Happy Boxing Day or St.
Stephen’s Day! Another week, and more
Mostly MCU Reviews
My articles from
the week
Jessica Jones
season 1, episode 5, “AKA The Sandwich Saved Me” review.
Star Wars: The
Force Awakens non-spoiler
and spoiler
reviews. I’ve only seen it once so far,
but we’re going to see it again today! Have
you seen it yet?
MCU News
Links to news
articles and blog posts about the MCU
Is Chris Pratt great or what?
According to the Russo brothers,
we won’t be disappointed by the number of characters in Avengers: Infinity
War. They don’t say what heroes are
in the two movies, but I can guess at the overall list: all of them!
Agent Carter
season 2 and Daredevil season 2 have both wrapped production. Agent Carter season 2 will premiere on
January 19, but they have yet to announce a release date for Daredevil
season 2. However, if they follow
roughly the same post-production schedule as Daredevil season 1 and Jessica
Jones, season 2 will be ready for release as early as mid-March.
So Lyndsy Fonseca
(Angie) will be back
for Agent Carter season 2 after all, but just for one episode and just
in a dream sequence. Disappointed we won’t
see more than that of Angie this season?
News from Around
Geekdom about Star Wars
Anything not
related to the MCU Star Wars that I find interesting
Star Wars: The
Force Awakens has (of course) shattered the previous opening-day record
with $120.5 million. And it also passed $250 million worldwide
in its first 3 days. Its opening weekend
set a new record
with $238 million domestic (actually revised to $248 million)
and $517 million globally. And as if
that’s not enough, it also broke Spider-Man 2’s Monday record with $40 million. And thanks to that it became the fastest film
to reach $300 million domestically. And it beat The Amazing Spider-Man’s
record for the highest Tuesday box office total, with $37.3 million. It also set new Christmas Eve and Christmas Day records with
$27.5 million
(more than doubling Avatar’s $11.2 million) and $35-40 million, respectively, as well as a new first week
domestic record with $391.1 million. Oh,
and as if all of those records aren’t enough, it also set the highest
3-day gross for any film at any single location, with $715,010 at Pacific’s Arclight Cinema
between Friday and Sunday.
The Force Awakens
is scoring well on Rotten Tomatoes so far, sitting at 95%
during the first weekend, which is higher than both Empire and New
Hope (94% each).
Interesting. A certain character’s fate was decidedly different in
the original script of The Force Awakens. Only look if you’ve already seen the movie…
Here’s
an explanation to one of the biggest unanswered questions from The Force
Awakens. I still think it’s a pretty
convenient explanation and hope it gets developed further.
Harrison Ford
reportedly
made $15-25 million for The Force Awakens, with Carrie Fisher and Mark
Hamill making somewhere in the low-millions, Daisy Ridley and John Boyega
making somewhere in the low-hundred-thousands, and Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver
making somewhat more than Ridley and Boyega.
What do you think of these figures?
I’m a little surprised by how little the main characters earned, but I
expect those figures to be substantially higher for their next several movies.
The Force Awakens
has been nominated for a Critics’ Choice Award for Best Picture.
Okay, I hate spoilers
as much as the next guy, but this
is taking it a bit too far!
Apparently the Star
Wars: The Force Awakens novelization fills in a lot of details
that aren’t clear in the movie. Are you
going to read it?
The official Star Wars website is also filling in some details
from The Force Awakens. None of
it is exactly spoilers, but I’ll only include one detail here: the First Order flagship’s name is the Finalizer.
Reportedly
the powers that be do not yet know exactly how Star Wars Episode IX will
end. I find that a little surprising.
The Rest
Sony’s animated Spider-Man
movie has been pushed back to premiere on December 21, 2018.
Would you like to see
Mel Brooks make Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money?
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