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Gkids’ release of Toho’s Godzilla Minus Zero — now who the heck saw this coming? In what’s expected to be a slower November, at least stateside, sans a Wicked, a Moana or a Zootopia movie in the marketplace, along comes Takashi Yamazaki’s sequel to the Oscar-winning 2023 Japanese-language, English-subtitled movie with a $25 million-$30 million

AMC Entertainment swung to the black for the three months ended in September on higher revenue, noting market share gains in both domestic and international markets, with CEO Adam Aron saying the chain’s second consecutive record quarter means the company has “recovered” from its post-Covid struggles. The world’s largest exhibitor swung to a profit of

Cinemark, the nation’s third largest exhibitor, saw revenue jump 23% to $1.1 billion for the three months ended in September, its best-ever third quarter amid a broad box office rebound. The shares are up about 4% in premarket trade. The company reported gains across categories including premium large format box office (XD, Imax) and ScreenX),

Spyglass Media and Paramount’s Scream 8 doesn’t even have a director yet, but franchise star Neve Campbell made it clear that she’s returning as Sidney Prescott (now Evans). The actress, who lives in London, told the AP that she has “Scream 8; that’s in the pipeline as well.” “You know I can’t tell you anything

MONDAY AM UPDATE: A24’s You Can See Everything had everything to deceive Warner Bros/DC’s Clayface into making the Paramount-owned studio and rivals believe the genre pic was No. 1 over the sleepy Halloween weekend. The Nathan Fielder- and Lance Oppenheimer-directed documentary wound up winning the weekend with $11.44 million after a huge Sunday of $4.296M

EXCLUSIVE: Watermelon Pictures has set a November 27 U.S. theatrical release for Switzerland’s 2027 Oscars entry Who Is Still Alive and posted the North American trailer. Conceived and directed by filmmaker Nicolas Wadimoff, the documentary revolves around nine former Gaza residents now scattered as refugees throughout the Middle East and Europe, unsure whether they will

Sony Pictures Classics’ John Turturro-starring The Only Living Pickpocket in New York by Noah Segan topped $1.9 million in a major week 2 expansion from six to 1,112 screens. The story of an aging New York pickpocket racing to return a valuable stolen USB drive to a vengeful crime family has an estimated cume of

It was an awful weekend at the global box office, but a lot of that has to do with the fact that there’s no major wide Hollywood release (or China local blockbuster title for that matter) more than the Halloween holiday itself impacting worldwide ticket sales. If there’s any indication of how bad the weekend

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Following up his well-received 2021 feature A New Old Play, Sichuan-reared Chinese writer-director Qiu Jiongjiong continues to deploy heightened artifice and quasi-theatrical mannerisms (painted stage sets, rippling cloths representing water, actors in wacky costumes playing astral bodies or dogs, and so on) with his eccentric but addictive latest, Fuxi: Four Tales of Feasting. Although Fuxi

The filmmaker behind the first Street Fighter feature is proud that the movie franchise is still going strong. Steven E. de Souza wrote and directed the 1994 film Street Fighter, which saw Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia and Ming-Na Wen leading the cast of the first project to adapt the Capcom video game for the

Returning to the Tokyo International Film Festival with Sister Brother Manhole Cover, another dark comedy four years after Kaymak played in competition, Milcho Manchevski appears to have lost none of his uncompromising attitude, his perceptiveness, nor his wry humor. Splitting his time between his native Macedonia and New York, the 67-year-old director, writer, photographer, artist

NatGeo’s Everest: The Other Side by Oscar-winning documentary filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi and Independent Film Company’s psychological horror Breeder are specialty debuts, along Greenwich Entertainment’s Queen At Sea, and docs Who Killed Alex Odeh?, Paging Hezbollah (by the director of Am I A Racist?) and Heathens. Briarcliff’s holiday horror-comedy Christmas At The Kringles

One of this award season’s last remaining categorization questions has been answered: The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively report that just ahead of today’s Golden Globes submission deadline, Artificial, Luca Guadagnino’s hot-button portrait of the rise of artificial intelligence, has been entered by Neon for Globes consideration in the musical/comedy categories, as opposed to the drama

Box office authority Gower Street Analytics has revised their 2026 annual global ticket sales forecast to $35.7 billion, up 2.9% from their previous estimate which they reported at April’s CinemaCon. Their forecast is based on Rentrak actuals and Gower estimates. If the global B.O. hits $35.7B, that will rep a 6.3% uptick from last year’s

FRIDAY PM UPDATE: Halloween’s trick on the weekend domestic box office is currently seeing a fight between A24’s You Can See Everything and Warner Bros/DC’s Clayface with $10M+ apiece, though the odds are in favor the incarcerated failed Theranos founder versus a Gotham celebrity whose face melts. You Can See Everything is counting $3.2M today

No surprise here, but the No. 2 and No. 3 exhibitors, Regal and Cinemark, won’t be playing Netflix’s Quentin Tarantino penned Once Upon a Time in Hollywood follow-up, The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth when it opens on Wednesday, Nov. 25. That’s because the movie, which is getting a two-week exclusive run in Imax, is

Before there was Jean-Luc Picard, there was Gurney Halleck. Several years before Star Trek: The Next Generation sent his career into the cosmos, Sir Patrick Stewart played Halleck, the Warmaster of House Atreides in David Lynch’s Dune in 1984. Stewart, who died this week at age 86, was then a seasoned stage veteran in his