The Complete Works

The Complete Works Ep. 111

The Complete Works is a filmography podcast, brought to you by FilmBook. In each episode, FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reviews and analyzes a movie from film actor, actress, director, or composer's filmography. Doug is currently examining the filmography of Tom Cruise. This week, Doug will dive into Ridley Scott's 1985 film Legend.

Cast

Legend stars the aforementioned Tom Cruise along with Mia Sara, Tim Curry, David Bennent, Alice Playten, Billy Barty, Cork Hubbert, and Annabelle Lanyon.

Plot Synopsis

Legend (1985)’s plot synopsis: "A young man must stop the Lord of Darkness from destroying daylight and marrying the woman he loves."

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The Complete Works Ep. 110

The Complete Works is a filmography podcast, brought to you by FilmBook. In each episode, FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reviews and analyzes a movie from film actor, actress, director, or composer's filmography. Doug is currently examining the filmography of Tom Cruise. This week, Doug will dive into Michael Chapman's 1983 film All the Right Moves.

Cast

All the Right Moves stars the aforementioned Tom Cruise along with Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson, Charles Cioffi, Gary Graham, Paul Carafotes, Chris Penn, Leon, Sandy Faison, James A. Baffico, Mel Winkler, and Terry O'Quinn.

Plot Synopsis

All the Right Moves (1983)’s plot synopsis: "An ambitious young football star is trapped in a dying mill town--unless his gridiron skills can win him a way out."

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The Complete Works Ep. 109

The Complete Works is a filmography podcast, brought to you by FilmBook. In each episode, FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reviews and analyzes a movie from film actor, actress, director, or composer's filmography. Doug is currently examining the filmography of Tom Cruise. This week, Doug will dive into Paul Brickman's 1983 film Risky Business.

Cast

Risky Business stars the aforementioned Tom Cruise along with Rebecca De Mornay, Joe Pantoliano, Richard Masur, Bronson Pinchot, Curtis Armstrong, Nicholas Pryor, Janet Carroll, and Raphael Sbarge.

Plot Synopsis

Risky Business (1983)’s plot synopsis: "A Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand."

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The Complete Works Ep. 108

The Complete Works is a filmography podcast, brought to you by FilmBook. In each episode, FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reviews and analyzes a movie from film actor, actress, director, or composer's filmography. Doug is currently examining the filmography of Tom Cruise. This week, Doug will dive into Curtis Hanson's 1983 film Losin' It.

Cast

Losin' It stars the aforementioned Tom Cruise along with Shelley Long, Jackie Earle Haley, John Stockwell, John P. Navin Jr., and Henry Darrow.

Plot Synopsis

Losin' It (1983)’s plot synopsis: Four teenagers from early 1960s Los Angeles are on their way to Tijuana, Mexico: Dave, Woody, Spider, and Dave's brother Wendell. Dave, Spider, and Woody are there to lose their virginity, while Wendell came along to buy fireworks. They end up picking up a woman named Kathy, who goes with them because she wants a fast divorce from her husband, and they get into a series of hijinks and misadventures south of the border.

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The Complete Works Ep. 107

The Complete Works is a filmography podcast, brought to you by FilmBook. In each episode, FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reviews and analyzes a movie from film actor, actress, director, or composer's filmography. Doug is currently examining the filmography of Tom Cruise. This week, Doug will dive into Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 film The Outsiders.

Cast

The Outsiders stars the aforementioned Tom Cruise along with C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Diane Lane, Emilio Estevez, and Leif Garrett.

Plot Synopsis

The Outsiders (1983)’s plot synopsis: 1967 novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton, "In a small Oklahoma town in 1964, the rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, heats up when one gang member accidentally kills a member of the other.”

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The Complete Works Ep. 106

The Complete Works is a filmography podcast, brought to you by FilmBook. In each episode, FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reviews and analyzes a movie from film actor, actress, director, or composer's filmography. Doug is currently examining the filmography of Tom Cruise. This week, Doug will dive into Harold Becker's 1981 film Taps.

Cast

Taps stars the aforementioned Tom Cruise along with George C. Scott, Timothy Hutton, Ronny Cox, Sean Penn, Giancarlo Esposito, and Evan Handler.

Plot Synopsis

Taps (1981)’s plot synopsis: based on Devery Freeman's 1979 novel Father Sky, "Military cadets take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.”

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Box Office July 12-14, 2024

The theatrical movie box office results for July 12, 2024 through July 14, 2024 have been released.

The Box Office

Despicable Me 4 was Number One at the United States box office over the weekend with $44.6 Million (a 40% drop from last weekend) for $211.1 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $323.5 Million.

Longlegs premiered in Second Place at the United States box office over the weekend with $22.6 Million so far.

Inside Out 2 was Third at the United States box office over the weekend with $20.7 Million (a 32% drop from last weekend) for $572.5 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $1.29 Billion.

