Who knows whether it was NBA finals games, NHL finals games, Women’s World Cup games, or Fortnite games, but movie goers were having none of the box-office games this weekend. Two big-budget, super-hyped films entered the Thunderdome and both went home with their legs between their tails… Probably, literally in one of the movie’s cases since it’s about animals. How could this have happened?! I suspect Miss Scarlet in the Lounge with the lead pipe.

The onslaught of films at the end of May has brought one contender, a couple pretenders, some nice alternatives if cgi battles aren’t your thing, and, most importantly, helped us forget films like Uglydolls even came out. Now if only Spotify would recognize that liking Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone” does not mean I want songs from the Uglydolls soundtrack. It’s like when Thumbs-Upping ABBA music gets you Mamma Mia Movie versions with Pierce Brosnan and Meryl Streep singing. Not the same thing!

After last week’s middling offerings, audiences were “game” for something different. It doesn’t get much more different than a cuddly, yellow, fluffy, wise-crackin’, caffeine-addicted, pokemon with Ryan Reynolds voice. Well, minus the yellow, that might describe Seth Rogen in Long Shot too.

There’s an age-old studio tradition of giving two weeks for “mega” films before you launch another potential blockbuster. The only reason you waiver from this is either you believe that the film before you isn’t really going to do that well or you arrogantly believe you’re the one with the “big” film. I’m not saying someone who titled their film Uglydolls thought their film was going to be big, but then, wow... did they underestimate how many people wanted to see the culmination of 22 superhero films in the past 11 years.

I almost felt like I should just cut-and-paste last year’s Week 1 recap which just babbled on and on about Avengers: Infinity War breaking all these records, because, basically, history just repeated itself… but in a Marvelous way. You see, Endgame not only topped Infinity War’s $257.7 million opening weekend… it beat it by $100 million!!!

The Shamrock Shakes are gone, the Super Bloom is Super Over, and Khloe Kardashian hasn’t had a man cheat on her in the last, um, wait for it… three seconds, so it's time for the 23nd Annual Summer Movie Pool!

The Oscars Nominations have come out, the Golden Globe Winners have been announced, and, most importantly, the Razzie nominations have been lit up for all to see. It’s nice to see the things that matter can still get accomplished despite politicians shutting down everyone’s federally paid salaries except their own.

In honor of this time of year and Melissa McCarthy joining a very select group of people to voted for a Razzie and Oscar in the very same year, it’s time for the 2018 Holiday Movie Pool Final Report!!!