Movies & Money with Erik Childress
by Erik Childress Every Thursday morning on WCIU-TV's First Business, yours truly joins Angela Miles for the Movies & Money segment where we break down the weekly box office, make predictions and further analyze the trends we are seeing in the marketplace. Here is a list where you can find us in your market. Otherwise you can check out the program's website or come right here where you can see all of the segments.You can follow Erik Childress on Twitter @erikthemovieman . MOVIES & MONEY SEGMENTS 2021 NATO Is Angry At Studios...Again. Do The Black Widow Numbers Tell Us Anything? F9 Breaks Pandemic Record, But Can It Reach New Milestone? Will F9 Soar or Skid? Did HBO MAX Damage In The Heights? Franchise Fatigue, Pandemic Numbers or HBO MAX? Strong Memorial Day Weekend Breeds Optimism Can Films Breakout This Summer Season? Big Mergers To Shake Up Streaming Wars? Bye, Bye Golden Globes Word of Mouth Not A Factor Right Now The New Box Office & Evaluating the 2020 Oscars Predicting The 2020 Oscars Was Moving Top Gun A Mistake? Godzilla vs. Kong vs. Knives Out vs. Netflix Black Widow Goes To Streaming The 2020 Oscar Nominations Are Announced The Good & Bad News About Raya Paramount Plus Rises & Coming 2 America Falls New York Reopening Theaters & The Golden Globes Scandal Are More Release Changes On The Horizon? Record-Breaking Deal and the Best of Sundance 2021 The April Exodus Is Upon Us A New Streamer Entering the Game Are Studios Fleeing The Spring? Is WB Delaying HBO MAX Rollout? 2020 Films and the Presidency Disney Gives Theaters Hope For 2021 Warner Bros. Gives 2021 to HBO MAX Doom, Gloom & Santa Is Wonder Woman 1984 Headed To Streaming? Will Vaccine Announcement Provide Hope For Film Industry? When Will Wonder Woman Move?? Could James Bond Be Headed To Streaming? The Return of Borat & More Recommendations Two More Holiday Films Head To Streaming Studios May Have Blown It With Theaters! Stream or Delay. Pick One! More Shake-ups To 2020 Schedule Theaters In Trouble But Toronto Fest Carries On Do Tenet's Numbers Tell Us Anything? Is Tenet Worth Going To Theaters For? Critics Choosing Safety Over Coverage of New Mutants Is Unhinged Worth A Trip To Open Theaters? The Paramount Decree Falls Along with Disney 4K Mulan Comes Home Universal & AMC Come To Potentially Historic Agreement Tenet Leaves & Blame Game Arrives Studio Optimism Is Hurting Theaters Palm Springs & Greyhound Come Home Will New York End The Summer Season? And Summer Is Pushed Back Another Week Theaters Prepare For Shortened Summer Season Are Hollywood & AMC Coming Back? Jon Stewart's Irresistible Heads To Streaming Tom Hanks' Greyhound Strikes Apple Deal Unhinged Attempts The Summer Kickoff Drive-Ins Find Resurgence During Pandemic The King of Staten Island Makes Big Move To Streaming The Next Big Animated Release Heads To VOD Ways To Help Local Theaters Through Stay-At-Home Cinema Disney Shuffles Up Their Schedule Sony Exits From The Summer Season Wonder Woman Sequel Delayed - But for the best? New Industry Steps In Response to COVID-19 Hollywood Continues To React To The Coronavirus Onward to the Spring Season The Invisible Man & Horror in 2020 Is Sonic A Good Sign For Paramount? The Downhill of Rom-Coms? Birds of Prey and the Oscars Sundance Sets a Sales Record Bad Boys Head For January Record Reaction to the Oscar Nominations The Box Office Winners of 2019 2019 The Star Wars Saga Ends Jumanji, Jewell and Ten Billion Dollars Frozen II Sets Thanksgiving Record Frozen, Knives & Mr. Rogers Set to Ignite Box Office Will Ford v Ferrari Rev Some Life Into Holiday Box Office? Will Ford v Ferrari