‘Uncharted,’ ‘Dog’ And ‘Spider-Man’ Repeat Atop The Friday Box Office

Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland in ‘Uncharted’ Sony In holdover news, Sony’s Uncharted earned $5.9 million (-61%) on its second Friday, setting the stage for a likely $23 million (-47%) week...

‘The Batman’ Can’t Save The Box Office Alone

Warner Bros.’ marketing folks dropped a minute-long commercial for The Batman during this past weekend’s NBA’s all-star game. I’ve been a little curmudgeonly about the earlier trailers, and specifical...

‘Uncharted’ Ends Video Game Movie Curse With $106M Worldwide Weekend

Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland in ‘Uncharted’ Sony Sony’s Uncharted overperformed this President’s Day weekend, earning a rousing $44 million over its Fri-Mon frame and a likely $51 million...

Channing Tatum’s ‘Dog’ Nabs Terrific $18M Weekend

Channing Tatum in ‘Dog’ © 2021 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved. In non-Uncharted news, MGM’s Dog overperformed this weekend with a strong $15 million Fri-Sun/$18 mill...

‘Uncharted’ Boosts ‘Spider-Man’ As ‘Death’ And ‘Marry Me’ Both Drop 64%

Death on the Nile Fox Disney and 20th Century Studios’ Death on the Nile earned another $1.768 million on Friday, dropping a brutal 65% from its weak $5.07 million opening day. Kenneth Branagh’s $90 m...

‘Uncharted’ Unearths Boffo $15.4M Friday As ‘Dog’ Earns $5M

Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland in ‘Uncharted’ Sony In the “before times,” as in before 2016 when the bottom fell out on studio programmers due to competition from streaming and VOD, I...

Paramount Is Selling ‘Sonic The Hedgehog 2’ As An Old-Fashioned Sequel

‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’ poster Paramount Paramount just dropped a new theatrical poster for Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and it’s a pretty standard one-sheet. What’s interesting is that it ...

As ‘Dune’ Passes $400 Million, Can ‘Dune Part Two’ Rewrite Box Office History?

Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet in Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune’ Warner Bros. Warner Bros. and Legendary have made it official, namely that Denis Villeneuve’s $165 million Dune has passed ...

‘Uncharted’ Earns $21M Overseas As ‘Death On The Nile’ And ‘Marry Me’ Stumble

Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland in ‘Uncharted’ Sony Uncharted, Sony’s Tom Holland/Mark Wahlberg video game adaptation, which opens domestically on Thursday night (press screening tomorrow), ...

‘Jackass’ And ‘Moonfall’ Fall Hard On Friday

Jackass Forever Paramount In holdover news for Friday, Jackass Forever earned $2.875 million (-70%) on Friday, sadly proving itself to be a one-weekend wonder. We can expect an $8.12 million (-65%) se...

‘Spider-Man’ Passes $750M Domestic As ‘Lake Changjin 2’ Tops $500M In China

Zendaya and Tom Holland in ‘Spider-Man No Way Home’ Sony and Marvel Spider-Man: No Way Home passed $750 million domestic as of a couple of days ago, with a current cume of $752 million as ...

Universal Goes All In On Horror Movies For 2022

‘Nope,’ ‘Firestarter,’ The Black Mask’ and ‘Halloween Kills’ Universal We got word this morning that Universal will be releasing a remake/re-adaptation of Ste...

IMAX Returns To Profit In China Amid Box Office Recovery

“You’d be a fool to underestimate the role of China – its 1.4 billion people, its increased … [+] demographics, its increased quality of film, its increased budgets, its increased box office,” I...

Lionsgate Nabs ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Producer’s Michael Jackson Movie

NEW YORK, NY – FEBRUARY 7: Michael Jackson accepts an award from CBS and The Guinness Book Of World Records celebrating “Thriller” as the largest-selling album of all time (25 millio...

‘Jackass Forever’ Nabs $23.5 Million Weekend As ‘Moonfall’ Bombs

‘Jackass Forever’ Paramount Two distinctly old-school, “used to be a big deal” kind of movies squared off over the weekend, with one clear victor. Jackass Forever topped the domestic box o...

‘Battle At Lake Changjin 2’ Tops $350 Million As ‘Spider-Man’ Nears ‘Avatar’

WUHAN, CHINA – OCTOBER 2: (CHINA OUT) Cinema employees sell Haagen-Dazs ice cream as the movie poster of “The Battle At Lake Changjin” is seen in a cinema on October 2, 2021 in Wuhan, Hube...

