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2015 – The Best or Worst Year At The Box Office?

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This week, Neil Calloway asks whether 2015 has been a good year or a bad one at the box office… 2015 is looking to be the best year ever for box office. As things stand, two films released this year – Jurassic World and Avengers: Age of Ultron – are in the all time US […]

How To Save The Terminator Franchise – Terminate The T-800

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This week in The Callow Way, Neil Calloway looks at where Terminator Genisys went wrong, and suggests a new future for the franchise… With the latest instalment of the Terminator franchise, Terminator Genisys opening to less than stellar reviews and not so great box office – it debuted at third in the box office chart […]

2015 At The Global Box Office

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This week in The Callow Way, Neil Calloway looks at the box office so far in 2015… Number one at the global box office so far this year is Furious 7, which has made $1.5 billion dollars so far, the vast majority of it outside the US, and also become the highest grossing film in […]

The Callow Way – Why Football And Film Don’t Mix

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This week, Neil Calloway looks at why soccer movies tend to bomb at the box office… The timing could not have been better; name recognition could not have been higher, it was the perfect time to release a film about an organisation that dominated the headlines for the past few weeks. It doesn’t always work […]

The Callow Way – Why World Peace Will Be Bad For The Comic Book Movie

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This week Neil Calloway looks at why comic book adaptations have been so popular recently… Earlier this week, Flickering Myth reported on a infographic that showed the highest grossing Marvel films. There were some surprises; the original Spider-Man trilogy beats not only the Amazing Spider-Man films, despite being released ten years earlier, but also Guardians […]

The Callow Way – Why Simon Pegg Was Wrong – And Right

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This week, Neil Calloway takes a dim view of Simon Pegg’s comments on the film industry… This week Simon Pegg cited the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard in an attempt to clarify comments made in an earlier interview about the infantilization of film. Pegg said this “as a society, we are kept in a state of […]

The Callow Way – Why Cannes Still Matters

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This week Neil Calloway looks at what winning the Palme d’Or can do to your box office… So we are in the middle of the Cannes Film Festival, and it’s easy to dismiss it as a two-week publicity vehicle for beautiful actresses to get photographed next to middle-aged European film directors on the Croisette, or […]

The Callow Way – How Films Predicted The UK General Election Result

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This week Neil Calloway looks at a movie based way of predicting election outcomes… If you hadn’t noticed, there was a General Election in the UK this week. The result was probably best summed up by the American gentleman I overhead outside the Houses of Parliament on Friday, who said “The Prime Minister who was […]