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The first big weekend of the 2026 box office arrives Friday with three major studio movies aimed at three different demos: women, families and guys over 25. However, the tallest of them all is the Jacob Elordi-Margot Robbie pic Wuthering Heights. Warner Bros. is eyeing a $70M-$80M global opening. The Burbank lot won the MRC

Cinema admissions in Europe dropped by 5.3% to 863.6M in 2025, according to a report from Europe’s International Union of Cinemas (UNIC). The body, which represents cinema operators and trade associations across 39 European territories, said that while admissions dipped slightly, box office takings remained relatively stable at €6.9BN ($8.2BN), dropping just 1% year-on-year. The

With a slightly thinned-out roster and a deep-freeze blast of NYC winter weather, Broadway did a decent job of holding its own last week, the 29 productions (down from 31 the previous week) pulling in a total gross of $30,170,014. That’s about 5% shy of the previous week’s take when Mamma Mia! and Liberation played

UPDATED, Monday PM: Before the steamy Jacob Elordi-Margot Robbie lovefest Wuthering Heights takes over the world, this past weekend belonged to Stray Kids. The K-Pop group’s Live Nation concert movie,Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience, danced to a revised $19.9 million global win from 61 territories, electrified largely by Universal International. The pic’s foreign cume rose

The Oscar-nominated Song Sung Blue, starring Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman, will stream on Peacock this week beginning February 13. By the way, that’s a 50-day theatrical window to streaming after the Craig Brewer-directed movie bowed on Christmas Day. Related Stories The Focus Features film, which is based on the touching life story of a

A24’s new limited debut Pillion saw terrific numbers as did Oscar-nominated Hamnet from Focus Features, which has been out since November, as independent distributors Bleecker Street and Vertical set milestones on an unusual theatrical weekend against the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics. Harry Lighton’s Pillion starring Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling opened to $241.8k

SUNDAY AM Writethru: After Saturday update…What can be as bad as a 2,000-mile snowstorm that shutters theaters? Why, Super Bowl weekend. And while it’s not the lowest weekend of the year, it came close with all movies doing $61.6M (per ComScore) versus the $55.1M till two weekends ago when 400 multiplexes turned off the lights

Warner Bros has moved up Practical Magic 2 to the post Labor Day weekend where they launch horror and genre pics, Sept. 11, from its previous Sept. 18 date. Meanwhile, DC Studios’ Clayface movie, about the Batman antagonist, moves outta Sept 11 to Oct. 23….major shift. In regards to Practical Magic 2, that’s a highly

EXCLUSIVE: It’s been an interesting war between David and Goliath with Markiplier’s indie feature videogame adaptation Iron Lung winning the weekend and the week in admissions per EntTelligence against big Disney 20th Century Studio’s Sam Raimi, Send Help. Send Help may have won the weekend at the box office with $19.1M and the week at

Paramount has added one more movie to their 2026 slate, Jonathan Levine’s untitled John Tuggle movie, taking their domestic count for the year to 13 titles in ComScore. In addition, they’ve dated the western The Rescue from Motor City filmmaker Potsy Poncirolifor Jan 29, 2027 and the feature directorial debut of One Battle After Another

Cinema United, the trade org for exhibition, has made public its remarks about the pending Netflix–Warner Bros merger to the Senate antitrust subcommittee, saying, “If Netflix succeeds in acquiring Warner Bros., the results will be economically and culturally catastrophic: fewer theatres, shorter windows, less revenue, fewer jobs across the national and global entertainment industry, and

Warner Bros. Pictures is moving M. Night Shyamalan directed feature take of the No. 1 New York Times Bestseller he co-wrote with Nicholas Sparks’ to Feb. 5, 2027. The pic was originally scheduled to hit theaters on Oct. 23, 2026. Sparks and 2x Oscar nominee Shyamalan also a screenplay together for the supernatural love story.

Universal’s Wicked: For Good will stream on Peacock on March 20, in what is a 123-day window between its theatrical debut and OTT debut. The Jon M. Chu sequel was nominated for two BAFTA awards including Best Costume Design and Best Hair and Makeup. The pic, which earned an A CinemaScore, grossed $525.5M at the

Paramount and Spyglass Media’s Scream 7 came on domestic tracking with a mid $30M opening in store when it arrives in theaters on Feb. 27. If those numbers hold, it could be the second highest opening in the 30-year-old franchise stateside after Scream VI‘s record $44.4M opening; that 2023 installment fueled by the Jenna Ortega

A24’s nine-time Oscar nominee Marty Supreme is getting a China release via China Film Group with an assist in promotion by Wanda Film. The news comes just as the Timothée Chalamet movie is about to become the highest grossing ever in A24’s history, surpassing the reported worldwide gross of Everything Everywhere All at Once ($142.8M).

