Audiences didn’t have a lot of new choices, nor a mega late-December blockbuster to ring in the first weekend of the new year at the movies, but the studio titles on offer are still drawing crowds and seeing strong holds, particularly with ongoing holidays in many international box office markets. Milestones are also being set
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It’s been quite the year for actor Jonathan Majors. In 2023 his career was skyrocketing, thanks to playing the antagonist in both Creed III and Ant-Man 3. But in April Majors was arrested and charged with a variety of different potential crimes. Fans have been following Majors’ legal issues for months, and eventually he was
Sony Motion Picture Group Chairman has a few things to celebrate this weekend: Between the studio’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and the studio’s R-rated comedy No Hard Feelings, the studio counts four Golden Globe noms. But then there’s Sony movie, Anyone But You, which reps a return for romantic comedies to the big screen; that
There’s a common theme in a lot of Margot Robbie’s stunning red carpet looks as of late, and while her black corset at the Saltburn premiere was a nice change of pace, she’s back on the Barbiecore train. The actress was apparently only joking when she said she’d thrown out all of her pink wardrobe
Searchlight Pictures’ Poor Things rounded out the top ten this weekend and American Fiction from Amazon MGM Studios continued its slow burn with both films in the running for big awards at the Golden Globes tonight. Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things starring Emma Stone grossed $2 million in week five on 750 screens (down from 700)
When you’re a comedy firestarter like actor Will Ferrell, you tend to land a lot of iconic quotes throughout your career. As a Saturday Night Live mainstay turned cinematic superstar, there’s nothing the man hasn’t said, and a lot of it is absolute gold. So to celebrate that fact, we’re about to run through 32
In recent years, the Academy Awards has been the scene of some of pop culture’s biggest viral controversies (including the Will Smith – Chris Rock slap). One of those moments was the Best Picture mix-up with La La Land and Moonlight at the 89th Academy Awards. What made the snafu even more awkward was the
This year marks 35 years since Leonardo DiCaprio first got his Hollywood career going, and wow has it been an incredible one thus far — I mean just look at the list of Leo’s best films! From being “King of the World” in Titanic to his latest Martin Scorsese collaboration, Killers of the Flower Moon,
The franchise kicked off by 2013’s Pacific Rim is a firm example of a series that, despite an irregular pace of progress, still seems to be kicking around in the hearts and minds of those who love it. Actor and star Charlie Hunnam could be seen as a case study for why that is, especially
One of the most important things we know about Poor Things is that Emma Stone’s “hilarious” and “raunchy” performance has been blowing critics away. But, before the 35-year-old actress experienced award-season buzz for her roles, she made a name for herself in comedies like Superbad and Easy A. Now, one of her best early performances
In 2020, Patrick Stewart reprised Jean-Luc Picard for Star Trek: Picard, which followed nearly 20 years after the movie Star Trek: Nemesis. The show accessible to Paramount+ subscribers took the former captain of the USS Enterprise on a journey that culminated with him reuniting with his Next Generation cohorts in the third and final season
It’s quiet for specialty openings after the holidays, in the thick of awards season. But one film needed this weekend — Abramorama documentary A Storm Foretold by Danish director Christoffer Guldbrandsen about the MAGA movement and the Jan. 6 insurrection. The filmmaker captured footage over years of on-and-off access to Roger Stone. It’s booked for
Bringing to live a project like the live-action remake of How To Train Your Dragon requires a lot of moving pieces to work. While fresh faces Mason Thames and Nico Parker being respectively cast as Hiccup and Astrid is one of those important components, sometimes retaining talent from the original iteration can be a huge
There’s always been a demand for horror in the New Year, and Universal, Blumhouse and Atomic Monster are meeting that this weekend with Night Swim which made $1.45M in previews at 2,750 theaters from showtimes that began at 5PM. The PG-13 movie isn’t expected to be M3GAN, the early PG-13 horror doll hit from last
Christopher Nolan is arguably on track this year to finally win the Academy Award for Best Director for his blockbuster biopic Oppenheimer—he’s been nominated five times before, including for his devastating war drama Dunkirk. However, that doesn’t mean the famed filmmaker doesn’t often find himself on the receiving end of criticism. While accepting the Best
