‘Hunger Games’ Beats Both ‘Creed’ and ‘Good Dinosaur’ at the Box Office

Despite having the lowest opening weekend of all the other films in The Hunger Games franchise, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2 made more at the box office than Creed and The Good Dinosaur. Considering all the talks last week about people having grown tired of the Jennifer Lawrence pictures, it’s clearly doing more … Read more

Philadelphia’s Importance in ‘Creed’

The original Rocky was about an underdog, written by an underdog (a pre-fame Sylvester Stallone had a little over $100 in the bank and a pregnant wife at the time), and became an unlikely Best Picture winner in 1977. Above that, an underdog city was its calculated setting. Despite its ties to the United States’ … Read more