The Hollywood Foreign Press Association never ceases to surprise and go against the grain. Only a select few categories in film lined up with the predictions of professional analysts, while all of television was completely out of left field. That’s not to say anything here isn’t well deserved. Except for The Martian anyway, which was […]
Flickering Myth’s Top Ten Movies of 2015
Flickering Myth’s writing team present our top ten movies of 2015… As 2015 draws to a close, the writing team here at Flickering Myth have been voting on our favourite movies from the past twelve months. As always, each of our writers produces their own individual list, which we then use to calculate our overall […]
The Biggest Opening Weekends of 2015
Looking at the totals for 2015, it’s been a good year for movie studios at the box office. We’ve had a couple of record-breaking opening weekends, and a certain movie from a galaxy far, far away smashed the December opening weekend record. Last year, the biggest opening weekend was $121 million, and this year is […]
The most pirated movies of 2015
Yesterday we brought you news of the most pirated TV shows of 2015 – with Game of Thrones topping the list for the fourth year in a row – and now tracking firm Excipio has revealed details of which movies were illegally downloaded the most over the past twelve months. 1) Interstellar – 46,762,310 downloads […]
UPDATED: The Highest Grossing Movies of 2015
The year of 2015 is done and dusted, and the smoke has cleared on the battle for box office supremacy. There has been a couple of shockers this year, and the overall winner of both the domestic and worldwide title was far from expected. Similarly, there have been a few movies released this year that […]
Sixteen features up for Best Animated Feature Film at the Oscars
As Hollywood gears up for awards season, Deadline is reporting that a total of sixteen features have been submitted for consideration for the Oscar for Best Animated Film at the 88th Academy Awards: Anomalisa The Boy And The Beast Boy And The World The Good Dinosaur Home Hotel Transylvania 2 Inside Out Kahlil Gibran’s The […]
Spectre opens with £41.3 million at the UK box office, shatters previous record
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 30th October to Sunday 1st November 2015… James Bond’s 24th adventure Spectre has shattered the record for the biggest ever opening at the UK box office, posting a whopping £41,299,090 haul to annihilate the previous holder, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which […]
Ridley Scott’s The Martian retains top spot at the UK box office
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 9th October to Sunday 11th October 2015… Ridley Scott’s The Martian retained top spot at the UK box office in its second weekend, pulling in £3.85 million to push its haul to £13.21 million and counting. The best of the new entries […]
Everest climbs to the summit of the UK box office chart
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 18th September to Sunday 20th September 2015… Director Baltasar Kormakur’s star-studded survival thriller Everest has topped the UK box office chart in its opening weekend, with the film pulling in £3,160,154 to dethrone the Tom Hardy-headlined gangster biopic Legend. Three other newcomers managed […]
Tom Hardy’s Legend tops the UK box office chart
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 11th September to Sunday 13th September 2015… It was all change at the top of the UK box office this past weekend with three newcomers occupying the top spots in the chart, led by the Tom Hardy-headlined Legend, whcih pulled in an impressive […]