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Thank God — with hits like Dune: Part Two, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and Kung Fu Panda 4, the domestic box office may finally be shaking off the ashes from the double strikes, now counting close to $1.8 billion, with moviegoing gaining momentum. We told you quite early – at last year’s CinemaCon

Book fans love to assume that when franchises like the Harry Potter movies get underway, they’ll be able to eventually see the whole series adapted to film. But ask anyone who followed the Divergent series, The Golden Compass or Beautiful Creatures, and they’d tell you that this particular fate is never guaranteed. Hogwarts alum Tom

Sony Pictures Classics’ Wicked Little Letters grossed an estimated $1.5+ million in a big second week expansion for the R-rated British period comedy to 1,000 screens from five. The Thea Sharrock-directed film starring Olivia Colman (also a producer) and Jessie Buckley, no. 8 at the domestic weekend box office, has a $1.6+ million cume. Colman

We have a question for the many people who are excited to see Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt’s new action movie, The Fall Guy: did you know that the film — coming to theaters on May 3 — is based on a TV show? For five seasons in the early 1980s, the original series from

Mild spoilers for Dev Patel’s Monkey Man are ahead. If you haven’t seen this action entry on the 2024 movie schedule, you can catch it in theaters now.  While Dev Patel’s career reinvention, the injuries he overcame while making Monkey Man and the incredible action in the film have been at the center of the

Fack Ju Göhte spinoff Chantal in Fairyland (Chantal im Märchenland) capitalized on its strong start in Germany last Thursday, turning in a weekend performance for the record books. With $6.2M through Sunday, the time travel adventure from Constantin Film scored the best Easter opening frame ever for a German movie in the home market, as

The list of upcoming video game movies just got a little bit longer and stranger, as The Sims, the popular life simulator where players essentially create a family and build a house around them, is getting a film adaptation. The sandbox game, which doesn’t have many set goals or storylines, could very well lead to

Big news ahead of CinemaCon for Disney — and they’re not showing off their presentation until the last day of the exhibitor and studio love-in on April 11. In big 2026 news, Jon Favreau’s big screen version of The Mandalorian — The Mandalorian & Grogu— is the updated Star Wars title on May 22, 2026.

Thanks to Pitch Perfect’s outstanding cast, the trilogy was a phenomenon. Of course, the ensemble memorably includes Rebel Wilson as fan-favorite Fat Amy. The character’s rambunctious behavior helped carry the Baden Bellas for all three films, especially since she had moments like that infamous Pitch Perfect 2 wardrobe malfunction. However, she almost wasn’t able to

The MonsterVerse, as well as the Godzilla franchise in general, seems to be in a really good place right now. As Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’s box office seems poised for another big weekend, the 2024 movie schedule has been kind to Titans and kaijus alike. While there isn’t any announcement on a follow-up

UPDATED, Friday afternoon: Legendary/Warner Bros’ Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is leading as planned at the weekend B.O. with a $7.5 million second Friday, off 80%, for a what’s shaping up to be a $25M-$28M second frame at 3,948 theaters, down 65% on the high end. Hopefully, there’s more of a bounce. Universal’s Monkey

Dev Patel’s film debut in one of the 2000s’ best movies, Slumdog Millionaire, was considered a Cinderella story in almost going straight to DVD, only to become a theatrically-released Best Picture winner. The British actor’s directorial debut almost tells the same story, as it was originally going to be a Netflix new release until Jordan

Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker – which was pulled from TIFF in 2022 over “rights issues” — starts a theatrical debut today at the IFC Center, moving to LA’s Landmark’s Nuart next weekend and expanding thereafter with about 85 booking so far — a nice outcome for the mixed-media coming-of-age dark superhero parody that “had

It appears another Hollywood couple has called it quits after two decades together. Sacha Baron Cohen announced his divorce from Isla Fisher after 14 years of marriage. The estranged couple released a joint statement, which Cohen posted on his Instagram Stories. Take a look at the surprising and heartbreaking message from the Borat star below.

