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Winter doldrums and a closing night be damned: Shucked just had a very good week, with news of a planned movie adaptation and its best-ever Broadway gross of $1,111,038. The Brandy Clark-Shane McAnally-Robert Horn musical, which opened March 8, played its final Broadway performance on January 14 after 28 previews and 327 regular performances. The

While video game movies have historically failed to impress audiences, the subgenre has been experiencing a bit of a renaissance lately. Titles like Detective Pikachu and Sonic the Hedgehog released and became some of the best video game movies, and the new Mortal Kombat movie also impressed those with a Max subscription. A sequel is

I’m trying to stay optimistic. It takes some effort, as just about everyone seems to think the film business is a mess–strike-thinned schedule, cultural chaos, streaming models in flux. But, hey, the Golden Globes audience was up by half, never mind critical reaction to the show. There are still signs of life out there. So

Paul Giamatti is one of those actors who always kills it on the big screen. Whether appearing in prestigious award-winning films, raunchy comedies, or even legendary kids movies, the award-winning actor is always firing on all cylinders, and more times than not is the most interesting person in any given scene.  Over the years, I’ve

Refresh for latest…: Warner Bros/Village Roadshow/Heyday Films’ Wonka continues its sweet run, crossing the $500M mark globally this weekend. The worldwide cume through Sunday is $505.3M including $329.1M from the international box office and with Korea, which has a fondness for Hollywood musicals, still to release at the end of the month. The Timothée Chalamet-starrer

Warning: SPOILERS for 2024’s Mean Girls musical adaptation are in play. If you haven’t made fetch happen yet, you’ve been warned.  Revisiting the past through something like the new Mean Girls musical remake can be tricky. Walking a fine line between making references to the past and making something that the crowd seeking out 2024

Toho International’s sleeper hit Godzilla Minus One grossed an estimated $853k this weekend for a cume of $50.9 million at 605 locations in week seven as arctic blasts buffet much of the nation. The film about the giant reptilian monster passed the $50 million market Saturday, becoming the highest grossing Japanese language live action or animated

If there’s anything to know about Jason Momoa, it’s that the actor has no problem getting candid about himself at times. The Hollywood star doesn’t divulge every part of his personal life, though he does open up about certain topics from time to time. Momoa actually made waves this past week when he spoke about

That tentpole blood bath that was to occur over Memorial Day weekend between 20th Century Studios’ Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and Warner Bros/Village Roadshow’s Furiosa is no longer: The former Apes reboot is now shifting two weeks earlier to May 10. On its new date, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Audiences’ love for Margot Robbie’s turn as Mattel’s most iconic doll can be traced back to the first Barbie trailer. Many were quickly convinced that she could pull off the iconic doll’s signature high-arching feet. Of course, she delivered, and those famous dogs served as a plot device in the billion-dollar blockbuster. Now, Robbie might

Paramount’s next iteration of Mean Girls has minted $3.25M in previews. That figure includes 4pm showtimes from yesterday as well as the “On Wednesdays We Wear Pink” early access screenings. A reminder that Paramount pivoted the release of Mean Girls: It was originally intended for Paramount+, and the test scores screamed, ‘Release this movie theatrically!’.

Teen classic Mean Girls is one of the most-loved Amanda Seyfried movies around, and though the actress has previously been candid about how playing the movie’s ditzy blonde Karen led to setbacks early on in her career, she has been nothing short of supportive of the new Mean Girls musical movie.  Seyfried recently showed the

In a lull for specialty openings early in the new year, three foreign-language films are taking a shot. The Settlers, winner of the Cannes Un Certain Regard FIPRESCI Prize, and Inshallah A Boy are Cannes alumns and Oscar submissions from, respectively, Chile and Jordan (neither short-listed in a competitive field). Driving Madeleine is a crowd

While this wonderful job that I have affords me the opportunity to see a lot of movies in any given year, even now I don’t see everything. And back before this was my job, I saw even fewer movies on a regular basis. As such, there are lots of movies, including many great and popular

Michael, the Michael Jackson biopic starring Jaafar Jackson as the King of Pop, is getting a global release. Lionsgate is releasing the movie stateside on April 18, 2025, with Universal is handling overseas distribution. Today, Lionsgate announced that it was beginning production on director Antoine Fuqua’s Michael on January 22. The John Logan-scripted movie, produced

After seeing Margot Robbie‘s latest Barbiecore fit at the Golden Globes, it’s hard to imagine any other actress was ever considered for the role. And yet, the world learned some shocking news recently, in that Robbie actually hadn’t initially considered herself an option for the starring role of Barbie. Instead, she envisioned fellow actress Gal

Exhibitors are lighting candles and saying prayers that Paramount‘s feature musical redux Mean Girls carries them big-time throughout January after a dry spell caused by the double strikes. Ya see, for the next three weeks following Mean Girls, there isn’t a major studio wide release until Apple Original Films’ Argylle arrives on February 2 via

M3GAN was one of the biggest box office surprises of 2023. The satirical horror movie launched a successful Internet marketing campaign, which featured plenty of memorable moments from the film. This approach essentially made it a must-see moviegoing experience. After the film’s immense success, a sequel titled M3GAN 2.0 was announced to be in development

While directors leaving a movie before it begins filming isn’t an uncommon occurrence, it’s rare you’ll find instances where they leave in the midst of production. Arguably the biggest recent example of this was when director Justin Lin, who’d been contributing to the Fast & Furious franchise since 2006’s Tokyo Drift, left Fast X after

Broadway box office was back on earth last week following the previous week’s unusual double-holiday surge, when both Christmas and New Year’s Eve fell within the same theatrical window. For the week ending January 7, Broadway’s 26 productions grossed a total $29,681,396, a 35% drop from the previous week‘s $45,413,789. Attendance was down about 14%

Japan may have just given us the best Godzilla movie ever with Godzilla Minus One, but the massive kaiju will be back on the screen before too long with 2024’s upcoming movie release Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire. As a big fan of the current Monsterverse, I’m certainly looking forward to the new entry,

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)

Ever since Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’s first trailer dropped, one of the main talking points for the 2024 movie release has been how Godzilla is now rocking a pink look. While it remains to be officially disclosed why the Titan’s spines have changed color in the next MonsterVerse entry, this new look has

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

While the movies are named after Harry Potter, it took a village to defeat Voldemort, and The Boy Who Lived didn’t find success without help from his friends. So, with that in mind, let’s take a look back at the side characters from the Harry Potter cast and some moments where they really came through. 

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

To say that Tom Cruise is a great stuntman feels like an understatement. The actor has participated in some of the most death-defying feats ever put to film, and has done so with a coolness and a swagger that is beyond impressive. Apparently, at least one of his colleagues agrees, as a Mission: Impossible stunt

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,

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

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