood to release ‘heavyweight’ movies across a wider spectrum of dates, other than on just around Easter, summer and the year-end holidays. During [...]

This past weekend Watchmen opened with an estimated $55.7 million. This is the sixth largest opening for an R-rated film, and the twelfth-largest for a movie adapted from a comic book. Still, Watchmen was heavily hyped and was expected to open stronger given its similarity to 300, another Warner Bros. comic book movie also directed by Zach [...]