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Continuing the trajectory it began after world premiering in Venice, where it won the Best Screenplay prize, this past week Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here was shortlisted for an International Feature Oscar. Salles’ so-called “comeback film” is also a box office phenom in Brazil. Through Sunday, it has grossed $10.7M in the home market. It
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Lionsgate’s Trey Edward Shults directed and written suspense thriller Hurry Up Tomorrow starring The Weeknd in his big screen debut, Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan, is getting a release date of May 16. The movie starring the Grammy winning and Oscar and Emmy nominated recording superstar is timed with the debut of his new album
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Christmas Day 2025 is bulking up in regards to product. In the wake of Lionsgate dating the Paul Feig directed Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried thriller, The Housemaid and A24 with their Timothee Chalamet ping-pong champ movie Marty Supreme, Sony is darting their reimagined comedy Anaconda starring Paul Rudd and Jack Black. The movie is from
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Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King is not as regal as hoped in its global debut. The cume through three days of international box office play is $33M, which, with the domestic outlook, portends a $125M worldwide start through Sunday. That’s far off pre-weekend projections of a $180M worldwide debut. Domestically, as Anthony has detailed, is
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Fewer new openings but important ones for the indie world as the year soon to close welcomes the trio of Brady Corbet’s much-nominated The Brutalist with Adrien Brody, Pedro Almodovar’s first English outing The Room Next Door starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, and a new rendition of revenge thriller The Count Of Monte Cristo.
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Lionsgate’s has counterprogramming to next holiday season’s Avatar: Fire & Ash and that’s their thriller The Housemaid starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried. The pic will come out on Christmas Day. The movie also stars Brandon Sklenar, and as we announced previously, 365 Days Italian actor Michele Morrone. Based on the Freida McFadden novel and
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EXCLUSIVE: Bleecker Street has dated their Sundance premiere title The Wedding Banquet starring Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone for April 18 while their Telluride acquisition, the Bill Murray and Naomi Watts movie The Friend will start its limited rollout on March 21. They’re both part of a 2025 theatrical release slate which includes Mike Leigh’s
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The build-up to Christmas is being very generous with Broadway. In some cases, very, very generous. Among the most impressive box office developments last week was the welcome given to All In: Comedy About Love, based on the short stories of writer Simon Rich, read live by such performers as, initially, John Mulaney, Fred Armisen,
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After the Thanksgiving duel between two female-driven movies, Moana 2 and Wicked, the holdovers will give way to Christmas’ two big tentpoles, Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Disney’s prequel Mufasa. Given the teenage boy and gameboy rage, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 will upset Mufasa in its domestic opening, high $50Ms to $50M. Some rivals
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Fathom Events is on track for a record-breaking 2024 with gross revenue of $145+ million, up 45% from $100 million a year ago, and plans to rebrand to Fathom Entertainment starting in January to better reflect its mission. The 20-year-old distributor’s strong numbers reflect in large part an expansion from core and primarily events-based and
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Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans‘ holiday action movie Red One pulled a record-breaking 50 million worldwide viewers in its first four days on Prime Video. That’s the most watched Amazon MGM Studios’ film ever on the OTT service, besting Road House from March 21 which clocked 50M global viewers alone in its first two weekends. Red
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Refresh for latest…: Here we are in the pre-holiday period with strong returns from the top two studio titles already in the marketplace, and a not unexpected uninspiring start from a movie that has jumped around the calendar. Taking the latter first, much as it has Stateside, Sony’s Kraven the Hunter failed to whip up
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Awards kudos, critics’ lists, varied nominations and wins are boosting indie film standouts this weekend. The market is crowded as indies vie with each other, studio tentpoles and fare from Pusha: The Rule – Part 2 and the remastered Daft Punk & Leiji Matsumoto: Interstella 5555. But many specialty distributors are more upbeat now than at
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Warner Bros Motion Pictures Group and MRC’s feature adaptation of Wuthering Heights from Oscar winner Emerald Fennell will hit theaters on Feb. 13, 2026. The Margot Robbie-Jacob Elordi starring, LuckyChap production based on the Emily Brontë novel is a clear destination for female audiences over that period. Already on Feb. 13, 2026 is another female-demo movie, Universal’s feature take of Colleen
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Sony’s $110M Spider-man universe spinoff Kraven the Hunter collected $2M in previews last night while Warner Bros/New Line $30M+ anime movie Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim counted $625K. Neither is expected to wow in their openings in a weekend that will be dominated again by Disney’s Moana 2 which is eyeing a
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