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Bassam Tariq’s Mahershala Ali-starring TIFF favorite Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother had a strong limited opening as distributor Amazon MGM launched the awards contender into a platform release hewing to the path of American Fiction.. Also this weekend, A History of Concrete had a terrific expansion, as did If I Go Will They Miss

FRIDAY PM: If a Nor’easter doesn’t shut down the power in the Northeast, four films are looking at doing over $20M each in what is another fantastic sign for moviegoing in a year that’s racing to $10 billion. Currently, there’s no word whether theaters are closing down from New Jersey up to Boston as wind

A diverse group of new releases join an indie weekend teetering on awards season kickoff at the close of a pretty momentous week for the industry. New in theaters, Sony Pictures Classics Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! and Mahershala Ali’s TIFF-premiering Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, along with stories about a New York location scout

After becoming the first studio to cross the $4 billion global mark at the 2026 box office, Universal is now the first studio again this year, shooting past $5B worldwide. Broken out, Uni counts $1.788B at the domestic box office and $3.218B abroad. The milestone reps the third time in Universal’s history that it has

A24‘s Head of Theatrical Sales, Frank Martinez, is heading over to Bleecker Street as their new Head of Distribution, effective today. This comes in the wake of Bleecker Street’s former Distribution Chief, Kyle Davies, departing for AMC Theatres’ new distribution label, Leawood Films, which we first told you about. Martinez will report to Bleecker Street

EXCLUSIVE: Séance, the Victorian Gothic thriller directed by and starring Vivian Kerr, will begin a limited U.S. theatrical release on October 2, followed by a North American VOD release November 13. Also written and produced by Kerr, Séance will open with a one-week run at the Laemmle Royal in Los Angeles before widening to dates

Warner Bros has made some release date changes, unrelated to its pending marriage with Paramount. DC’s Robins-origin puppets-meet-animation feature Dynamic Duo is moving from June 30, 2028, to Septemer 22, 2028. The reasoning is that Warner Bros distribution believes this will be a good back-to-school animated feature slot for not just K-12 but also teens

Movie theater trade association Cinema United, who was an opponent of a Warner Bros Discovery acquisition from the onset, released a statement this morning, commending the four AGs work on settling with Paramount. “The consent decree includes language on increased film production for five years, meaningful theatrical exclusivity and wide distribution, prohibitions on cost increases,

California Attorney General Rob Bonta can rest easy: A merged Paramount Warner Bros Discovery would already account for 36 movies on the release schedule for 2027. Note, that’s an organic number of theatrical releases that were always set to happen even before the union of the storied studios came together with Monday’s settlement announcement. As

John Wilson’s The History Of Concrete had a record-breaking IFC Center debut, grossing $90k in three days for the top doc opening and the second-highest weekend gross in the NYC theater’s 21-year history after only Parasite ($119k in 2019). Nearly every available ticket sold for the entire weekend, including for shows added Saturday afternoon for

TriStar Pictures/Constantin Film/Davis Films’ Resident Evil rang up a massive $108.3M worldwide, not only the best start the franchise has ever seen, but also Zach Cregger‘s biggest start as filmmaker surpassing the $70M WW reported opening of last year’s Weapons. In addition, the opening alone for Resident Evil beats the global final of the original

SUNDAY AM: Sony/Constantin’s Resident Evil racked up a greater score at the domestic box office with a $60M opening, which as we told you all along is not only a record for the franchise (that was clear when it came on tracking three weeks ago), but also for Zach Cregger. That opening alone nearly topples

It’s a busy specialty weekend with fewer new studio releases. Well-reviewed Depression-era western The Weight starring Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe in wide release joins comedic doc The History of Concrete by John Wilson in an exclusive engagement. GKids opens Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom and Johnny Knoxville stars in R-rated Tiny

Paramount has set a July 16, 2027 release date for its Alexandre Aja-directed Crawl sequel, while Heart Eyes 2 will shift a week from February 11, 2028 to February 4, 2028. The follow-up to 2019’s alligator movie Crawl, which grossed close to $92 million, stars Mason Gooding and Emily Rudd in a new survival story

While the world knew when the trailer dropped for A24‘s Telluride surprise Elizabeth Holmes documentary, You Can See Everything that the Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder directed title was coming out in October, it was out in the ether, unconfirmed that the pic’s release date is Oct. 16. A24 hadn’t even put down a date

