Article snippet: Posted at 5:00 pm on August 6, 2017 by Brad Slager When a towering edifice casts no shadow. There was a passel of new releases arriving but they led to a soft weekend for returns. Participants with proven success failed to entice ticket buyers, be they Academy Award winners, or the nation’s foremost horror scribe. Last year at this time “Suicide Squad” was melting down the box office with a massive opening. This week was more like the morning after a main event, a quiet time of sweeping up the debris. Let’s get out the brooms and the leaf-blowers and start collecting all the weekend numbers into a pile. This adaptation of Stephen King’s epic story has been long labored in Hollywood. The effort to bring it to the screen has been playing out for over ten years, numerous scripts, a revolving door of directors, and no fewer than three different studios — along with television property support. Despite all the struggle, and a hungry fan base for the books, this arrived with surprisingly little interest or passion for the result. This really should be a TV enterprise, or set up with a multi-picture franchise framework. Condensing an epic story with an array of characters into a 90 minute feature will bring about “Jupiter Ascending” results – and nobody wants that. Remaining strong, as expected, Christopher Nolan continues to only offer up successful quality. This title has now earned a very respectable $300 million globally, and is still going strong. ... Link to the full article to read more