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Box Office

lilo & stitch

Memorial Day’s Feel-Good Box Office Story

With two franchise hits in ‘Lilo & Stitch’ and ‘Mission 8,’ an oddball comedy, plus early spring hits still legging it out, this crucial bellwether weekend had enough box office and record-breakers to make everyone rethink the rush to streaming, and to adjust their summer estimates.
Scott Mendelson • May 26, 2025
Scott Mendelson • May 19, 2025
On the Edge of Glory: Early-Summer Box Office Report
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Even without a record-breaking Memorial Day, the first half of 2025 is likely to land in solid box office territory thanks to Jack Black, ‘Sinners,’ and a bunch of Warner Bros. movies that are somehow hitting all the right notes.
Matthew Belloni • April 24, 2025
Ranking the Movie Stars Who Actually Matter
Zendaya
National Research Group’s latest study on the actors who put butts into theater seats reveals a number of unsurprising truths: ’90s stars still reign, women are underrepresented (except Zendaya and Margot), and a dozen or so younger stars are building real staying power.
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Scott Mendelson • April 22, 2025
Is ‘Sinners’ a Winner?
The Ryan Coogler period horror-drama won the weekend, the Cinemascores, and word of mouth despite its unusual deal framework and the anxiety around Warner Bros. Here’s what Sinners says about the state of the business.
Lorne Michaels
Matthew Belloni • April 11, 2025
The Trump Tariff Pain Index & CAA’s “Offensive” Buyback
News and notes on the entertainment companies most likely to feel the impact of Trump’s tariffs, CAA’s groan-inducing buyback offer for employee equity holders, the many open questions ahead of SNL’s U.K. premiere, and much more.
Minecraft Movie
Scott Mendelson • April 8, 2025
Minecraft Games
A Jack Black video game tentpole offered up the year’s brightest box office., and saved Mike and Pam’s jobs—for now. So what went right with the ‘Minecraft’ movie?
Joseph Kosinski, Eduardo Acuna Tom Quinn
Matthew Belloni • April 4, 2025
A Declaration of Movie Window War
At CinemaCon, the fight for the 45-day theatrical window was all anyone could talk about. So I assembled a team of industry players to survey the battlefield and attempt to find a solution.
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Scott Mendelson • March 25, 2025
‘Snow White’s Predictably Sleepy & Dopey Flop
Forget the movie’s controversies about Gaza, little people, and its leading lady. What doomed the vastly underperforming ‘Snow White’ is that Disney simply overestimated the value of a live-action remake of a historic, but not exactly beloved, film.
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Scott Mendelson • March 18, 2025
Theatrical’s Long Covid
Five years after the pandemic shut down movie theaters, so many other out-of-home industries have fully recovered—Broadway, the concert business, live sports, etcetera. But the exhibition industry’s “survive til ’25” mantra has proved naive.
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Scott Mendelson • February 17, 2025
Big in China
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.