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When ranking Walt Disney’s animated features, The Lion King is generally on the high side of things. The beloved Oscar-winning movie (which is streaming with a Disney+ subscription) featured plenty of iconic songs from the hands of the great Elton John. It turns out Timon and Pumbaa were originally supposed to sing “Can You Feel

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

While there are absolutely downsides to fame, one of the upsides is that it usually involves having lots of money. You can use that money to buy stuff you want, even if you don’t really need it. If you’re SNL stars, Pete Davidson and Colin Jost, you can just buy the Staten Island Ferry if

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

Keira Knightley became a global superstar almost overnight thanks to the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. The movies were massive hits that made Knightley a household name. Except for a brief cameo in the most recent Pirates film, she’s stayed away from franchise movies in general since completing the initial trilogy. Today, the actress says

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,

The world of auto racing is dangerous and crashes and injuries are common. And yet, when attendees watched an F1 racer collapse on the track in Las Vegas over the weekend, it wasn’t another on-track injury. It was just Brad Pitt’s stuntman. Brad Pitt’s upcoming movie, simply titled F1, places Pitt literally in the driver’s

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

Known for his superb performances in films like No Country for Old Men and Sicario as well as his work as Thanos in the Marvel movies, Josh Brolin has done quite a bit. What some may not know is that one BTS fact about the Avatar is that the Inherent Vice actor was apparently on

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

With Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II finally landing on the 2024 movie schedule, the director is pulling back the curtain on one of the more outlandish ideas he once toyed with to bring back Russell Crowe’s iconic Maximus Decimus Meridius. While the original film is easily one of the best movies of the 2000s, delivering a

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,

It’s been eight years since Auliʻi Cravalho made her acting debut in Moana, capturing young hearts as the chief’s daughter discovered her identity with the help of demigod Maui. Now fans are highly anticipating the release of Moana 2, where she will be called by her wayfinding ancestors to break the god Nalo’s curse on

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 that time of year when the chill in the air makes cozying up with some great horror movies the best streaming services have to offer a fantastic idea. As a horror enthusiast who’ll watch everything from the grungiest indie slasher to the glossiest studio thrill ride, I plunged headfirst into six films this month.

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.

It’s wild to think that more than 20 years later, fans are finally getting the Freaky Friday sequel we’ve all been hoping for, with the stars already having celebrated the sequel being wrapped. Not only are we reuniting with our favorite body-swapping mother-daughter duo, Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, but this new reveal cements

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

There are plenty of great options yet to hit theaters this year, but sci-fi/horror fans may already be looking ahead to the 2025 movie release schedule. That’s because Companion, a psychological thriller from Drew Hancock, is set to hit theaters in January. The film stars The Boys’ Jack Quaid and Sophie Thatcher from Yellowjackets and

Hello, Love, Again, the widest domestic release for a Filipino film, now holds a record for the highest opening weekend for the same with $2.4 million and a no. 8 spot. Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain crossed $3 million at the box office following its expansion to more than 1,000 theaters in week 3, landing

Saoirse Ronan’s best movies have shown her playing women who aren’t afraid to speak their minds like in Brooklyn, Lady Bird and her latest film, Blitz. The Irish actress isn’t too far away from that forthright personality herself. The Academy Award nominee recently made comments about women’s safety, which went viral. Now, Gladiator II trainer

The Substance, the Cannes Film Festival winning, Demi Moore body swap horror movie, is poised to bust to great heights at the global box office with a $70M-$75M take. That’s quite a landmark for the Working Title produced-2 hour and 21-minute running, French shot movie which has the Ghost and $2.5 billion global grossing blockbuster

The Wicked release date is just a week away, and in preparation for it, Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo have been all over the world promoting the movie musical and talking to all sorts of people. In one hilarious viral moment from the press tour, the actresses behind Glinda and Elphaba learned they were sitting

EXCLUSIVE: Universal/DreamWorks Animation’sThe Wild Robot has crossed the three-century mark globally, with $300.5M through Friday. The Chris Sanders-directed critical darling is now at $134.4M domestic and $166.1M from the international box office. The Wild Robot is the No. 2 non-sequel studio film of 2024, behind It Ends with Us; the No. 1 non-sequel Hollywood animated title

“Am I using trigger words that I’m not aware of?’ Jon Arbuckle asked as Garfield fled from his house for the third time. I couldn’t help but chuckle at the line toward the end of The Garfield Movie because it was hilariously ironic, given the movie I just sat through. As the parent and spouse

FRIDAY MIDDAY: It will come down to Saturday to put the Dwayne Johnson–Chris Evans Amazon MGM Studios Christmas action movie Red One north of $30 million. Estimates we hear today put this family feature at close to $12M today and $30M-$33M over three days. That three-day today would be above such Christmas movies as 2004’s

You’ve heard the saying, “The book’s always better than the movie.” Well, it turns out that’s not always true. Sometimes films are able to streamline through a novel’s tedious exposition or confusing jargon. Other times they’re able to bring fantastical worlds to life in a more spectacular way than you might have imagined. Either way,

Just a year ago, Disney CEO Bob Iger was in the midst of an ongoing apology tour for the studio after string of tepid box office returns. At a conference last November, he acknowledged that things had a taken a downturn and promised, as he had been doing regularly, that Disney will be stressing quality

Actor Glen Powell is having a moment. While he’s been working for years, the success of Top Gun: Maverick (which is streaming with a Paramount+ subscription), Twisters, and Anyone But You helped to bring him to superstardom. He’s got a number of upcoming projects lined up, including the remake The Running Man with Josh Brolin.

In a new milestone, Sony’s Venom: The Last Dance has waltzed past the four-century mark globally, now with $405.5M through Tuesday. Breaking that down, the Tom Hardy-starrer has grossed $118.5M domestically and $287M at the international box office since opening late last month. This brings the franchise total to $1.7B so far. The Marvel symbiote