Oscar nominations continue to make a difference at the box office, and the box office continues to be important to Oscar contenders. At a time when prestigious, financially risky award bets are often destined to Netflix, nothing beats having that extra exhilaration from great ticket sales, as studios vie to raise the profiles of their
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Jared Harris’ character is described as Morbius’ mentor, and the trailer shows him saying he’s known Michael Morbius since he was a boy. He knows Morbius has a gift and always has. Flashback footage in the trailer seems to show Harris’ character protecting young Michael, who would grow up to be a scientist who tries
Out of all of Gotham’s Rogues, few vex Batman quite like his former friend Harvey Dent, AKA Two-Face. The coin-flipping former district attorney turned gangster first appeared in Detective Comics #66 in 1942 and has since been portrayed in other mediums by prominent actors like Tommy Lee Jones and Aaron Eckhart. While not typically portrayed
Refresh for latest…: Seventeen years after the release of Bad Boys II, Sony’s Bad Boys For Life dominated domestic, overseas and global turnstiles in its debut, and will cross $100M worldwide when including the domestic four-day weekend. At the international box office, the Will Smith/Martin Lawrence cop flick set a new franchise record launch of
The good news in this respect is that there’s only five nominated films in the DGA race for Best Picture, so the odds are automatically better in a mathematical perspective. However, when that field also includes Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, and Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, the pressure mounts pretty significantly.
The new James Bond movie No Time to Die gets an unofficial theme song thanks to a parody version of Billie Eilish’s hit “Bad Guy.” The 25th film in the long-running Bond series, No Time to Die sees Daniel Craig returning for his fifth and final go-around as the iconic secret agent 007. This time,
Sony’s Bad Boys for Life, a sequel 17 years in the waiting, previewed at 3,154 theaters last night making a great $6.36M. That amount for the R-rated film is bigger than American Sniper‘s $5.3M preview, which turned out to be the record opener over the 2015 MLK holiday with a 4-day of $107.2M. Sony is seeing a $38M
Set between the events of Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, the ride features a number of excellent cameos from notable characters – including Daisy Ridley as Rey, John Boyega as Finn, Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron, Domhnall Gleeson as Admiral Hux, and definitely-not-Adam-Driver as Kylo Ren, and the
This article contains spoilers for Black Widow Prelude #1. Marvel has finally revealed how Black Widow escaped after the events of Captain America: Civil War. The passing of the Sokovia Accords placed Natasha Romanoff in a difficult place. She believed in the Avengers – perhaps more than even Tony Stark or Steve Rogers – but she swiftly realized
Warner Bros. DC movie Bird of Prey hit tracking this morning with a range of $49M-$55M, the average being $52M when it opens on Feb. 7, that weekend’s only wide release. All exhibitors look to Birds of Prey as it’s arguably the only franchise film for the month of February. The film is really hot right now
Murder mysterious as a tried and true genre in filmmaking. Audiences have been enjoying this type of film for decades, as they attempt to figure out whodunit before the detective onscreen. Rian Johnson recently had great success with his murder mystery comedy Knives Out, which continues to make money and has even inspired plans for
MAJOR SPOILERS ahead for Crisis on Infinite Earths Parts 4 & 5 Warner Bros. actually requested that Ezra Miller’s DC movie version of The Flash appear in the Arrowverse‘s Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover. The CW’s Flash TV show kicked off in 2014 as a spinoff from their flagship Arrowverse series, Arrow, and introduced Grant Gustin’s Barry Allen.
