‘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...

‘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...

Maverick’ Might Pass $1 Billion

Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Paramoun and Skydance In holdover news, the big story was again the remarkable legs shown by Skydance and Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick. It earned $50 mil...

‘Morbius’ Flops Again But ‘Doctor Strange 2’ Tops $900 Million

(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...

‘Morbius’ Bombs Again With $85,000 Friday

Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff in Marvel Studios’ DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS. Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios. ©Marvel Studios 2022. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of Marvel ...

‘Top Gun’ Passes $200 Million To Cement Paramount’s Miraculous Box Office Comeback

Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Paramoun and Skydance With another $14 million on Thursday, Skydance and Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick zoomed past $200 million domestic with a $203 milli...

‘Doctor Strange 2’ Tops Friday As ‘Firestarter’ Drops 65%

(L-R): Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Stephen Strange and Benedict Wong as Wong in Marvel Studios’ DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS. Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios. ©Marvel Studios 202...

‘Everything, Everywhere’ Falls Just 6% To Top $47 Million

‘The Bad Guys’ DreamWorks In holdover news for the weekend that isn’t about Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (-67% for a $61 million domestic and $142 million worldwide weekend ...

‘Everything Everywhere’ Becomes A24’s Third-Biggest Grosser

‘The Bad Guys’ DreamWorks In better Universal news (RIP, Firestarter), DreamWorks’ The Bad Guys (which premiered on PVOD yesterday) earned another $3.05 million (27%) on Friday for a likel...

Paramount+ May Prevent ‘The Lost City’ From Crossing $100 Million

Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum star in Paramount Pictures’ “THE LOST CITY.” Kimberley French Somewhat lost in the deserved huzzahs over A24’s Everything, Everywhere All at Once de...

Family Flicks Thrive Against Scary ‘Strange’ Sequel

WESTWOOD, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 12: Jim Carrey and Lee Majdoub attend a “Sonic The Hedgehog” Special … [+] Screening at the Regency Village Theatre on February 12, 2020 in West...

‘Everything, Everywhere’ Tops $40 Million, Survives The ‘Multiverse Of Madness’

‘The Bad Guys’ DreamWorks In Friday box office news that isn’t about Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, DreamWorks Animation’s The Bad Guys earned another $2.3 million (-38%) on ...

‘Sonic 2’ And ‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ Both Top $300 Million As ‘The Batman’ Survives HBO Max

‘The Bad Guys’ DreamWorks In holdover news for the weekend, DreamWorks Animation’s The Bad Guys jumped 101% from Friday to Saturday, giving the Universal release a $16.1 million (-33%) sec...

‘Memory’ Fades With $1 Million As ‘Northman’ And Nic Cage Plunge

Liam Neeson in Memory Open Road and Briarcliff There was just a single major new release this weekend, which is both “the calm before the summer storm” and another example of a theatrical industry sta...

‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ Tumbles 67% As ‘Batman’ Suffers HBO Max Hit

Sonic (Ben Schwartz) in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 Photo Credit: Courtesy Paramount Pictures and Sega of America. In holdover news for the weekend, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 placed second with $15.225 million (-...

‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ Plunges 79% As ‘Sonic 2’ Falls 63%

Jude Law and Eddie Redmayne in ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore’ Jaap Buitendijk In holdover domestic box office news, J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledor...

‘Everything, Everywhere’ Affirms A24’s Cultural Clout

Everything Everywhere All At Once A24 A24 released a few days’ worth of domestic box office figures for Everything, Everywhere All at Once this morning. First, the film has been placing third si...

Jenny Slate And Ben Schwartz Talk About Seltzer, Sonic 2 And More

Screen Grab from the new AHA Sparkling Water Ad starring Ben Schwartz and Jenny Slate AHA Sparkling Water For millions of devoted Parks and Rec fans, Ben Schwartz and Jenny Slate will forever be linke...

‘Batman’ Tops $750 Million As ‘Everything Everywhere’ Tops ‘Green Knight’

James Marsden, Tika Sumpter and Sonic (Ben Schwartz) in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 from Paramount Pictures and Sega. Photo Credit: Courtesy Paramount Pictures and Sega of America. Paramount Pictures and Seg...

‘Sonic 2’ Tops $100 Million As ‘The Batman’ Tops ‘Deadpool’

Sonic (Ben Schwartz) in Sonic The Hedgehog 2 from Paramount Pictures and Sega. © 2021 Paramount Pictures and Sega of America, Inc. All Rights Reserved. In holdover box office news for Friday, Sonic th...

‘The Batman’ Passes $360 Million As ‘Sonic 2’ Tops $80 Million

Robert Pattinson in ‘The Batman’ Warner Bros. The Batman, starring Robbert Pattinson and Zoe Kravitz, earned another $575,000 on Tuesday, up 4% from Monday and down 41% from its previous T...

‘Sonic 2’ Cements Paramount’s Miraculous Covid-Era Comeback

Sonic (Ben Schwartz) in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 Photo Credit: Courtesy Paramount Pictures and Sega of America. What most impressed me about Sonic the Hedgehog 2, beyond the weirdly relaxing notion that i...

‘Sonic The Hedgehog 2’ Nabs Boffo $27 Million Friday But ‘Ambulance’ Crashes

Knuckles (Idris Elba) and Sonic (Ben Schwartz) in Sonic The Hedgehog 2 from Paramount Pictures and Sega. © 2021 Paramount Pictures and Sega of America, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Paramount and Sega’s S...

‘Sonic 2’ Races To Huge $6.2 Million Thursday

James Marsden, Tika Sumpter and Sonic (Ben Schwartz) in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 from Paramount Pictures and Sega. Photo Credit: Courtesy Paramount Pictures and Sega of America. Paramount Pictures and Seg...

‘Sonic The Hedgehog 2’ Is A Bigger, Longer And Often Better Sequel

‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’ poster Paramount Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) rated PG 122 minutes directed by Jeff Fowler, written by Pat Casey, Josh Miller and John Whittington cinematography cour...

Bullock And Tatum’s ‘Lost City’ Bests ‘Batman’ With $12 Million Friday

Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum star in Paramount Pictures’ “THE LOST CITY.” Kimberley French Sandra Bullock once again proved that she’s a genuine butts-in-seats movie star, as Pa...

‘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...

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 ...

‘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 ...