MONDAY AM: This showgirl is taller this morning as AMC Theatres and Variance’s Taylor Swift: The Official Release of a Showgirl is coming in with a $34M per estimates. AMC will report the official figure later this afternoon. The 14x Grammy winner had a better Sunday at $8.2M which rockets her to her new threshold […]
Whatever happened to the mantra “survive until ’25,” the go-to refrain for theater owners and Hollywood executives trying to remain optimistic when the box office kept slumping last year, with revenue lagging well behind pre-pandemic levels? Perhaps the mantra disappeared this summer when it became clear that not even the likes of Superman or even […]
Is the animated movie sensation KPop Demon Hunters a unicorn or the beginning of a beautiful new friendship between Netflix and theater owners? Most in Hollywood are betting on the former despite the fact that a special two-day sing-along event of the hit animated movie could earn as much as $18 million to $20 million […]
Spike Lee’s Denzel Washington-starrer ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ also may be struggling in its limited theatrical debut before landing relatively quickly on Apple TV+.
The communal experience of seeing movies in theaters was on full display at the weekend box office as audiences across the country screeched, screamed and hollered together when watching New Line’s original horror pic Weapons. Thanks to winning over critics and audiences alike, director Zach Cregger’s buzzy movie came in more than $10 million ahead […]
SUNDAY AM: Warner Bros’ vibrancy at the weekend box office with original fare continues with its tenth No. 1 title of 2025, Weapons, which is expected to hit $42.5M stateside and a $70M global win. Given the A- CinemaScore, the multiple on this will be massive ala Sinners (5.8x opening) and Get Out (5.3x). Weapons […]
What do you think Stitch would do if you gave him a billion dollars? He’d probably spend a chunk of it on some advanced interstellar weaponry, most of the rest on Elvis LPs, and – in an ideal world – save a small amount to pay for all the collateral damage he causes. Either way, […]
UPDATE, August 8, 3.20am P.T.: ITV has confirmed Gary Lineker will present The Box, Twofour’s UK remake of the fast-selling Norwegian format. The former soccer star-turned-presenter said in a statement: “I’ve always felt right at home in the box on a football pitch and whilst this is a different proposition, the fundamentals are similar. The contestants […]
David Zucker, who directed the original Naked Gun film, sees the reboot’s positive reception as a sign that this is a good year — even if he has no plans to watch the new movie that stars Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson. Zucker has been outspoken about feeling burned that he and other members of […]
What better way to go out than to go out laughing. Paramount’s acclaimed The Naked Gun revival — starring Liam Neeson opposite Pamela Anderson — started off its North American run with $1.6 million in Thursday previews that began at 7 p.m. local time. Tracking shows the comedy opening in the $15 million range domestically; based […]
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