Rev Some Life Into Holiday Box Office? Can Doctor Sleep Break The November Horror Curse? Holiday Box Office Top 5 Predictions (and Terminator) How Big of a Bust Is Maleficent Sequel? The Return of Maleficent and Zombieland Can Will Smith Continue Sci-Fi Streak? What To Expect From Joker The Hunt for Yeti and Oscar Rambo, Pitt or Downton For Top Spot? The 2019 Toronto Film Festival The 2019 Summer Box Office Losers The 2019 Summer Box Office Winners Ready or Not - Can Good Boys Repeat? Did Studios Get The Memo On Animated Films In August? Could Dora Challenge Hobbs & Shaw For #1? Where Will Hobbs & Shaw Place On August's Chart? Will Tarantino's latest Keep Up DiCaprio Streak? The Lion King Likely To Quash Box Office Panic Stories Is There A Summer Slump At The Box Office? Toy Story 4 A Disappointment? Please!? Can Toy Story 4 Make Run At Animated Record? Sequels Be Bombing Dark Phoenix Looking Darker Godzilla vs. Elton vs. Booksmart vs. The World Can John Wick Take Out The Avengers? Two Billion and Counting The Endgame Is Endgame A Long Shot For Records? Avengers Endgame Headed For All-Time Records Star Wars Celebration 2019 Shazam Favored vs. Hellboy! Tracking Shazam & Pet Sematary! Dumbo vs. Doppelgangers! We Need To Talk About Us! Big Premieres At SXSW 2019! Does Captain Marvel Soar Or Fall To Earth?! Can Anything Boost The Box Office Before Summer?! It's Oscar Prediction Time! Valentine's Day Gets Crowded At Box Office Lego Movie To Reign Over Crowded Weekend Sundance Posts New Record Deals Glass To Go Unchallenged At Box Office What Will Glass Shatter This Weekend? Kevin Hart, Aquaman & The Golden Globes Can 2019 Top Last Year's Box Office Record? 2018 A Loaded Christmas Will Lead To Box Office Record The Spider-Verse Set To Top Box Office Is The Holiday Box Office Champ Still On The Way? A Holiday Box Office Update Is Fantastic Beasts More An International Franchise? Will The Grinch Be One Of The Biggest Films of the Season? Does Bohemian Rhapsody Live Up To Its Music? Little Competition Paves Road For Halloween To Reach Milestones Halloween and the First Man Good Times With Two of the Year's Best A Star Is Born To Take Down Venom Loudmouths vs. Small Feet Can Michael Moore Beat The Clock? Will Disney Take A Gunn Hit & Does Netflix Scare Anyone? The Nun & Other Potential September Winners The Winners & Losers of The 2018 Summer Dirty Puppets, Crazy Rich Asians and Billionaire Boys Crazy Rich Asians Set To Top Box Office A Giant Shark and a BlacKkKlansman Christopher Robin" The Last Hit of the Summer? Hit Will Fallout Become The Franchise Leader? Month of Sequels Broken Up By Potential Breakout Hit Is A Record-Breaking Summer On The Horizon? There's A Sicario Sequel? Jurassic's $4 Billion Franchise Aims For More How Incredible Will The Sequel Be? An Ocean of Fear at the Box Office What Happened With Solo? Solo Aims For Memorial Day Record Deadpool Shoots For R-Rated Record How Much Life Is There For McCarthy Party? Infinity War Gets Counterprogrammed Will It Be A Pretty Week at the Box Office? Rampage Hopes To Disturb The Quiet Can An Uprising Take Down Black Panther? Ready Player One From SXSW Red Sparrow and the Oscars What Did Paramount Do To Annihilation? How Much Scratch Can Black Panther Reign In? Fifty Shades of Terrorism What Films Got Bump from Oscars & Sundance? Update from Sundance 2018 Oscar Nomination Predictions Can Liam Neeson Beat a Cute Bear? The Post: A Movie For Our Time 2017 Defending The Last Jedi It's Star Wars Time! Can The Disaster Artist Find a New Audience? Hollywood Takes A Couple Weeks Off What Big Hits Could Still Be Slated for 2017? Is Justice League Another