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SATURDAY UPDATE: With strong domestic and rolling offshore starts, Marvel/Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine is now looking at a global opening through Sunday of $420M+. Through Friday, the international box office cume is $115.1M with worldwide at $211.1M. As Anthony has reported, D&W is on a path to a $195M-$205M weekend domestically. Overseas, BFFs Ryan Reynolds

The 2024 movie schedule has been filled with sequels and follow-ups, and among one that’s set to hit theaters in just a few months is the much-discussed Joker: Folie à Deux. A psychological thriller with musical elements, the film continues the story that began in 2019’s Joker. Todd Phillips is back in the director’s chair

Illumination and Universal’s Despicable Me 4 handily crossed the six-century mark at the global box office this week, now with $632M through Thursday. The latest in the series has pushed the worldwide running total for the Despicable Me/Minions franchise to $5.3B, overtaking Transformers ($5.295B) and the Avatar movies ($5.268B). This puts the franchise at No. 12

As Jon M. Chu’s first of two Wicked adaptations approaches its premiere on the 2024 movie schedule, every new trailer for the release is giving us more details about what to expect from the musical. The latest trailer (which you can watch above) offers the first appearance of Ariana Grande’s boyfriend, Ethan Slater, in the

Neve Campbell’s Sidney Prescott is the definitive final girl of the ‘90s, and nothing is stopping her from making a case for the best of the 2020s now that she’ll officially be in Scream 7 under director Kevin Williamson. The original Scream actress has been set to play Sidney since March of this year, but

Imax Live is out today with the Openings Ceremony of the Paris Olympics. Bleecker Street debuts star-studded The Fabulous Four, Sundance winner Didi opens in limited release and Kit Harrington is a werewolf dad in The Beast Within. Again this weekend, another massive wide release, Deadpool & Wolverine, dominates the box office. Tentpoles are good

A good pun is hard to resist. Hell, the same goes for a bad pun, and I say when the opportunity presents itself, why not lean in hard with the word play? Critics certainly didn’t fight the feeling after viewing Kit Harington’s new werewolf horror movie, The Beast Within, which hit the 2024 movie release

Lupita Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Sandra Oh have been cast in Shakespeare in the Park‘s summer 2025 production of Twelfth Night. The show will mark the return of the Public Theater‘s summertime mainstay after an overhaul of its Central Park home, the Decacorte Theater. For decades, the Public has offered productions of

Our girl Sydney Sweeney can’t stop, won’t stop traveling! This summer she’s been quite the globetrotter, with Greece being the last stop she posted about, and her latest adventure brought her to Paris. While we’ve seen a bunch of recreational activities from the actress, her latest trip was a professional one, however, it looked just

In a Hollywood landscape where it feels like most blockbuster movies are all blue screen and not enough brick and mortar, Jon M. Chu is taking the practical approach to his Wicked movies. The director, who previously helmed film versions of Crazy Rich Asians and In The Heights, recently spoke about what actually went into

EXCLUSIVE: Moments before Deadpool & Wolverine stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, filmmaker Shawn Levy and Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige take stage at Comic-Con‘s Hall H, we can tell you first per myriad box office sources that the movie is headed to a record preview night for an R-rated pic. It is eyeing $35M

Glen Powell summer is in full swing. After the box office success of Anyone But You, the actor struck big on Netflix with the popular streaming flick Hit Man. Powell quickly followed this with one of the biggest movies of the summer, Twisters, which immediately became a blockbuster sensation, and is on its way to

Imax saw softer revenue and profit last quarter but blew away Wall Street estimates citing a surge in global box office in June and a big bump from the sale of Imax original documentary The Blue Angels to Amazon. The stock popped on the numbers, up nearly 4% in premarket trade. Sales fell 9% to

Glen Powell is living a life of accomplishment being a box office king with the surprise success of Anyone But You, the Netflix-dominated movie Hitman, and Twisters which had an exceptional opening weekend. Powell also found success in a new bundle of joy in his life in the form of a terrier-poodle mix dog named

One year ago this week, audiences were turning movie theaters bright pink across the globe with the release of the Barbie movie. Plus, between Billie Eilish’s “What What I Made For?” going viral on TikTok last summer and making it all the way to the Oscar stage for a memorable performance before winning Best Original

