‘The Woman King’ poised for big box office after strong opening weekend

Viola Davis stars in Sony’s “The Woman King.” Sony During a lull in the movie calendar, Gina Prince-Bythewood’s “The Woman King” is generating the kind of buzz — an...

Roblox stock drops as Wall Street sees a ‘Pandora’s box of problems’

Roblox Corp.’s stock continued to sell off Friday as analysts questioned growth initiatives presented at the social-media company’s investor day on Thursday and August performance that came in lower t...

‘Funny Girl’ Hits Box Office Record In Lea Michele’s First Week On Broadway

Topline Actress Lea Michele’s debut as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl on Broadway significantly boosted the show’s box office in her first week of shows, according to figures released Tuesday by the Broadw...

How Marvel’s ‘Thor 4’ Became An Unprecedented Box Office Success

Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth in ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ Marvel and Disney The top movie over the weekend at Vudu was Marvel and Walt Disney’sDIS Thor: Love and Thunder, with Paramo...

Disney Returns To Theaters As ‘Barbarian’ And ‘Brahmāstra:’ Top Weekend Box Office

Georgina Campbell as Tess in 20th Century Studios’ BARBARIAN, exclusively on Hulu. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2022 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of 20th Cent...

‘Spider-Man’ Tops Weekend Box Office But ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Passes $700 Million

Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Paramoun and Skydance Yes, it’s nuts that an eight-month-old MCU flick and a Memorial Day weekend release are tops for the Labor Day box office. Yes, that...

‘Avatar,’ ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ And The September Box Office Preview

The good news is that 14 wide or semi-wide releases are opening in theaters over September. In a pre-streaming world where audiences still went to the movies just to go to the movies and where non-eve...

Can ‘Avatar’ Save The Box Office Twice In One Year?

‘Avatar’ Fox and Disney In a kind of skewed contradiction that makes this business occasionally bemusing, Shazam: Fury of the Gods was delayed from December 21, 2022 until March 17, 2023 a...

The 2022 Summer Movie Box Office In Review

Yes, the overriding takeaway from the 2022 summer movie season was the general lack of theatrical releases. Even amid several titles breaking box office records and almost every tentpole performing at...

Jerry Bruckheimer Reflects On Billion-Dollar Box Office Unicorn ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

Jerry Bruckheimer and Tom Cruise attends the photocall of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ during the 75th annual … [+] Cannes film festival in Cannes, France. FilmMagic Over $1.4 billion at the ...

Tiger Woods-Designed Golf Course At Big Cedar Lodge Adds Bar Next To 19th Hole Tee Box

A new bar sits adjacent to the tee box of the bonus 19th hole at Payne’s Valley, the newest of the … [+] five golf courses at Big Cedar Lodge. Big Cedar Lodge The “19th hole” can take diff...

‘Dragon Ball Super’ Tops Box Office With $20 Million Weekend

‘Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero’ Crunchy Roll Crunchy Roll’s domestic debut for Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero topped the weekend box office with a $20.1 million debut Fri-Sun frame. That’s ...

‘Where The Crawdads Sing’ Just Passed ‘Morbius’ At The Box Office

Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones) in Columbia Pictures’ WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING. Michele K Short With another $605,000 on Wednesday, Sony’s Where the Crawdads Sing brought its domestic total up to $74 mil...

Will Packer Talks ‘Beast’ And Surviving The Box Office Jungle In 2022

Will Packer attends the ‘Beast’ World Premiere at Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Getty Images Beast marks the sixth time that Idris Elba and producer Will Packer have worked togeth...

‘Elvis’ Sweeps VOD Charts, Reaffirms Box Office Strength Of Musical Melodramas

Austin Butler in ‘Elvis’ Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Discovery’s Elvis swept the VOD ratings charts over the weekend, topping Vudu, Google Play, iTunes, YouTube and Amazon. The acclaimed and...

Friday Box Office: ‘Bullet Train’ Drops 70% As ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Nears $670 Million

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Brad Pitt star in Bullet Train. Sony In terms of holdover news for Friday, Sony’s Bullet Train again topped the domestic box office with $3.86 million. That’s a sharp 70% decl...

Blumhouse’s ‘The Black Phone’ shows that horror, and original storytelling, has a place at the box office

Any apprehension Jason Blum had about the future of the box office has been quelled now that “The Black Phone” has surpassed $150 million at the global box office. Blum was one of many tha...

Why ‘box fatigue’ may be hitting the apparel industry, Stitch Fix

A selection of men’s clothes packaged by Trunk Club, which was shuttered earlier this year after Nordstrom bought the personal styling service in 2014. Source: Trunk Club After earning a master&...

Box Office: ‘DC Super Pets’ Plunges 64% As ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Passes ‘Titanic’

DC League of Super-Pets Warner Bros. In holdover news for Friday, DC League of Super-Pets took a sharp dive, earning $3.35 million (-64%) on its second Friday. That sets the stage for a $10.8 million ...

Ranbir Kapoor’s ‘Shamshera’ Has A Dismal Show At Indian Box Office

Bollywood actors Ranbir Kapoor and Vaani Kapoor pose for pictures during the trailer launch of their … [+] upcoming Hindi-language period action film Shamshera in Mumbai on June 24, 2022. (Photo...

‘Nope’ Tops Box Office With Slightly Disappointing $44 Million Weekend

‘Nope’ Universal I guess it’s yet another sign of theatrical recovery that we’re discussing whether a $44 million opening weekend for an R-rated, original, live-action, star-lite horror fl...

‘Doctor Strange 2’ And ‘Sing 2’ Prove That Box Office Success Helps Boost Streaming Ratings

(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...

Moviegoers are leaving their couches for theaters, bringing summer box office sales close to pre-pandemic levels

It’s becoming clearer that audiences are no longer satisfied just sitting on the couch to watch movies. Not only are they returning to movie theaters in droves, theater operators say they’...

Box Office: Will Middling (For Marvel) Reviews Hurt ‘Thor: Love And Thunder’?

(L-R): Pom Klementieff as Mantis, Chris Pratt as Star-Lord/Peter Quill, and Chris Hemsworth as Thor in Marvel Studios’ THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER. Photo by Jasin Boland. ©Marvel Studios 2022. All Ri...

AMC continues slide despite record breaking box office hits

A lot has been made of AMC Entertainment (NYSE: AMC) in the past year as it got caught up in the meme stock frenzy.  As retail investors piled into the stock, perhaps even hedge funds as well, the sha...

Why ‘Minions’ beat ‘Lightyear’ at the box office

Two blockbuster animated franchises went head-to-head at the box office this past weekend. One of them benefited from buzz − and it wasn’t “Lightyear.” In just three days, Universal ...

Rise of Gru domestic box office opening tops $108 million

“Minions: The Rise of Gru” is the sequel to the 2015 film, “Minions,” and spin-off/prequel to the main “Despicable Me” film series. Universal Families have gone ban...

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’ gives 2022 box office momentum, but inflation could hurt

“Top Gun: Maverick” rocketed to $1 billion at the global box office over the weekend, setting a new career milestone for star Tom Cruise and signaling some momentum for the domestic box of...

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....

Maverick’ sets sights on $1 billion global box office haul

Tom Cruise in “Top Gun: Maverick” Source: Paramount “Top Gun: Maverick” continues to break barriers at the box office. The Paramount and Skydance sequel to the 1986 hit “...

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...