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There are likely very few people who spend most of their week working, going to school or doing any other variety of potentially mentally and/or physically taxing activities who don’t really, really love their weekends. The same is true for the star of some of the best romantic comedies, Matthew McConaughey, who’s also become an

A splash of auteurish openings on Christmas Day, with Focus Features’ Nosferatu, Searchlight’s A Complete Unknown, A24’s naughty Babygirl and Rachel Morrison’s The Fire Inside, is poised to send the holiday week’s box office to a potential $280 million tally. That puts it on par with last year’s holiday week that was boosted by Aquaman

Reese Witherspoon is known for showing off her holiday spirit. This year, she decorated (impeccably) for Christmas early with garlands and pine cones surrounding her wooden staircase. But Witherspoon’s house wasn’t the only change this holiday season. Her look-alike daughter, Ava, made a notable style change that I can’t take my eyes off. Other than

Universal’s Wicked, which will fly past the $400M mark this week at the domestic box office, has set a digital release in homes of Dec. 31. That’s a 40-day theatrical window for Wicked since opening to the best opening ever for a Broadway musical at $112.5M. Wicked is already the highest grossing movie based on

In no way do I believe a movie is only as good as its title and, in fact, I believe many of the films I have listed here are pretty good, if not great. However, if it were up to me, I would have opted to tweak their names a little, or maybe a lot.

The Christmas Eve box office at $25M was off 19% from Monday’s $30.9M gross, but the good news is that the moviegoing off-day was ahead of last year’s — which fell on a Sunday, the worst scenario possible for the industry — by 34% at $18.6M. Turnstiles are about to spin out of control starting

Hallmark debuted more than two dozen Christmas movies during the season this year including Believe In Christmas, which starred real life husband and wife John Reardon and Meghan Ory. The two showed off their fantastic chemistry together in the film, as they traversed Christmasland, but unbeknownst to most fans, they were apparently working together to

Elf the Musical, which returned to Broadway last month for a limited run, grossed $2,230,419 across eight performances for the week ending December 22, breaking the house record at the Marquis Theatre to highlight the pre-holiday box office frame. The revival, which stars Mean Girls Tony nominee Grey Hanson as Buddy the Elf and Sean

The world has no lack of inspirational sports movies. It’s not difficult to see why. Sports have natural challenges and natural conflicts, so the drama is built in. Boxing is maybe the most natural challenge of all, being a literal physical battle between opponents. The Fire Inside (Image credit: Amazon/MGM) Release Date: December 25, 2024

Continuing to ride a wave, Disney’s Moana 2 has crested the $800M global mark. With $804M through Monday, it is now the No. 4 studio movie of the year to date globally. The international box office portion of that is $440.6M. The sequel is also the No. 4 domestic and international release of the year (surpassing

The holidays are a time when we’re all obsessed with watching the best Christmas movies, and The Muppet Christmas Carol is absolutely one of them. I was recently watching the movie with my Disney+ subscription, and while I still think it’s the best of the Christmas Carol adaptations, there’s one scene I’ve always questioned. Michael

Holiday moviegoing may begin in earnest on Christmas, but we can’t ignore that there 95% of K-12 schools are off today — and colleges too. Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3, after coming in lower than expected at $60.1M on opening weekend, will continue its rally at the box office with around $9M today at 3,761

If you write about movies, you are going to be asked – often – what your favorite movie is. Or, people will ask you what the best movie you’ve seen is. Neither of these questions can be easy to answer, as people who worship film will tell you that they have far too many beloved

Brandy Corbet’s The Brutalist from A24 hammered its way into theaters this weekend with one of the best limited openings of 2024 (no. 3 after Anora and Kinds of Kindness). It sold out nearly 30 showtimes in New York and Los Angeles for a gross of $266.8k on four screens for a per screen opening

Who is Bob Dylan? The living legacy of the folk musician seems to evoke questions upon questions. As someone who grew up during a time when every move Britney Spears made seemed to be recorded on the front page of tabloids in the checkout line at grocery stores, I found an air of intrigue about

