Box Office

SUNDAY AM WRITETHRU: In what is a never-before-seen stat, 74% of Imax and PLFs combined drove the weekend gross of Gkids’ Godzilla Minus Zero which is very close to the $32M opening that was reported yesterday, now at $31.6M. As we told you earlier today, the Takashi Yamazki directed movie is the No. 1 movie

Specialty distributors and alternative fare from live concerts to Indian films to faith-based fare and TV series ruled the top 10 at the box office and beyond this weekend, showcasing the strength of a market that’s helped the box office weather downturns and is now fueling its resurgence. Godzilla Minus Zero from independent distributor GKids

SUNDAY AM: Toho’s lizard had no plans to be undone by a Hindu deity in a fight at the global box office as Godzilla Minus Zero roared $63M WW over Prime Focus Studio and Sony’s Ramayana: Rise of a Legend‘s $55.7M global, the bulk of that gross in India. Ramayana had good fortune in Europe,

Gkids’ release of Toho’s Godzilla Minus Zero — now who the heck saw this coming? In what’s expected to be a slower November, at least stateside, sans a Wicked, a Moana or a Zootopia movie in the marketplace, along comes Takashi Yamazaki’s sequel to the Oscar-winning 2023 Japanese-language, English-subtitled movie with a $25 million-$30 million

AMC Entertainment swung to the black for the three months ended in September on higher revenue, noting market share gains in both domestic and international markets, with CEO Adam Aron saying the chain’s second consecutive record quarter means the company has “recovered” from its post-Covid struggles. The world’s largest exhibitor swung to a profit of

EXCLUSIVE: Wind of Change, the feature film about German rock band Scorpions from Fox Entertainment Studios and Ali Afshar’s ESX Entertainment, is now getting a theatrical release via Roadside Attractions in North America in March. The U.S. debut will follow the film’s January theatrical release in the band’s home country, distributed by Warner Bros. Germany.

EXCLUSIVE: Disrupt Entertainment has acquired all North American distribution rights to North African superhero picture Atoman ahead of an international sales push for the film at the AFM. The Pennsylvania-based company is gearing up to rollout the picture theatrically on at least 100 screens in early 2027 through AMC Theatres and other exhibitors. The sci-fi

Heading into awards season, it’s always nice for any feature contender to have some juice at the box office, and Spain’s official Oscar entry has exactly that as La Bola Negra has easily become the country’s highest grossing local film year-to-date with $41 million per Rentrak. In total, La Bola Negra currently counts a running

Broadway business was off about 13% last week (from the previous week and from last season at this time) – maybe Halloween Saturday pulled away some attention? – with total box office for the 33 shows hitting $29,572,284. Attendance for the week ending November 1 was 251,700, down 4% from the previous week and 9%

Cinemark CEO Sean Gamble is calling the release model for The Further Mis-Adventures Of Cliff Booth not great for the theatrical ecosystem, nor in the best interest of its theaters. The no. 3 U.S. exhibitor — as well as no. 2 chain Regal — won’t be playing the Netflix film, Quentin Tarantino’s followup to Once

Cinemark, the nation’s third largest exhibitor, saw revenue jump 23% to $1.1 billion for the three months ended in September, its best-ever third quarter amid a broad box office rebound. The shares are up about 4% in premarket trade. The company reported gains across categories including premium large format box office (XD, Imax) and ScreenX),

Spyglass Media and Paramount’s Scream 8 doesn’t even have a director yet, but franchise star Neve Campbell made it clear that she’s returning as Sidney Prescott (now Evans). The actress, who lives in London, told the AP that she has “Scream 8; that’s in the pipeline as well.” “You know I can’t tell you anything

MONDAY AM UPDATE: A24’s You Can See Everything had everything to deceive Warner Bros/DC’s Clayface into making the Paramount-owned studio and rivals believe the genre pic was No. 1 over the sleepy Halloween weekend. The Nathan Fielder- and Lance Oppenheimer-directed documentary wound up winning the weekend with $11.44 million after a huge Sunday of $4.296M

EXCLUSIVE: Watermelon Pictures has set a November 27 U.S. theatrical release for Switzerland’s 2027 Oscars entry Who Is Still Alive and posted the North American trailer. Conceived and directed by filmmaker Nicolas Wadimoff, the documentary revolves around nine former Gaza residents now scattered as refugees throughout the Middle East and Europe, unsure whether they will

Sony Pictures Classics’ John Turturro-starring The Only Living Pickpocket in New York by Noah Segan topped $1.9 million in a major week 2 expansion from six to 1,112 screens. The story of an aging New York pickpocket racing to return a valuable stolen USB drive to a vengeful crime family has an estimated cume of

