The Golden Globes were tonight, and if you’re anything like the UTG crew you didn’t have the time or desire to watch the three-hour telecast you could just as easily follow on Twitter. We paid attention to winners as they rolled in, but out of thirty contributors I would wager no one on our staff […]
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Success Continues on for ‘Mockingjay’
December 7th, 2014 
Adrian Garza For the third consecutive week, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1, otherwise known as Mockingjay for short, has topped the charts. Partly in thanks to a quiet and sluggish post-Thanksgiving weekend, the film made an estimated $21.6 million dollars over the past three days. This would move the film’s domestic total up to $257 million, thus surpassing […]
‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1’ Continues To Dominate The Box Office
November 30th, 2014 Kriston McConnell It should be a surprise to no one that the top grossing movie this week is The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1. The first of two installments for the final chapter of the trilogy has killed its competition two weeks in a row now. Last weekend it opened with an impressive $121,000,000 debut. This weekend […]
‘Mockingjay’ Crushes Weekend Competition
November 23rd, 2014 Adrian Garza Should we really expect anything less from the global behemoth that The Hunger Games franchise has now become? The third installment of the series, Mockingjay — Part 1, premiered this weekend to $123 million dollars. They may be high, but in comparison to the $152+ million opening supplied by the 2012 Hunger Games film, these […]
‘Dumb and Dumber To’ Dominate the Weekend
November 16th, 2014 Adrian Garza Who needs a marketing budget when you have nostalgia? This weekend saw the return of Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels from a twenty year absence of working together to reprise the roles of Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne in Dumb and Dumber To. Though the film might be the subject of some lofty jabs in […]
‘Interstellar’ Falls Behind ‘Big Hero 6’
November 9th, 2014 Adrian Garza Temperatures across the country may be taking a plunge, but things sure are heating up at the box office, now that Oscar season is among us. In a battle of epic proportions, Disney’s Big Hero 6 and Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar faced off this weekend, with the former emerging on top, boasting an estimated $56 million […]
Sluggish Halloween Weekend Yields Favorable Results for ‘Nightcrawler’
November 2nd, 2014 Adrian Garza Things were neck and neck this weekend between Jake Gyllenhaal’s Nightcrawler and Ouija, but when all was said and done, the newcomer emerged victorious, according to box office estimates. The box office win was earned by a hair, in this case, there were only about $10k separating the film from last week’s top dog. While there […]
‘Ouija’ Scores $20 Million Weekend
October 26th, 2014 Adrian Garza It’s no secret that there’s a definite hit and miss game to releasing micro-horror films. When a production tanks, more often than not, flukes are forgotten and never remembered again, but sometimes, the returns can be massive. This was exactly the case with Blumhouse Productions’ Ouija, which topped this weekend’s box office charts with a shocking $20 […]
Chucky Creator Don Mancini Wants A Showdown With Annabelle
October 6th, 2014 James Shotwell After spending thirty years as the unopposed king of doll-related horror, Child’s Play creator Don Mancini sees an opportunity for a potentially big payday by allowing Chucky to meet the one and only Annabelle. Speaking with USA Today in a new interview, Mancini expressed his desire for a collaboration and his willingness to wait for […]
Steven Soderbergh Rescored ‘Raiders Of The Lost Ark,’ And It’s In Black And White
September 23rd, 2014 Tyler Hanan Why? Because staging. The “retired” (from film, in that word’s very strictest definiton) Steven Soderbergh has been hard at work on another singular, Soderbergh-y project. He’s put the result, Raiders as you’ve never seen it, up on his website “for educational purposes only.” As a means of studying staging, Soderbergh has taken the Steven Spielberg classic (“this filmmaker forgot more […]
‘Conjuring’ Spin-Off ‘Annabelle’ Set For October Release
July 8th, 2014 James Shotwell For the majority of 2014 I have been quietly obsessing over the fact that October has very few horror films scheduled for release, despite the fact it’s statistically one of the best times of the year for thrills and chills to debut on the silver screen. Thankfully, the house that James Wan built, or at […]