While some major studios have no problem spending theatrical P&A to buy a pricey spot during the Big Game for a tentpole down the road, post Covid they’ve shown little interest in attempting to open a movie with any sizable marketing spend over Super Bowl. Gone are the days when they were able to launch

EXCLUSIVE: Cinema marketing agency, PaperAirplane Media, is launching a new Radio Promotion and Media Ambassador Division which will be led by Alex Franklin, who’ll serve as Director of Media Promotions. Franklin joins from Impact Marketing, where she spent over two decades architecting high-impact promotional campaigns for major film studios and lifestyle brands. The new division

Film Forum, the downtown Manhattan nonprofit cinema and New York arthouse staple, has tapped former Sundance head and industry veteran Tabitha Jackson as its new director starting Feb. 23. Jackson has over 30 years of experience in independent and non-profit media in the U.S. and her native England. She was named director of the Sundance

Broadway said its goodbyes to Mamma Mia! and Liberation Sunday, with both productions getting a boost at the box office last week from last chancers scooping up tickets before the February 1 closings. The revival of Mamma Mia! took in a big $1,821,528 for its final week, a bump of $392,259 over the previous week.

EXCLUSIVE: Japanese thriller Exit 8 will be opening in theaters nationwide on April 10, 2026 via Neon. Directed by Genki Kawarmura, Exit 8 world-premiered in the midnight section of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival where it received an 8-minute standing ovation. The pic went on to play the Toronto International Film Festival, the Sitges Film

MONDAY UPDATE: Goliath won over David this weekend at the global box office, but David, meaning Markiplier’s Iron Lung put up a great fight against monolith Disney 20th Century Studios’ Send Help, $22.1M worldwide to $27.2M worldwide. The Sam Raimi movie came in lower stateside with $19.1M (overseas $8.1M), but still overall it was respectable

Sony is shifting its Nate Bargatze family comedy The Breadwinner from March 13 to May 29, 2026. Summer break commences around that time, so it’s an optimal time to get families. The Breadwinner leaves behind Universal’s feature take of the Colleen Hoover novel Reminders of Him on that date as well as A24’s undertone among

A24’s The Moment with Charli xcx delivered a major limited opening, grossing close to $428k on four screens for a per theater average pushing $107k. That’s the third biggest limited debut post-Covid after Marty Supreme and Asteroid City and in the top three ever for A24 alongside the Timothée Chalamethit and Uncut Gems back in

MONDAY AM: Disney/20th Century Studio’s Send Help simmered to a $19.1M opening after a $4.8M Sunday with Markiplier’s very profitable Iron Lung second with an estimated $18.36M after a better than expected $4M Sunday. Amazon MGM Studios’ Melania is $100K ahead of its Sunday estimate with a $7.1M opening, still the best for a feature

Super Bowl – to spend or not to spend. For some motion picture marketing heads, it’s a no brainer in the bang for buck before a near 128 million-plus viewers; this year’s Super Bowl LX single ad rate hitting a record $10 million up from last year’s estimated $7.5M-$8M for a 30-second spot. As such

Was it packed houses or empty auditoriums juiced by group sales? That’s the obsession over the opening of Amazon MGM Studios‘ $75M First Lady Melania documentary from director Brett Ratner, which debuted to $7M, the biggest opening for a non-fiction feature in the last decade, outstripping Angel Studios’ 2023 title, After Death ($5M opening), and

SATURDAY AM: 20th Century Studios’ Send Help is looking to come in higher than Markiplier’s Iron Lung for the weekend, the Sam Raimi-directed movie expected to move ahead of the YouTuber’s videogame IP movie, $17.5M-$18.1M versus $15M-$17M. Still, that’s pretty amazing for the under $3M Iron Lung in regards to getting butts in seats particularly

The Moment is on the move from Park City to theaters in New York and LA with the buzzy meta mockumentary set for a heady limited opening. It’s joined by a nice indie lineup with Cannes prize-winning A Poet by Simón Mesa Soto, Jan-Ole Gerster’s vacation noir thriller Islands, Hlynur Pálmason’s The Love that Remains,

Paul Feig’s highest-grossing movie ever, The Housemaid, arrives on premium digital and premium video on demand on February 3, Lionsgate said Friday. By the way, that’s a 46-day theatrical window. The movie clicked past the $300 million mark at the global box office earlier this week, and last weekend, the pic surpassed Feig’s Bridesmaids as

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