The Black Panther Box Office

Note: Repeats now playing on MNN until we go back live in May for our 30th season.
More Oscars preview in our bonus section since 3 Billboards won at the Baftas, the British Oscars.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/black-panther-weekend-box-office-record-shattering-debut-1085932
Wow, nobody saw this coming besides Disney of course with all their marketing pull. Now the question is will this have legs for the rest of the month going into March. While a great looking film and a great cast, the hype couldn't compete with the story which was dragging all over the place. 2 big scenes, car chase and ending, and the rest was a total bore. And what was up with that damn train at the finale? And poor Andy Serkis. Another character setup from a previous film only to be wasted half way thru in the next. What's up with that?
Mini-review:  3 out of 5. Even tho Wankanda reminded me of Thor, they could have shown more of it. And yes the Bond influence was obvious, no problem there but can we get to Infinity War already?

http://collider.com/infinity-stones-explained/
But the Soul Stone was not mentioned in Black Panther so what gives there? But a good catching up article for those who got lost in the shuffle. Yeah I bookmarked this myself before Infinity Wars, lol.

https://movieweb.com/last-jedi-backlash-jj-abrams-fans-threatened-by-women/
LOLOL. the man who's back to directing the next Star Wars going full retard. Really J.J.? When was the last time you had coffee with James Cameron? Think he'll beg to differ. Ok, now the next Star Wars is in really big trouble with his attitude...

Oscar Preview:
The Force of Sound - Star Wars
30 minute of making of the sound for the Star Wars Franchise. Some of us know the tech behind it from previous editions aka dvd's etc, but this is the latest updated version of how this is produce which includes a lot from The Last Jedi, the film that everyone loves to hate on, lol.
Note: Star Wars always get nominated in this catagory for some reason more than others aka SFX.

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/bafta-awards-2018-complete-winners-list-1202702940/
3 Billards is the major winner. I'm good with this and most of the awards. As this will tell who's going to win at the Oscars which works most of the time.
I finally caught up to all the films except for Mudbound. The last of the bunch to watch was
I, Tonya in which Allison Janney won for Suppt Actor. I mean she nailed it. She was funny as hell, even better than Margot Robbie. Scene with the shotgun "this never happened!" is a classic.
To be honest all the Suppt Actresses were just as good especially Spencer (Shape of Water) and Metcalf (Lady Bird, Sheldons mother lol)

http://www.darkhorizons.com/roger-deakins-wins-the-asc-top-honor/
Hopefully Oscar will wake up. 14 nods and still no win. WTF. Shame its on Blade Runner and not his previous efforts. Skyfall anyone? Don't matter he deserves it no matter the film.