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Ti West's "Ebenezer," the PG-13 Scrooge picture starring Johnny Depp, opened Friday in 3,535 theaters, per Deadline, with a $20M+ opening weekend projected on a net $38M budget. The comeback narrative has been running since Comic-Con, where Depp showed up in f…
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According to TMZ, citing Puck, the search for the next James Bond is closing in on Robert Pattinson after the early screeners failed to impress, and his deal was reportedly sweetened to three films at a much bigger payday. The next James Bond is being picked l…
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“Much Ado About Nothing,” the Jamie Lloyd revival starring Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell, grossed $2,340,819 last week with all eight preview performances sold out at the Winter Garden, according to Deadline. It opens on Broadway November 19. Let's look at …
Johnny Depp's gothic A Christmas Carol, "Ebenezer," premiered in London Monday and opens Nov. 13 in U.S. theaters, and per Variety Depp is taking a $5 million salary, a fraction of his old fee, for his first big studio role in eight years. Cinema owners are be…
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According to Variety, James Gunn and Peter Safran are out as DC Studios co-presidents four years into the job, and former Marvel exec Jeremy Latcham takes over as president starting December 1. The press release says "stepping down." The headline says "Fired."…
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According to Variety, Godzilla Minus Zero opened to $14.5M on Friday and is tracking to a $32M weekend, a record for a live-action foreign-language opening, while The Cat in the Hat brought in $6M. Deadline puts the Warner Bros. Animation film at $17M to $20M …
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Advance tickets for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping are reportedly the best Lionsgate has seen post-Covid for any title, running ahead of Universal's Wicked, per Deadline. The prequel opens Friday, Nov. 20, and the studio's opening forecast now has an…
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According to Variety, The Weeknd's "After Hours Til Dawn" stadium tour wrapped at TM Stadium National in Kuala Lumpur last night, ending at more than $1.3 billion, the highest-grossing tour by a male artist in history, per the PR Newswire release. The record i…
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According to Variety, James Wan and Jason Blum have named the company created when they merged Blumhouse and Atomic Monster in 2024: Blumhouse Atomic. Both labels will keep operating separately under the new umbrella name. Read the PR quote first: "When we mer…
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A24's Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything and DC's Clayface finished the Halloween weekend nearly level at about $10.5 million apiece, one of the slowest weekends of the year, according to Variety. Final numbers Monday. The mechanism is the mat…
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On Oct. 31, Taika Waititi posted on Instagram that the critics who gave Sony's "Klara and the Sun" a 26 percent Rotten Tomatoes score are "sad lost souls" who "became critics," signing off with "Irrelevant. Out of touch. Obsolete. In the bin." Per Deadline, th…
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According to Deadline, A24's three-hour Elizabeth Holmes documentary "You Can See Everything" is expected to lead the weak Halloween frame with more than $10 million, for a U.S. 14-day cume of $52.7 million. A three-hour documentary about a convicted fraudster…
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AMC unveiled two "Dune: Part Three" popcorn bucket designs on Thursday: a "Sandworm Thumper" with a working thumper and a "Double Sandworm" bucket with two worms, which the company's press release says "make it easier to share popcorn," according to Variety. T…
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Sunrise on the Reaping, the Hunger Games prequel, premiered in London on Wednesday with a red carpet that felt like a fashion show, per E!, and the franchise's original two leads are returning for the first time in over a decade. The franchise has now cast its…
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Taika Waititi's Klara and the Sun, starring Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams, opened this weekend to $701,000 across 880 theaters, a per-screen average of under $800, per Deadline. SEVENTY-ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS. For a movie whose star has 39 million followers. 880 th…
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A24's Alex Garland "Elden Ring" adaptation is headed to the American Film Market next week, and per Deadline it will be the biggest-budget movie ever sold at a market. Amazon MGM already scooped up a chunk of international streaming rights. Indie darling A24 n…
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Nathan Fielder's 3-hour A24 documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, You Can See Everything, pulled in $19.5 million last weekend, up 25% as it expanded to 2,655 theaters, per Deadline. For context, the movie that took No. 1 was a DC superhero film with a $24.5 mil…
Clayface opened to $10.4M on Friday (previews included) across 3,458 theaters and is tracking a $24M to $25M weekend for the No. 1 spot, according to Deadline. An R-rated DC villain movie with no IMAX and a social diagnostic 47% below the studio average, and i…
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Greta Gerwig's Narnia: The Magician's Nephew trailer pulled more than 481 million views in its first week, more than the first week trailers for Barbie and Wonka, Deadline reports after Netflix's earnings call. The mechanism is the trailer count. Netflix neede…
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BFI Imax, the UK's largest screen, sold 33,000 advance tickets for Dune: Part Three in 24 hours, a new presale record for the venue, per Deadline. The film does not open until December. The record is a preorder, and the PR machine is reporting it like a box of…
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Netflix reported Q3 on Tuesday and its stock fell 6% after the close, the lowest level in two years per Variety. Co-CEO Ted Sarandos told analysts on the earnings call that the strategy is unchanged. The mechanism is the earnings call, the room where executive…
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On the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Michael Douglas confirmed what he told The View in 2024, per Variety: he asked Marvel to kill his Ant-Man character off after the second film, and the studio wouldn't let him. He even pitched the death scene, shrink to ant si…
