Game of Thornes

Yes, as one of the Google headlines declared, Black Panther has been dethroned at the Box Office this week.  Still... 630.9 million domestic?  It's still #1 in terms of that!  No, the newbie this week is the long awaited and much advertized sequel to Pacific Rim, and it's called Pacific Rim: Uprising.  Still ashamed of Roman numerals, the sequels continue to use subtitles unabated.  I don't know if anyone returns from the first one... besides Mako Mori, that is... but it does look like this John Boyega fella gets to do something extra other than a new Star Wars movie during his down time.  That's usually where the real big money is, because Star Wars is, of course, a labour of love (small money).
Meanwhile, back at the Hollywood lab, those they thought would be surefire hits are already outta here.  Namely, Red Sparrow and Die Hard's new Death Wish reboot.  I can see it now in Costco, shrink-wrapped: the new "Death Wish."  Now with less rape!  No, this isn't your usual box office blowout - look at all these newbies popping up!  Those studio geniuses that thought animated garden gnomes would be a good idea have brought us something called Sherlock Gnomes.  You might have clicked on the 'X' when the Flash ad for it came up on the IMDb.  Ah, Flash... what are we going to do without Flash?  You're telling me it can't be rebooted?  I don't wanna go cold turkey on this!  How am I supposed to cobble something together using an uneasy combination of HTML5 and JavaScript?  It ain't fittin'!  Oh well; maybe the Blender 3-D plugin will make a comeback.
Our third debut this week is more Christ-ploitation called Paul, Apostle of Christ.  Now that James Caviezel isn't doing "Person of Interest" anymore, it'll give him a chance to get back to his Passion of the Christ roots... sort of.  Clearly, turnout's not as big this time.
And finally, there's Midnight Sun, which is about a 17 year old girl who suffers from a condition that prevents her from being out in the sunlight.  It's called being Irish, and... what?  Conan O'Brien told me that joke!  Okay, okay... she's a vampire, all right?  Sorry... <<Twilight Saga
 prequel apparently.  And, as you can see, it's a day job for a guy you think wouldn't have to work a day in his life, but does anyway, and his name is Patrick Schwarzenegger.  Hmm!  Wonder who he's related to?  Now, is he Maria Shriver's kid, or is he part of that secret other family we just found out about a while ago?  Sorry, that was probably too mean, but trust me.  When it comes to any present and future social media beefs between Ah-nold and our current president... I'm with Ah-nold.  (hashtag-worthy?  Someone else do it then.)  But Patrick's publicist did put out a statement saying he's just happy not to be in a Happy Madison production this time.  Even if it did debut at #10, which cleah-lee makes him a girly-man!!!  ...yup, just checked.  Happy Madison-free.  I'm proud of you, Pat.  Still, it depresses me to see this fresh new wave of Nepotism sweep over Hollywood.  You got Scott Eastwood, you got Patrick Schwarzenegger.  At least Kate Bosworth isn't the Boz's kid, know what I mean??  And at least HE's not ashamed of Roman numerals!  Even if it is a giant piece of crap.  I gotta go....