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It’s a good time to be a fan of the MonsterVerse, which celebrated its 10th anniversary last year. In addition to Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 on the way and other spinoffs being developed for people with an Apple TV+ subscription, a sequel to Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire was announced in May

The independent film community settling into Park City where the next crop of indie films will launch at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival has something to celebrate: a 2024 where audiences turned out and started to turn the market around. “In the independent theatrical world post-Covid, we were asking ‘Are we going to exist?’ And

Steven Soderbergh is a celebrated filmmaker, recognized for movies including Erin Brokovich, Traffic, and his debut Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Never afraid to push boundaries, the director is now bringing his unique perspective to the 2025 movie calendar with his upcoming horror movie Presence. Starring Lucy Liu, Julia Fox and Chris Sullivan, Presence is finally

Disney/Marvel Studios‘ Captain America: Brave New World has hit three-weekend tracking with a number that’s similar to what we saw recently, that being $95M+ over 4-days. The movie opens on Feb. 14 over the Presidents Day/Valentine’s Day weekend. Tickets went on sale on Monday, and we hear that they’re currently pacing 15% behind Guardians of

With the bulk of the 2025 movie schedule still ahead of us, it’s time to look back into the recent past to give top honors to the best of the best movies of 2024. (Coincidentally, or not, here’s CinemaBlend’s own Top 25 films of the year.) That’s right, we’re talking about an entertainment staple that’s

EXCLUSIVE: The Atom Egoyan-directed drama Seven Veils starring Oscar nominee Amanda Seyfried will be hitting theaters in the U.S. on March 7 via XYZ Films and Variance. Seyfried plays theater director Jeanine, who re-enters the opera world after several years away to stage her former mentor’s most famous work. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories

Stories are what the entertainment industry is built on. Usually, they all follow the heroes’ journey; a set path that the main character of a story follows, and if their story follows this path then they can be categorized as a hero. Many stories boil down to this because it is the backbone of a

Broadway said a few so-longs last week, with the star-studded Our Town ending its limited run and some original cast members of Oh, Mary! and The Great Gatsby giving way to replacements. Ticket-buyers were there to see everyone off. Our Town, the Thornton Wilder classic starring Jim Parsons, Katie Holmes, Ephraim Sykes and Zoey Deutch,

Glenn Close is literally Back in Action on the 2025 movie schedule, thanks to a supporting role in that potential Netflix subscription driver. The eight-time Academy Award nominee lets loose in a way that some might not expect, which once again shows the world the range in this iconic performer’s toolbox. The timing couldn’t have

By hook or by crook, even with new owners Skydance bound to take over Paramount this year, there will be a fourth Sonic the Hedgehog with the studio dating it for March 19, 2027. That’s a week before the Easter holiday for those keeping track. The news comes in the wake of Sonic the Hedgehog

Going to the movies can be an expensive trip, between the tickets and any snacks to munch on. Since the pandemic, movie theaters have been trying to find new ways to get people to come to the theaters, and since the now infamous Dune popcorn bucket, major movie titles have offered their own fancy bucket

UPDATED: With this weekend’s business, Disney’s Moana 2 has topped $1B in global box office, becoming the third release of 2024 to reach the mark. This new milestone means Disney scored a hat trick of $1B worldwide grossers from 2024; the only studio with movies released during the year that crossed the coveted threshold. In

Much ado has been made about Tom Holland and Zendaya’s Christmas celebrations in 2024, particularly after she sported a sparkly ring on her left ring finger at the 2025 Golden Globes awards just a few days later. In fact, however, the Spider-Man actor had spoken about going to America for the holidays this year prior

UPDATED: As it’s early January, we are still largely in holdover mode. But that shouldn’t discount the performance of those movies that released at the end of last year and are still doing solid business. Among them are Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King and Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Also, as previously noted, Moana 2

Anytime a movie is over two-and-a-half hours I have to brace myself. I know I’m in for a long haul, and a lot of the time, I dread it. In fact, sometimes it can make me put off seeing a film. There’s no denying a long runtime like this can make or break a movie.

