Box Office

Less than two months ago, the public didn’t even know that a Nathan Fielder co-directed and starring documentary following controversial Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes even existed. And here we are with A24 having cracked the code on Gen Z again with an awesome $15M opening, 2,000-plus sellouts and lines around the block for the 3-hour

With the Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes documentary craze currently a stateside thing, Paramount/Legendary/Capcom’s Street Fighter was the ringleader at the worldwide weekend B.O. with a $51.1M global opening. Of that $20.1M came from 65 markets with the lionshare stateside with $31M. Again, this is several kicks up from what Street Fighter did in its

Netflix‘s Spanish drama La Bola Negra debuted to $277.5k on four screens – these numbers coming directly from the giant streamer Sunday in its first ever official box office grosses. The TIFF audience award-winner saw $108.3k Friday and $84.6k on Saturday leading into a strong three-day per screen average of $69.4k for the company’s inaugural

Opening this weekend, Cannes’ award-winning La Bola Negra, Spain’s Oscar entry for Best International Feature inspired by an unfinished Federico García Lorca play, marks a milestone for Netflix. A24 debuts the buzzy Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything, on 855 screens — about double the number as Musk, with Bleecker Street expanding that Alex

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount/Legendary’s PG-13 take of Capcom videogame Street Fighter is off to a solid start tonight with around $4M after showtimes that began at 2PM (further boosted by a 7PM fan showtime). The expectation is for the fisticuffs feature to open north of $30M; the pic costing a net $82M co-financed by Legendary and Capcom.

Here we go. The first two movies under the newly combined Paramount Warner Bros merger — Legendary’s Street Fighter via the Melrose lot and Clockwork’s limited 4K re-release of Ken Russell’s 1971 The Devils — hit theaters this weekend in what is a future of titles dated on top of each other, appealing to myriad

A Few Good Men and Other Desert Cities, starry new revivals on the Broadway stage, sold out their performances last week, with the latter production (starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery and Lily Rabe) hitting the upper reaches of the box office chart with a gross in excess of $2 million. As

Neon’s Cannes Palme d’Or-winning drama Fjord starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve had a terrific $124,000 opening on four screens in New York and Los Angeles, as documentary NAZA marks a strong week 2 expansion. Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord is the director’s second Palme d’Or and the seventh consecutive win for Neon. The film also took

The motion picture studios can easily sing that 42nd Street song “We’re in the Money” as the U.S. and Canada box office clicked past the $8 billion mark on Friday. Why is this a big deal? Because in post-Covid times distributors and exhibitors were thankful enough to even hit $8 billion in North America. Rentrak

The China release of Sony/Constantin’s Resident Evil propelled the move not only to the top of the global weekend box office in its fourth frame with an overall $62.7M WW, but the pic also became Zach Cregger’s highest grossing movie ever (as we first told) with $320.2M. That beats the previous high of his Oscar

Festival favorites Musk, Misty Green and Fjord debut in limited release in a crowded indie market with awards season rolling along. Bleecker Street’s documentary by Oscar-winner Alex Gibney opens in four theaters in New York (Angelika and Lincoln Square, and LA (AMC Century City and Burbank). The buzzy portrait of Tesla, X and SpaceX chief

Heavy hang the heads who wear the crowns, and that goes for Skydance Pictures Co-Chairs Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein, who’ll be tasked with getting under the hood and tuning up the incoming 2027-2029 Warner Bros theatrical slates. The first fire to put out: ensuring that Barbie 2 becomes a reality with its original franchise

Universal Pictures release Other Mommy saw a strong $3.6M from previews beginning at 2pm yesterday from 2,850 theaters. Opens today on 3,365 screens. The Social Reckoning is reckoning with $650k. Other Mommy, the Jessica Chastain-toplined horror by Rob Savage from producer James Wan and Blumhouse Atomic Monster sees a young girl (Arabella Olivia Clark) form

EXCLUSIVE: Former New Line, Lionsgate, and Paramount Vantage exec Guy Stodel will be the point acquisitions consultant at AMC Theatres’ new film label, Leawood Films. Stodel joins Kyles Davies, who is leading distribution for Leawood in addition to advisors, former Warner Bros Group chairman and I Play Rocky producer, Toby Emmerich; and former Walt Disney

With potential MLB playoff games this weekend in addition to the NFL in full swing, the majors have booked the upcoming box office weekend adequately without any mega-tentpole fare, instead offering lower-budget pics aimed at specific demos. Sometimes during the tricky days of early October, studios will go with a tentpole and watch a film

