{"id":10904,"date":"2018-12-26T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/?p=10904"},"modified":"2019-01-12T18:55:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T23:55:01","slug":"2018-miscellaneous-important-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/2018-miscellaneous-important-data\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 in Film: Miscellaneous Important Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

Based on my own research. Films included only if they played theatrically. Corrections and additions are welcome (@ me<\/a><\/span>). For comparison’s sake, here’s the 2017 edition<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Total wide releases (600+ theaters):<\/h4>\n
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160<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Sequels, prequels, remakes, reboots, and franchises:<\/h4>\n
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42<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Based on novels, stories, legends, or video games:<\/h4>\n
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33<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Based on a true story (BOATS):<\/h4>\n
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32<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Wholly original, not based on anything:<\/h4>\n
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50<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Documentaries:<\/h4>\n
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3:<\/strong> Fahrenheit 9\/11<\/strong><\/em>; Death of a Nation<\/strong><\/em>; Won’t You Be My Neighbor?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Animated:<\/h4>\n
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10<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Christian wide releases:<\/h4>\n
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Forever My Girl<\/strong><\/em>; Paul, Apostle of Christ<\/strong><\/em>; Samson<\/strong><\/em>; Unbroken: Path to Redemption<\/strong><\/em>; God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Wide releases with colons in their titles:<\/h4>\n
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16<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Wide releases directed by women:<\/h4>\n
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10 <\/strong>(including one co-directed by a man)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Wide releases directed by Clint Eastwood:<\/h4>\n
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2<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Longest wide release title:<\/h4>\n
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Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Shortest wide release title:<\/h4>\n
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(tie)\u00a0Tag<\/em>, Kin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Longest wide release:<\/h4>\n
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Avengers: Infinity War\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(149 minutes)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Shortest wide release:<\/h4>\n
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(tie) Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Action Point\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(84 minutes)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Female titles:<\/h4>\n
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Ava<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Colette<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Alanis<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Barbara<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Nancy<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Mandy<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Hannah<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Josie<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Lizzie<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Nelly<\/strong>;\u00a0<\/em>Jane and Emma<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Roxanne Roxanne<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0The Possession of Hannah Grace<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0The Vanishing of Sidney Hall<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Anna and the Apocalypse<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0All About Nina<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Elizabeth Harvest<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Oh Lucy!<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Killer Kate!<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Claire’s Camera<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Clara’s Ghost<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Stella’s Last Weekend<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Proud Mary<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Mary Queen of Scots<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Mary Poppins Returns<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Mary Shelley<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Mary and the Witch’s Flower<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Forever My Girl<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Girl in the Spider’s Web<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0The Nun<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0The Wife<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Little Women<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Widows<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Damsel<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Miss Dali<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Miss Granny<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Madame<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Damsel<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Male titles:<\/h4>\n
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Early Man<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0First Man<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Slender Man<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0BlackKklansman<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Aquaman<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Guilty Men<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0An Ordinary Man<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Padman<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Ant-Man and the Wasp<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0The Old Man & the Gun<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Spinning Man<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Welcome to the Men’s Group<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0What a Man Wants<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0White Boy Rick<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0The Wild Boys<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Beautiful Boy<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Boy Erased<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Billy Boy<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Billionaire Boys Club<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Poor Boy<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0The Sisters Brothers<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Winter Brothers<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Brother of the Year<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Brotherly Love<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Brothers of the Wind<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Peter Rabbit<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Samson<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Love, Simon<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Sherlock Gnomes<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Paul, Apostle of Christ<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Uncle Drew<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Christopher Robin<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Ben Is Back<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Ralph Breaks the Internet<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Robin Hood<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0The House That Jack Built<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0A Kid Like Jake<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Tyrel<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Couples titles:<\/h4>\n
