Antonio Brown's Feet Are A Nightmare

Screenshot: Antonio Brown (Instagram)

Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown visited a foot specialist over the weekend to address an injury that has kept him from participating in most of training camp. Thanks to Brown’s Instagram page, we have a pretty good idea of the specific nature of that injury.

Be warned that the following photo is pretty gross. I don’t even think Rex Ryan would enjoy looking at it:

It seems to me that Brown is wasting his time in seeing a specialist, because you don’t need to be a doctor to accurately diagnose a situation that includes missing a piece of skin the size of a damn tortilla chip from your left foot. In the medical field they call that “some real fucked up shit.”

Brody And Kaitlynn Jenner Had Been Hinting At Marriage Problems For Months Before Splitting

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In his testimonial, Brody explained that he was out late for work. He said: "My job is at a nightclub, DJ'ing pretty much every single weekend. Sometimes the partying, it can be fun. When she goes out with her girlfriends and stays out late, I condone that. I think it's fine. But when I do it, it can be a problem for her."

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‘Toy Story 4’ Fights Off ‘Annabelle Comes Home’ at the Box Office, ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Still Trails ‘Avatar’

Posted on Monday, July 1st, 2019 by Ethan Anderton

Surprising absolutely no one, Disney and Pixar were able to hold onto the top of the box office for a second weekend with Toy Story 4. The movie is still performing below expectations, but it’s not as if the movie is hurting for money.

Meanwhile, Disney and Marvel Studios also aren’t upset with the box office performance of Avengers: Endgame, which was re-released in theaters with some bonus footage after the credits this past weekend. Unfortunately, the last ditch effort to rake in some extra cash won’t be enough for the movie to topple the all-time record set by Avatar.

Find out how much the Toy Story 4 box office added last weekend and the rest of the numbers below. Read More »

‘Toy Story 4’ Easily Tops the Box Office But Still Opens Below Expectations

Posted on Monday, June 24th, 2019 by Ethan Anderton

It should come as no surprise that Toy Story 4 topped the box office this past weekend. However, what is surprising is that the acclaimed sequel from Pixar Animation opened significantly lower than the studio projections heading into the weekend.

In its opening weekend, Toy Story 4 raked in $118 million, which would be a strong opening for any movie. But Walt Disney Pictures saw the sequel making around $140 million or more heading into the weekend. The number is still enough to give it the best opening in the franchise (without adjusting for inflation), and the third largest opening weekend of the year. But could this be a sign of audience fatigue when it comes to sequels, reboots and remakes? Read More »

‘Men in Black International’ Tops the Box Office But Disappoints With Franchise-Low Opening

Posted on Monday, June 17th, 2019 by Ethan Anderton

It’s a cruel summer at the box office this year. Avengers: Endgame may have started off the blockbuster season with loads of cash and John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum may be surpassing its predecessors on the charts with great success, but most of the other sequels are crashing and burning spectacularly. And despite topping the box office this past weekend, Men in Black International is another one of those disappointments.

The Men in Black International box office debuted with only $28.5 million from a whopping 4,224 screens. That’s massively disappointing, especially since it’s a record-low opening for the Men in Black franchise. It’s even below what analysts expected for the movie, showing that audiences aren’t attracted to summer movies simply because they have previously established intellectual property involved.  Read More »

‘The Secret Life of Pets 2’ Review: A Slight and Scattered Sequel That Doesn’t Have Much to Say

Posted on Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 by Josh Spiegel

It took the Walt Disney Company only five years after its first fully animated feature film to release what they dubbed a “package” film: a series of shorts strung together to feature length. In Disney’s case, package films were a necessity to ensure that they could make money during the war-torn 1940s. For Illumination Entertainment, the animation unit based in France that’s responsible for such feature-length mediocrities as Despicable Me and Sing, it took them nearly a decade to make their first package film.