EXCLUSIVE: You Can See Everything, A24‘s documentary about fallen Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and her days before going to federal prison, is a hot ticket at Alamo Drafthouse. So hot that presales for the doc directed by Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder are the highest of any A24 title and any documentary that has played

EXCLUSIVE: By the end of this week or sooner, Sony/Constantin’s Resident Evil will become Zach Cregger‘s highest-grossing movie at the global box office. It will surpass his previous high, New Line’s Weapons, which ended its run at $270M worldwide. This all comes with the theatrical release of Resident Evil in China on Monday. Through Monday

Other Desert Cities, the starry Broadway revival of Jon Robin Baitz’s Tony Award-winning play featuring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery and Lily Rabe, grossed a smashing $1,879,441 in its first week of previews. All seven performances at the Hudson were sold out for the week ending October 4. The $1.8M gross puts

UPDATED MONDAY after Sunday AM post: Colleen Hoover fever came back at the box office as the feature take of the author’s novel Verity starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett scored her second best global debut ever at $62.1 million worldwide. That files behind the 2024 blockbuster It Ends With Us, in like-for-likes,

Tom Cruise will not be jumping on any couches this weekend. This as the star of blockbusters Top Gun: Maverick and Mission: Impossible posts his lowest opening in 19 years, that being the reported $160 million net-priced Digger, which didn’t find an audience with an $8 million domestic debut, a $20M global start and a

John Wilson’s Sundance-premiering The History of Concrete from Magnolia Pictures is oh so solid, eyeing $450k on 160 screens in week three for a cume of over $1.2 million cume, making it the top grossing, platform-release doc of 2026. Acclaimed documentary NAZA is reporting a five-day gross of $86k since its theatrical debut Wednesday. NAZA

SUNDAY AM WRITETHRU: After Saturday update Warner Bros’ very original, very expensive auteur feature, Digger, opened to $8M, which is still the lowest for Tom Cruise since 2007’s much cheaper Lions for Lambs at $6.7M. All in global start is an awful $20M worldwide. In hindsight, Amazon MGM Studios was bold to date on top

Disney/Marvel Studio’s Avengers: Endgame is once again, the highest grossing movie ever, overtaking Avatar, $2.9255 billion to the latter’s $2.9237 billion. This is all due to the re-release of the Anthony and Joe Russo directed movie in the tee-up to their Avengers: Doomsday upside down multiverse movie on Dec. 18. Endgame was king of the

NAZA, written and directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, has started its U.S. run, playing at the IFC Center in New York since Wednesday. That followed fast on a New York Film Festival screening last weekend and a Special Jury Prize at its Venice world premiere last month with a record 25-minute standing ovation

River, the IFC title that Universal and Blumhouse Atomic Monster acquired out of TIFF’s Midnight Madness section for $10 million, is getting a January 15, 2027 theatrical release. Universal already had this MLK weekend date on hold for a Blumhouse title. Also opening on this date so far is Paramount’s Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Children of Blood

Well, on the bright side of things, the autumn box office should continue at a great hum this weekend thanks to Amazon MGM Studios’ feature take on the Colleen Hoover thriller Verity, starring Dakota Johnson, Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett. The domestic outlook is $30 million-plus at 3,510 theaters, with the definite potential to overperform

KPop Demon Hunters has broken streaming records for Netflix, amassing 325.1M views in its first 90 days on the platform and spending 63 consecutive weeks in the Global Top 10. The direct-to-streaming animated Sony title showed a massive box-office potential too — two months after KPop Demon Hunters‘ debut on Netflix, its singalong version grossed

At a time when the major exhibitors are in town for Cinema United’s Fall Summit, Sony made a slew of release date adds and changes Wednesday. Chief among them is that Ridley Scott’s feature take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island starring Hugh Jackman as Long John Silver is coming out on November 11, 2027.

Oscar nominees Margot Robbie and producer Jason Blum have boarded exhibition trade org Cinema United‘s Filmmaker Leadership Council, a strategic group of producers and directors united in a single cause to champion the future of theatrical worldwide. The duo join council leaders Jerry Bruckheimer and Emma Thomas, and charter members Ryan Coogler, Brad Bird, Jason

UPDATED with CA AG statement, Block The Merger response: A federal judge has approved the Sept. 21 settlement between Paramount and a group of state Attorneys General that sued to block its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, removing the last hurdle for the deal to close. “The Court finds the proposed consent decree represents a