It finally happened: Sony’s highest-grossing movie ever, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, is now the top-grossing movie ever at the domestic box office, eclipsing Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which held the record for the past 10 years with a cume of $936.66 million. As of Tuesday, Spider-Man: Brand New Day counts a running domestic cume

After a record $4.67B summer, last weekend’s Warner Bros/Alcon’s Practical Magic 2 didn’t exactly light the fall on fire. But this weekend’s Sony/Constantin‘s revival of Resident Evil from Zach Cregger could very well do the trick with a $40M-$50M domestic start and another $31M overseas for a global around $80M on the high end. While

EXCLUSIVE: There’s been a lot of happy days at Sony this summer with the never-ending record breaking success of Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day, but nothing could be sweeter than the now as the Destin Daniel Cretton-directed movie conquered Star Wars: The Force Awakens to become the highest grossing movie ever at the domestic

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios and Imagine Entertainment‘s Ron Howard directed true-life film Alone at Dawn will begin a platform release on December 25, 2027, before expanding on January 7 and getting a wide break over the MLK weekend, January 14-17. Deadline first told you about the project. Oscar winner Anne Hathaway, 2x Oscar nominee Adam

Could Reece Weaver, breakout star of the Netflix series America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, be following in Whitney Leavitt’s tap-dancing shoes in bringing crowds to Broadway‘s Chicago? The box office figures from last week suggest yes. Weaver’s first week as Roxie Hart – and her Broadway debut – saw attendance for Chicago jump to 100%

Sony has moved the Jim Caviezel action pic Ghost Soldier from Nov. 6 this year to Wednesday, Nov. 11, Veterans Day. In the William Eubank directed movie, Caviezel stars as Henry “Fitz” Fitzgerald, a solitary man with a mysterious past, living a quiet life off the grid in his hometown. But when a powerful foreign

Indies including newcomer Runner and holdover Buddy nabbed five of the top 10 spots at the domestic box office this weekend. If I Go Will They Miss Me had a terrific exclusive opening in L.A., and documentary American Doctor passed $400k. Late-summer original horror-comedy hit Buddyfrom Roadside Attractions and Saban Films grossed $3.5 million in

Warner Bros/Alcon’s Practical Magic 2 wound up flying to a $46M global debut, with $16M overseas and $30M domestic. Note the sequel to this Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman 1990s property is stateside driven, so expect a bulk of the gross to come from there. However, the $16M start is under the $18M-$23M that the

By the end of this weekend, The Odyssey will have crushed the ultimate record, becoming Universal‘s highest-grossing movie at the global box office with $1.684 billion. The pic will sail above Universal’s previous record-breaker, 2015’s Jurassic World, which ended its run at $1.677 billion. By Sunday, The Odysseywill count $601.2M million domestic and $1.083billion international,

SATURDAY AM: Well, it’s clear, the summer moviegoing pace is over at the box office with fall distractions setting in as the entire weekend at $84.4M expected to be -32% off from a year ago ($124.5M) when Warner Bros/New Line opened Conjuring Last Rights to a franchise high of $84M. Warner Bros./Alcon’s Practical Magic 2

South Korean sci-fi thriller Hope joins actioner Runner, historical epic The Uprising and a handful of interesting limited releases this weekend, a few by new indie distributors. With fall festival season in full swing and eyes on the next crop of independent standouts, it’s slower for new entrants in the specialty space. Wide: Neon is

EXCLUSIVE: The next big YouTube-born horror IP for the big screen we told you about, the Mandela Catalogue from the Scott Stuber-led United Artists, Amazon MGM Studios and Steven Spielberg‘s Amblin, is getting a summer release date of June 9, 2028. As Deadline reported, Mandela Cataloguecreator Alex Kister is directing the feature off a screenplay

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s Cannes Film Festival winner La Bola Negra will begin its platform release on Oct. 16 with the Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo directed title booked at AMC Century City and AMC Burbank in Los Angeles, and at the Angelika Film Center (35mm) and The Paris Theater (35mm) in New York. A bold tapestry

Imax big screens have passed $600 million in global box office receipts so far this quarter, says CEO Rich Gelfond, noting that it’s still early in September (Q4 runs through end of the month) and “our best quarter ever was in the mid-three hundreds.” That was in the third quarter of 2023. The company is