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While some ring in the new year with the ball drop or Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen’s silly celebration (which featured multiple Heated Rivalry references this time), or setting off fireworks with family, others, like Dwayne Johnson, spend it at the gym. However, The Rock didn’t just complete a workout; he also used this time

Music lovers have been completely charmed by Song Sung Blue, the new music biopic starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson as the Neil Diamond tribute band Lightning & Thunder, and critics agree it’s both uplifting and heartwrenching. Meanwhile, some closer to the story have a different opinion about how the film portrays the life of

Walt Disney Animation’s Zootopia 2 has crossed $1.46 billion global, becoming Walt Disney Animation Studios’ top-grossing movie of all time. Note, Pixar’s Inside Out 2 remains the top-grossing overall animated title for Disney at $1.698 billion, and the top all-time MPA animated feature title at the box office. China’s Ne Zha 2 with $2.15 billion

Happy New Year! There’s nothing quite like the clean slate a fresh year can bring us, and when it comes to what 2026 movie releases are on the way, there’s a lot of big releases to be excited for. A lot of the movies I’m most excited about are adaptations of existing stories, like book

AMC CEO Adam Aron declared today on Twitter, “Our year ends on a high: Netflix’s Strangers Things series finale to show in many AMC theatres this week.” As Deadline already told you, the show’s creators, the Duffer Brothers, posted that 1.1 million seats had been sold as of two days ago in over 620 locations.

I might declare Sung Song Blue the best movie I didn’t see coming this year. Despite looking forward to almost every music biopic, music documentary, and music-based TV show in a given year, this one wasn’t really even on my radar until a couple of weeks before I caught it at the tail end of

Karl Urban has built a career on playing tough, unbreakable characters, but his latest comments about the upcoming Mortal Kombat II suggest he may have finally found a role that pushed him harder than anything that came before it: his take on Johnny Cage. In the process, the actor may have unintentionally thrown a little

French cinema admissions dropped 13.6% year-on-year in 2025 to 156.79M admissions, against 181.52M last year, for a rough gross of $1.36B (€1.16b), according to figures released by France’s National Cinema Centre (CNC). The figures confirmed a complex year at the French box office in which only January and December saw small year-on-year admission gains, while the

The cast of the latest Star Trek series are on the cover of SFX 400 (click here to get a better look at that). Yes, our 400th issue! Frankly, we’re knackered. Don’t forget: if you live in the UK you can use this tool to find a stockist near you. Or you can order a

The conclusion of Wicked has come and gone from the 2025 movie schedule, but the release of the pair of movies feels like something we’re going to be talking about for years to come – especially for longtime fans of the musical. I just came across Jon M. Chu’s explanation of how Ariana Grande and

We live in an era where the film franchise rules all. But even before everything in theaters was part of a comic book universe, the horror franchise was seemingly as undying as its antagonist. It’s rare for any horror franchise to disappear for too long, and it looks like one of the modern hits of

Christmas week was reliably bountiful for Broadway, with early reports of record-breaking grosses for the holiday period coming in hours before the official numbers are released by the Broadway League this afternoon. With news of more house record-busters likely to drift in throughout the day, preliminary numbers are more than impressive for Stranger Things: The

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery is the latest from Rian Johnson, and one of many 2025 Netflix movies readers should make time for. The feature came out not long after the sequel to the original movie, Glass Onion, which I admittedly thought was odd, but it all makes a lot more sense

Sony’s sequel 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple hit tracking last week in what looks to be a $20M-plus 4-day opening over the MLK holiday weekend. That would make director Nia DaCosta’s British horror pic written by Alex Garland and produced by Danny Boyle one of 32 movies to open north of $20M at the

One of the principal reasons why I am a lifelong fan of cinema can be summed up in a single word: immersion. Images rapidly flash and take us into lives far-flung from our own, and in the span of two hours, they can inspire deep emotion and passion – and that takes many different forms.

