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Refresh for latest…: It was smooth sailing for Disney’s Moana 2 this weekend as it reached $600M global following last frame‘s record-breaking bow. The running split is even for the splashy sequel, with $300M domestic and $300M from the international box office. The full overseas frame was $103.7M in 52 markets, repping a 41% drop.

No joke, I’ve watched Home Alone more than just about any movie. Born in the ‘80s and raised in ‘90s, watching Kevin McCallister defend his house from the Wet Bandits has pretty much been a holiday tradition for as long as I can remember. One of the best Christmas movies of all time, this classic

Morgan Freeman is iconic. From his voice to his magnetic on-screen presence and Freeman’s legendary movies, his career is an undeniable testament to his place as one of Hollywood’s greatest legends. Not bad for an actor who didn’t get his break until after 40. The 87-year-old actor recently admitted that even he gets starstruck, though,

This was a notable specialty weekend with Latvian animated Flow powering on and Luca Quadagnino’s Queer starring Daniel Craig rocking its expansion. A notable trio of concert films popped. Telugu Pushpa: The Rule – Part 2 had a super opening, the biggest for an Indian film in some time, as did Solo Leveling – ReAwakening,

SPOILER WARNING: The following article gives away some crucial details about Cuckoo and a couple of other horror titles starring Dan Stevens, so be cautious as your read on. It has been a truly wild and weird year for horror movies and I believe that Cuckoo is, easily, among the absolute weirdest. However, I would

The National Association of Theatre Owners is bestowing their Marquee Award next year on Cinemark President and CEO, Sean Gamble. The executive will receive the award at NATO‘s exhibitor-studio confab CinemaCon during the “State of the Industry” program on April 1, 2025. NATO President and CEO Michael O’Leary said, “Sean is the perfect choice for the NATO

Well, I would say it is about time that an actor as talented as Cristin Milioti finally gets the attention she deserves. All it took was a role on one of the best 2024 TV shows, The Penguin, as Sofia Falcone. Let’s start there as I highlight my picks for the best Cristin Milioti movies

If you look back on Keira Knightley’s first decade of credits as an actress, it’s pretty mind-blowing. Her second movie credit is Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace — prior to starring in Bend It Like Beckham, Pirates of the Caribbean, Love Actually and Pride & Prejudice all in the matter of three

An army of indies are populating the last few weeks of the year in a fall box office that’s the most buoyant it’s been in years but still picks and chooses among specialty fare which travels from festival standouts to the Odyssey to Y2K.   The latter is A24’s dial-up disaster hijinks, the directorial debut

I want to love Moana so badly, and over the years I’ve tried to because I adore the titular character. However, after Moana 2 was released on the 2024 movie schedule, and I saw it in theaters, I finally accepted my opinion: Moana is one of my all-time favorite Disney characters, however, I really don’t

FRIDAY PM: For all the chatter in years past about people getting distracted by holiday stuff, if there’s one thing that’s on their list this weekend, it’s going to the movies. Disney’s Moana 2 will see a second weekend of $55M-$60M, the most any No. 1 movie has seen during the historically ratcheted down post-Thanksgiving

As the year soon comes to an end, I’ve been catching up on 2024 movies I didn’t have the chance to see in theaters, including Twisters now that it is streaming for those with a Peacock subscription. I’ll admit, I didn’t have high expectations for the sequel to the ‘90s classic over the summer, but

It’s not always easy to know how an actor really feels about a movie they’ve made. When a film gets released, the stars do press to talk up the movie. Even long after judgments have been passed by others, the actors tend to defend their work for obvious reasons. And yet, Paul Walter Hauser is

Sony Pictures Classics will open the docu-concert movie Becoming Led Zeppelin exclusively in Imax on February 7. You can watch the trailer above. Ahead of the release, Imax theaters will hold early-access screenings in 18 markets starting February 5.  Becoming Led Zeppelin explores the origins of the iconic group and their meteoric rise in just one year

Numbers are fun as many a math teacher once said, and in a rivalry between Disney’s Moana 2 and Universal’s Wicked, the latter is having the upper hand at the U.S./Canada box office, not just yesterday, but today as well. Wicked made $5M on Wednesday, and is looking at $4.5M today, -10%. That’s ahead of

