Movies

Close to 20 years after Pepsi dropped their “Roman Empire” TV spot featuring Britney Spears, Beyonce and Pink, they’ve got a new one, again, featuring Queen’s “We Will Rock You” with Megan Thee Stallion, but it’s tied to the new Ridley Scott directed Paramount sequel Gladiator II. The campaign entitled “Make Your Gameday Epic” will

Johnny Depp has come a long way since one of his greatest roles as Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. His first movie since the infamous Depp v. Heard trial was Jeanne Du Barry, where he played the title role, and there are many other future projects ahead of him. But just

Broadway turned out to see favorites Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow for the first weekend of The Roommate, the new Jen Silverman play at the Booth. In its first weekend of previews, The Roommate played to over 100% of the Booth’s capacity, grossing $315,873 for four previews. Previews began August 29 ahead of a September

Following her time as a member of the Brat Pack in the movies Blame It on Rio, St. Elmo’s Fire and About Last Night…, Demi Moore was catapulted to another level of fame with Ghost. The Jerry Zucker-directed movie saw Moore playing a woman whose boyfriend was murdered, but his spirit stuck around to prevent

Even with all the exciting upcoming horror movie premieres and spooky TV shows on the way, it’s impossible not to return to all-time classics and personal favorites that haven’t been seen in a while. To start getting into the All-Hallows spirit with my wife and 13-year-old daughter, I threw on the George Romero-directed, Stephen King-scripted

Here’s something September hasn’t seen in seven years: a movie opening to north of $100M over a Friday-Sunday span. Whatever Warner Bros. lost over the summer in largely a string of flops — its May-to-Labor Day season didn’t even break $170M — the David Zaslav-run entertainment conglom will make up for this fall beginning with

Blumhouse is continuing to explore the dark side of technology with the development of SOULM8TE. The upcoming horror movie (which also counts as an upcoming sci-fi movie) boasts a similar plot to M3GAN — the company’s 2022 hit about a kid’s robotic doll that turns deadly — but with a more, shall we say, risqué

We’re still a couple of months away from the holiday season taking complete hold of the world, but when that happens, we can be sure that a lot of people will revisit their favorites by watching some of the best Christmas movies around. Among those will be the modern classic, Love Actually. The film tells

So, I didn’t believe the hype of The Iron Giant. And now I seriously do.  Let me preface this by saying that I have seen The Iron Giant. I watched it once when I was a kid, and I do remember enjoying it, but it was also slightly before my time. While I did grow

Edgar Wright’s cult classic horror-comedy Shaun Of The Dead grossed an estimated $600k for the 3-day weekend and $720k for the four days in Focus Features re-release for the comic zombie-fest’s 20th anniversary. That’s a bloody nice showing as fans turned out for the cult film starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost playing exclusively in Dolby

Back in 1994, audiences witnessed arguably Robert Downey Jr.’s most engaging film and role of the entire decade, with respects to Chaplin, in the form of Oliver Stone’s wildly chaotic mass-murder romance Natural Born Killers. Downey’s enjoyably over-the-top performance as tabloid TV journalist Wayne Gale is on par with the film itself, and he’s spoken

Refresh for latest…: While the calendar has clicked over to September, summer vibes are still being felt at the global and international box office. In yet another ascent, and on its 12th weekend of release, Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 has now grossed $1.666B+ globally, overtaking 2019’s The Lion King to become the 9th biggest movie

We can all collectively agree that Jennifer’s Body was ahead of its time and is actually incredible? Cool, cool.  I loved this film when I was younger. When I found out the stats, I never understood why it didn’t do so well at the box office, but I’ve always had a personal connection to it.