And here, too, necessity no doubt drove Illumination to make its first package effort, because if they couldn’t make a franchise outside of the Minion-verse, then they’d have no film this year. Don’t let the title fool you. Yes, The Secret Life of Pets 2 is a sequel to the 2016 hit, but this new picture is three mostly separate stories that could just as easily function as episodes of a TV show as they do as pieces of an aggressively inconsequential feature film.

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‘The Secret Life of Pets 2’ Set to Soar Past ‘Dark Phoenix’ With $65 Million Opening

Posted on Friday, May 17th, 2019 by Hoai-Tran Bui

Superheroes can’t stop the super franchise that is The Secret Life of Pets. The Secret Life of Pets 2 box office tracking shows that Universal’s animated sequel is head toward $65 million during the June 7-9 weekend, soaring past its main competitor, Dark Phoenix, which is only tracking for $50 million.

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‘The Secret Life Of Pets 2’ Trailer: How About One More Look At This Sequel?

Posted on Thursday, May 16th, 2019 by Chris Evangelista

There have been approximately 400 Secret Life of Pets 2 trailers, but I guess one more won’t hurt. The sequel to the 2016 animated hit once again will show viewers what our pets get up to all day when we’re not at home. The answer: murder. Okay, I’m kidding, that’s not what happens. But wouldn’t that be wild? Watch the final Secret Life of Pets 2 trailer below.  Read More »

‘The Secret Life of Pets 2’ Playing Two Weeks Early with Fandango VIP Screenings

Posted on Tuesday, May 7th, 2019 by Ethan Anderton

Blockbuster sequels aren’t just limited to big action bonanzas like Avengers: Endgame, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, and Spider-Man: Far From Home. Family films are getting the sequel treatment this summer too, and one of them will be hitting the big screen much sooner than anticipated.

The Secret Life of Pets 2 is the latest movie to become part of Fandango’s Early Access Screening program that is available to all members of the free-to-join Fandango VIP rewards program. The movie will open towards the end of this month, nearly two weeks ahead of its wide theatrical release next month. Read More »

‘The Secret Life of Pets 2’ Trailer Unleashes the Emotional Side of Pets

Posted on Thursday, April 11th, 2019 by Hoai-Tran Bui

Sometimes pets need therapy too. That’s what the official The Secret Life of Pets 2 trailer is about, which comes on the heels of about 352 character trailers that spotlighted every. Single. Pet. And as much as we can’t get enough of adorable dogs and cats in real life, animated pets just don’t have the same shine. But maybe the official The Secret Life of Pets 2 trailer will turn you around on them.

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The 967th ‘Secret Life of Pets 2’ Trailer Introduces Harrison Ford’s Character

Posted on Wednesday, February 20th, 2019 by Ben Pearson

Han Solo. Indiana Jones. Rick Deckard. Jack Ryan. Harrison Ford has embodied several cinematic legends over the course of his storied career, but he’s never lent his voice to an animated movie – until now.

Illumination’s The Secret Life of Pets 2 has been releasing a new character-centric trailer every few weeks for what feels like an eternity, but their latest finally gives us our first look at Ford’s character: a dog named Rooster. Check it out below.
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Is the Summer of Sequels Bad for Movies?

The man with the most consistent track record to conquer the 2018 box office doesn’t work for Marvel, and he doesn’t make Star Wars movies. He isn’t shepherding the DC universe, and he’s never animated for Pixar. He doesn’t scare with dinosaurs, and he’s not toting precious IP. He has, however, created three critically acclaimed TV shows, won three Emmys, and helmed three consecutive installments of one of the most dependable franchises in movies today. His name is Genndy Tartakovsky. Heard of him?

Tartakovsky is the mastermind behind Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, Hotel Transylvania 2, and the original recipe, 2012’s Hotel Transylvania. Every three years, Tartakovsky makes a Hotel Transylvania movie, and every three years it makes north of $300 million around the world. Tartakovsky is no hack: he’s the creator of the beloved animated series Samurai Jack and Star Wars: Clone Wars. But he is a successful opportunist. The Hotel Transylvania series is a triumph of old-word studio movie success blended with new-school strategy. It’s the last remnant of Adam Sandler’s once unbreakable bond with Sony, his full-time home for decades before he decamped to make live-action movies for Netflix. But it’s also an expertly and cynically engineered animated kids’ series with only the minimum amount of creativity needed to elevate it beyond straight-to–Cartoon Network fare.

