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With Wednesday’s worldwide box office grosses included, James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water has surpassed $2.054B globally, and jumped up a notch on the all-time worldwide chart.  Globally through yesterday, the epic sci-fi adventure passed Avengers: Infinity War ($2,052M) with $2,054.7M to become the No. 5 highest-grossing movie ever worldwide. As we wrote on

Kristen Stewart has been teasing her ambition to get behind the camera and make her first feature film for a few years now. The Oscar-nominated actress known for the Twilight saga and a host of critically-acclaimed roles has her sights set on adapting one of her favorite books, Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water. In

Regal parent Cineworld said it’s opted to pursue a sale of assets and the process “is well under way” with non-binding bids due February 16. The company said in a bankruptcy filing this week that it’s reached out to 30 “potential transaction parties” including many competitors. If the debtors (Cineworld and its affiliates) find one

Although Zach Cregger has been active in the comedy corner of the entertainment industry for many years, with his credits including The Whitest Kids U’ Know, Wrecked and Miss March, last year he made a big splash in the horror realm with Barbarian. The “crazy” flick starring Bill Skarsgård, Georgina Campbell and Justin Long was

With a slimmed-down roster and many productions offering 2 for 1 tickets during the annual Broadway Week promotion, Broadway box office was down 24% for the week ending January 22, with the 23-show total at $25,835,362. Attendance of 204,847 was off 17% from the previous week when 29 shows were on the boards. Despite the

The horror genre’s renaissance is showing no signs of slowing down, with projects like M3GAN starting the year off with a bang. One of the most highly anticipated upcoming horror movies is definitly Scream VI, which is the second one helmed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. The movie will largely follow the two sets

Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Puss In Boots: The Last Wish is a bonafide puss in loot, as it will cross the $300M mark globally with today’s grosses included.  The highly reviewed sequel and Shrek spinoff is at $297.8M with Sunday’s worldwide actuals included. Directed by Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado, the adventure has surpassed Croods: The New

Although Anne Hathaway hit the big time in 2001 when she first played Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries (there’s still no word on if she’s involved with The Princess Diaries 3), the actress had already been professionally acting for a few years before that Disney movie came her way. Unfortunately, being an underage actress

UPDATE: It’s now official, James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water has become the sixth movie ever to cross the $2B mark worldwide. It is also the filmmaker’s third to hit the milestone, alongside Titanic and the original Avatar. The mega-achievement was presaged ahead of the weekend with the global gross on the 20th Century

At present, James Cameron is still celebrating the release of Avatar: The Way of Water, which opened in theaters in December. All the while, another one of Cameron’s features is headed to the big screen soon, as Titanic will return for its 25th anniversary. If you were an avid moviegoer during the ‘90s, chances are

SATURDAY AM UPDATE: Thank to the legs on Christmas holdovers Avatar: The Way of Water and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and M3GAN running to $72.6M, the 2023 box office is surging to an estimated $512M for the Jan. 1-Jan. 22 period, +38% over last year, which was at $370M per box office sources.

While some of our reviewers were not so keen on Mama (see the review here) when it dropped in 2013, over the years, the horror movie about two young orphans being parented by an unknown supernatural entity has only grown in popularity and cult status. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the supernatural flick and

Sony Pictures Classics present Florian Zeller’s The Son on 554 screens, an emotional family drama that folllows the director’s 2020 Oscar-winning The Father. As with that film, The Son is adapted from Zeller’s own stage play along with Christopher Hampton. Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Zen McGrath and Anthony Hopkins star in the cautionary tale of a

Avatar’s future is off to a fantastic start, as the world has shown up for The Way of Water’s box office debut, and then some. As such, there are some who are happy to continue soaking in the long-awaited return to Pandora in its current chapter, while others are ready to look to the future.

