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Refresh for latest…: Disney’s Moana 2 is off to a splashy start in its early international box office markets, diving in at $8.8M on Wednesday from 10 total with the sequel No. 1 in each. Included in that bunch, France saw the best opening day of 2024 and the 2nd highest animated opening day of all

After writer/director Damien Chazelle made two of the most critically acclaimed movies of the 2010s, it felt like a big-budget follow-up starring Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie would be a shoo-in for a box office and critical success. However, that was very much not the case with 2022’s Babylon. The movie earned mixed reviews from

The worst thing a studio can do on a massive weekend like this is over-project. And if there’s one thing about Thanksgiving forecasts, they always get over-projected. Right now, Disney’s Moana 2 is putting up an estimated $54M first day, inclusive of Tuesday’s Walt Disney Animation preview record of $13.8M. This will coast the Dwayne

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is known for constantly expanding, thanks to project in theaters and streaming with a Disney+ subscription. Anthony Mackie has played Sam Wilson in both, and will return in the upcoming Marvel movie Captain America: Brave New World. This will be the first time he’s leading the franchise, and Mackie recently explained

EXCLUSIVE: We’re not even past Thanksgiving, and the box office is already busting at the seams. Tonight, I hear that Disney’s PG-rated Moana 2, which started previews at 2PM, is heading to around $12M+ today. That’s a massive Tuesday pre-Thanksgiving preview record for the House of Mouse, beating previous champ, 2018’s Ralph Breaks the Internet

As we look to 2025 movies, we’re finally starting to get to know the live-action Lilo & Stitch thanks to a recent teaser of Experiment 626 that had us geeking out. In the same week, the live-action Lilo actress has also gone viral for being part of the Moana 2 festivities. Considering CinemaBlend met the

Before Moana 2 rains a monsoon of cash, Universal’s Wicked will not go quietly in the night. In fact, on Monday the musical starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande was grande indeed with a studio reported $15.8 million box office take. That’s the best Monday ever for November, better than Frozen II ($12.7M on November

My friends, I don’t know about you, but I’m excited for the 2024 movie schedule to unfurl the darkness of Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu upon the silver screen this Christmas. I’m a firm believer that “scary ghost stories” go together with “tales of the glories of Christmases long long ago,” just as Andy Williams sang back

If you were shopping in Target this weekend, you didn’t hear the sound of Christmas carols over the loudspeaker, rather the showstopper “Defying Gravity” from Universal‘s Wicked. But there’s more, for on the main throughfare at the Sunset Boulevard location is a standee of Wicked attire, from slippers to sweatshirts. Meanwhile, over at their Starbucks,

After an extended shooting period thanks to the strikes, the Wicked movie is finally in theaters. Critics have been praising the musical, and it’s also performed well at the box office over opening weekend. But there’s been some criticism thrown at the blockbuster, specifically about its color grading. And now director Jon M. Chu has

Starting small on two screens but with surprising spring is animated Flow from Sideshow and Janus Films, setting the distributor’s highest per screen average of circa $25.4k, or $50.8k at two theater in NY and LA. Gints Zilbalodis’ feline tale, Latvia’s Oscar submission, was the top grossing film at NYC’s Angelika and third highest at

SPOILER WARNING: The following article gives away the twist from Strange Darling, so proceed with caution if you have not seen the new 2024 movie yet. Now available on VOD, the new horror movie, Strange Darling, has been hailed as one of the best horror movies of 2024 and also received praise from Stephen King,

Guy Ritchie’s next action thriller In the Grey won’t be coming out on January 17, 2025 as previously scheduled as the movie isn’t finished. Lionsgate has taken the title off the calendar for the time being. The trailer debuted for exhibitors back at CinemaCon, where the movie received its title. .In the Grey follows two

Your Monster has been on my must-watch 2024 movie list for a while. I love an unusual premise, especially with a bit of whimsy and debauchery. Overall, the film satisfied my need for an unconventional romance that’s a little weird but engulfs you in the story. I was ready to mark it down as one

UPDATED: Universal’s Wicked is sitting pretty in its global debut, now with a projected $165M through Sunday. As expected, the bulk of the bucks going into the witches’ cauldron is coming from North America, with the anticipated split at $117M domestic and $48M from the international box office. Globally, Wicked will see the biggest opening

