Here’s Why 2023 Oscars Ratings Will Be Up

“Top Gun: Maverick” is one of several blockbusters up for major awards at this year’s Oscars. Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures With several box office smashes up...

Maverick’ Just Broke Another Record. Is It 2022’s Most Popular Movie?

Tom Cruise as Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in “Top Gun: Maverick.” © 2022 Paramount Pictures Corporation. All rights reserved. The records just keep falling in Top Gun: Maver...

Will Streaming Kill DVD And Movie Theaters?

Photo by Tom Cooper/Getty Images. Getty Images Movie theaters are struggling to reinvent themselves after COVID-19 got many people more comfortable streaming content at home. It takes a big film like ...

‘Ticket To Paradise’ Nabs $16 Million As Terrifier 2’ Jumps 84%

(from left) David (George Clooney) and Georgia (Julia Roberts) in Ticket to Paradise, directed by Ol Parker. Photo Credit: Universal Pictures © 2022 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved. Universal’s...

‘Smile’ And ‘Terrifier 2’ Hold But ‘Amsterdam’ Drops 66%

Caitlin Stasey in Paramount Pictures Presents in Association with Paramount Players A Temple Hill Production “SMILE.” ©2022 Paramount Players, a Division of Paramount Pictures In holdover ...

‘Lyle, Lyle Crocodile’ Disappoints As ‘Amsterdam’ Bombs

(l to r) Mrs. Primm (Constance Wu), Josh Primm (Winslow Fegley), Lyle (Lyle the Crocodile) and Hector (Javier Bardem) slurp up an ice cream sundae in Columbia Pictures LYLE, LYLE, CROCODILE. Photo by:...

Friday Box Office: ‘The Woman King’ Holds As ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Passes $710 Million

‘The Woman King’ Ilze Kitshoff In holdover news for Friday, Sony’s The Woman King earned another $2.975 million (-56%) on Friday, setting the stage for a $10 million (-47%) weekend and a $...

‘Jurassic World Dominion’ Passes $1 Billion Worldwide

(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...

Online Backlash To ‘The Last Jedi’ And ‘Ghostbusters’ Ruined The Legacy Sequel

Ralph Macchio and William Zabka Steve Dietl/YouTube/Sony Pictures Television Cobra Kai nabbed around 95.55 million hours viewed last week, the first week of the fifth season’s availability on the plat...

As ‘Beast’ Tops Vudu, How PVOD May Help Save The Non-Franchise Movie

Idris Elba in ‘Beast’ Universal Vudu has announced that the top-selling (in terms of total revenue) title of the previous weekend was not Top Gun: Maverick but Beast. The ‘Idris Elba versu...

‘Barbarian’ Passes $20 Million As ‘Brahmāstra’ Sinks

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...

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...

Maverick’ Passes ‘Frozen II’ As ‘Minions 2’ Tops $900 Million

Bad Bunny and Brad Pitt star in Bullet Train. (C) 2022 CTMG. All Rights Reserved. In holdover box office news for the weekend, Sony’s Bullet Train earned $3.25 million (-44%) for a new $92.55 million ...

‘Spider-Man’ And ‘Jaws’ Plunge As ‘Elvis’ Tops $150 Million

Tom Cruise plays Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick from Paramount Pictures, Skydance and Jerry Bruckheimer Films. Paramount Pictures In holdover news for Friday, well, no...

‘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...

‘Cinema Day’ Helped But Theaters Still Need More Big Movies

Tom Holland in ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Sony As the prophecy foretold, Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick roared back to the top of the domestic box office charts, ending the summer at #1 for...

Brad Pitt’s ‘Bullet Train’ Tops Tom Cruise’s ‘Top Gun 2’

Bad Bunny and Brad Pitt star in Bullet Train. (C) 2022 CTMG. All Rights Reserved. In holdover news, Brad Pitt’s Bullet Train earned $1.1 million (-31%) on its fifth Friday for a likely $4.7 million (+...

No Way Home’ Tops Friday With $1.75 Million

Tom Holland in Spider-Man No Way Home Sony In a bitterly ironic end to a profoundly undernourished summer movie season, Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick may fail to top the box office in its 15th weeken...

Maverick’ Journey And Being In The Room For The Emotional Tom Cruise-Val Kilmer Reunion

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ director Joseph Kosinski poses for portrait at the 75th international film … [+] festival, Cannes, southern France, in May 2022. Copyright 2022 The Associated Pre...

Maverick’ And Why He’d Love To Perform ‘Danger Zone’ At The 2023 Oscars

Kenny Loggins’ association with iconic soundtracks spans decades. Chris Jensen Singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins is a legend in his own right, but his work on the Top Gun soundtrack is nothing sho...

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 ...

Movie Theaters Are Being Starved To Death

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES – 2020/10/05: A woman wearing a face mask walks past the Regal Cinemas. Regal Cinemas which is the second-largest operator of theatres in the United States, plans to clos...

Maverick’ Passes $1.4 Billion As ‘Bullet Train’ Tops $150 Million

Brad Pitt stars in Bullet Train. Scott Garfield In holdover news at the weekend box office, Sony’s Bullet Train earned another $8 million (-43%) in weekend three for a $68.895 million 17-day domestic ...

Infinity War’ As ‘Minions 2’ Bombs In China

Bad Bunny and Brad Pitt star in Bullet Train. (C) 2022 CTMG. All Rights Reserved. In holdover news at the Friday box office, Sony’s Bullet Train earned another $2.2 million (-43%) for a likely $7.7 mi...

‘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...

Tom Cruise Really Did Save Movie Theaters

Paramount has announced that Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick will debut on PVOD and EST (priced to buy) on August 23, a week from today. That gives it the standard 90-day theatrical window, although the ...

‘Bullet Train’ Fends Off ‘Top Gun 2’ As ‘Thor 4’ Passes $720 Million

Brad Pitt stars in Bullet Train. Scott Garfield In holdover news for the weekend, Sony’s Bullet Train again topped the domestic box office with $13.4 million (-55%). That gives the $90 million Brad Pi...

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...

‘Moon Man’ Becomes The (Pretty Great) Blockbuster China Needed

TAIYUAN, CHINA – JULY 25: Actor Shen Teng (L3), actress Ma Li (R3) and actor Huang Cailun (R2) attend the road show of film ‘Moon Man’ on July 25, 2022 in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province of...

As ‘Thor 4’ Passes $700 Million, Not Every Marvel Movie Needs To Top $1 Billion

Chadwick Boseman in ‘Black Panther,’ Brie Larson in ‘Captain Marvel,’ Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict Wong in ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ and Na...

Maverick’ With Fewer Action Movies?

Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Paramount Pictures, Skydance and Jerry Bruckheimer Films. Deadline had a story yesterday concerning Tom Cruise’s upcoming projects: they were all alongsid...