When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…

Here comes Captain Marvel to the rescue and to set the box office back on track.

The domestic comp to last year has been off by as much as 26% and that’s largely because we’re comparing this year to a Black Panther-fueled winter a year ago. Well, business is about to get better for 2019 as Disney’s Captain Marvel, the…

Serial Box, the premium digital-book platform, is partnering with Marvel Entertainment to create new original stories for Black Panther, Thor, Black Widow, and Jessica Jones that will be produced by TV-style writers’ rooms, serialized in both written and audio form, and released weekly as episodes that fit the average…

Bohemian Rhapsody led all films with four trophies at tonight’s 91st annual Academy Awards, but it ceded Best Picture to Green Book, which tied Disney’s Black Panther and Netflix’s Roma for second with three wins apiece. No other film won two.

On the studio side, Disney, Fox, Netflix and Universal tied with four Academ…

UPDATE, OSCAR NIGHT 2019: Universal/Participant Media/DreamWorks’ Green Book just won Best Picture at the Oscars and that means a theatrical Oscar halo will be in effect at the box office. The pic played at 1,253 theaters this weekend earning $2M in its 15th weekend with a running total of $69.6M. The pic is bound to…

Universal’s Green Book won Best Picture tonight at the 91st annual Academy Awards, which were handed out Sunday night at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. The film’s Mahershala Ali also won Best Supporting Actor, and Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and Peter Farrelly took the Original Screenplay trophy.

Fox’s Freddie Mercu…

Ludwig Göransson began his acceptance speech for best original score for Black Panther by thanking director Ryan Coogler. “Working with you has been an incredible honor,” the composer and record producer said. “I remember 12 years ago we were sitting in our dorm room at UC writing the score for your first film, and we…

Tonight, in her first go-round at the Oscars, Hannah Beachler took home the statuette for Best Production Design, for her contributions to Ryan Coogler’s Marvel phenomenon, Black Panther.

Visibly stunned as she appeared on stage, and later in the press room, Beachler thanked her fellow nominees for the “extraordinary w…

UPDATED with speech video: “Wow, wow.. I got it. Wow, this has been a long time coming. Spike Lee, thank you for my start. I hope this makes you proud!,” exclaimed a jubilant Ruth E. Carter. “Marvel may have made the first black superhero, but through costume design we turned him into an African king, declared Carter…

Over the past year, beginning in February with Black Panther and ending in December with Vice, I did video reviews of all of what eventually became the eight nominees for Best Picture at the 91st annual Academy Awards.

Check them all out and see which one you think will take the Oscars’ big prize Sunday night.

Black Pa…

In what has been an ever-changing scenario since the race for the 91st annual Academy Awards began in earnest at the beginning of September with the fall festival trifecta of Venice, Telluride and Toronto, the hunt for Oscar has been as confounding and difficult to call as ever. The so-called precursor awards have been…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has confirmed that Black Panther‘s Best Song Oscar nominee “All the Stars” from Kendrick Lamar, Sounwave, Anthony Triffith and SZA will not be performed at Sunday’s ceremony.

Note this absolutely has nothing to do with the running time of the telecast. Since the nominatio…