It goes without saying that there are great Josh Brolin movies, and he’s become a legend in his own right. No Country For Old Men, True Grit, and Dune are just a few of the major titles under his belt. However, when he joined the all-star cast of American Gangster with Denzel Washington in 2007,

It’s a death-defying act to split one property into two movies. Warner Bros did it with the greatest of ease on the final film adaptation of Harry Potter, 2010 and 2011’s Deathly Hallows, which combined grossed $2.3 billion worldwide. However, Lionsgate ran into a buzz saw and tried it with the final Divergent book, Allegiant,

Henry Cavill is no stranger to being part of major genre franchises. He’s played Superman and Geralt of Rivia already, and he’s getting ready to play somebody who is as invincible as Superman and as good with a sword as The Witcher when he becomes the Highlander. Cavill is set to star in the reboot

UPDATED AFTER EXCLUSIVE: Universal is calling Wicked Part One‘s previews at $19.2 million. That number for the Jon M. Chu-directed, Cynthia Erivo- and Ariana Grande-starring feature take of the Broadway musical is comprised of Monday and Wednesday fan screenings, plus Thursday’s previews that began at 2 p.m. Broken down: Monday’s Amazon Prime screenings generated $2.5M

Matthew McConaughey might be one of the most surprising and sustaining actors we have today. He’s been enjoyable in everything from his top standout performances to his beloved place in some classic rom-coms. Along the way, the 55-year-old realized that to sustain his career and peace of mind, something had to change. And he realized

Amazon MGM Studios‘ Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans Christmas action movie, Red One, is crossing $100M at the global box office tomorrow. The movie after coming in under weekend expectations in U.S./Canada box with $32.1M, posted a solid Tuesday of $3.1M, +87% over Monday’s $1.66M. That Tuesday take isn’t that far from what Johnson’s Rampage

It’s become exceptionally rare for more than one major movie to be released on the same weekend. No studio wants to split their potential box office receipts, so a great deal of work is done to build a release calendar where every weekend has one major release, but no weekend has more than one. And

Universal’s female Jurassic World movie, if you will, the feature take of the Broadway musical Wicked, is expected to pull in any every single woman to the tune of a $125 million-$150 million domestic opening this weekend. Add in an extra $40M-$50M from its overseas launch. By every single woman we mean in the U.S.,

We all have holes in our pop culture awareness. As a film critic, I generally feel that I have a professional responsibility to fill my personal holes… but there are only so many hours in a day, and there are new movies that premiere every single week. This is my baseline excuse for why I

The MUBI production, Bring Them Down, starring Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott, is hitting theaters on Feb. 7, 2025. Pic directed by Christopher Andrews, who is making his feature directing debut, follows Michael (Abbott) who is the last son of a farming family, and lives an isolated existence with his ailing, cantankerous father Ray.

Unless we see a miracle akin to jumping a 1970 Dodge Charger off of an exploding dam and surviving to share the story, the upcoming 2025 movies won’t include Fast X Part 2. That’s, of course, not the final name for the picture, as everything we know about Fast and Furious 11 still paints this

Sunset Blvd. had its best box office numbers yet last week, while Maybe Happy Ending showed some welcome improvement and both Elf and A Wonderful World opened to houses with 90% of seats filled. The pre-holiday news wasn’t quite so cheery for all of Broadway though, as no fewer than 26 of the 37 productions

Alexandra Daddario has been busy this year–from her pregnancy and preparing for her son’s Halloween arrival to appearing in a few movies on our 2024 movie schedule, it seems like one for the books. To top off her year, and before launching into the last part of the year, holidays and all, the new mother

UPDATED: Storming 63 international box office markets in its opening frame, and before domestic enters the arena this coming week, Paramount and Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II has debuted to an estimated $87M. This is within our pre-release projection, and also marks the biggest overseas start for a Ridley Scott-directed film, as well as Paramount’s best

The long-awaited return to The Grid isn’t far off, as the long-anticipated Tron: Ares is among the many tentpole releases slated for the 2025 movies schedule. However, in addition to most of the Ares cast being comprised of new faces, the sequel will also be lacking Daft Punk, the electronic music duo who composed Tron: