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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

Domesticticket pre-sales forAvengers: Doomsdayhave crossed $50 millionwith still over three months to go. This is a great start for the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe installment, which hits the big screen December 18, 2026 alongside Denis Villeneuve’s third Dune film, which will have IMAX screens its opening weekend. Audiences are gravitating towards premium formats with over70%

After summer hit a record $4.76 billion stateside, Warner Bros has a female destination in Practical Magic 2, the sequel to the 1998 Sandra Bullock-Nicole Kidman witchy romantic fantasy comedy. The pci is eyeing around $40M domestic and $18M-23M overseas in 77 territories for a global start of $58M-$63M. Practical Magic 2 will unspool in

Broadway held steady as the summer season came to a close with the Labor Day holiday, with the 25 productions grossing a total $26,258,361 for the week ending September 6. The total reps a small 2% increase over the previous week and about a 4% jump over last year at this time. Total attendance was

Disney’s Lucasfilm’s new universe titleStar Wars: Starfighterin addition to the 50th anniversary re-release of Star Wars will be presented in Imax 70mm upon release in 2027. For the 1977 George Lucas-directed Star Wars, the release will rep the first time that movie has been released in Imax, in digital or film. The pic will open

After Netflix promised a 45-day theatrical window if it had purchased Warner Bros, the streamer now will begin reporting grosses publicly for its upcoming slate of six movies: Cannes Palme d’Or winner La Bola Negra, David Fincher’s The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, Peter Berg’s Mosquito Bowl, Danny Boyle’s Ink, Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s

What’s the next big title from Sony after Spider-Man: Brand New Day? Why, it’s their co-production with Nintendo, the live action-take of video game Zelda, which got a title today, The Legend of Zelda. The Wes Ball directed movie’s release date remains April 30, 2027. The Legend of Zelda was the first game in the

No one ever imagined this would be a record $4.76 billion summer. When we started off, we knew Universal’s The Odyssey was destined to be huge given that the 70MM Imax tickets sold out a year in advance. Sony/Marvel Studio’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day was also bound to be big, but the biggest movie of

EXCLUSIVE: The 2017 surprise Best Picture Oscar winner, Moonlight, is getting a tenth anniversary re-release from A24 on Oct. 2 in a new 4K remastered cut. The news was just announced by the film’s director, co-writer, Barry Jenkins, at a special Telluride Film Festival screening of the pic. Moonlight follows a young African-American man who

Dark comedy Buddy from Roadside Attractions and Saban Films is sailing along at no. 7 for the three-day weekend with $5.75 million on 1,771 screens (up 500) in week 2 for a hefty cume of $14.3 million. For the four days, including the U.S. Labor Day holiday, the estimated gross is $7.2 million, cume $15.7

For the first time since Spider-Man: Brand New Day opened on July 31, Universal and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey can throw a galley parade over the fact that it’s grabbed the No. 1 spot at the global weekend box office with $45.96M WW over the Sony/Marvel Studios’ title’s sixth frame of $44.1M WW. It’s another

With a four-day weekend estimated to be around $21 million, Sony/Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day will be less than $16M away by EOD of Monday of overtaking Star Wars: Force Awakens ($936.6M) as the highest-grossing movie of all time at the domestic box office. The pic’s running cume by the end of Labor Day

It’s finally happening, and nobody, I mean nobody saw this coming: Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day is hitting $900 million at the domestic box office Friday, the second movie after to do so after Disney/Lucasfilm’s 2015 title Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the fastest-ever to that threshold. All this just as summer’s final weekend

EXCLUSIVE: There’s absolutely no need to get these moviegoers out of here. For Universal, they’re doing perfectly well, sitting in cinemas and watching Christopher Nolan‘s The Odyssey. The director’s highest grossing movie ever at $1.59 billion worldwide has crossed another milestone, and that’s that it has become the 17th movie to surpass $1 billion at