After becoming the first studio of 2024 to hit $2 billion at the domestic box office earlier this week, Disney has now claimed a new milestone. Based on today’s estimates, the Walt Disney Studios has crossed $5 billion globally. The total worldwide estimate is $5.06 billion. Of that, $2.054 billion comes from North America and

The highly anticipated A24 drama Babygirl has been generating buzz for its steamy sex scenes performed by Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson and the taboo romance at the center. While erotic thrillers can be fun for an audience, the craft of directing intimate scenes is unique, and lately has been re-examined. The use of intimacy

Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King is not as regal as hoped in its global debut. The cume through three days of international box office play is $33M, which, with the domestic outlook, portends a $125M worldwide start through Sunday. That’s far off pre-weekend projections of a $180M worldwide debut. Domestically, as Anthony has detailed, is

Across the nearly two decades The Holiday has warmed rom-com lovers’ hearts, it has become one of the best Christmas movies to watch around this time of year. In recent years, there have been whispers of a sequel being in the works along. With that, fans of the film have been calling for a reunion

Paramount is moving up The Running Man out of the Nov. 21, 2025 corridor which is where it was up against Wicked: For Good, to Nov. 7, 2025. Paramount will also have access to Imax screens which is a big plus. This leaves a spot open for a male-skewing film. They also set a release

When it comes to upcoming horror movies, we’re about to see a ton of classic movie monsters return to the fold. From Nosferatu hitting theaters on Christmas to Universal’s new Wolf Man movie, there’s a lot to look forward to. But now it’s also been announced that another Mummy movie is on the way in

Christmas Day 2025 is bulking up in regards to product. In the wake of Lionsgate dating the Paul Feig directed Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried thriller, The Housemaid and A24 with their Timothee Chalamet ping-pong champ movie Marty Supreme, Sony is darting their reimagined comedy Anaconda starring Paul Rudd and Jack Black. The movie is from

Even though our very own Mike Reyes gave Red One a positive review not too long ago, I’ve heard nothing but people talking smack about it all over the internet. Even though some of us here have defended the film, I was still pretty hesitant to believe that Red One could be anything more than

UPDATE: Sony Pictures Classics has set a release date of Feb. 14 for Becoming Led Zeppelin on 1000 screens. This is after the exclusive Feb. 7, 2025 Imax one night only early screenings in 18 markets. Watch new trailer above. PREVIOUS: Sony Pictures Classics will open the docu-concert movie Becoming Led Zeppelin exclusively in Imax on February

You cannot make this stuff up, folks. Just a handful of years after we all mocked that first Sonic the Hedgehog trailer, the 2024 movie schedule has delivered a sterling threequel into our laps in time for the holidays. But it appears that we’ve got another present under the tree from Paramount and Sega. We

Global box office in 2025 is eyed at a projected $33 billion, according to Gower Street Analytics. This early look at next year puts 2025 on track to come in about 8% ahead of 2024 which the London-based firm currently estimates will conclude with $30.5 billion. If it holds, the 2025 global forecast would put

The 2025 movie schedule is chock full of massive films, including the much anticipated Jurassic World Rebirth. What we know about the newest entry in the dino-centric franchise so far is enough to get one excited. In terms of what’s ahead, the movie’s director, Gareth Edwards, recently weighed in on the future of the franchise.

If 2024 will be remembered for anything, it will be the absolute return of Disney at the box office. After a string of events films that weren’t events in 2023, i.e. Pixar’s Elemental, The Marvels, The Haunted Mansion and Wish, the Mouse House came raging back this year, becoming the only motion picture studio to

Gift cards may seem like a cop out, but where streaming service gift cards are concerned, really, it’s the gift that keeps on giving. What’s more, with the last days for delivery in time for Christmas fast approaching, with something like a Disney Plus gift card you don’t need to rely on any physical goods

The build-up to Christmas is being very generous with Broadway. In some cases, very, very generous. Among the most impressive box office developments last week was the welcome given to All In: Comedy About Love, based on the short stories of writer Simon Rich, read live by such performers as, initially, John Mulaney, Fred Armisen,