Hotel Transylvania 3 topped the Rock’s Skyscraper in a head-to-head week of release showdown at the beginning of the month, and is still reeling in viewers. This weekend, it came in fourth, with more than $12 million in receipts. Within weeks, it will be among the 10 biggest releases in the U.S. this year. And when that happens, it will be the ninth of the 10 that is a sequel. This weekend, eight of the 10 highest-grossing releases were sequels, too. The other two—Teen Titans Go! To the Movies and Skyscraper—essentially act in the same capacity, as updates on the ongoing DC Comics team’s adventures and Dwayne Johnson’s continuing efforts to defeat inanimate objects. (Many of the eight are comprised of delirious word salads dressed in colons and em dashes, among them Mamma Mia 2: Here We Go Again!, Mission: Impossible — Fallout, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.) This is unprecedented territory in the history of the box office. During this time period last year, just four of the top 10 were sequels, and two of those—Spider-Man: Homecoming and Wonder Woman—were not directly preceded by a connecting installment to their story. In fact, sequels have never been this necessary to the stability and growth of theatrical movies, which are experiencing an extraordinary 8.3 percent bump in gross. These are heady times for the business. But it’s a perilous game being played.

The evident collapse of MoviePass paired with the sustained success of lesser-light franchises signals a bizarre trend. Let’s look at three: Hotel Transylvania (the third edition has made nearly $120 million in the U.S. in just shy of three weeks), The Equalizer (the sequel crawling to match the $100 million gross of the original), and Sicario (the unexpected follow-up Day of the Soldado has made a respectable $49 million, more than the first). All three of those franchises (I guess that’s what we call them?) were developed and released by Sony. All three originals were surprise hits. All of their follow-ups operate in the same style as their predecessors, but they’re fundamentally linked via the continuity drug that houses like Marvel have laced through their movies. Return business is everything. In Hotel Transylvania 3, Sandler’s Count Dracula gets into some horror high jinks. The Equalizer 2 is just another movie that features Denzel Washington killing bad guys. In Day of the Soldado, drug lords are viciously murdered. There are no Easter eggs or post-credits sequences. There’s no fan community shitposting theories about the creators’ betrayal of the mythology. There’s no high-level critical engagement of these movies. There’s not even all that much external communication in the wider world. But people are seeing them. They are the fabric of the box office. How long can this last?

It’s too early to tell. One of the more discrete and clever lessons of the booming era of comic book movies is to simply make more movies like the ones that people just went to go see. Kevin Feige’s gambit of a long-running, unbreakable chain of moviegoing content strikes fear in the heart of every other movie executive. But it’s aspirational, too. Some of this summer’s sequel oddity is a decade-long master plan finally being aped around town. Some of it is smash-and-grab easy money. Some of it is studios like Paramount, which has been running behind Disney, Sony, and Warner Bros. in recent years, focusing distinctly on what works. After Fallout—a well-received, well-liked six-quel—its biggest release this year will be Bumblebee, a spinoff from the Transformers universe. Disney’s two big hitters are Ralph Breaks the Internet and Mary Poppins Returns. Aquaman and those Fantastic Beasts and Creed II and The Nun and Venom and Goosebumps 2 and The Girl in the Spider’s Web are still to come, too.

We’ve seen all this before, but we’re seeing it again because we keep telling studios it’s what we want. And maybe we do. I saw Fallout for a second time this weekend. For my birthday. Is this a sickness or the cure? More likely, it’s the comfort of distraction. It’s unknowable if this dam will break. In the meantime, we’re getting awfully well-acquainted with the rising water.