Regal parent Cineworld is rejecting the leases of three dozen more theaters as part of its ongoing bankruptcy proceeding, including some major locations. In filings this week, the theater chain requested, and was granted by a bankruptcy court judge, the right to walk away from nearly 40 unexpired leases including at Union Square in New

Avatar: The Way of Water is approaching the $2 billion mark at the global box office and a big part of the reason the movie is doing so well has to be chalked up to the fact that viewers are springing for more expensive 3D movie tickets, and that anybody who wants to have the

Nothing to be alarmed about — as we told you, M3GAN 2.0, was inevitable and Universal just set a Jan. 17, 2025 release for the sequel to the Blumhouse and Atomic Monster hit film. The pic, now in its second week, has racked up $92M around the world off a $12M budget. M3GAN opened to

As M3GAN continues to win hearts and hard drives with her reign of terror in theaters, the buzz surrounding a potential sequel has been growing. The box office performance of the 2023 new movie release has been impressive enough to stoke those fires even higher, with everyone waiting for what seemed like an impending announcement. 

Broadway lost six productions on January 15 – including the top-grossing The Music Man – to the usual January roster-thinning, and each show went out on a happy note with strong attendance. With 29 productions on the boards, Broadway grossed $33,859,988 for the week ending January 15, down about 9% from the previous week when

It had to have been an extremely surreal experience for co-writer/director Steven Spielberg to make a film about his own life. With his latest Golden Globe winner The Fabelmans, the legendary director has crafted a semi-biographical portrait of how his childhood formed him into the person that he is. Casting actor Gabriel LaBelle as his

In an age of streaming and Covid concerns when many older-skewing dramatic films find their way safely into homes, Sony Pictures rolled the dice on the Tom Hanks drama A Man Called Otto. It grossed $15.3 million in its third–weekend wide expansion over the four-day MLK weekend, well surpassing its $8M projection. The result surprised

It may still be early in the 2023 new movie release schedule, but there’s never a bad time for a surprise at the movies. M3GAN’s success story was the first big happening at the movies this year, as it over-performed even its rosiest estimates when all was done and dusted. However, a new surprise has

A24’s The Whale crossed the $11-million mark in week six as it jumped to 1,500 screens from 835 as the Brendan Fraser-starrer and other contenders continue to tweak theatrical runs through awards season. The film, which received a PGA nomination for Best Motion Picture this week along with SAG noms for Fraser and co-star Hong

Filmmaker Todd Field has made his triumphant return to the world of movie-making with his powerhouse film Tár after a nearly 17-year hiatus. The actor-turned-director stormed onto the Hollywood scene in the early 2000s with his five-time Oscar-nominated directorial debut, In the Bedroom. But his career was almost doomed before it had time to get

Shudder and IFC Midnight are launching microbudget Skinamarink on a not-so-micro 629 screens, giving the viral horror pic a major push after a well-received premiere back at Fantasia-fest that just kept snowballing with strong reviews and social media love. “I was over the moon. For a horror filmmaker in Canada, [Fantasia] is like getting a

James Cameron is known for his undying love of the ocean, and his frequent use of the sea in his movies. Avatar: The Way of Water is no exception, and takes the underwater scenes to the next level to produce an even bigger, stunning visual experience. Kate Winslet in particular was involved in many underwater

FRIDAY AFTERNOON: As expected, Disney/20th Century Studios/Lightstorm’s Avatar: The Way of Water remains number one again in its fifth weekend with an MLK four-day take of $35M after a $7M Friday, -39% at 4,045 sites. 3-day looks to be around $27M-$28M, -40%. That will get the James Cameron sequel to $566.7M at the domestic box

When the mystery thriller Searching came out in 2018, it was a hit with audiences for its unique visual presentation — using computer screens and smartphones — and mysterious plot. Five years later, Missing is set to hit theaters, as a standalone sequel that stars The Last of Us cast member Storm Reid (also known

Broadway box office took the expected drop last week, declining nearly 30% (to $37,394,931) from the previous week’s holiday-pumped $52M figure. Attendance for the 32 shows was down about 12% (to 275,834), but remained at a solid 92% of total capacity. The reason for the decline, of course, is the previous week’s New Years week

Years before the TV side of the Star Trek franchise was revitalized on CBS All Access-turned-Paramount+ with shows like Discovery, Picard and Lower Decks, moviegoers were watching the crew of the USS Enterprise in the Kelvin timeline on the big screen. Roberto Orci co-wrote the first Star Trek reboot movie with Alex Kurtzman, and following