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When it comes to an original animated film, the Pete Docter-led administration at Pixar Studios can celebrate a big breakthrough with Hoppers which jumped to an $88M global opening, broken out by $42M (81% offshore footprint) international and $46M stateside. As we’ve been writing all weekend, it’s the best opening for an original animated film,

In James Whale’s 1935 gothic horror masterpiece The Bride of Frankenstein, the title character played so indelibly by Elsa Lanchester screams and hisses but otherwise has no dialogue, and yet she has endured as an iconic movie-lore figure for almost a century. (That Marge Simpson electroshock skunk-stripe updo probably helped.) In Maggie Gyllenhaal’s aggressively punky

It was a complete rejection by moviegoers around the world this weekend as Maggie Gyllenhaal’s $80M bride of Frankenstein monster movie, The Bride!, opened to $13.6M. Of that, domestic was $7.3M, not only breaking Warner Bros’ No. 1 nine-picture opening streak at the B.O., but repping a bow that was lower than some recent lows

Publisher and producer Mike Richardson is out as CEO of Dark Horse Comics, the media company he built up from a comic book store business. In his stead, Embracer, the video game holding company that bought Dark Horse in 2022, is installing gaming exec Jay Komas as interim CEO. “As part of our long-term vision

It’s a quiet weekend for new indie openings amid the countdown to Oscars and among holdovers and wide release studio fare. Mubi’s Pompei: Below the Clouds, striking black-and white portrait of life in Naples in the shadow of Vesuvius opens in New York (Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Center). The documentary by Oscar-nominated filmmaker

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SATURDAY AM: Pixar original’s Hoppers is still coursing to a U.S./Canada opening around $40M in what’s fueling a $91M overall domestic box office weekend, +63% over the same period a year ago. It’s a win for original animation which has often struggled in its openings over the last nine years. However, this weekend isn’t a

“I watched the [1935] movie The Bride of Frankenstein and I didn’t know, but she’s only in it for two minutes and she doesn’t say one word,” recalls Maggie Gyllenhaal. “And it made me start to wonder, made me curious what is she thinking, after having been dug up from a grave and told she’s

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New York City’s winter weather took another bite out of Broadway business last week, with canceled performances and blizzard-averse potential audiences sending receipts for the 27 productions plummeting 17% from the previous week. With Monday evening performances canceled and piles of snow keeping pedestrians and drivers at bay, total grosses fell to $26,036,589 for the

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Talking animals are still the rage and have no intentions of calming down at the weekend box office as Pixar’s Hoppers is bound to give the Emeryville, CA animation studio a lift as far as its original fare goes with $88M around the globe in 41 markets. That’s not only the best start for a

Canadian actor Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers says she is “disgusted and ashamed” by the Toronto Film Critics Association’s (TFCA) decision to cut a portion of her awards speech, in which she expressed support for Palestine, from Monday’s awards gala. Tailfeathers was being honored at the TFCA Awards Gala in Toronto with the prize for Best Supporting Performance

With the U.S.-Israel war on Iran in its sixth day, the focus, beyond the geopolitical consequences, human cost and stranded travelers, has been on the implications for the energy and tourism industries of the neighboring Gulf states which have come under retaliatory attack. Another economic casualty in the Gulf of the escalating conflict could be

In a much-needed win for Pixar’s core mission to provide original storytelling, Hoppers is positioned to deliver the iconic animated studio its biggest opening in nearly a decade for a non-franchise title. Conversely, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s new film, inspired by the 1935 film The Bride of Frankenstein, is in danger of being jilted at the altar.

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Can subjective consciousness be studied objectively? And what remains of us when our internal landscape fragments? Those are just two of the questions explored by the new feature film Conscious, about the mysteries of the brain from writer and director Suki Chan, a London-based artist and filmmaker. Her debut feature will world premiere on March

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