It was an awful weekend at the global box office, but a lot of that has to do with the fact that there’s no major wide Hollywood release (or China local blockbuster title for that matter) more than the Halloween holiday itself impacting worldwide ticket sales. If there’s any indication of how bad the weekend

NatGeo’s Everest: The Other Side by Oscar-winning documentary filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi and Independent Film Company’s psychological horror Breeder are specialty debuts, along Greenwich Entertainment’s Queen At Sea, and docs Who Killed Alex Odeh?, Paging Hezbollah (by the director of Am I A Racist?) and Heathens. Briarcliff’s holiday horror-comedy Christmas At The Kringles

Box office authority Gower Street Analytics has revised their 2026 annual global ticket sales forecast to $35.7 billion, up 2.9% from their previous estimate which they reported at April’s CinemaCon. Their forecast is based on Rentrak actuals and Gower estimates. If the global B.O. hits $35.7B, that will rep a 6.3% uptick from last year’s

FRIDAY PM UPDATE: Halloween’s trick on the weekend domestic box office is currently seeing a fight between A24’s You Can See Everything and Warner Bros/DC’s Clayface with $10M+ apiece, though the odds are in favor the incarcerated failed Theranos founder versus a Gotham celebrity whose face melts. You Can See Everything is counting $3.2M today

No surprise here, but the No. 2 and No. 3 exhibitors, Regal and Cinemark, won’t be playing Netflix’s Quentin Tarantino penned Once Upon a Time in Hollywood follow-up, The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth when it opens on Wednesday, Nov. 25. That’s because the movie, which is getting a two-week exclusive run in Imax, is

Marcus Corp. chairman and CEO Greg Marcus wants studios to hold off marketing a film as available to watch at home during an exclusive theatrical run. Windows are now longer, he acknowledged, but the timing of messaging is just as important in boosting moviegoing. PVOD or TVOD, premium and transactional video on demand, follow theatrical

EXCLUSIVE: Just like Lionsgate fired up the early summer box office with their blast off of Michael ($97.2M U.S., $218.8M WW), they’re poised to be the saviors of the Thanksgiving box office as their highly anticipated prequel The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping has hit tracking with a floor of $60M+ U.S. and rivals

Marcus Theatres posted its highest third quarter revenue and profit ever as the box office boomed led by Spider-Man: Brand New Day, The Odyssey and a diverse slate of films. Theatrical revenues rose 21% to $145 million for the three months ended in September; operating income of $22.2 million rose by $9.9 million. Admission revenues

At a time when the box office is rebounding, and embracing auteur-driven fare (i.e. Christopher Nolan’s near $1.8B grossing The Odyssey) as well as originality (a three-hour documentary about a delusional, scandalous tech titan called You Can See Everything), the star studded Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams starring Klara and the Sun failed to shine

UPDATE, with revised 860 attendance percentage: Broadway‘s big-name fall stars continued putting seats in the seats last week, with Billy Crystal‘s 860, Other Desert Cities with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris and Allison Janney, and A Few Good Men with Bradley Whitford and Tom Blythe selling out (or coming very close) and pulling seven-figure grosses. Especially

EXCLUSIVE: Picturehouse will be releasing the Ari Gold-directed one-shot musical Brother Verses Brother for awards consideration this season. The movie, touted as a heartbreaking family odyssey through the streets of San Francisco, is executive produced by five-time Oscar winner Francis Ford Coppola, and is inspired by Coppola’s concept of “live cinema.” Brother Verses Brother follows

Documentary NAZA, recently acquired by Neon mid-theatrical rollout, passed the $1 million mark this weekend. The Venice-premiering film, directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor (two of the Oscar winning directors of No Other Land) is eyeing $74.5k on 73 screens in week 4, for a cume of $1.07 million. Producer The Guardian had been

The newly combined Paramount-Warner Bros merger (aka Skydance) saw its second back-to-back No. 1 weekend win at the global box office with DC’s Clayface which filed $43M WW. Is this the new norm? A consecutive weekend win by Skydance? Should the platinum studio Disney be worried? Even if A24’s You Can See Everything pops to

The weekend feels awards-y with John Turturro tugging the heartstrings in The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, Olivia Colman (Wicker) and Helen Mirren (A Talent For Murder) in the house, and Hans Zischler and Sandra Hüller playing Thomas Mann and his daughter on a road trip (Fatherland). The A24 You Can See Everything phenomenon