EXCLUSIVE: Klaus, Ford v Ferrari, and animated shorts Sister and Hair Love repped Oscar nominations earned by alumni of The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) yesterday. Since the creation of the Best Animated Feature Oscar category in 2001, 12 of the winning films were directed by CalArts alums with the last seven consecutive Animated
Zack Snyder shared some images of the young Darkseid in action last summer, but this gives us an even better idea of how Uxas leading this battle would have looked like. For those who need a refresher on Justice League, invaders from Apokolips came millennia ago to conquer Earth with the three Mother Boxes, but
Square Enix’s Final Fantasy 7 Remake, the hotly anticipated reimagining of a franchise classic, has been delayed over a month from March 3 to April 10, according to a tweet from the game’s official Japanese Twitter account. Final Fantasy 7 Remake was the star of several different trade shows across 2019, winning many of the best of
Broadway’s winter thinning continued last week, with a trimmer roster and lower ticket prices sending total box office on a 28% drop from the previous week to $31.1 million. Attendance for the 29-show lineup was 259,101, a drop of 18% from the previous week’s 36-show list. Most productions reported box office dips for the week
6 seconds ago The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is still trying to figure out just what to do with Netflix and other streaming services. Netflix only bothers to release films theatrically in order to contend for annual awards, television, not theatrical presentation, is always the focus. There’s a feeling among some that Netflix
Danielle Staub announced that she will be leaving The Real Housewives of New Jersey. Most fans were not disappointed at the news of Staub’s departure as at times Staub brings a mod mentality to the show. With season 10 of The Real Housewives of New Jersey off to a great start as Staub is poised to make
Golden Globe Best Picture Winner for Drama, 1917, got off to a bang on Thursday with $3.25M in previews that began at 7PM in 2,900 theaters. The Sam Mendes-directed WWI pic, which debuted in 11 theaters in cities like NY, LA and DC, on Christmas Day, goes wide today in 3,434 theaters. The movie is
56 minutes ago Walking out of Rise of Skywalker, fans certainly received tons of answers they’d been looking for throughout the new Star Wars trilogy. But the movie also raised questions too. One relatively minor but still intriguing question concerned a scene between Chewbacca and Rey. What did Chewie say to Rey when she reunited
In Godzilla vs. Kong, Mechagodzilla could be Monarch’s secret weapon in case Godzilla ever turned against humanity or couldn’t be relied on to stop the Titans. Thanks to a recent Godzilla vs. Kong toy leak that occurred at a convention in Hong Kong, it’s become apparent that classic Toho villain Mechagodzilla will appear in Godzilla
Refresh for latest…: The theatrical business continued to thrive overseas in 2019, hitting a record $31.1B per comScore’s latest estimates, and an all-time high of $42.5B globally. This is the first time worldwide exceeds $42B and the first the international box office climbs past $30B. The results come in a year when domestic dipped by
Scoob! Release Date: May 15It’s been a long time since Scooby Doo and the Mystery Machine gang were on the big screen, and rather than return to live action, Scoob! is a fully computer animated film. While the movie will explore how Scooby met Shaggy, Fred, Daphne and Velma, what makes Scoob! extra special is
Warning: SPOILERS for Star #1 Things don’t look too good for Ripley Ryan in Star #1, by Kelly Thompson, Javier Pina, and Filipe Andrade. The superhero-turned-supervillain is still reeling from her fight with Captain Marvel, and the fallout that has cost Ripley everything. The one silver lining? She has somehow bonded with an Infinity Stone, and
A post-Christmas Broadway box office fell like so many dry pine needles last week, with most shows taking fairly significant tumbles as ticket prices settled back to reality. In all, total grosses for the 36 productions dropped 23% from Christmas week to $43,095,641. Attendance of 317,679 was down only 9%, putting the box office blame
26 minutes ago Along with the boom of superhero movies and the horror genre among the masses, interest and blockbuster potential of music biopics was made apparent in 2018 with the release of Bohemian Rhapsody. The movie, based on Freddie Mercury’s life with his band Queen, soared to $903 million globally and won four Oscars,
The host of The Bachelor, Chris Harrison, revealed that “something’s not done between” the star of the new season, Peter Weber and his former lover and Bachelorette, Hannah Brown. The host hinted that Hannah and Peter’s saga will continue beyond the premiere episode. Last summer Hannah was cast as the star of season 15’s The Bachelorette. Fans watched as she struggled to
Sony Pictures has pushed back the release of its Kevin Hart starrer Fatherhood by eight months to January 8, 2021. The move was a strategic one by the studio and not tied to injuries the actor sustained in a late-summer car accident. Sony had planned to move the pic from its announced April 3, with its
30 minutes ago It was back in July 2018, about a year-and-a-half after the death of Carrie Fisher, that it was confirmed that the actress would have a role to play in what would become Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker – despite passing away before a single frame of the blockbuster was shot. It
Christian Bale is in talks to join the cast of Thor: Love and Thunder. The Oscar-winning actor is no stranger to comic book adaptations, portraying Bruce Wayne/Batman in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy between 2005-2012. While Bale’s appeared in a couple other genre pictures outside of Batman (most notably Terminator Salvation), he’s largely stayed away from big-budget tentpole