Top Gun: Maverick has been playing in theaters for a week now, and its box office performance is already shining in several ways. In addition to overtaking Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End to have the most financially successful Memorial Day weekend opening, Tom Cruise’s return to the role of Pete “Maverick” Mitchell has
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Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick has grossed $185M at the international box office through Thursday. This puts it on course to cross $200M today in offshore play. Couple that with domestic’s equally supersonic performance and Maverick will reach $400M+ global in less than two full frames of play. On Thursday, Tom Cruise’s return to the cockpit
Following the release of the prequel trilogy, the Star Wars franchise stayed mostly dormant on the big screen for years… but now we may never see a period like that ever again. The brand was revitalized when the Walt Disney Company purchased Lucasfilm back in 2012, and nothing has been the same since the release
UPDATE, with revised figures for Birthday Candles, Mrs. Doubtfire Broadway box office held steady last week, the first week of the new 2022-23 season, with the 35 productions grossing a total of $33,347,304, with attendance at 257,210. Both figures for the week ending May 29 indicate a less-than-1% change from the previous week. Overall, the
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson became instant stars because of the Harry Potter movies. These films broke box office records, received many award accolades, and left their mark on pop culture forever. I, like many, grew up reading the Harry Potter books, and then spent years watching, and criticizing, the movies. I also
Talk about a hold. Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick‘s Mach 10 momentum at the domestic box office continued into Wednesday with $14.8M, repping a 6% dip from Tuesday’s take; a great weekday take. The Tom Cruise movie’s cume now stands at $191.1M, having already bested the 1986 original film’s domestic box office ($180.2M), and Cruise’s Mission: Impossible ($180.9M).
If you thought that Hollywood had a busy year in 2021, you would certainly be correct, but, you should still hear about the dizzying amount of exciting new 2022 movies coming to theaters, or on streaming, or both. As per usual, there are plenty of upcoming Marvel movies to look forward to and even more
Universal/Amblin Entertainment’s Jurassic World Dominion stormed into Mexico on Wednesday with $3M worth of previews. That’s the best opening preview performance in the rebooted franchise, overtaking 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom by 53% and 2015’s Jurassic World by 81%. Both of the earlier films had sneaks on a holiday. As we noted yesterday, the Colin Trevorrow-directed Dominion is putting
Minor spoilers for Top Gun: Maverick can be found in this piece. As if you didn’t know there’d be a beach scene though. Top Gun: Maverick has earned massive hit status, thanks to a killer Memorial Day weekend at the box office. The Tom Cruise legacy-quel delivered the actor his best opening weekend ever, breaking
It’s summer and the sheer amount of cash being generated on a non-holiday weekday is clearly showing that. In the wake of scoring the best Memorial Day opening of all time at the domestic box office with $160.5M, Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick didn’t let up yesterday grossing $15.8M. While that’s the third best Tuesday in May stateside
Former actress Cameron Diaz has a whole new lease on herself and her new life away from the cameras. Ever since her retirement from acting in 2018, she’s been promoting her new wine brand and being a loving mother to her daughter. Having been known as a sex symbol in Hollywood, Cameron Diaz opened up
The Cinemark Movie Club has surpassed 1 million active members with more than 3,000 members per theater across its U.S. circuit. The nation’s third largest cinema chain, based in Plano, Texas, said Movie Club, launched in December of 2017, was the first North American exhibitor-developed paid monthly membership program and is the first to hit
There is a great number of memorable songs we still jam out to today that we associate from very specific films of the 1980s. Simple Minds’ “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” for The Breakfast Club, Michael Sembello’s “Maniac” from Flashdance, and Huey Lewis and the News’ “The Power of Love” for Back to the Future
Universal’s Jurassic World: Dominion began early offshore rollout today and is off to a stomping good start in Korea with $6M. This is the fourth biggest opening day of all time in the market — topped only by Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Avengers: Endgame, and local title Along With The Gods 2 — and is the highest opening
Coming out of the 2022 Academy Awards, the most talked-about moment wasn’t one of the ceremony’s actual winners, but about an altercation that happened onstage. Following Chris Rock making a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s bald appearance, a result of her alopecia, her husband, Will Smith, slapped the comedian. A little over two months later,