Timothée Chalamet has had no shortage of big swings over the last few years, but the 2025 movie schedule release of Marty Supreme might be one of his most interesting wins yet. The Josh Safdie-directed drama has only just arrived in theaters, and it’s already making A24 history at the box office, proving that the

Updated: James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash has reached an estimated $760.4M through Sunday globally. Within that, this return to Pandora is now at $542.7M from the international box office.  The sophomore session added $181.2M overseas amid just a 25% dip (-15% excluding China), and increases in some key markets. The 20th Century/Disney sci-fi threequel is currently

Forever ago, I ranked the best movies of the 2010s, and I put Parasite, which is now widely considered one of the greatest movies of all time, at number five. Number five! I put it below other great (though not as great) movies like Argo, 12 Years a Slave, Spotlight, and my number one pick,

It was an upbeat closing weekend of 2025 with a trio of indies led by breakout Marty Supreme sitting pretty in the top ten and a handful of awards contenders putting up solid numbers in limited release as a movies and audiences appear to be connecting. Park Chan-wook’s comedy thriller No Other Choice from Neon

After Jack Black was his usual 11 while filming A Minecraft Movie, he and Paul Rudd brought out their comedy energy for the Anaconda reboot. In each and every movie that Black stars in, his dedication to his craft never fails to make us laugh. If you can believe it, the comedic actor had a

While a strong majority of modern movies tend to fizzle out at the box office following hyped opening weekends, James Cameron’s Avatar series finds success in the long game. There is, of course, initial excitement generated when the titles first arrive, but the way the titles become some of the biggest hits of all time

For the past 40-plus years, one man has been associated with the Terminator franchise more than anyone else. No, it’s not John Connor. Nor is it James Cameron (but he is involved in what I’m about to say). Instead, it’s Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose time-traveling T-800 cyborg has been spitting out iconic one-liners like “I’ll be

The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender, which was greenlit by the previous Paramount Animation administration, won’t be getting a theatrical release. Rather, it’s headed to Paramount+ next fall. The movie’s most recent release date was Oct. 9, 2026. It had jumped around the calendar, first set of Oct. 10, 2025, then Jan. 30, 2026.

Paul Rudd is a certified Hollywood star, having roles in some of the biggest film and TV franchises to date, including Friends and the MCU. Nowadays, the Golden Globe nominated actor could probably get any movie or TV role he asked for, but that wasn’t always the case, and the Ghostbusters: Afterlife actor recently told

I am generally a total sucker for a meta narrative. When executed properly, I enjoy the inherent cleverness of the approach, with the work itself being used to comment on the work, and it can be a wonderful way for artists to explore and examine the creative process. From books about writing books to movies

The domestic box office is forecasted again to hit $9 billion in 2026. Wait, we said that last year about this year. What happened? With 2025 expected to file between $8.8 billion-$8.9 billion, essentially, it’s the difference of one tentpole not working, so, take your pick: Paramount‘s Running Man, Disney’s Tron: Ares and/or Elio. That

It has been roughly six months since Joseph Kosinski’s F1 landed on the 2025 movie schedule and gave Warner Bros. something to be happy about after it made a ton of cash at the box office. If you’re like me and have been wondering what’s next for the movie that had something for Formula 1

FRIDAY PM UPDATE: Rainstorms in Los Angeles aren’t getting in the way of moviegoing, nor is two-to-five inches of snow in NYC as 20th Century Studios’ James Cameron Avatar: Fire and Ash will of course lead the final weekend of 2025 with a second frame around $60M over Friday-Sunday, -33%. That’s a better second weekend

In terms of Hollywood leading men from the past few decades, few come close to being as prolific, versatile, or recognizable as George Clooney. A star of both screen and stage, the 2026 Golden Globe nominee has proven time and time again he’s one of the best to ever do it. But did you know

The concept of “movie stars” is currently far removed from past connotations, but there are still certain celebrities for whom it still applies. George Clooney fits squarely into that group. The Oscar-winner may have broken into the mainstream on network TV with ER, but has spent much of the past 30 years appearing in myriad