There’s joy in toon town today as Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 has become the highest-grossing animated movie ever at the worldwide box office. With $1,462.8M through Tuesday, the sequel has surpassed Disney Animation Studios’ Frozen II ($1.454B). Disney has seven of the Top 10 animated movies ever globally, five of which are from Pixar. Directed

After a number of months that saw poor receipts for newly released movies, Inside Out 2 managed to shake up the box office. The Pixar-produced sequel blew past the previous 2024 box office champ, Dune: Part Two, quickly becoming the highest grossing movie of the year. Early signs showed the movie’s initial dominance, as IO2

EXCLUSIVE: Marvel Studios/Disney‘s Deadpool & Wolverine finally opens this weekend, not only further rebounding the post-strike box office to a healthy place, but also revitalizing the MCU’s brilliance. It was only last November that the studio fell on hard times with its lowest opening ever in The Marvels at $46.1 million U.S./$110 million worldwide. The

Some of my favorite movies are also considered some of the best horror films and some of the best horror comedies. I love a good scare. However, I have limits and those include too much gore and human (or animal) torture. The Saw franchise seemed like those types of movies, and that would not be

The death of Brandon Lee on the set of The Crow will forever be regarded as one of the great tragedies in modern Hollywood. The young actor and son of martial arts legend Bruce Lee was on the precipice of becoming a major star when he was making the beloved 1994 film, but his life

Focus Features said Tuesday that it has set Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming spy drama Black Bag for a March 14, 2025 theatrical release. The high-stakes mystery stars Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender alongside Regé-Jean Page, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke and Pierce Brosnan. Producers are Casey Silver and Greg Jacobs. David Koepp wrote the screenplay. Focus’

Today there is almost nothing that can’t be done in the movies thanks to the world of visual effects. In modern movie making that often means extensive CGI, where things are created in computers that look as real as anything else. But visual effects are as old as cinema and you can never be sure

AMC Entertainment had some good news Monday, as long talks with lenders have resulted in collaborative refinancing transactions that extend up to $2.45 billion in debt maturities from 2026 to 2029 and beyond. The company called the deals “transformative” and said they’ll strengthen the balance sheet, pave the way for future de-levering, and align its

James Bond 26, or Bond 26 as it’s more commonly known, still remains an absolute mystery to the world at large. Though we do have some inklings of what to expect in some cases, and hunches on who’ll be cast, in the upcoming continuation of the James Bond movie legacy.  But that’s kind of part

Like many horror fans, I am stoked that writer/director Mike Flanagan is set to make the next movie in the Exorcist franchise. He has regularly proven over the last decade to be one of the most gifted filmmakers working in the genre, and if he has a vision of what the next chapter of that

Baltasar Kormákur was in a reflective mood at the Taormina Film Festival, where his romantic drama Touch had its Italian premiere this past week. The Icelandic filmmaker compared Touch to his first feature, 2000’s 101 Reykjavik. The former was “a black comedy about love,” while Touch is “a way more sincere approach to love and

Casual sports fans probably know Shaquille O’Neal best for his eight-year tenure with the Los Angeles Lakers. Of course, those who are a bit more well-versed in the history of basketball surely remember that the hall of famer was drafted into the NBA by the Orlando Magic in 1992. Shaq more than proved himself to

UPDATE: Universal/Warner Bros/Amblin’s Twisters positively blasted past forecasts domestically this session. While the international box office result is pretty close to where we saw it coming in, there’s no denying this is much more of a domestic play.  The global cume, largely boosted by domestic’s heartland turnout this weekend, is now $123.2M. Universal has domestic

I’m sure every parent goes through this multiple times in their life, but my daughter is 8 years old and has started to transition from being a little girl to a preteen. Movies, shows, and activities that used to help us pass the time and bond are old news for her growing mind, but there

The 2024 movie schedule wasn’t exactly slouching throughout its first six months, with Abigail’s blood-soaked chaos and I Saw the TV Glow’s lo-fi hypnosis (among others) keeping vibes interesting, but the pre-Halloween months are generally when the genre hits hardest on the big screen. Following Oz Perkins’ Longlegs giving audiences Nic Cage-fronted nightmares, a new