Do you remember Disney’s National Treasure? It was the 2004 historical adventure film starred Nicolas Cage, Diane Krueger, and Justin Bartha as treasure hunters who search for history’s lost valuables. It spawned a sequel three years later, and a third film was expected. But since then the production has seen so many delays, making the
Stocks fell broadly on economic jitters with AMC Entertainment and Paramount struggling to stay in the green in late morning trade after the biggest Memorial Day movie opening ever in Top Gun: Maverick. Things change fast lately on a Wall Street buffeted by the latest news on war, inflation and interest rates, so this is
Billie Eilish has had a very public past year, between touring her Happier Than Ever record, having her original James Bond theme play in No Time To Die and then winning an Oscar for it, writing Turning Red’s boy band jams and headlining Coachella. With her professional life propelling her even higher into stardom, she
AMC Theatres announced its first newly-built theater of 2022 – the AMC Dine-In Topanga 12 in Canoga Park — will open June 2 as the pandemic-rattled exhibition business reshuffles. The launch will follow by a day the close of operations at nearby AMC Promenade 16 in Woodland Hills as the exhibitors continue to fine tune
The Rock may come off as a total badass in the ring, just as his real-life counterpart Dwayne Johnson kicks ass in the gym and on screen in big Hollywood productions. It seems like he’s just a big softie when he’s home with his family, though, because he just shared an adorable video of him
It took less than a week for Dune: Part 2 to get the green light following the blockbuster theatrical release of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, and it allowed the fanhood of the beloved sci-fi franchise to breathe a powerful sigh of relief. We no longer had to worry that the 2021 movie would never have a
The bomber jacket of Top Gun‘s Maverick is looking a bit more familiar in international trailers these days, according to a report in Fortune. Two flag patches on the back of the jacket – representing Taiwan and Japan – appear to have been returned to their original spots. The flags were missing, or obscured, in
Arnold Schwarzenegger was basically the picture of fitness in the ‘80s and ‘90s – OK, he still kind of is. The action hero has seemingly passed down his love for lifting and staying fit to his youngest son Joseph Baena, as the weight lifter and actor recently shared a shirtless video of himself doing some
Former Beatle Paul McCartney is currently criss-crossing his way across the country on his latest tour, but rather than normal post-concert topics like set lists and stage designs, some of the conversation after his latest stop has been about his perceived support for Johnny Depp. The rock legend performed “My Valentine” at a stop earlier
Elvis may have left the building, but he’ll be gyrating into theaters this summer, thanks to director Baz Luhrmann (The Moulin Rouge, Romeo + Juliet). Elvis, the story of one of music’s biggest icons, sees rising star Austin Butler in the title role, with Tom Hanks like we’ve never seen him before playing Elvis Presley’s
Two premiere screenings of rock documentary Freakscene: The Story Of Dinosaur JR grossed over $19K this weekend with a single Saturday show at iconic music venue The Opera House in Williamsburg, Brooklyn taking in north of $17K. Independent distributor Utopia worked with Murmrr, which produces live music events, and art shingle Mondo, which created a
After more than 30 years, Tom Cruise’s Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is finally back on the big screen in Top Gun: Maverick. The highly anticipated sequel boasts some highly impressive aerial feats (that required the actors to have real flight training) as well as some legitimate emotional stakes. While the movie is currently being enjoyed by
Hollywood was dealt a massive blow this week, as acclaimed actor and producer Ray Liotta died at the age of 67. Since the news broke, the Goodfellas icon has been heavily mourned by his colleagues and by multitudes of fans who were taken by his incredible body of work. Now, one of his loved ones
For the past six weeks, Johnny Depp’s $50 million defamation trial has remained a viral case, as over 100 hours of testimonies have been delivered in the Virginia court and broadcast on CourtTV. Following riches of information from Depp and his lawyers on his side of the story and Amber Heard’s defense, a seven-person jury
SPOILER ALERT – This story contains Top Gun: Maverick plot points: In the opening moments of Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise’s Capt. Pete Mitchell takes an an experimental hypersonic plane called “The Darkstar” on an unauthorized test run. Those who’ve seen the trailer — or the movie, at this point — will recall a low-flying
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