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Mom and Dad<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Frank and Ava<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Ray Meets Helen<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Sid & Aya: Not a Love Story<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Us and Them<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Bernard and Huey<\/em><\/strong>; Stan & Ollie<\/em><\/strong>; Holmes & Watson<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Movies about dogs or dog-like things:<\/h4>\n
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Dog Days<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Isle of Dogs<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Show Dogs<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Alpha<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0A.X.L.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Movies that sound like they’re about animals but aren’t:<\/h4>\n
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Black Panther<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Red Sparrow<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0The Mule<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Bumblebee<\/em><\/strong>; Bird Box<\/strong><\/em>; The Yellow Birds<\/strong><\/em>;\u00a0Ant-Man and the Wasp<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse<\/em><\/strong>; We the Animals<\/em><\/strong>; American Animals<\/em><\/strong>; Wildlife<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Summer movies:<\/h4>\n
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Summer of 84<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Summer of 67<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Summer 1993<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Summer 03<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Age of Summer<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0All Summers End<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Hot Summer Nights<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0A Midsummer Night’s Dream<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Nighttime movies:<\/h4>\n
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Night School<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Night Comes On<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Game Night<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0The Strangers: Prey at Night<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Midnight Sun<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0The Midnight Man<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Midnighters<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0The Night Eats the World<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Movies that tell you what not to do:<\/h4>\n
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Leave No Trace<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Don’t Go<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Don’t Leave Home<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Don’t Talk to Irene<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Never Look Away<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Movies that were trying to confuse us:<\/h4>\n
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– Overboard<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Overlord<\/em><\/strong>
\n– Incredibles 2<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Indivisible<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Insidious: The Last Key
\n<\/em><\/strong>– Unsane<\/strong><\/em>; Unbroken: Road to Redemption<\/em><\/strong>; Unfriended: Dark Web<\/strong><\/em>
\n– Boy Erased<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Beautiful Boy<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Beautifully Broken<\/em><\/strong>
\n– The Wild Boys<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Wildlife<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Wildling<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Movies based on true stories that end with photos or film of the real people they’re about:<\/h4>\n
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12 Strong<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Winchester<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0The 15:17 to Paris<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a07 Days in Entebbe<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0A Stupid and Futile Gesture<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0The Polka King<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0The Tale<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0American Animals<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Padman<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0I Can Only Imagine<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Adrift<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Tag<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0BlackKklansman<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Papillon<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0White Boy Rick\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(voice only);\u00a0Boy Erased<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Operation Finale<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Jane and Emma<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Instant Family<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Bohemian Rhapsody<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Green Book<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0On the Basis of Sex<\/em><\/strong>;Welcome to Marwen<\/em><\/strong>; Stan & Ollie<\/em><\/strong>; The Miracle Season\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Movies whose titles are never referenced or explained within the movies themselves:<\/h4>\n
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White Rabbit<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Night Comes On<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Fifty Shades Freed<\/em><\/strong>; Destroyer<\/strong><\/em>;\u00a0Nobody’s Fool<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Roma<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Peppermint<\/em>*<\/strong><\/p>\n

*The little girl orders peppermint ice cream before being killed, but it’s never mentioned again, and her dad got ice cream at the same time and was also killed but the movie isn’t named after the flavor he chose.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Movies about young people with superpowers:<\/h4>\n
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse<\/em><\/strong>; The Darkest Minds<\/strong><\/em>; A Wrinkle in Time<\/strong><\/em>; Incredibles 2<\/strong><\/em>; The House with a Clock in Its Walls<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Movies about real-life art thefts that were perpetrated by college-aged numbskulls rather than criminal masterminds:<\/h4>\n
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American Animals<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Museo<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Movies about heists where the idea is to steal decommissioned cash from a federal building before it’s shredded:<\/h4>\n
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Den of Thieves<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0The Hurricane Heist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Movies in which parking valets use their access to the private information in people’s cars to burglarize their homes:<\/h4>\n
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Bad Samaritan<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Death Wish<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Movies in which people assume that they can get away with crimes because they’re part of a demographic that police tend to overlook:<\/h4>\n
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Widows<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Ocean’s Eight<\/em><\/strong> (they’re women);\u00a0The Old Man and the Gun<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0The Mule\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(they’re old white guys)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Movies about girls going in search of their missing scientist fathers:<\/h4>\n
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A Wrinkle in Time<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Tomb Raider<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Movies in which multiple random people are temporarily possessed by a wandering spirit:<\/h4>\n
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Every Day<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0Truth or Dare<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Movies with Lizzo’s “Good As Hell”:<\/h4>\n
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Blockers<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0I Feel Pretty<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n