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2014 Fall Movie Preview: Can new season of films bring more dollars into box office?
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Nick (Ben Affleck, left) is questioned about the disappearance of his wife, Amy, by Detectives Boney (Kim Dickens, far right) and Gilpin (Patrick Fugit, in dark shirt), as Nick’s in-laws Marybeth and Rand Elliott (Lisa Barnes, David Clennon) look on in the film “Gone Girl.”
The 2014 domestic box office is down 6 percent from where it was this time last year, by about half a billion dollars. Sure, the foreign box office is picking up some of the slack, but it still raises the stakes very high for Hollywood this fall season. This week we will preview the fall releases most likely to bring in big audiences, then next week we’ll look at the less mainstream releases.