A Quiet Place: Day One was Fourth at the United States box office over the weekend with $11.8 Million (a 43% drop from last weekend). Worldwide, the film has made $199.9 Million.

Fly Me to the Moon premiered in Fifth Place at the United States box office over the weekend with $10 Million so far.

These films: Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1, MaXXXine, Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot, and The Lion King rounded out the top ten respectively.

Movies That Opened This Weekend

The films in the Top Ten that opened this weekend at the box office:

Longlegs is a 2024 American horror thriller film written and directed by Osgood Perkins. It stars Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage, who also produced the film through his Saturn Films production company. The cast also features Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Michelle Choi-Lee and Dakota Daulby in supporting roles. The film follows an FBI agent tasked with tracking down an occultist serial killer, whom she realises she has a personal connection to.

Fly Me to the Moon is a 2024 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Greg Berlanti from a screenplay by Rose Gilroy and a story by Bill Kirstein and Keenan Flynn. The film stars Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Jim Rash, Anna Garcia, Donald Elise Watkins, Noah Robbins, Colin Woodell, Christian Zuber, Nick Dillenburg, Ray Romano, and Woody Harrelson. Its plot follows the relationship between a marketing specialist and the NASA director in charge of the Apollo 11 launch.

Next Week's Films

Next week sees the release of Oddity, Twisters, The Abandon, and a plethora of other films. Find my predictions on this releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Twisters will be the Number One film at the box office.

The History of Box Office (and Profit Measurement)

"A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through a hole in a wall or window, or at a wicket.

By extension, the term is frequently used, especially in the context of the film industry, as a metonym for the amount of business a particular production, such as a film or theatre show, receives. The term is also used to refer to a ticket office at an arena or a stadium.

Box office business can be measured in the terms of the number of tickets sold or the amount of money raised by ticket sales (revenue). The projection and analysis of these earnings is greatly important for the creative industries and often a source of interest for fans. This is predominant in the Hollywood movie industry.

To determine if a movie made a profit, it is not correct to directly compare the box office gross with the production budget, because the movie theater keeps nearly half of the gross on average. The split varies from movie to movie, and the percentage for the distributor is generally higher in early weeks.

Usually the distributor gets a percentage of the revenue after first deducting a "house allowance" or "house nut". It is also common that the distributor gets either a percentage of the gross revenue, or a higher percentage of the revenue after deducting the nut, whichever is larger. The distributor's share of the box office gross is often referred to as the "distributor rentals",

The Complete Works Ep. 105

The Complete Works is a filmography podcast, brought to you by FilmBook. In each episode, FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reviews and analyzes a movie from film actor, actress, director, or composer's filmography. This week, Doug will dive into Franco Zeffirelli's 1981 film Endless Love.

Cast

Endless Love stars Tom Cruise, Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Shirley Knight, Don Murray, Richard Kiley, Penelope Milford, and Beatrice Straight.

Plot Synopsis

Endless Love (1981)’s plot synopsis: based on the book same name by Scott Spencer, "Seventeen-year-old David Axelrod is consumed with his love for Jade Butterfield. So when Jade’s father exiles him from their home, David does the only thing he thinks is rational: He burns down their house. Sentenced to a psychiatric institution, David’s obsession metastasizes, and upon his release, he sets out to win the Butterfields back by any means necessary.”

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The Complete Works Ep. 104

The Complete Works is a filmography podcast, brought to you by FilmBook. In each episode, FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reviews and analyzes a movie from film actor, actress, director, or composer's filmography. This week, Doug will dive into Christopher Nolan's 2023 film Oppenheimer.

Cast

Oppenheimer stars Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Alden Ehrenreich, Jason Clarke, David Krumholtz, Kenneth Branagh, and David Dastmalchian.

Plot Synopsis

Oppenheimer (2023)’s plot synopsis: based on the book by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, “The movie follows theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project (started in 1939 it ran from 1942 to 1946) and his contributions that led to the creation of the very first atomic bomb during World War II.”

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The Complete Works Ep. 103

The Complete Works is a filmography podcast, brought to you by FilmBook. In each episode, FilmBook contributor Doug Hess reviews and analyzes a movie from film actor, actress, director, or composer's filmography. This week, Doug will dive into Christopher Nolan's 2020 film Tenet.

Cast

Tenet stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Kenneth Branagh, Elizabeth Debicki, Michael Caine, Clémence Poésy, Himesh Patel, Andrew Howard, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Martin Donovan, Carina Velva, Dimple Kapadia, Jonathan Camp, and Katie McCabe.

Plot Synopsis

Tenet plot synopsis: "Armed with only the word "Tenet," and fighting for the survival of the entire world, CIA operative, The Protagonist, journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a global mission that unfolds beyond real time."

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