This was a notable specialty weekend with Latvian animated Flow powering on and Luca Quadagnino’s Queer starring Daniel Craig rocking its expansion. A notable trio of concert films popped. Telugu Pushpa: The Rule – Part 2 had a super opening, the biggest for an Indian film in some time, as did Solo Leveling – ReAwakening,
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Amazon MGM Studios’ Red One will be streaming on Prime Video worldwide on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024. The movie will continue to be booked in theaters. Maintaining a 28-day theatrical window, the $200M+ Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans starring, Jake Kasdan directed, Seven Bucks production grossed $85.7M domestic, $164M worldwide through Sunday. The movie was
Warner Bros. this morning dated the next iteration of New Line Cinema’s famed horror franchise, Final Destination: Bloodlines for May 16, 2025. It’s the only major studio wide entry on that date. The Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein directed movie, which has a story that’s being guarded, has Imax screens. Genre pics like A
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate‘s Lucy Hale comedy-mystery F*** Marry Kill hit digital store shelves and PVOD this past Friday, December 6 — then disappeared a few hours later. We heard all the noise from genre fans. What went on here? Is Lionsgate’s AI to blame? No, not at all. Apparently, the R-rated Laura Murphy-directed title originally was
Broadway settled back down to some post-Thanksgiving normalcy last week, dropping about 9% to $42,021,721 from the holiday high of the previous week. Attendance held strong at 309,802 for the week ending December 8. Wicked was, once again, the roster’s top earner, grossing $2,782,795 and besting both The Lion King ($2,489,493) and Hamilton ($2,030,772). In
The National Association of Theatre Owners is bestowing their Marquee Award next year on Cinemark President and CEO, Sean Gamble. The executive will receive the award at NATO‘s exhibitor-studio confab CinemaCon during the “State of the Industry” program on April 1, 2025. NATO President and CEO Michael O’Leary said, “Sean is the perfect choice for the NATO
EXCLUSIVE: Universal/Warner Bros’ Twisters has debuted as streamer Peacock‘s biggest Pay 1 film ever in its 14 days on the platform. The previous biggest Peacock Pay 1 film debut in its first 14 days was Universal’s 7x Christopher Nolan directed Oscar winner, Oppenheimer. The Lee Isaac Chung directed, Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones starring sequel
Numbers are fun as many a math teacher once said, and in a rivalry between Disney’s Moana 2 and Universal’s Wicked, the latter is having the upper hand at the U.S./Canada box office, not just yesterday, but today as well. Wicked made $5M on Wednesday, and is looking at $4.5M today, -10%. That’s ahead of
Sony Pictures Classics will be opening the docu-concert movie Becoming Led Zeppelin on Feb. 7, 2025 exclusively in Imax. You can watch the trailer above. Ahead of the release, Imax theatres will be holding one night only early access screenings in eighteen markets on Feb. 5, 2025. Becoming Led Zeppelin explores the origins of the iconic group
Moana 2‘s “Hauʻoli lākou” aka good luck continues this weekend as it eyes a $60M second frame. For the post-Thanksgiving first weekend of December, that’s an absolute mind-blowing record for a No. 1-ranking title, whether holdover or new release. The previous high for this frame was in 2019, when the third weekend of Frozen 2
Sony is going one week earlier with the Keke Palmer and SZA R-rated comedy, One of Them Days, unspooling the title on the 4-day MLK weekend which kicks off Jan. 17, 2025. Pic’s new spot will take advantage of 95% colleges on break on Monday. There are also no comedies dated this holiday season, so
After six days of release worldwide, Disney’s record-breaking Moana 2 stands at $404.5M, passing this year’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes ($397.4M) and Bad Boys: Ride or Die ($404.5M), already the No. 9 movie of the year. Yesterday, Moana 2 led at the domestic box office with $5.7M, -83% from Sunday, taking its
UPDATE, with full report: Broadway had its best attended and highest grossing Thanksgiving week in the industry’s recorded history, the Broadway League said today, with its 38 productions grossing a combined $46,046,759, a huge increase over last year’s turkey holiday take of $34,512,033. Attendance for this year’s Thanksgiving week – the Broadway week ending December
Regal Cineworld Group has secured a new $1.9 billion in Term Loan B facility. The new facility is priced at SOFR + 525 bps with a maturity date of Dec. 1, 2031, and replaces the Group’s existing Term Loan B. The refinancing included a $350M Revolving Credit Facility that replaces the company’s existing revolving credit facility. The
SUNDAY AM UPDATE after Nov. 30 post 11:21AM: The Thanksgiving stretch is delivering an unprecedented estimated $420M at the domestic box office, that’s according to Comscore since our post yesterday. EntTelligence reports 46M turkeys were eaten over the holiday while 30M people saw the top three movies. Moana 2 pulled in 17.4M admissions, Wicked 8.7M people while Gladiator II counted $3.3M
