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When it comes to the box office battle between Universal’s Wicked, in which Jeff Goldblum plays the Wizard, and Paramount’s Gladiator II, it will not be a survival of the fittest. Deadline’s Natalie Sitek asked him at Saturday night’s Wicked LA premiere about the Glicked effect that’s expected to take place at the box office

UPDATED: New this weekend at the international box office, Warner Bros began pre-domestic release on Amazon MGM Studios’ Red One. The opening numbers on the Christmas-themed Seven Bucks production are within the range we expected heading into the frame, coming in at $26.6M from 75 offshore markets.  For Latin America, the film ranked No. 2

Cannes Palm d’Or winner Anora went wide and A Real Pain added theaters in limited release, both nicely, with Crunchyroll’s Japanese epic fantasy OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom and Small Things Like These at the specialty box office. Sean Baker’s breakout Anora is looking at $2.55 million on 1,104 screens in week four of Neon’s slow rollout for

Creditor Fortress was the only bidder for a handful of properties owned by Charles Cohen at a foreclosure auction Friday that saw the lender offer $5 million for U.K.’s arthouse theater chain and distributor Curzon. There were no bids for Landmark Theatres, a person familiar with the situation tells Deadline, and we hear it will

The second highest grossing Alien movie in box office history, Alien: Romulus, will hit Hulu on Nov. 21. That’s a 98 day theatrical window, which is pretty robust and par for Disney since returning to windows post former CEO Bob Chapek. Pic’s digital release was on Oct. 15. The title will hit DVD and Blu-Ray

SATURDAY AM: The first two weekends of November have proven to be a rich starting point for movies — so why did Hollywood avoid booking tentpoles this year? It was only two years ago that the month notched its best opening ever on Nov. 11 with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ($181.3M). It’s the doom and

The six-week-out projection for Disney‘s Mufasa: The Lion King has hit via Quorum tracking service, which sees it at a $59 million-$66 million opening when the Barry Jenkins-directed prequel hits cinemas on December 20. Keep in mind that the fire-breathing campaigns for Mufasa and Paramount’s Sonic The Hedgehog 3 haven’t truly begun yet; heck, they’ll

Box office darling Anora, Sean Baker’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner from Neon, goes wide today after a slow platform, expanding to 1,104 screens as indies continue to bust onto screens. Searchlight Pictures’ A Real Pain adds eight locations, with Focus Features’ Conclave and A24’s Heretic continuing, and launching, respectively, in wide release.   A Real

When it came to the bombing of Borderlands, among other late summer and fall releases, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer made no bones about emphasizing culpa nostra. “On Borderlands, nearly everything that could go wrong did go wrong: it sat on the shelf for too long during the pandemic, and reshoots and rising interest rates took it outside

As we told you recently, Disney‘s Moana 2 is heading to the best five-day opening ever at the Thanksgiving box office. We gave the six-weekend projection from Quorum, and this morning tracking service NRG — which reports three-weekend-out forecasts — is saying the Hawaiian princess sequel is going to clear $135M over Wednesday-Sunday. That would

No studio was going to leave Easter weekend empty. In the wake of Lionsgate pushing their Michael Jackson biopic, Michael, from April 18 to Oct. 3 next year, Warner Bros. is backfilling with Bong Joon Ho’s Robert Pattinson sci-fi movie Mickey 17; that movie flying from Jan. 31, 2025 to April 18. Warners will have

Death Becomes Her, the new musical adaptation of the 1992 comedy fantasy film, worked up some Broadway magic in its second week since beginning performances at the Lunt-Fontanne, grossing an impressive $1,073,018 for seven previews and filling 98% of the venue’s seats. The musical, starring Megan Hilty, Jennifer Simard, Christopher Sieber and Michelle Williams, was by far

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate‘s Antoine Fuqua directed Michael Jackson biopic, Michael, is moving out of next year’s Easter frame of April 18-20 and to Oct. 3, 2025. Universal is handling the overseas release of the movie which stars the King of Pop’s nephew, Jaafar Jackson, in the title role. In addition, Lionsgate has dated the Aziz Ansari

UPDATED: Offshore audiences continue to devour Sony’s Venom: The Last Dance with a sophomore weekend of $68.4M in 66 markets for an international box office cume of $227M so far. The running global total after two frames has clicked past the three-century mark, now at $317.1M, which is 4% ahead of Venom: Let There Be

The 45th American Film Market launches tonight in a new host city, Las Vegas, amid the tension and distraction of a hotly contested U.S. presidential election. Despite last year’s edition being beset by logistical challenges, organizer IFTA (Independent Film & Television Alliance) says office and exhibition space is sold out this go around. They hope

Robert Zemeckis has always been about a great technological or storytelling conceit in his movies whether it’s the live-action animated hybrid of the 3x Oscar winning Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, the insertion of Tom Hanks in famed historical footage in Oscar Best Picture Forrest Gump or the motion capture of The Polar Express. However, his

The independent film fall festival love affair with moviegoers continues with A Real Pain posting the year’s third best per screen average. Anora continues its standout run as does Conclave. The Ralph Fiennes-starring Vatican thriller is no. 4 at the box office in week 2. A24’s We Live In Time is no. 6. Searchlight Pictures’

Imax shares nosed higher in after-market trading, up over 3% on solid numbers, new installations, and a roaring good outlook by CEO Rich Gelfond. Content revenues of $30 million fell 32% year-over-year, up against Christopher Nolan’s phenomenon Oppenheimer — the company’s fifth highest grossing title of all time — in the year prior. Despite the decline, the

Cinemark, the nation’s third-largest theater chain, and smaller Marcus Theatres piled on strong financial results Thursday after sunny numbers from Imax on Wednesda –, all bright notes amid ongoing box office uncertainty. Marcus shares popped by more than 10% on the numbers. The Milwaukee-based chain “achieved growth with a markedly improved film slate that played

It’s suddenly been, if not an embarrassment, then for sure a nice flush of riches in the indie film space as high-profile festival and well-reviewed fare continues releasing into awards season. This week we’ve got a return guest with wide re-release of Godzilla Minus One. Emilia Perez is hitting 125 theaters, quite a few for