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‘Jurassic World 3’ Tops $800 Million As ‘Lightyear’ Continues To Crash
Austin Butler in Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’ Warner Bros. In box office news that isn’t about Minions: The Rise of Gru or Top Gun: Maverick, Warner Bros. Discovery’s Elvis held on over th...
Maverick’ Tops $1.1 Billion Worldwide
Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Paramoun and Skydance Acting like Minions: The Rise of Gru wasn’t even in the room, Tom Cruise celebrated his 60th birthday by watching Top Gun: Maverick ...
‘Minions 2’ Breaks Records With $128 Million Holiday Weekend
‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’ Universal and Illumination Universal and Illumination’s Minions: The Rise of Gru, starring Steve Carell and Pierre Coffin, debuted two years behind schedule, bec...
‘Minions 2’ Rises With Despicable $48 Million Friday
(from left) Minion Stuart, Gru (Steve Carell) and Minions © 2022 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved. “Have we started the Gru?” “Yes. The Gru rises!” Well, I guess Disney can’t blame Covid for kid...
Constance Wu Should Have Been A Movie Star
HOLLYWOOD, CA – AUGUST 07: Actor Constance Wu arrives at Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Crazy Rich Asians” Premiere at TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX on August 7, 2018 in Hollywood, Califor...
Why Universal Signed First-Look Deal With Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes
LOS ANGELES, CA – OCTOBER 05: Producer Michael Bay (L) and producer Brad Fuller (R) arrive at the premiere of New Line’s “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning” at GraumanR...
Poor ‘Lightyear’ Box Office Highlights Disney’s Increasing Reliance On Marvel
SCI-FI ACTION ADVENTURE – The definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear (voice of Chris Evans), the hero who inspired the toy, “Lightyear” follows the legendary Space Ranger on an intergalactic advent...
Maverick’ Leads Korean Box Office, Three Korean Films See Promising Results
‘The Roundup’ stars Korean actors Ma Dong-Seok, Son Suk-Ku and Heo Dong-Won. WireImage Over the past week, Top Gun: Maverick took the lion’s share of the Korean box office, grossing US$12....
How ‘Doctor Strange 2’ Reaffirmed Marvel’s Brand Strength
(L-R): Xochitl Gomez as America Chavez, Benedict Wong as Wong, and Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Stephen Strange in Marvel Studios’ DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS. Photo courtesy of M...
‘Elvis’ Bests ‘Top Gun 2’ With $31 Million Weekend
Austin Butler in Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’ Warner Bros. In a kind of skewed “nature is healing” moment, two big movies scored strong Fri-Sun grosses and essentially tied for first...
‘Lightyear’ Falls 65% As ‘Jurassic World 3’ Tops $300 Million
(from left) A baby Nasutoceratops, Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) in Jurassic World Dominion, co-written and directed by Colin Trevorrow. © 2022 Universal Studios and Am...
Maverick’ Flies Past $1 Billion Worldwide
Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Paramoun and Skydance Paramount and Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick earned another $30.5 million (-31%) in its fifth weekend of domestic release. That put th...
‘Elvis’ Rocks $31 Million Debut As ‘Black Phone’ Grabs $23 Million
Austin Butler and Tom Hanks in ‘Elvis’ Warner Bros. Elvis opened strong this weekend with a $30.5 million Fri-Sun debut right alongside Top Gun: Maverick’s shockingly huge (also $30.5 mill...
‘Elvis’ Tops With $13 Million, ‘Black Phone’ Grabs $10 Million
‘Elvis’ Courtesy of Warner Bros. Picture Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis topped the domestic box office on Friday with a solid $12.7 million. That includes $3.7 million in Thursday (and week-of) prev...
‘Elvis’ Earns $3.5 Million Thursday, ‘Black Phone’ Nabs $3 Million
Austin Butler and Tom Hanks in ‘Elvis’ Warner Bros. In what could be a weekend that affirms that theatrical moviegoing need not be entirely dominated by tentpoles (even as a month-old bloc...
