Mission: Impossible – Fallout

As the Venice Film Festival came to an end on Saturday night and Toronto is in full swing, the attention of Hollywood is already on the new Awards Season, with the Golden Globes scheduled for January 6 and the Academy Awards for February 24. But audiences at large, here in the U.

It’s a prehistoric monster versus some crazy rich Asians, at this week’s box office. On the domestic (the U.

In the summer of 1975 audiences were thrilled by a film about a scary shark terrorizing beachgoers. It was called Jaws, it made Steven Spielberg a household name and it was followed by many other shark movies, including Deep Blue Sea, The Shallows in 2016 and, last year, 47 Meters Down.

In the box office lexicon, a “drop” refers to how much a movie’s revenues have fallen in its second outing, following the opening weekend. The drop is important, as it offers a pretty accurate way to project the final outcome of that particular film’s life in theaters around the world.

When The Mummy and Jack Reacher turned out to be box office disappointments, commentators were quick to claim that Tom Cruise was incapable of accepting that age eventually catches up with all of us, him included. He was history.