DC Failure? A Remake & Sequel Tries To Lure Folks Away from Thor Thor Kicks Off The Holiday Box Office The Return of Jigsaw and a Lionsgate Halloween It's A Tyler Perry Weekend At The Box Office Busy Box Office Overshadowed by Harvey Weinstein The Long Road of Blade Runner 2049 Is American Made a Win for Tom Cruise? Kingsman vs. Ninjago. Do They Have It? Don't Blame Me If You Hate mother! Blame Yourself Stephen King's It Set To Break Records Winners & Losers of the Summer Box Office Steven Soderbergh Returns (To Form?) The Dog Days of Summer Are Here! The Delayed Plague of The Dark Tower Blondes, Emojis and Race Riots How Good is Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk? Can Apes Rule The Box Office Again? Gru Will Rule But Hope for Baby Driver The Best Big Sick Is Not The Latest Transformers Is Third Time a Charm for Cars? Wonder Woman Targets The Mummy So How Good is Wonder Woman, Anyway? Pirates & Baywatch Face Off on Memorial Day Weekend Does the Alien Franchise Still Have Its Fans? Does Summer's First Bomb Come Early? Guardians Set To Rule Summer Box Office What Will Win the Summer Box Office? Fate Faces No Real Competition The Fate of the Furious is Money Family Weekend Unlikely To Involve The Smurds What Is Paramount Doing With Ghost in the Shell? Can Any Film Take Down Beast At Box Office? A Report from the 2017 SXSW Film Festival Kong To Challenge Logan But Beast Looms? Is Logan the Best X-Men Film Ever? Time for Oscar Predictions? Three Newbies May Not Beat Last Week's Newbies? It's Sequel Week! Who Comes Out Ahead? Weekend of Rings and Questionable Sundance Deals Live from Sundance: The Latest Deals Six Wide Releases Crowd MLK Weekend 2016 Breaks Box Office Record 2016 Rogue One Arrives To Rule Holiday Should You Attend the Office Christmas Party? Jackie & Manchester Make Down Weekend Seem Up You Can Find Fantastic Beasts At #1 Loving Is The Movie We Deserve Right Now Is Doctor Strange Being Underestimated? Who Won & Lost the Fall Box Office? Will Jack Reacher Be Booed At Box Office? Is That Damon or Affleck in The Accountant? The Girl on the Train & The Birth of a Controversy Does Disaster Loom for Deepwater Horizon & Lionsgate? Will the Magnificent Seven Ride? Can Blair Witch Continue the Cycle of Horror? Can Sully Stick the Landing? WInners & Losers at the Summer Box Office Ben-Hur Puts Spotlight On Bad Year for Paramount The Dog Days Of Summer Begin One Last Good Week for Summer & Suicide Squad's Future Suicide Squad: Who Will Go and Should They? Will Bourne Disappoint and Bad Moms Surprise? Why Does Paramount Have No Faith in Star Trek? How Good is Ghostbusters and Will It Be Good For Sony? Pets' Secret Lives & Spielberg's "Brand" Will Dory's Dominance Hurt Other Family Films This Summer? Is The Summer Box Office Really Slumping? Can Finding Dory Get Box Office Back On Track? The Declining Summer Box Office of 2016 Will a Weak Summer Continue With the Turtles? Are Alice and the X-Men Worth Your Money? Can Neighbors, Angry Birds & Nice Guys Take Down the Civil War? Civil War is the Only Money Monster That Matters Captain America: Civil War & Summer Box Office Predictions The Calm Before The Storm At Box Office The Huntsman Poised For A Letdown? The Calm Before The Storm At Box Office Batman & Superman Make Money But For How Long? Batman v Superman: The Dawn of DC Worry? The DEfense, Not the DeFENCE of Divergent Why Chicago Didn't See This Week's Releases Zootopia, London Has Fallen & Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Oscar Predictions Deadpool's Success And Its Non-Competitors in Weekend Two Deadpool, Zoolander 2 & How To Be Single Feb. 4 