Tom Felton is featured in all eight of the Harry Potter movies as Harry’s Hogwarts antagonist, Draco Malfoy. Ever since Harry rebuffed Malfoy’s friendship offer after he made fun of his friend Ron, the two were at each other’s throats throughout the series. But as it’s been 12 years since Deathly Hallows Part 2 came

UPDATE, EXCLUSIVE: Hit Vietnamese romance drama Mai has notched yet another new milestone, reaching $2M in North America and Europe box office in just two weeks. That makes it the highest grossing Vietnam-produced film of all time on the two continents. Heading into its third weekend of international release, Mai now has a global box

The latest Jake Gyllenhaal project had him slapping dudes and kicking ass in the Road House remake. While he was impressive showing off that male machismo in the action flick, it would be nice to see him tackle a feel-good rom-com for a change. While on The Kelly Clarkson Show, the Academy Award nominee expressed

EXCLUSIVE: Drafthouse Films has acquired Caligula: The Ultimate Cut, the 4K Ultra HD reconstruction of the notorious Tinto Brass movie. This latest presentation of the famous movie made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023 and includes never-before-seen footage and alternate takes and camera angles. Drafthouse will release the film theatrically —

The aughts were, in many ways, known for the thriving studio comedy, with funny movies being amongst some of the best of the 2000s. Movies like Superbad and Forgetting Sarah Marshall did numbers at the box office, and actors like Steve Carell, Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig emerged as movie stars. However, no comedy was

Brittany Snow’s latest movie has her behind the camera for the first time for Parachute. The romantic drama about a young woman navigating her life after leaving rehab treatment for her eating disorder debuted at the SXSW Film Festival last month to numerous accolades. Ahead of Parachute’s theatrical release this weekend, CinemaBlend spoke to Snow

No dart gun, or First Omen, or Monkey Man will put Legendary/Warner Bros’ Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire to sleep this weekend. The pic, after an unexpected $80 million Easter weekend start, will continue to rumble with a 55%-60% second-weekend drop to between $32M-$36M. Through four days, the Adam Wingard-directed Monsterverse title stands at

I can’t believe I’m actually about to type the following sentence, but here it goes. Director Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy has officially celebrated its 20th anniversary. It feels like only yesterday that the world fell in love with Ron Perlman’s incarnation of Mike Mignola’s legendary Dark Horse Comics character. But with my memories of two

EXCLUSIVE: Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Close Your Eyes (Cerrar los ojos) by Spanish director Victor Erice and is planning a theatrical release in late summer. An official selection of Cannes, Toronto, NYFF, San Sebastian and BFI London film festivals and winner of a special citation from the national society of film

This year marks the 25th anniversary of that time Lana and Lilly Wachowski blew the minds of the world by showing us what The Matrix truly was. Still considered one of the best sci-fi movies of all time, the Keanu Reeves-led ensemble crushed the box office with a unique blend of philosophy and action.  In

While John Connor is a character who’s been played by a variety of actors in the Terminator movies and the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, 2019’s Terminator: Dark Fate was special, as it marked Edward Furlong’s return to the role for the first time since 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgement Day… sort of. Four

Apes are hot these days coming off of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, and beast fever will spill over into the weekend of May 10-12 when 20th Century Studios‘ Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is looking to open to $54 million-$61 million. That’s the latest forecast from tracking service Quorum, which reports

The way things are going lately, we won’t be seeing an Irish goodbye in Hollywood. In recent years in particular, more actors from Ireland have become big stars. From Barry Keoghan’s rise to fame with movies like Saltburn, Eternals and The Banshees of Inisherin, to Paul Mescal leading the next Gladiator movie after coming up

Broadway box office soared last week, as five productions joined the roster, one returned and no fewer than 30 of the 32 shows saw attendance at 90% of capacity or more. Twenty productions were sell-outs. A raft of recent arrivals were among the strong box office performers, with The Outsiders, The Wiz, Suffs, Hell’s Kitchen

It’s been months since Anya Taylor-Joy tied the knot with longtime partner Malcolm McRae. The two got married in September 2023 at the historic Palazzo Pisani Moretta in Venice, Italy. The storybook affair included famous attendees like Cara Delevigne, Julia Garner, and Miles Teller who all looked perfectly chic to match the upscale wedding extravaganza.

Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster biographical drama Oppenheimer is an impressive spectacle – especially when considering the huge cast the Tenet director worked with. The film was a huge winner at this year’s Academy Awards, and you’d think the prestige would be enough to keep the entire roster of stars booked and busy. Unfortunately for David Krumholtz,