Labor Day, the informal end of summer box, is an eclectic indie mix. A Sara Bareilles documentary is timed to her latest album release. A24 thriller Onslaught opens wide. Roadside Attractions’ Buddy expands to 1,771 screens after a terrific opening last weekend. Independent Film Company is rolling out Joe Swanberg’s The Sun Never Sets from

Count on Zach Cregger‘s Resident Evil as one of the biggest openers this month in addition to Warner Bros’ Practical Magic 2 when it bows in the post-Labor Day frame. Resident Evil hit tracking this morning with an eye at a $35M start. The pic debuts in theaters on Sept. 18. We’re hearing first-days sales

No Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman witches in Practical Magic 2 nor zombies in Resident Evil will stand in the way of Odysseus’ hold on additional Imax screens throughout the month of September. Christopher Nolan’s highest grossing movie at $1.55 billion and Universal’s second highest grossing ever after Jurassic World ($1.67B), is getting an extended

Sony has set a November 6 global release date for fantasy action-adventure saga Ramayana, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Yash, and Sai Pallavi. Ramayanais planned as a two-part movie event based on the 5,000-year-old saga. The synopsis reads: “An ancient epic follows a young prince and princess whose marriage and subsequent exile mark the beginning of a

The final performances of Moulin Rouge! The Musical easily topped this week’s Broadway box office chart, grossing a big $2,336,973 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, a nice jump of $140,768 over the previous week. With original, Tony-winning cast member Aaron Tveit back as Christian for the engagement’s final two weeks, sales surged with his fans

The summer domestic box office is so close — so close–to hitting an all-time record, surpassing the $4.756 billion set in 2013. Currently, per Rentrak, the North American box office for the first Friday in May through EOD Sunday stands at $4.598 billion, officially the second-highest summer ever. If this summer is going to beat

EXCLUSIVE: In Monday’s press release revealing AMC Theatres‘ new distribution venture Leawood Films, distribution veteran Kyle Davies was listed as an advisor. However, we’ve come to learn that the exec is leaving Bleecker Street as President of Distribution to lead distribution at the No. 1 theater chain’s new film label. Leawood Films, AMC said, will

AMC Theatres, the world’s largest exhibitor chain, is getting into the distribution business with a new label for small and mid-sized movies. The launch of the label, Leawood Films, comes at a time when many independent features, particularly those that have played major film festivals, are without homes. Leawood Films plans to handle those movies

Dark comedy Buddy from Roadside Attractions and Saban Films blew past expectations to set a few records for Roadside Attractions as its top opening since Covid and second-best ever after I Can Only Imagine (2018, $17 million). From the producers of Weapons, the feature directorial debut of Casper Kelly scared up a no. 6 spot

In the deepest of summer, Odysseus came close to throwing Spider-Man off the top of the global weekend box office, but the aranea superhero had the upper hand over the crusty ole warrior, $66.2M to $62.9M. Spider-Man: Brand New Day was in its fifth session, taking its global count to $2.33B ($1.44B int’l, $891.5M domestic),

SATURDAY AM WRITETHRU after Friday afternoon post: It’s Spidey’s world, and Jacob Elordi and Wile E. Coyote are just living in it. But let’s not ignore the pace we’re seeing on Ketchup Entertainment’s release of the abandoned Warner Bros Looney Tunes title, Coyote Vs. Acme, which is eyeing third place now with $14M. Coyote vs.

Movie-ticketing giant Fandango is distributing its first film, House of Worship, which opened last weekend at about 400 theaters. They signed on for three days of screenings of the faith-based event pic featuring 25 popular Christian music artists. It’s the latest push by the Versant Media division as it looks to expand beyond its bread-and-butter

New comedies mark the penultimate weekend of summer from Buddy to Idiots to Finding Emily. Korean zombie thriller Colony, from the director of Train to Busan, and superhero film Legend of the White Dragon (both from Well Go USA) join a handful of limited releases including docs Boorman and the Devil, The Cycle of Love