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It cannot be denied: The Super Bowl generally translates into big box office. However, there are only three motion picture studios — Disney, Paramount and Universal — willing to pony up $7.5 million-$8 million for a 30-second spot on Fox before an audience that last year reached 123.7 million viewers across live linear and streaming.

Sony Pictures on Wednesday said that it is pushing back the release date of its latest Insidious movie a year to August 2026, and in its place dating the Darren Aronofsky-directed Caught Stealing starring Austin Butler. The Sony/Blumhouse Insidious pic, to be released by Screen Gems, is the sixth entry in the horror franchise and

For the first time in 2025, the box office is going to have some sort of pulse as Universal’s DreamWorks Animation title Dog Man is set to send families back into theaters after 2024’s holiday Mufasa-Wicked juggernaut with an opening in excess of $20 million-plus. Booked at 3,800 theaters, Dog Man is based on the

The annual winter Broadway Week 2-for-1 ticket promotion – it’s actually several weeks, but no one’s complaining – arrived January 21, and as usual the promotion took a bite into grosses, with total attendance holding steady from the previous week but receipts dropping 11%. In all, the 29 shows grosses $29,614,804, with total attendance at

The world premiere of A24’s The Legend of Ochi will still go on at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday at the library, but the distributor has a set a new release date of April 25. Previously, the Isaiah Saxon-directed and -written family title was to hit theaters February 28. Pic reps Saxon’s directorial debut

Warner Bros Pictures Animation’s feature version of Dr. Seuss‘ Oh, the Places You’ll Go! is getting a theatrical release on March 17, 2028. Warners will have access to Imax screens. The pic is being produced by Dr. Seuss Enterprises and Bad Robot. As we told you first Jill Culton and Wicked‘s Jon M. Chu are

Refresh for latest…: Still a lot of holdover business in the early part of the year at the international box office as we ride out late-2024 releases. That shouldn’t take away from the fact that Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King – which, recall, initially started softer than expected – now leads a global weekend for

Timothée Chalamet-starring Oscar contented A Complete Unknown from Searchlight Pictures is holding at no. 8 at 2,010 locations with a $3.1 million weekend. James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic is rolling with a $62.9 million cume in week five coming off eight Oscar nominations including for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Leading Actor. That would be

EXCLUSIVE: The first trailer for Osgood Perkins‘ The Monkey is quite the success with a current running viewership across all platforms of 109M. That number includes TikTok views. The movie opens on Feb. 21. The post Longlegs movies from Perkins, which is based on the Stephen King short story racked up over 43M in its

The Wayans brothers reteam Scary Movie from Paramount and Miramax is hitting theaters on June 12, 2026. Also opening on June 12 is the next Daniels directed movie from Universal; their first pic since 2023 Best Picture Oscar winner Everything Everywhere All at Once. It’s the first time in 18 years that the Wayans have

Documentaries about Liza Minnelli and Supercross, fan favorites with different fans, a Steven Soderbergh horror, a spy thriller with Phoebe Dynevor and Angel Studios’ latest starring Jared Harris are new on screens. It’s a quieter moment for new releases as Oscar contenders flood theaters and the fresh crop of 2025 independent films are just starting

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios’ Timur Bekmambetov-directed sci-fi thriller Mercy starring Chris Pratt will now hit cinemas around the globe on January 23, 2026. The previous release date was August 15, 2025. The move will leave Universal’s Bob Odenkirk action movie Nobody 2 standing alone on that date for now. On its new date, Mercy stands unopposed, coming

Lionsgate‘s release of Mel Gibson’s Flight Risk starring Mark Wahlberg made in $950K in previews last night. The last time Gibson directed was nine years for the 2x Oscar winning WWII movie Hacksaw Ridge also from Lionsgate. It’s not clear yet if Flight Risk will win the weekend, tracking saying $9M-$11M, but if it does,

The independent film community settling into Park City where the next crop of indie films will launch at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival has something to celebrate: a 2024 where audiences turned out and started to turn the market around. “In the independent theatrical world post-Covid, we were asking ‘Are we going to exist?’ And

Disney/Marvel Studios‘ Captain America: Brave New World has hit three-weekend tracking with a number that’s similar to what we saw recently, that being $95M+ over 4-days. The movie opens on Feb. 14 over the Presidents Day/Valentine’s Day weekend. Tickets went on sale on Monday, and we hear that they’re currently pacing 15% behind Guardians of

EXCLUSIVE: The Atom Egoyan-directed drama Seven Veils starring Oscar nominee Amanda Seyfried will be hitting theaters in the U.S. on March 7 via XYZ Films and Variance. Seyfried plays theater director Jeanine, who re-enters the opera world after several years away to stage her former mentor’s most famous work. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories

By hook or by crook, even with new owners Skydance bound to take over Paramount this year, there will be a fourth Sonic the Hedgehog with the studio dating it for March 19, 2027. That’s a week before the Easter holiday for those keeping track. The news comes in the wake of Sonic the Hedgehog

Broadway said a few so-longs last week, with the star-studded Our Town ending its limited run and some original cast members of Oh, Mary! and The Great Gatsby giving way to replacements. Ticket-buyers were there to see everyone off. Our Town, the Thornton Wilder classic starring Jim Parsons, Katie Holmes, Ephraim Sykes and Zoey Deutch,

EXCLUSIVE: With Wednesday’s business included, Universal’s Wicked has topped the $700M mark globally. Of the total, $240.4M is from the international box office and $460.6M from domestic. The film still has Japan to release on March 7. The news comes as Wicked today was nominated in the main feature category by the PGAs. The $700M

UPDATED: With this weekend’s business, Disney’s Moana 2 has topped $1B in global box office, becoming the third release of 2024 to reach the mark. This new milestone means Disney scored a hat trick of $1B worldwide grossers from 2024; the only studio with movies released during the year that crossed the coveted threshold. In