mikedarianoThe Pixar Business StoryPixar’s business success is a good lesson, but not for the reason you might expect. It’s a story with a happy ending but it’s a cautionary…19 min read·Nov 9, 2018--1
Nader ElhefnawyBad Writers, or Impossible Writing Tasks?Last year Arnold Schwarzenegger (you know, the slap-fighting promoter) blamed the problems of the Terminator film franchise on the later…2 min read·Jan 30, 2024--
Nader ElhefnawyAquaman 2 vs. Captain Marvel 2 at the Box OfficeIn a month of global release Aquaman 2 has collected almost $400 million at the worldwide box office.2 min read·Jan 26, 2024----
Nader ElhefnawyThe Opening Weekend Gross of Five Nights at Freddy’s : A Few ThoughtsJust as was the case with the upcoming Hunger Games prequel Five Nights at Freddy’s was not on my radar until very recently, and I had…3 min read·Nov 1, 2023----
Nader ElhefnawyWhy No Wildstorm Cinematic Universe?We have reports of a movie about the Authority possibly in the making, apparently as part of the bigger DC reboot being overseen by James…2 min read·Oct 30, 2023----
mikedarianoThe Pixar Business StoryPixar’s business success is a good lesson, but not for the reason you might expect. It’s a story with a happy ending but it’s a cautionary…19 min read·Nov 9, 2018--1
Nader ElhefnawyBad Writers, or Impossible Writing Tasks?Last year Arnold Schwarzenegger (you know, the slap-fighting promoter) blamed the problems of the Terminator film franchise on the later…2 min read·Jan 30, 2024--
Nader ElhefnawyAquaman 2 vs. Captain Marvel 2 at the Box OfficeIn a month of global release Aquaman 2 has collected almost $400 million at the worldwide box office.2 min read·Jan 26, 2024--
Nader ElhefnawyThe Opening Weekend Gross of Five Nights at Freddy’s : A Few ThoughtsJust as was the case with the upcoming Hunger Games prequel Five Nights at Freddy’s was not on my radar until very recently, and I had…3 min read·Nov 1, 2023--
Nader ElhefnawyWhy No Wildstorm Cinematic Universe?We have reports of a movie about the Authority possibly in the making, apparently as part of the bigger DC reboot being overseen by James…2 min read·Oct 30, 2023--
Nader ElhefnawyThe First Six Months of 2023 at the Box Office: Hollywood’s Post-Pandemic Recovery Going into…The first four months of 2023 showed a healthy increase in the domestic box office’s total gross over the preceding year — $2.6 billion to…4 min read·Jul 21, 2023--
Barnaby PageThree films about…leadership: Greyhound (2020), Savage (2019) and The Founder (2016)·9 min read·Jun 5, 2023--1
Nader ElhefnawyIs it Wrong That People Think a Major Marvel Cinematic Universe Movie Has to Make a Billion Dollars…One film critic of which I know, addressing the question of whether this or that big-budget superhero film was a success, tells his readers…3 min read·May 8, 2023--