It not a blockbuster MLK weekend but indies are out in force with The Brutalist continuing to surprise, The Substance adding theaters and Nosferatu, A Complete Unknown and Babygirl holding at nos. 7, 8 and 10 at the domestic box office. Robert Eggers’ vampire fest from Focus Features had a $4.3 million weekend with a

The Night Agent’s Season 2 premiere on Netflix’s 2025 schedule means Gabriel Basso is about to be catapulted back into the spotlight because he plays the titular agent, Peter. However, while he’s the big name in this megahit series, he spent some time between seasons working on movies in smaller supporting roles. This included starring

In what has been the worst kept secret since Woody Allen played Michael’s Pub in NYC, Greta Gerwig’s streaming adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ Narnia is getting an exclusive two-week Imax global run in 90 countries across 1,000 auditoriums in advance of the pic’s drop on Netflix. Narnia will release in Imax on Thanksgiving Day 2026 (Nov.

Jamie Foxx is back in action, both personally and professionally, as his film Back In Action premiered on Netflix’s 2025 schedule and he opened up about being hospitalized after having a stroke almost two years ago. Now, while we get to laugh at him and Cameron Diaz in their new film, the comedian also brought

FRIDAY PM: After everyone ran to the movies over the holidays, they’re doing something else this weekend with Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King looking to upset the MLK 4-day frame with an estimated $16M take in its fifth weekend. That’s easily the lowest post-Covid No. 1 haul for a movie and nothing for the industry

The horror business is booming in the market of 2025 movies. And in my personal opinion, I’d be putting the crown on the metaphorical head of 28 Years Later, an upcoming horror movie I’ve been waiting to see for almost that exact amount of time. The cloud of mystery surrounding this potential trilogy of legacy-quels

I’m Still Here caps weeks of packed screenings after a Best Actress Golden Globe win by star Fernanda Torres with a theatrical release from Sony Pictures Classics on five screens in New York and LA. The distributor’s The Room Next Door jumps from 44 screens to over 850, the widest release of a Pedro Almodovar

A Real Pain was an underdog movie-turned-indie sensation and it’s thanks to the writer, director and costar Jesse Eisenberg creating the story. It’s his costar Kieran Culkin’s amazing performance post-hit TV series Succession that made it Golden Globe worthy. The Home Alone alum almost turned it down, but thanks to Emma Stone, Culkin had a

EXCLUSIVE: If there’s one takeaway from the holiday box office season, audiences couldn’t quit Focus Features‘ period gothic horror movie Nosferatu. The Robert Eggers-directed title is now the Universal specialty label’s second highest-grossing release at the domestic box office at $84.4 million, overtaking 2005’s three-time Oscar winner Brokeback Mountain ($83M) and ranking behind the studio’s

When the political thriller Conclave first came out, you could easily compare it to HBO’s Succession in the thirst for power over electing a high-ranking position. However, there’s another movie that the 2025 Golden Globe-winning flick is hilariously similar to and you’d never guess it off hand. Conclave is being referred to as “the religious

Last week, as the town was grappling with the Palisades and Eaton wildfires the Warner Bros Motion Picture Group saw the double exit of lynchpin executives, Worldwide Marketing president Josh Goldstine and International Theatrical Distribution president Andrew Cripps, a corporate maneuver that continues to jar many. To say that it’s a time of change at

When it comes to highly-anticipated upcoming book adaptations, the next Hunger Games movie definitely has me marking my calendar for its 2026 release date. Before Lionsgate starts production for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping movie, however, Suzanne Collins’ novel of the same name will be released in March this year. Now, some new

At the end of the day, it wasn’t as bad as expected. That’s the overriding sentiment among international distribution executives and other industry watchers regarding how 2024’s overseas and global box office panned out. Yes, we continue to need more consistency to foster the cinema-going habit, as well as more good movies that hit their

Spoilers below for anyone who hasn’t yet watched Robert Eggers‘ Nosferatu, so be warned (and protect your neck). Given the filmmaker’s impressive filmography to date, Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu was a project I’d longingliy anticipated as much as anything else in 2024 or any upcoming horror movie yet to debut. And while it certainly excelled in

Alamos Drafthouse has laid off 15 corporate staffers as well as a significantly larger number of hourly employees across its circuit, effective immediately. The corporate layoffs rep about 9% of the total focusing on support center and technical engineers to streamline the business, a person familiar with the situation told Deadline. The hit to hourly