Film

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.

New York real estate mogul Charles Cohen has filed a notice to appeal a New York State Supreme Court ruling in his battle with Fortress Credit Corp. that found him liable for a $187 million personal loan guarantee pending an auction of Landmark Theaters and other assets that is still scheduled for next month. Fortress

Paramount’s Smile 2 made $2.5M from previews last night at 3,000 locations, which is half million higher than the 2022 movie’s $2M preview figure. Smile went on to make a $22.6M opening and leg out to $105.9M. Presales indicated high teens for Smile 2, however, perhaps Paramount execs will have something to grin about over the

EXCLUSIVE: Ketchup Entertainment‘s pickup of Warner Bros Animation’s The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie will be debuting in theaters on February 28, 2025. The movie, which was originally conceived for Max, made its world premiere at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June, when it received high praise from critics.

Four-time Grammy Award-winning duo for King + Country are bringing their annual popular holiday concert A Drummer Boy Christmas to theaters nationwide for the first time in a limited engagement December 5-9 on 1,000+ screens. The faith-based duo, brothers Joel and Luke Smallbone, announced they will then take a brief touring hiatus in 2025 to

There’s really one true one wide release this weekend and it’s Paramount‘s sequel Smile 2 which currently presales point toward a high-teens result. Tracking earlier this week indicated higher in the $20M+ range but that all depends on whether Latino and Hispanic moviegoers send this $28M sequel to the 2022 original to another stratosphere. The

Broadway newcomers Sunset Blvd. and Romeo + Juliet, both in previews, topped the $1M mark in weekly grosses last week, while interesting things were happening over at Wicked: The long-running musical had its best week, by far, of the 2024-25 season, hitting nearly $2.5M. The Wicked figure is a leap of $440,313 over the previous

Sony’s Screen Gems is releasing the feature take of its Sony Playstation game Until Dawn on April 25, 2025. David F. Sandberg directs off a recent draft by Gary Dauberman. Blair Butler wrote the previous draft. The pic stars The film stars Ella Rubin, Michael Cimino, Ji-young Yoo, Belmont Cameli, Odessa A’zion, Maia Mitchell and

Laser-sharp demographic marketing and a theatrical release date over the Indigenous Peoples holiday is driving Cineverse’s unrated slasher porn Terrifier 3 to a $20M-$21M four-day take after overperforming in its opening weekend. Today is shaping up to be between $2M-$2.5M per sources. Close to half of all K-12 schools are off today according to Comscore, in

With Warner Bros.’ Joker: Folie à Deux bombing and this past weekend’s overall ticket sales being off 43% from the same period a year ago, the October box office might feel kind of sluggish. It’s at this point in time that we say, where are you Venom? A nation’s box office turns its lonely eyes to

Refresh for latest…: After its sadly disappointing start last weekend, Warner Bros and Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux is still a sad clown, adding an estimated $22.7M from 77 international box office markets this session (a 70.5% drop). The overseas running cume now stands at $113.7M and the worldwide total is currently $165.3M through

In a weekend of wide releases, indies included, A24’s Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh-starring We Live In Time popped on five screens with the third best limited opening of the year after Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds Of Kindness and Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night. The romance by John Crowley grossed $225.9k opening weekend for a per-screen average

Disney has just given firm dates to its Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan sequel Freakier Friday and the live-action take of its animated classic Lilo & Stitch for next summer. Lilo & Stitch will open on May 23, 2025, while Freakier Friday is going August 8, 2025. Lilo & Stich moves onto the Memorial

After much pre-release turbulence, The Apprentice today opens on 1,740 screens across the country. Inspiring coming-of-age tales are a Hollywood staple, but most are warm and cozy compared to The Apprentice. In this ‘70s-set Manhattan tale, an ambitious real estate developer looking to crack the big time finds a mentor and role model in a

Theaters are brimming over with an army of well-reviewed and buzzy indie films. But, in an unusual state of affairs, pretty much all of them are in wide release, meaning Terrifier 3, Piece by Piece, Saturday Night and The Apprentice, as well as animated My Hero Academia: You’re Next. Limited openings are few — a

FRIDAY PM: Industry midday projections show Cineverse’s Terrifier 3 to be the bigger clown at the box office this weekend, with an estimated Friday around $7.7M for a potential $15M-plus 3-day at 2,514 theaters It would be great story for the business if a little movie like this can hold to this potential, and if

James Shani, whose new company Rich Spirit stepped in to help release Ali Abassi’s The Apprentice, was ebullient at the film’s New York premiere days ahead of a wide theatrical release. “We did it. I don’t know how many of you guys know what it took to get here,” he told a crowd at the