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Bad Moms earns $23 million – and it only cost $20 million to make

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While Star Trek Beyond and Ghostbusters continue to fight to recoup their budgets, comedy movie Bad Moms has already done so. With a rumoured budget of $20 million, comedy ensemble Bad Moms has already made $23.4 million domestically and $24.8 million worldwide. If Bad Moms can capture the Bridesmaids audience retention, it could earn around […]

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Trailer – Flickering Myth Reaction

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The Flickering Myth Team React… SEE ALSO: Read the Flickering Myth Reactions to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Captain America: Civil War, Suicide Squad, Ghostbusters and more While we wait patiently for Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: Episode VIII, we’ve got another outing into our favourite galaxy far, far away in the form of Gareth Edward’s […]

The Oscars don’t matter and we all need to stop caring

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Luke Owen on last night’s Oscars… If Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, then Awards Season is the most loathsome as a film fan. It’s the time of year that a group of out-of-touch Hollywood professionals all gather round to lay their hand down on what they think was the best film released […]

Flickering Myth’s Most Anticipated 2016 Movies

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Flickering Myth looks ahead to 2016… It’s the future! And with the New Year officially upon us (we’re five days into it after all), we sat down to vote for our most anticipated movies of 2016, and below are the results. Each writer had five votes, which were then collated into scores and tallied to […]

Was Pixels really that bad?

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Luke Owen looks at Adam Sandler’s latest box office bomb… “It’s the cinematic equivalent of receiving a supermarket brand deodorant gift set on Christmas morning: you don’t want it, you’ll never use it, and frankly, it stinks.” – Chris Blohm, Little White Lies “Some movies are so interminable that it seems they might never end, […]

10 Box Office Flops From 2015

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Luke Owen looks at a few box office flops… It has been a very successful year at the box office for most of the major studios (Disney and Universal have done particularly well), but that doesn’t mean we’ve had a few duds along the way. Not just from a critical standpoint, but also from a […]

Tobey Maguire says Tom Holland was “great” as Spider-Man

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Tom Holland made his long-awaited debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as The Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War, and a previous Wall Crawler has officially passed the torch. Someone posted a video online of Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker watching Captain America: Civil War, which the actor found so funny he reposted it […]

Die Hard Rebooted: 10 Other Franchise Reboots That Failed to Launch

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Luke Owen looks at the failed franchise reboots… Rebooting a franchise isn’t just an idea anymore, it’s a formula. If you have a pre-existing franchise with a pre-existing audience, reboot it. And then if that doesn’t work, just reboot it again. We live in a world where we have three different attempts at creating a sustaining […]

Flickering Myth’s #7FavFilms

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If you’re a user of Twitter, you may have noticed that the hashtag #7Fav has been doing the rounds, ranging from movies to TV shows to video games and even comics. Well we decided to collate the Flickering Myth writing staff’s picks, which you can view below. Twitter is awash with #7favfilms at the moment. […]