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The Paramount release of Miramax’s Derek Cianfrance movie Roofman is opening on Oct. 3, 2025. We first told you about the Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst and Peter Dinklage movie which is based on the true story about a former Army Ranger and struggling father who turns to robbing McDonald’s restaurants by cutting holes in their roofs,

Sony will own the first weekend of November at the box office, with the second frame of the Culver City lot’s Venom: The Last Dance down around 60%, or $20 million, for No. 1, followed by the studio’s release of Miramax’s adult drama Here. Here, which reps the Forrest Gump reteam of filmmaker Robert Zemeckis,

Jumanji 3 is happening on December 11, 2026, Sony has just announced. That’s the same pre-Christmas slot that Sony has launched the previous films in its Jumanji franchise. The movie will have full command of Imax and PLF screens that weekend. Director Jake Kasdan and star posse Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Karen

Four top films this weekend are indies – five including The Substance at no. 11, as the specialty market roars back to life. No. 3 at the domestic box office is a great story, Conclave from Focus Features, the studio behind the Downtown Abbey films. excels at drawing still elusive but key older demos to

In what comes as no surprise, Marvel Studios’ Blade won’t be coming out on Nov. 7, 2025, rather Disney is opening 20th Century Studios’ Predator: Badlands. The reboot of the famed Wesley Snipes Marvel movie was first announced at San Diego Comic-Con in 2019 with 2x Oscar winner Mahershala Ali starring. Production and development on

The new untitled Spider-Man movie has been added to the release calendar for July 24, 2026, with Tom Holland returning as the webslinger and Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton directing. No other movies are dated on that weekend. The fourth installment opens in the wake of a

Indie releases from limited (Memoir of a Snail) to wide (Conclave) are testing an increasingly lively specialty box office heading into awards season with a handful of decorated documentaries this week including Dahomey, Black Box Diaries, My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock and Another Kind of Wilderness and some notable expansions. Also hitting theaters this weekend,

EXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber and Zeitgeist Films have acquired North American rights Bruce David Klein’s feature documentary Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story which follows the career of and life of Liza Minnelli. The Atlas Media production made its world premiere at last summer’s Tribeca Film Festival and recently played at the Hamptons Film Festival,

It was ten years ago today, that the first John Wick hit theaters and began to play. While the first Keanu Reeves starring, Chad Stahelski directed, and Derek Kolstad written movie flew under the radar at the box office only grossing $43M stateside and $86M worldwide, the R-rated action pic ala the original Austin Powers

EXCLUSIVE: Currently we hear that Sony/Marvel’s Venom: The Last Dance is eyeing around $8M in previews tonight, maybe more by the morning. Showtimes began at 2PM in U.S. Canada at 3,500 locations. At that figure, there’s a path to a $65M opening, which we mentioned would rep the lowest start for the trilogy stateside after

New Regency’s Brad Pitt and Ed Norton gritty noir, Fight Club, is 25 years old and to celebrate there’s a 4K Ultra HD remaster overseen by David Fincher with plans for a theatrical re-release as well as a companion art book from the studio and Insight Editions. The book features never-before-seen visuals, exclusive interviews, and

Sony’s Venom: The Last Dance chomped into its first suite of international box office markets today, with the Marvel symbiote nabbing a strong $9.3M start in China. This is the biggest opening day for a superhero film since Spider-Man: Far From Home in the market, and portends a five-day launch in the upper $30M neighborhood there.

With the last couple of October weekends stateside being off from the strike-laden marketplace a year ago, here’s hoping that superhero sequelitis and moviegoers’ erratic attitudes toward prestige fare don’t push the theatrical marketplace down further. Sony this weekend has its Marvel title Venom: The Last Dance, which is bound to see its lowest opening

Sunset Blvd. and Romeo + Juliet added some major heft to Broadway’s autumn box office last week, with the ecstatically reviewed Blvd. grossing $1,211,699 even with press comps during its opening week, and R+J, selling out its eight previews at Circle in the Square, taking $1,056,775. R+J, starring starring Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler, opens

The National Association of Theatre Owners has named PR veteran and former Variety journalist Andrew Stewart as Chief Communications Officer. In the role, Stewart will lead all efforts for the exhibitor trade organization’s communications and media-relations strategy. He’ll be based out of the Los Angles office and report directly to NATO president and CEO Michael

Landmark Theatres plunged in value from Covid, high interest rates and Hollywood strikes to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a May deposition by Landmark owner Charles Cohen disclosed in ongoing litigation with lender Fortress Credit Corp. The deposition was filed by Fortress in New York State Supreme Court, where a

Marvel Studios and Disney’s highest grossing R-rated movie of all-time, Deadpool & Wolverine, just won’t stop at the domestic box office, for in its 13th weekend, the Shawn Levy directed, Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman starring feature has clicked past Warner Bros.’ Barbie ($636.2M) at the domestic box office to become the 12th highest grossing

Great indie numbers this weekend as Anora turned out highest per-screen-average of 2024 at $90k on six screens for a $540k gross. We Live In Time, the best platform expansion of the year, grossed $4.2 million on 956 screens in week 2 for a $4.5 million cume. Newcomers Union and The Line fared well on

Neon opens Anora, its fifth consecutive Cannes Palm d’Or winner, in limited release this weekend — the highest-profile awards contender to hit theaters this awards season in a lively specialty weekend. Sean Baker’s comedy debuts on six screens in New York (Lincoln Center, Angelika, Alamo Brooklyn) and LA (Grove, Century City and Burbank). The three

EXCLUSIVE: Disney‘s Moana 2 landed on long-lead tracking Friday morning and it’s looking to do $100 million-plus over its Wednesday through Sunday opening during Thanksgiving week, $75M-$82M of that during its Friday-Sunday portion. These figures come from tracking service Quorum. The first Moana in 2016 opened to $82M over five days, ultimately grossing $248.7M stateside.