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Avatar: Fire And Ash, Zootopia 2 and The Housemaid led the way but a crop of indies of all sizes pulling up behind injected variety, color and coin to a buoyant 2026 box office debut. The weekend’s overall total three-day domestic box office at an estimated $132 million is the best first weekend of a

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Exhibitors in the U.S. like to cry about the encroachment of streaming on theatrical attendance but they’ve never been to Italy, where moviegoing has more or less been in a funk post-Covid without any multi-national circuits in the country. That makes the latest success of the comedy Buen Camino, starring and written by Checco Zalone,

Ah, awards season. The red carpets. The screenings. The parties. The best actress contenders posting naked selfies to potential voters. It’s little noted by the mainstream media, but right now — early January — is the thick of the adult film world’s cutthroat run-up to the Adult Video News Awards, porn’s version of the Oscars.

Research corporation MaoyanEntertainment reported Monday that the China box office finaled at RMB 51.832 billion, or $7.47 billion, in 2025, up 20% over 2024’s take. The year was largely driven by the highest-grossing animated movie ever, Ne Zha 2, which minted $2.12 billion, but also by Disney’s Zootopia 2 which this morning the No. 1

Do people still have an appetite to attend movie theaters? That’s a question Leonardo DiCaprio is pondering. In a Saturday interview with The Times, the One Battle After Another star discussed the shifting film landscape, which he noted is “changing at a lightning speed.” He further pointed out the modern demand of streaming and how

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Leonardo DiCaprio will not be in attendance at thePalm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala on Saturday night due to restrictive airspace amid the ongoing political conflict in Venezuela. He was set to be honored with the Desert Palm Achievement Award attached to his role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another. Despite his

Daisy Ridley-starring apocalyptic thriller We Bury The Dead from Vertical is one of the few new openings this weekend after the last of the 2025 Hollywood holiday tentpoles and awards contenders rolled out for Christmas and New Year’s. The Sundance-premiering zombie flick written and directed by Zak Hilditch debuts on 1,172 screens. The Plague from

The new year is off to a good start at the domestic box office, thanks to a varied menu of holiday titles that moviegoers are continuing to feast on before schools resume and extended work vacations end. Indeed, New Year’s weekend revenue looks to be a post-pandemic best. Leading the pack, of course, is James

The global box office in 2025 is estimated to close out at $33.5B, per Gower Street Analytics, repping a nearly 12% increase on 2024, but that’s including a unique phenomenon in China where one local production did over $2B. Strip out China, and the global hike is about 8%, much better than the roughly 11%

Guillermo del Toro emotionally announced the passing of his brother while being honored at the Palm Springs Film Awards on Saturday. The director, on hand to receive the Visionary Award at the annual star-studded event, was joined on stage by his Frankenstein stars Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth, as he spoke about how,

SATURDAY AM: It’s a very good start to the year with all movies grossing $127.4M this weekend; in fact that’s the best first weekend of a New Year post-Covid, besting 2023’s $104.2M. Nothing melodramatic going on, just a solid holdover frame. Compared to the first weekend of 2020, before Covid shut us down and when

Following a banner year with back-to-back critically acclaimed performances in Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, Sterlin Harjo’s The Lowdown and Scott Derrickson’s Black Phone 2, Ethan Hawke headed to the desert to receive a career achievement trophy during the Palm Springs Film Awards Saturday night. The honor —presented during a starry ceremony inside the Palm Springs

Updated, Jan. 2 on New Year’s Day business: New Year’s Day hit a post-Covid record high for all films with an estimated $48.1M, +12% from New Year’s Day 2025, which held the previous holiday record at $42.9M. Business for all titles yesterday was +69% over New Year’s Eve when business, of course, recessed. 20th Century

This is your biannual reminder that the independent offerings of Daisy Ridley deserve your attention. While she patiently awaits Disney and Lucasfilm’s next move with regard to Star Wars, Ridley has been releasing a couple well-received indies per year, save for Disney’s highly acclaimed sports biopic, Young Woman and the Sea (2024). On Jan. 2,

Sources are telling us this morning that the Stranger Things finale cleared well north of $25M, possibly even $30M, in concession cash to movie theaters over its New Year’s Eve and New Years Day play. Of that figure, $15M was generated by the No. 1 circuit, AMC Theaters off an attendance of 753,000. By comparison,

James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash dominated the long Christmas weekend with four-day earnings of $88 million, including $64 million for the three-day weekend proper. While it’s lagging the previous installment at the same point during its run, Fire and Ash is still a monster, grossing another $181.2 million overseas for a global tally of

In a 2025 that generated $8.87 billion at the domestic box office, 780 million people actually went to the movies. That’s roughly two visits a year for every person living in the United States; the nation’s population factored at an estimate of 347.3 million. However, admissions were down from EntTelligence’s 2024 figure of 820 million,

Just in case filmmakers are listening, Miley Cyrus may be down to write original music for your movie. The Grammy winner recently revealed to People how she pitched her songwriting talents to director James Cameron, which later landed her song “Dream as One” in the credits of Avatar: Fire and Ash, currently playing in theaters.