Jan. 28 Jan. 21 Jan. 14 Jan. 7 2015 Dec. 17 Dec. 10 Dec. 3 Nov. 19 Nov. 12 Nov. 5 Oct. 29 Oct. 22 Oct. 15 Oct. 8 Oct. 1 Sept. 24 VIDEO 2014 Sony and The Interview Hacking Good & Bad News For Exodus + Universal's "Best Year" What Will Moviegoers Be Seeing On Christmas? Sony Gets Hacked & A Disappointing Thanksgiving What Will Moviegoers Be Seeing On Christmas? The Hunger Games Poised To Make History Was Interstellar a Disappointment At Box Office? Warner Bros. Faces Layoffs After Bad 2014 Holiday Box Office Preview & Predictions Did Fury Save Sony's Year in the Box Office Red? The Judge Is Another Failure For WB. Is There Hope for 2014? Why is Adam Sandler Going To Netflix? Netflix & Weinstein Bypassing Theaters For Crouching Tiger Sequel? Fox Studios On A Roll Deals & Oscar Favorites from the Toronto Film Festival Report from the Toronto Film Festival The Winners at the Summer Box Office Studios Being Screwed By Bad Tracking Disney & Dreamworks Stock Grows As Summer Nears End Will Piracy Hurt The Expendables 3? Will Summer Dropoffs Continue With Guardians of the Galaxy? Is Marvel Becoming a Juggernaut? Limited Releases Finding Success This Summer Fox Is Having a Good Summer (and a Good Year!) Summer Box Office Is Down. What Films Can Help? Transformers Numbers Controversy + Life Itself Did Legends of Oz Bilk Investors? Summer Box Office Winners & Losers (So Far) What Is Wrong With Dreamworks? Is Tom Cruise In Trouble + The Biggest Film of the Summer? Warner Bros. On Edge With Cruise & Jupiter Finding Optimism in 2014's Numbers Will Big X-Men Opening Be Big Enough? Sony Posts Big Losses After String of Bombs Longterm Prospects For Amazing Spider-Man 2 Begins To End This Weekend Spider-Man & Predictions For The Top 10 Movies of the Summer Search for God has Mixed Results at Box Office What Is Behind The Final Divergent Split? Three New Releases This Week No Match For Captain America Studios Not Having A Good Year, But Captain America Is Here Why Was Paramount Hiding Noah From Film Critics? How Much Does Summit Have Riding On Divergent? SXSW, Veronica Mars & Trouble For Dreamworks Animation Oscar Recap + Tough Weekend To Call At Box Office Who Will Win The Oscars? Good News/Bad News For Sony + Lego Movie Headed for $300 Million? Legos, '80s Remake Week & Lionsgate Goes Franchise Lego Movie Poised To Rule February While Monuments Men Will Not The Big Deals At Sundance January the Garbage Month. Let's Look To February. Oscar Nominations & Big MLK Weekend The Big Winners & Losers of 2013 Previewing the Potential Big Hits of 2014 2013 How Good is Anchorman 2 & Other Major Holiday Releases? Big Big Success For Tyler Perry, AMC Stock & Paul Walker Big Holiday Records Warmup For Big December? A Loaded Christmas at the Cinema Success of The Best Man Holiday and The Hunger Games Could The Best Man Holiday Challenge Thor? A Bad Marvel Film Set To Rule Box Office For Two Weeks Picking The Top Grossers of November Gravity Slated To Fall, But Not As Far As Sony Can Gravity Be Challenged In Its Third Weekend? Gravity Sets October Record & Captain Phillips Controversy What Will Be The Big Movies This October? Should Disney Have Parted Ways with Jerry Bruckheimer? Insidious & Big Sales At Toronto Film Festival Toronto & Telluride Giving Big Buzz To Titles Films Proving Big For Specific Demographics Can The Butler Win Labor Day and Will Big Budget Flops Implode Hollywood? The Butler and the Successes of the Summer Thoughts on Jobs, Butler Prospects and a Summer Record? Is Sony In Trouble with Daniel Loeb? Potential Winners at the Box Office for August Another Big Hollywood Bomb + Wolverine Expectations My