MONDAY AM: Everything is higher: Disney’s Moana 2 is settling its 5-day at $225.2M, while Universal’s Wicked is coming in at $118.2M, and Paramount’s Gladiator II at $44.3M. 3-day for Moana 2 is $139.7M after a $34.7M Sunday, -31% from Saturday. For a project that was originally destined to be on Disney+, and was flipped
MONDAY UPDATE with Moana 2 actuals: Now that Sunday’s actuals are in, Disney’s Moana 2 has surfed even higher across its launch frame domestically, swelling the global start to $389M. That’s a new milestone as Disney confirmed the phenom has posted the highest ever reported animated opening weekend at the global box office, overtaking the previous
AMC is celebrating this early AM that the No. 1 circuit pulled in an-all-time attendance record of 8.8 million people around the world over the Wednesday through Sunday span due to Disney’s Moana 2, Universal’s Wicked and Paramount’s Gladiator II. As a result of this the circuit is claiming that they also saw notable highs
A record-breaking Thanksgiving frame is lifting all boats, tentpoles the most evident, with boom, boom, boom for Moana 2, Wicked and Gladiator II. Some 30 million moviegoers went to see one of these. In the weird post-Covid shift, tentpoles can slay, and indies can disappear. This weekend, however, they didn’t. Audiences showed decent specialty support
When it came to opening a sequel to a classic animated movie, Disney didn’t rest on their laurels in selling Moana 2. Already, the original 2016 2x Oscar nominated movie has a built-in faithful; the pic being one of the most viewed Disney movies on Disney+. Expanding the brand to a worldwide audience, the Burbank,
During the course of a record Thanksgiving weekend, Universal’s Wicked: Part One has become the highest grossing movie ever at the domestic box office based on a Broadway musical. Through yesterday, the Jon M. Chu-directed, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande-starring feature counts $214.3M in the midst of its second weekend, defeating the lifetime gross of
The Thanksgiving stretch is delivering an unprecedented estimated $422M at the domestic box office. AMC Theatres CEO Adam Aron says that this weekend is “a national phenomenon” when it comes to moviegoing. That Wednesday through Sunday tally for all movies breaks the previous Thanksgiving record for all titles from 2018 when Ralph Breaks the Internet
Being a sequel to a $7.3 billion franchise has its headaches. Just ask Vin Diesel about the next Fast & Furious installment Fast X: Part 2. The star posted on social media yesterday, teasing at the possibility of a spring 2026 release, the return of Dwayne Johnson, who he’s reportedly square off with on-screen and
Catching up to three big name festival films that opened Wednesday at the specialty box office to start the extended U.S. Thanksgiving holiday weekend – Luca Guadagnino’s Queer from A24 starring 007 Daniel Craig; Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s Maria from Netflix, both of which premiered at Venice; and Iranian filmmaker Mohammad
Black Friday is typically one of the highest grossing days of the year at the box office, but this year it’s coursing to an all-time record with around $107M+ for all movies, led by Disney’s Moana 2. Today also has a shot at being the highest grossing day of 2024 to date, outstripping Friday, July
Refresh for latest…: Disney’s Moana 2 is off to a splashy start in its early international box office markets, diving in at $8.8M on Wednesday from 10 total with the sequel No. 1 in each. Included in that bunch, France saw the best opening day of 2024 and the 2nd highest animated opening day of all
Here’s a box office benchmark you don’t see often, if at all: A major Hollywood star has two No. 1 theatrical release openings in the same calendar month, that accomplishment going to Dwayne Johnson. For the month of November, Johnson saw a No. 1 opening in the Amazon MGM Studios Red One on Nov. 15
AMC Theatres, the biggest circuit globally, posted the highest domestic revenue in its 104-year history for a pre-Thanksgiving weekend counting admissions, food and beverage, and merchandise. The past three days, with the debuts of Wicked and Gladiator 2, the circuit also saw the highest domestic admissions revenue on the weekend before Thanksgiving since 2019, and
As if the great Moana 2 box office news wasn’t enough Wednesday morning, Disney‘s Barry Jenkins- directed Lion King prequel Mufasa and Paramount‘s Sonic the Hedgehog 3 has hit three-week tracking. Currently, the Hedgehog is looking to outrun the Lion, $55 million+ to $50 million, but keep in mind Disney hasn’t screamed out its Mufasa
The worst thing a studio can do on a massive weekend like this is over-project. And if there’s one thing about Thanksgiving forecasts, they always get over-projected. Right now, Disney’s Moana 2 is putting up an estimated $54M first day, inclusive of yesterday’s Walt Disney Animation preview record of $13.8M. This will coast the Dwayne
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