SATURDAY AM: Here’s something worth celebrating in a summer that’s currently commanding 64% of the $5.6 billion year: Disney/Marvel’s Deadpool & Wolverine is bound to cross $600M by Labor Day. Estimates for the four-day are between $19M-$20M. Even on the low end, that gets the Shawn Levy directed/produced/co-written feature to that threshold. “Naaaanccy….”. Dennis Quaid

Months ago, Bad Boys: Ride or Die rocked the box office, a development that solidified its place as one of the major blockbusters on the 2024 movie schedule. It’s easy to understand why the film has proven to be such a hit with audiences. The film features an impeccable cast led by Will Smith and

A pair of moderate releases with a handful of docs and titles in limited release topline an end-of-summer specialty market. Labor Day weekend can be slow and indie openings are up against few new wide releases (Afraid, Reagan) and holdovers from Deadpool & Wolverine to Inside Out 2. Meanwhile, the Venice film festival, with Telluride

We may remember Amy Poehler for being one of Parks and Recreation’s funniest cast members, lending her voice to the Inside Out movies and her best SNL presidential impressions of Hillary Clinton. However, we also can’t forget when she played Regina George’s “Cool Mom” in Mean Girls. Considering Poehler was such a standout in the

Similar to how people went on vacation with revenge as Covid simmered down, so did they return to cinemas this summer. Even though this season’s domestic box office take of $3.6 billion, per Comscore, is roughly a half-billion lighter than last summer’s $4.09 billion, chalk that up largely to a Marvel movie missing from the

Con artists have been popular characters for a long time in Hollywood. Some of the most loved films from Hollywood’s earliest days feature them, like The Wizard of Oz and The Music Man. In honor of that long history, here is our list of some of our favorite movies about con artists and their sneaky

It Ends With Us’ release date has come and gone, but following the movie’s box office success, it remains a hot topic among the 2024 movies, especially for what happened behind the scenes. The latest we’ve learned about the making of the romantic drama is how Ryan Reynolds’ apparent collaboration on the script was news

Universal has dated the Pharrell Williams-Michel Gondry musical feature Atlantis for May 9, 2025. The pic is based on Williams’ childhood at the Virginia Beach Atlantis Apartments during the summer of 1977. Piece by Piece, the Focus Features biopic about Williams told through Lego animation and directed by Morgan Neville, is making its world premiere

Every few months, it seems like there’s an upcoming horror movie on the block claiming to be the scariest thing since sliced heads, with audiences allegedly running for their vomit bags. But if there’s one franchise that has truly earned its reputation for stomach-churning, over-the-top gore, it’s the Terrifier series. The second film even made

Politics have proven to be fertile ground for storytelling on film. Whether it’s true stories like All The President’s Men. fictional ones like The Ides Of March, or even a mixture of both, like Primary Colors, stories about politics are ultimately among the most human of stories. We see all our aspirations and all of

It’s showtime! One of our favorite and most theatrical demons is back with an offering for the 2024 movie release calendar. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice comes 36 years after the Maitlands first asked Betelgeuse to help scare away the new family that had moved into the deceased couple’s home, and now critics have had the opportunity to

Just in case you needed another reminder that celebrity fashion is all over the early aughts, Brie Larson gave us a Barbiecore pink look that actually channels a much earlier movie: Legally Blonde. The actress was recently on hand for  a SAG-Aftra event in support of Lessons in Chemistry, but it was more like “Lessons

Broadway continued its downward trend during these dog days of summer leading up to the fall season, with last week’s total grosses of $25,343,599 down about 10% from the previous week. The drop no doubt reflects at least some impact from the summer edition of Kids’ Night on Broadway in which 19 of the roster’s

Sometimes there are songs that are just so good, that it doesn’t matter that they were in forgettable movies. That’s what this list is. Songs that still crush, often decades after the movies they were a part of are long lost to memory. The movies don’t get played much, but we still listen to all

UPDATED: Another busy weekend at the international box office, with strong holds across the board, and a major new milestone for Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2. Already the highest grossing animated film of all time, globally and overseas, the sequel has become the first animated movie ever to cross the $1B international box office threshold, now

Alien: Romulus has been one of those 2024 movies that, while not making a Marvel-level splash, has been pretty successful with its financial haul for more than a week now. Co-writer/director Fede Álvarez’s attention to detail is part of what’s made this new entry on the Alien movie timeline so rewarding, winning over fans and

After 16 years of fits and starts, a $50M reboot of 1994 goth thriller The Crow finally flew into theaters and dropped out of the sky with a disastrous $4.6M opening. Forget about critics plucking the feathers from The Crow at 19%, those moviegoers who attended Thursday night, predominantly fans, slammed the movie on Comscore/Screen