Favorite & Least Films of Summer + Weinstein & Fruitvale Station Big Success & Big Failure Over July 4th Holiday Hopes For Big Numbers & Sony's Bad Summer World War Z's Moral Victory & Two New Comedies Opening Paramount Sweats World War Z & Man of Steel's Potential The Purge's Success and the Truth About Man of Steel Google, The Internship & Sony's Potentially Iffy Summer Big Memorial Weekend & What To Avoid The Week After Star Trek's Darkness & Universal's Bright Summer Why Did Gatsby Do So Great & Summer Box Office Preview (Fox) Summer Box Office Preview (Bad for Paramount) Summer Box Office Preview (Warner Bros.) Summer Box Office Preview (Disney) Warner Bros. Has a Hit & Impending Oblivion Croods Boosting Dreamworks & Crazy Rich Movie Lovers G.I. Joe Looks Good For Paramount. How do Evil Dead & Jurassic Park 3-D Look? How Important Is the International Box Office? WB Posts Fifth Straight Loser and How Big a Hit is Oz? After Oz, What Will Be The Next Big Hit? Bad 2013 for Warner Bros. Is There Hope? Warner Bros. Sweating Jack the Giant Slayer Special Oscar Show with Predictions A Look At Valentine's Day Box Office for Ladies and For Guys Dreamworks Layoffs & a Big Stallone Bomb What Were The Big Deals At Sundance? Nothing Screened For Critics + February Preview Oscar Box Office Bump & Zero Dark Thirty Light? Oscar Predix & Zero Dark Thirty Controversy Blockbuster Predictions for 2013 & Oscar Balloting Thoughts 2012 How Was Christmas Day at the Box Office? A Look At This Year's Christmas Releases The Biggest Hits & Flops of the Year vs. Budgets The Hobbit Breaks Record But May Still Finish Last The Awards Lead and Thoughts on The Hobbit Can A Record Month Lead to a Record Year? Why Did Rise of the Guardians Fall? A Christmas Box Office Preview Big Skyfall Numbers & Thanksgiving Preview Skyfall and the Great Numbers of Flight Disney Buys Lucasfilm and Poised to Finish #1 This Weekend Pre-Halloween Weekend and a Pre-Flight Preview The Future of Argo & The History of Paranormal Activity A Near October Record and Will Argo Come Out On Top A Big September Finish and A Big October Start? Summing Up a Weak September, But Maybe a Strong Finish? How Impressive Was The Master's Opening & Will Eastwood Fill Chairs This Weekend? 3-D Re-releases, Financial Movies and the Finance of Resident Evil The Winners & Losers of Summer 2012 Talking & Not Talking About 2016: Obama's America Family Films & Anti-Obama In August Will the Box Office Sparkle This Weekend or Did It Last Weekend? Universal's Summer Hits & Misses, Plus Meryl Streep & Will Ferrell Track Records Another Fox Disappointment, but a Disappointing Summer? Discussing the Colorado Tragedy How Good Is The Dark Knight Rises & How Well Will It Do? Spider-Man Numbers & Films Outdoing Their Budgets "R"-rated Leaders & Spider-Man Prospects What Is Brave's Fate This Weekend? Why Isn't Anyone Talking About Warner Bros. Bad Year? Rock of Ages vs. That's My Boy vs. Madagascar? Was the Snow White opening good news for Universal? Were the MIB3 #'s That Impressive? Can Universal Recover From Battleship This Summer? Dark Shadows Disappoints & 3 New Films To (Not) Challenge The Avengers The Avengers Huge Numbers & Dark Shadows Prospects Will The Avengers Have Biggest Opening of the Year? A Little Preview of Cinemacon Can a film unseat The Hunger Games this week? The Hunger Games company, Re-release ceilings and Bully This Week's Box Office Logjam + Wrath of the Titans Outlook The Hunger Games Numbers & Previewing the Wrath The Hunger Games Success & John Carter Failure Big numbers coming for The Hunger Games? 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