‘Jackass Forever’ Tops With $9.6M As ‘Moonfall’ Crumbles

‘Machine Gun Kelly, Johnny Knoxville, and Steve-O in ‘Jackass Forever’ Paramount Pictures and MTV Entertainment Studios. Courage now. Truth always. Jackass Forever! Paramount and MTV...

‘Jackass Forever’ Tops ‘Moonfall’ With $1.7 Million Thursday

Jackass Forever Paramount Paramount and MTV’s Jackass Forever earned a very promising $1.65 million in Thursday previews last night. That compares favorably with the last two installments, with the ca...

No Way Home’ Didn’t Need China To Pass $1 Billion Overseas

Zendaya and Tom Holland in ‘Spider-Man No Way Home’ Sony and Marvel As Spider-Man: No Way Home spends what could be its final day atop the domestic and worldwide box office before what I a...

Broadway Box Office Drops Again As Brutal Winter Continues

A scene from the newly refurbished Broadway hit, HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD Matthew Murphy Good news for Broadway remains scarce as winter rolls on. Omicron wreaked true havoc over the holidays...

‘Scream’ Tops ‘Scream 4’ As ‘Sing 2’ Nears $270 Million Worldwide

Ghostface and Jenna Ortega in Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media Group’s “Scream.” © 2021 PARAMOUNT PICTURES. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. In weekend box office news that isn’t about Spid...

‘No Way Home’ Is The ‘Force Awakens’ Of ‘Spider-Man’ Movies

Tom Holland in Spider-Man No Way Home Sony Thanks to a near-total absence of competition, Spider-Man: No Way Home continued to rally and once again top the weekend box office. Sony and Marvel’s superh...

‘Spider-Man’ Tops ‘Scream’ At Quiet Friday Box Office

Zendaya and Tom Holland in ‘Spider-Man No Way Home’ Sony and Marvel In a weekend devoid of big new releases and grosses that’ll cause PTSD flashbacks to October 2020, Spider-Man: No Way Ho...

Lionsgate To Offer Exclusive ‘Moonfall’ NFT For IMAX Preview Showings

Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson in Roland Emmerich’s ‘Moonfall’ Lionsgate With tickets going on sale this morning for Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall, Lionsgate is announcing that folks at...

‘Spider-Man’ Tops ‘Jurassic World’ And Nears $1.7 Billion

Tom Holland in Spider-Man No Way Home Sony Sony and Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home topped the box office yet again in this unfortunately empty post-holiday frame, earning a robust $14.125 million fo...

Impossible 7’ And ‘8’ Shift To Summer 2023, 2024

Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Tom Cruise and Ving Rhames in ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ Paramount Paramount and Skydance have announced that Tom Cruise’s next two Mission: Imposs...

‘The Batman’ Shares One Trait With The Biggest Box Office Blockbusters Of All Time

Robert Pattinson and Zoe Kravitz in Matt Reeves’ ‘The Batman’ Warner Bros. We found out yesterday that Matt Reeves’ The Batman will run 175 minutes (that’s a lot of Riddler Trophies)...

‘Scream’ Passes ‘Scream 4’ In Just One Week

‘Scream’ Paramount Scream once again topped the daily box office on Thursday with $1.4 million, a drop of 5% from its $1.55 million Wednesday gross. This means that Scream (aka Scream 5) h...

‘Scream’ Remembered The Most Important Rule Of Legacy Sequels

‘Scream’ Paramount With a four-day domestic total of $34 million, the fifth Scream movie is a rare example of a true-blue resurrection, whereby a previously dead franchise arrives with “ju...

‘Matrix 4’ And ‘Encanto’ Bomb In China As ‘Sing 2’ Enters 2021 Top Ten

‘Sing 2’ Universal In weekend box office news not related to Scream or Spider-Man: No Way Home, Universal and Illumination’s Sing 2 continues to be the Tomorrow Never Dies to Spider-Man: N...

‘Spider-Man’ Passes $700 Million Domestic And $1.6 Billion Worldwide

Tom Holland in Spider-Man No Way Home Sony Spider-Man: No Way Home earned another $20.8 million (-36%) in its fifth Fri-Sun weekend, bringing its 31-day total to $698.7 million in North America alone....

‘Scream’ Nabs $35 Million Debut In An Unprecedented Box Office Win

Ghostface and Jenna Ortega in Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media Group’s “Scream.” © 2021 PARAMOUNT PICTURES. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Scream (aka Scream 5) pulled something of a box ...