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Deadline reports that the first trailer for Greta Gerwig's "Narnia: The Magician's Nephew" shows Emma Mackey as the White Witch in a metallic dress, a world being born, and Aslan, who will be voiced by Meryl Streep, ahead of a February 12 theatrical bow and an…
20th Century's $60M "Whalefall" opened to $7.5M this weekend, far below the $11M the tracking had spotted, while "Street Fighter" banked $31M and A24's Elizabeth Holmes doc "You Can See Everything" charted the second best documentary opening ever, per Deadline…
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According to Deadline, Street Fighter, the video game reboot from Paramount, Legendary, and Capcom, pulled in $4 million in Thursday previews, with the studio projecting a domestic opening north of $30 million and about $70 million worldwide. The film is the f…
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According to Deadline, You Can See Everything, the Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, opened in 800 theaters today after $1.75 million in Thursday previews with a 100 percent positive score and 92 percent of previewers recom…
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According to Deadline, Tom Cruise's Digger, the $160 million Alejandro G. Iñárritu film that opened to $8 million and is expected to lose around $150 million, has assembled a celebrity defense squad: Ben Affleck called the criticism "a little bit like the high…
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According to Deadline, Megalopolis returns to theaters October 24 in a limited run from New York to Hawaii, with the audience texting questions to Francis Ford Coppola and him answering the best ones live. The $120 million self financed epic that took in $14 m…
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According to Deadline, Blumhouse announced Friday that MatPat is developing a feature adaptation of "Amanda the Adventurer," the indie puzzle game about a haunted children's show. For ten years the job went like this: sit on a couch, find one weird thing insid…
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The math is the story. A $19 million budget, a $27.5 million opening, an 18 percent critics score, a D+ from the audience. The movie is winning the weekend while losing every review, which is a specific flavor of box office success the marketing team never ask…
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According to Deadline, HBO has greenlit a one-hour drama series adaptation of "Crazy Rich Asians," the 2018 film, with Constance Wu, Henry Golding, and Ronny Chieng returning and Michelle Yeoh set to recur. The movie that was the highest-grossing Hollywood stu…
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Anne Hathaway posted her first-ever Letterboxd review: five stars on Tom Cruise's Digger, the Alejandro G. Iñárritu film now projected to cost Warner Bros. up to $200 million. "Loved this brilliant film," she wrote. "It's smart, trippy, aggressive, funny, and …
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Sony's "Resident Evil" is on pace to become Zach Cregger's highest-grossing film ever, passing $280 million worldwide this week on the strength of a roughly $35 million China debut, per Deadline. The math is a relay race. The Austin Abrams zombie reboot stands…
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Tom Cruise's "Digger," Alejandro G. Iñárritu's satirical black comedy about an oil tycoon whose malfunctioning Antarctica drilling rig sends an ice cap hurtling toward Europe, opened to $8 million in North America and $20 million worldwide, and Cruise said in …
Thanks to the "Avengers: Endgame Encore" re-release, the 2019 Marvel film has reclaimed the all-time box office record from "Avatar," $2.9255 billion to $2.9237 billion, per Deadline. Do the math before you cheer. The Encore, a short re-release, opened at No. …
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Colleen Hoover's "Verity," the erotic thriller starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson, opened at No. 1 this weekend, and Variety reports the film's original "dark phoenix" ending was scrapped after focus group screenings rejected it. The ending they cut was…
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said at Bloomberg's Screentime event Wednesday that the "KPop Demon Hunters" sequel, expected in 2029, will get "a very broad theatrical release," according to Deadline. The original pulled 325.1 million views in its first 90 days o…
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The $135 million apocalypse satire "Digger" starring Tom Cruise is tracking an $8 million to $12 million opening this weekend, according to Page Six. The studio's new "decide for yourself" promo opens with a quote from a film influencer with 4,895 TikTok follo…
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The first Game of Thrones movie, "Aegon's Conquest," has been set for June 6, 2029, directed by Owen Harris from a screenplay by Beau Willimon, and reportedly about the Targaryen founder, a character who has never appeared on screen, per Variety. The franchise…
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Aaron Sorkin says the "Social Reckoning" reshoots that followed a mixed-reaction trailer had "nothing to do" with the backlash, that the film's test audiences were 70 Sony employees on the studio lot, and that a Sony lawyer forced a rewrite of a line containin…
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According to Deadline, "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" is getting a re-release with new footage. The film is now the highest-grossing domestic movie of all time at $950.7 million and the third biggest of all time worldwide at $2.495 billion. The re-release is not …
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Avengers: Endgame is back in theaters Sept. 25 as Endgame: Encore, a re-release with a new intro, added footage, and an end tag Disney says "creates a bridge" to Avengers: Doomsday. According to Variety India, the encore is also the launch event for a new prem…
According to Collider, Ridley Scott's The Dog Stars opened in 3,330 theaters on Aug. 28 and was playing in roughly 110 by its fourth weekend, having made about $14.9 million domestic and $38.9 million worldwide against a reported $110 million budget. FactsChec…
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Zach Cregger's Resident Evil reboot opened to $60.1 million from 3,684 theaters and $108.3 million worldwide last weekend, per Deadline. That worldwide number is being billed as the biggest opening in the 24-year-old franchise's history. Box office PR runs on …
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According to Deadline, Zach Cregger's Resident Evil opened at number one this weekend with an estimated $60 million in North America and $108.3 million worldwide, the biggest opening in franchise history by Sony's Sunday estimate. The franchise was already dea…