What did you see this past weekend?

by Nathaniel R

Proving once again that the public will turn out for movies with superpowers and little else, Morbius opened to $39 million despite terrible buzz and unfriendly reviews. Of course it helped that the studios are hardly releasing any big movies of late so there wasn't much competition for eyeballs. But the big story this weekend was what was happening in limited release... 

Weekend Box Office April 1st-3rd  🔺 = new or expanding
WIDE (OVER 800 SCREENS)	PLATFORM RELEASES
MORBIUS	EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

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• NYT Governors Awards. Kyle Buchanan reports on the Honorary Oscars Friday night. Such a pity these aren't televised
• /Film Paramount+ has its highest watched premiere for the new series Halo
• AV Club Lin-Manuel Miranda has to skip the Oscars this year. His wife has tested positive for COVID
• Vulture Joe Reid ranks every Oscar nominee. This is lots of fun and a quick read given the 53 films

More after the jump including Parker Posey, snarky Oscar commentary, animated short, Everything Everywhere All At Once and recent reviews...

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