Warning: this article has spoilers for the 2023 film The Color Purple. Though this year’s Blitz Bazawule-directed version of The Color Purple is actually an adaptation of the stage musical, not the 1985 film by Steven Spielberg, the 2023 remake pays more than a few nods to that Oscar-winning drama. However, despite one OG star making a cameo,
There are long-running movie franchises, and then there’s Star Wars. George Lucas changed the film world forever with A New Hope, and entire generations of moviegoers have been brought up on the galaxy far, far away. Said fans are eager to see what upcoming Star Wars movies are coming now that the Skywalker Saga is
Global box office is estimated to have reached $33.9B for 2023, a 30.5% gain on 2022, according to Gower Street Analytics. While this represents continuing worldwide recovery, the figure remains 15% behind the average of the last three pre-pandemic years (2017-2019). Gower Street also recently estimated that, due in part to this year’s strike-impacted release
First published nearly a century ago, Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is arguably one of the best American novels of the 20th century. Considering it’s about to be turned into a movie starring one of the biggest up-and-coming Hollywood stars, it’s safe to say the romance story set in the heat of World War
Taylor Swift perhaps has the most iconic girl gang one could have, between her storied friendships with other celebrities like Selena Gomez, Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds and La La Land Oscar winner Emma Stone. And of course, when you’re a bestie of Swift’s, you’re going to get privileges to see her on tour – and
A double-holiday week on Broadway – the final week of 2023 – saw a surge in box office, with many shows posting record numbers. Winner of the week? Disney’s The Lion King, which grossed a massive $4,316,629, not only setting a house record at the Minskoff but a Broadway record for the highest single-week gross
I desperately need to see Ryan Gosling perform “I’m Just Ken” at the Oscars, and I think a lot of people are in the same hot pink boat as me. Luckily, it seems highly likely that the power ballad from the billion-dollar blockbuster Barbie as well as the Ken who sings it will get nominated.
This article gets into some minor spoilers if you haven’t seen Anyone But You, but nothing outside of the realm of the “sexy” shower scene. There’s been a lot of changes made to filming sex scenes on the sets of films and TV shows over the years. Sets are often more closed than they used
As my colleague Anthony D’Alessandro has noted, the domestic movie box office, starved of product by overlapping strikes, will likely be trimmed by a billion dollars in 2024. So here’s question worth pondering: Would the film industry be healthier if most of that pruning occurred at the very top? There’s a case to be made.
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is one of the biggest releases slated on the 2024 movies calendar, with the two title Titans re-teaming three years after they clashed in Godzilla vs. Kong. However, these gigantic monsters don’t look quite the same as they did in that 2021 movie, with Godzilla now rocking pink spines
B. Riley analyst Eric Wold, who has stayed generally bullish on the movie theater business despite its recent trials, is now warning investors that the arrival of a “down box office year” has made him “increasingly cautious.” In a note to clients about his 2024 outlook, Wold wrote that he expects the stock performance of
2023 was a particularly big year for Jack Black, as he voiced Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie. In addition to the Illumination feature becoming one of the most successful movies on the 2023 release calendar and playing a key role in last year being one of the best years for video game movies
Love Lies Bleeding is coming to a theater soon – and this is what we know about it. A24 has released some of the biggest films of the last few years. Everything Everywhere All At Once won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Some of the best horror movies have hailed from A24. And even
We’ve all had that feeling: when things are going really well in your life, you’re able to step outside your own body and assess the awesomeness of the whole situation in its totality. Having this kind of positive revelation is wonderful… though it can also lead to the unexpected blurting out of sentiment. This is
MONDAY AM writethru: Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and he’s delivering the motion picture industry a $9 billion-plus year at the domestic box office, a feat many thought was unimaginable with the lack of a mega-tentpole over the holiday, coupled by a Q4 impacted by the double strikes. The numbers were compiled from
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