This was my first movie binge weekend in many years.  Before the pandemic, I've seen up to five films in a three-day period.  But in a 26-hour period from Friday night, I actually watched five of them. We are entering the second half of the year, and this weekend is #27.  I'm looking at all the  Box Office Mojo  #1 films of the past 26 weekends, and not one appeals to me. Weeks 24, 25 and 26 were dominated by the animated  Inside Out 2.   Mind you,  Rotten Tomatoes  loved it, with 90 reviewers and 96 audiences ratings.  But it's for kids with their parents. Worldwide Box Office Revenues this year. Inside Out 2   $1.1 billion Dune:  Part 2   $712 million Godzilla x Kong :  The New Empire  $568 million The last films I saw in a movie theater were when  Barbenheimer   opened the weekend of July 21-23 a year ago.  Raked in $511 million worldwide during those days. However, in 2019  Avengers: Endgame  had a world opening weekend of $1.2 billion.  I don't go to comic-book mov

I created this posting a few days ago, and thought it was too busy and statistical to post.  Had just about made up my mind to just toss it away, then I thought, perhaps a few of you actually desire numbers and such.  So why waste all this work.  For most of you who don't like this kind of detail,   just skip this early portion and scroll down to my usual style --where there is this row of asterisks--for I will then write about the wonderful state of the Yen vs Dollar conversion rate if you have Japan in your travel plans.   But, whoops, certainly looks like, again, too much data.  So I add a second row of asterisks for many to scroll down to save time.  Then, like yesterday, a segue into best films and a Taylor Swift sighting in London. So anyway, have you been going to your hometown movie theater lately?  From  Box Office Mojo,  here are the figures by year for the USA. Year Total Gross %± LY Releases Average #1 Release 1977 $443,497,461 +290.6% 9 $49,277,495 Star Wars: Episode I