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HOLLYWOOD December 3, 2024
Five sure-fire takeaways from the largest Thanksgiving box office on record, including Disney’s resurgence, the reframed success of ‘Gladiator II,’ and a new weekend calibration for ‘Wicked: Part One.’
wicked movie
HOLLYWOOD November 26, 2024
It was no #Barbenheimer, but if the moviegoing trends of Thanksgivings past are prologue, Wicked: Part One and Gladiator II will have strong second weekends behind a strategic post-holiday push.
’Red One‘ is also another example of the industry overestimating The Rock’s bankability.
HOLLYWOOD November 19, 2024
The Rock’s kidnapped Santa caper sure looks like a $253 million Christmas catastrophe for Amazon MGM Studios. It also represents the peril of a certain kind of genre and a limit to its star’s bankability.
wicked movie
HOLLYWOOD November 12, 2024
For the first time since ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ opened days before ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet,’ in 2018, this year’s mid-November box office slate will mimic the pattern from the prior two decades. Everyone should win.


venom: the last dance movie
HOLLYWOOD November 5, 2024
As it turns out, avoiding monstrous budgets and not always swinging for the fences can be a solid way to make money on a mid-sized global hit like ‘Venom: The Last Dance’ or ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’—with or without China’s occasionally significant (but far less reliable) returns.
Chris Hemsworth
HOLLYWOOD October 29, 2024
Why is Disney considering the Thor actor for ‘Prince Charming’ despite prodigious evidence that he has failed to lure audiences to theaters outside of his Marvel movies?
anora movie
HOLLYWOOD October 22, 2024
Sean Baker’s Cannes-winning dramedy wowed in six theaters this weekend, but in a world of fractured and fatigued audiences, can word of mouth still sustain a movie from a few screens to a few hundred?
terrifier 3
HOLLYWOOD October 15, 2024
The success of ‘Terrifier 3’ further proves that a mainstream theatrical release still trumps nontheatrical distribution—at least in terms of cash-in-hand revenue and pop culture impact.


Joker: Folie à Deux
HOLLYWOOD October 7, 2024
At one point, a big-budget follow-up movie that grossed less than the original was an anomaly. But with The Marvels and now Joker: Folie à Deux, it’s becoming a trend.
Megalopolis
HOLLYWOOD September 30, 2024
With six bombs in a row, the ‘Megalopolis’ distributor has leaned on foreign presales to paper over an astoundingly bad slate of 2024 movies. Thankfully, at least, the next year is looking up.
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