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Ne Zha 2
Scott Mendelson February 17, 2025
One territory accounts for almost half of Imax’s global footprint, and it helped drive the world’s first single-market, billion-dollar blockbuster. In this revealing conversation, Imax China C.E.O. Daniel Manwaring explains the recent jolt and what it might mean for Hollywood this summer.
Dogman
Scott Mendelson February 4, 2025
The success of this weekend’s ‘Dog Man’ is a reminder that animation sells, but the next major studio animation movie doesn’t arrive until mid-June. Why are theaters still being starved of wholly animated family movies?
a complete unknown Timothée Chalamet
Scott Mendelson January 28, 2025
Sure, Oscar nominations can give any individual movie a boost—see: last year’s ‘The Zone of Interest’—but unless a big mainstream hit is catching a lucrative second wind, they don’t mean as much as they did pre-streaming.
captain america: brave new world
Scott Mendelson January 21, 2025
With the strikes and Covid a distant (if bitter) memory, Hollywood is primed for a return to the old normal. Maybe? What will it take for this year to be The One?


Mufasa: The Lion King
Scott Mendelson January 3, 2025
An array of disparate success stories—from period horror gambles and animated sequels to an inter-gen biopic—made up for a lackluster summer and illustrated a new post-pandemic, post-strike, post-#Barbenheimer paradigm in this strange new box office world.
wicked movie
Scott Mendelson December 10, 2024
The long green tail of ‘Wicked’/‘Moana 2’ helped break more box office records this weekend, proving that the public was still primed and ready to fill seats the week after Thanksgiving. Too bad the studios lack the courage to give them something big to see.
moana 2
Scott Mendelson 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
Scott Mendelson 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.
Scott Mendelson 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
Scott Mendelson 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.
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