After a rough stretch at the box office that has been bailed out by a couple of hits, I have higher expectations for the rest of the season thanks to superhero films like Daredevil and Blue Beetle: Legacy, highly anticipated genre films like Red Sonja: Blood + Bone and Friday the 13th, and Monaco from Scorsese and Chad Taylor.
2. Queen Margot
Definitely more complicated and overblown than necessary, but it was still a decent film from a story point.
1. X-Men
Garland and Gall have crafted another solid X-Men film, which unlike the Fox efforts, are true ensemble films. It was also nice to see Gambit join the team and the return of Wolverine.
While I went over some films I expect to do well in the rest of the season, there are also a few I expect to do poorly at the box office. There is another novel adaptation, Akin, that does not sound like a box office favorite, a niche-sounding Alex Conn original, and the strange and difficult to market Abe Lincoln wrestling film.
2. Box Office
Once again a lone hit saves the round's box office for the studio. Last round had Pocahontas carrying the load, and this round had X-Men: Sinister.
1. Novel Adaptations
Run was a perfect example of what the recent novel adaptations have been doing wrong. Writers are being too precious with the details of these books, resulting in poorly-paced, overly-long adaptations.
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