Holiday moviegoing may begin in earnest on Christmas, but we can’t ignore that there 95% of K-12 schools are off today — and colleges too. Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3, after coming in lower than expected at $60.1M on opening weekend, will continue its rally at the box office with around $9M today at 3,761
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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
Brandy Corbet’s The Brutalist from A24 hammered its way into theaters this weekend with one of the best limited openings of 2024 (no. 3 after Anora and Kinds of Kindness). It sold out nearly 30 showtimes in New York and Los Angeles for a gross of $266.8k on four screens for a per screen opening
After becoming the first studio of 2024 to hit $2 billion at the domestic box office earlier this week, Disney has now claimed a new milestone. Based on today’s estimates, the Walt Disney Studios has crossed $5 billion globally. The total worldwide estimate is $5.06 billion. Of that, $2.054 billion comes from North America and
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
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
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
MIDDAY FRIDAY PM: Fanboys may have sat out last weekend for Lord of the Rings: War of Rohirrim and Kraven the Hunter, but they are back in bulk this weekend for Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3 which is eyeing a potential franchise best 3-day opening, besting Sonic the Hedgehog 2‘s $72.1M. Currently the Jeff Fowler
Paramount is moving up The Running Man out of the Nov. 21, 2025 corridor which is where it was up against Wicked: For Good, to Nov. 7, 2025. Paramount will also have access to Imax screens which is a big plus. This leaves a spot open for a male-skewing film. They also set a release
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.
In what is no surprise, Paramount is moving forward with a Sonic the Hedgehog 4. The news comes as the threequel goes into previews tonight. The #3 movie is expected to beat Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King in its domestic opening, $60M to $50M+. If you want to know what’s bound to happen in Sonic
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
Sony has already set a release date for the second film in their newly revamped 28 Days trilogy —28 Years Later: The Bone Temple— which will hit theaters on Jan. 16, 2026. By the way, Sony just dated on top of New Line’s highly anticipated Zach Cregger directed genre movie Weapons. There was some buzz
Global box office in 2025 is eyed at a projected $33 billion, according to Gower Street Analytics. This early look at next year puts 2025 on track to come in about 8% ahead of 2024 which the London-based firm currently estimates will conclude with $30.5 billion. If it holds, the 2025 global forecast would put
If 2024 will be remembered for anything, it will be the absolute return of Disney at the box office. After a string of events films that weren’t events in 2023, i.e. Pixar’s Elemental, The Marvels, The Haunted Mansion and Wish, the Mouse House came raging back this year, becoming the only motion picture studio to
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
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,
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
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
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
EXCLUSIVE: The 24-hour traffic for the 28 Years Later trailer was so massive, that in response, Sony is releasing the original 2002 Danny Boyle directed zombie movie, 28 Days Later on digital Dec. 18 for purchase and rental. This is all because of the rabid fan response. 28 Years Later is a follow-up to 28
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
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
There’s a saying among filmmakers about comedy movies and that is you can’t keep them on the shelf for long or else they’ll go stale. The same is equally true about superhero films, and it’s a fate that Sony‘s Kraven the Hunter suffered this past weekend, becoming the lowest opening in the studio’s Marvel canon
With just a few weeks left in 2024, notable films continue to land with Nickel Boys and The Last Showgirl officially jumping into awards season — the former already a two-time winner at the first stop, the Gotham Awards. A few big indie stories are yet to be told, with Babygirl and A Complete Unknown
Signs that Warner Bros DC Studios is very serious about its standalone Clayface movie even though it doesn’t have a director or star yet: The studio is given the movie written by Mike Flanagan a Sept. 11, 2026 theatrical release. That’s the famed post Labor Day gold mine weekend for Warner Bros with such movies
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
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
Jesse Eisenberg’s bromance dramedy, A Real Pain, which has been on a tear on the awards circuit, is hitting digital platforms Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV and Fandango at Home on Dec. 31. The movie which Eisenberg directed, wrote and starred in opposite Kieran Culkin, will arrive on Blu-Ray on Feb. 4. That span between
EXCLUSIVE: UTA has inked Chinese filmmaker and 2024 Un Certain Regard Prize winner, Guan Hu, for representation in all areas. Guan recently won the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival for his film Black Dog. The film has since screened at global festivals and has received several accolades. He was also nominated for
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