Friends, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the 2024 movie schedule truly was the year of the popcorn bucket. And just when I thought we’d seen our final surprise with that gothic Nosferatu popcorn bucket, Disney came in to surprise us all. I certainly didn’t have a Mufasa: The Lion King replica

Without having seen it myself, it’s starting to sound like one of the most shocking projects on the 2024 movie schedule might be director Halina Reijn’s Babygirl. Considering how star Nicole Kidman still blushes over the picture, that label seems to be pretty well-earned. However, now we don’t have to take her word for it,

EXCLUSIVE: Universal/Warner Bros’ Twisters has debuted as streamer Peacock‘s biggest Pay 1 film ever in its 14 days on the platform. The previous biggest Peacock Pay 1 film debut in its first 14 days was Universal’s 7x Christopher Nolan directed Oscar winner, Oppenheimer. The Lee Isaac Chung directed, Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones starring sequel

Moana 2 is already a massive box office hit, which is great news for a lot of people. It’s certainly big for the stars like Auli’i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson, but it’s probably also great news for Jack Black, who, according to his Jumanji co-star is a big fan of the first movie. Speaking with

Moana 2‘s “Hauʻoli lākou” aka good luck continues this weekend as it eyes a $60M second frame. For the post-Thanksgiving first weekend of December, that’s an absolute mind-blowing record for a No. 1-ranking title, whether holdover or new release. The previous high for this frame was in 2019, when the third weekend of Frozen 2

Mike Myers has played many unforgettable characters over his career, from Wayne Campbell in the Wayne’s World sketch from Saturday Night Live and two follow-up movies, to Austin Powers (and he’s indicated Austin Powers 4 could still happen). But for more than 20 years now, there’s a generation that arguably knows him best as the

Last year marked the 20th anniversary of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, which adapted the premise of the popular Disney Parks attraction and launched a film series that’s collectively grossed over $4.5 billion worldwide. However, it’s been seven years since the last movie, Dead Men Tell No Tales, was released

Sony is going one week earlier with the Keke Palmer and SZA R-rated comedy, One of Them Days, unspooling the title on the 4-day MLK weekend which kicks off Jan. 17, 2025. Pic’s new spot will take advantage of 95% colleges on break on Monday. There are also no comedies dated this holiday season, so

I guess at this point, it’s easy to make jokes about a 2024 movie having a popcorn bucket. I mean, we’re at the point where stories about a Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning merch tease are a thing now, so humor was only going to be the next step. But I’m afraid the folks

Regal Cineworld Group has secured a new $1.9 billion in Term Loan B facility. The new facility is priced at SOFR + 525 bps with a maturity date of Dec. 1, 2031, and replaces the Group’s existing Term Loan B. The refinancing included a $350M Revolving Credit Facility that replaces the company’s existing revolving credit facility. The

Jared Leto accomplished a feat back in 2014 that so many actors dream of achieving. For his exemplary performance as Raymond Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club, the 30 Seconds to Mars musician won Best Supporting Actor at the 86th Academy Awards. But after experiencing unfortunate luck by literally losing his Oscar statuette, he revealed it

George Carlin wasn’t just a comedian; if you’ve seen the documentary about his life you know he was a philosopher with a microphone, a master of pointing out life’s quirks and contradictions with a razor-sharp wit. Whether the Bill & Ted Excellent Journey actor was dissecting the insanity of human behavior, poking fun at language,

After six days of release worldwide, Disney’s record-breaking Moana 2 stands at $404.5M, passing this year’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes ($397.4M) and Bad Boys: Ride or Die ($404.5M), already the No. 9 movie of the year. Yesterday, Moana 2 led at the domestic box office with $5.7M, -83% from Sunday, taking its

It’s been nearly 10 years since it was announced that Robert Eggers would be remaking one of the best horror flicks of all time in Nosferatu. Thankfully the long wait is about to come to an end, with the film starring Bill Skarsgård as its titular monster making its debut on the 2024 movie calendar

MONDAY AM: Everything is higher: Disney’s Moana 2 is settling its 5-day at $225.2M, while Universal’s Wicked is coming in at $118.2M, and Paramount’s Gladiator II at $44.3M. Disney 3-day for Moana 2 is $139.7M after a $34.7M Sunday, -31% from Saturday. For a project that was originally destined to be on Disney+, and was