‘Sonic 2’ Becomes Hollywood’s 16th Covid-Era $400 Million Grosser
Sonic (Ben Schwartz) in Sonic The Hedgehog 2 from Paramount Pictures and Sega. © 2021 Paramount Pictures and Sega of America, Inc. All Rights Reserved. So sayeth Paramount, Jeff Fowler’s Sonic the Hed...
Maverick’ Passes $900 Million Worldwide
Tom Cruise plays Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick from Paramount Pictures, Skydance and Jerry Bruckheimer Films. Paramount Pictures Paramount has announced that Skydance...
This Is What A Slow Theatrical Recovery Looks Like
Top Gun Maverick, Lightyear and Jurassic World Dominion Paramount, Disney and Universal Yes, Lightyear earned just $50.5 million in its disappointing Fri-Sun domestic debut, which along with an $83 mi...
Box Office: ‘Lightyear’ Failed To Learn Lessons Of ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’
Chris Evans as Buzz Lightyear in ‘Lightyear’ Pixar and Disney Lightyear, Pixar’s first full-throated global theatrical release since Onward in March of 2020, opened with a mediocre $50 mil...
Maverick’ Will Absolutely Pass $1 Billion
Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Paramoun and Skydance Top Gun: Maverick earned another $44 million (-20%) on its fourth Fri-Sun weekend, with $52 million over the Juneteenth holiday fram...
‘Jurassic World Dominion’ Passes $600 Million
JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION (c) 2021 Universal Studios and Storyteller Distribution LCC. All Rights Reserved. In holdover news that isn’t Top Gun: Maverick ($472 million domestic and around $900 million w...
‘Lightyear’ Disappoints With Soft $21 Million Friday
SCI-FI ACTION ADVENTURE – The definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear (voice of Chris Evans), the hero who inspired the toy, “Lightyear” follows the legendary Space Ranger on an intergalactic advent...
‘Jurassic World 3’ Tops $200 Million As ‘Top Gun 2’ Falls 23%
(from left) Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill), Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard), Owen Grady (Chris Pratt), Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermo...
‘Lightyear’ Earns Soft $5.2 Million Thursday
TEAMING UP – Disney and Pixar’s “Lightyear” is a sci-fi action adventure and the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear (voice of Chris Evans), the hero who inspired the toy. The all-new story foll...
Tom Cruise Passes Batman And Bond
Tom Cruise plays Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick from Paramount Pictures, Skydance and Jerry Bruckheimer Films. Paramount Pictures With $7.65 million on Tuesday, -44% f...
‘Jurassic World Dominion’ Nabs $15 Million Tuesday For $173 Million Cume
‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ Universal Jurassic World Dominion topped the box office on Tuesday, earning another $14.7 million to bring its five-day cume to $172.5 million. That’s a 16% jump...
Why Are The ‘Jurassic World’ Movies Critic-Proof? Blame ‘The Avengers’
JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION (c) 2021 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved. With $12.65 million on its first Monday, Universal and Amblin’s Jurassic World Dominion has now earned $157.7 million in four d...
Maverick’ Tops $400 Million To Pass ‘Doctor Strange 2’
Tom Cruise plays Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick from Paramount Pictures, Skydance and Jerry Bruckheimer Films. Paramount Pictures Well, that was fast. Paramount and Sk...
A Knives Out Mystery’ Be Netflix’s First Theatrical Hit?
‘Knives Out’ Lionsgate We got word via writer/director Rian Johnson this morning that his sequel to Knives Out will be titled Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. To be fair, even while the ...
‘Thor 4’ Has Two Key Advantages Over ‘Doctor Strange 2’
Walt Disney has announced tickets on sale for Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder, and we’ve got a new television spot and seven new character posters. I’m not sure why a couple of goats got charac...