Hollywood franchise filmmaking spoof The Napa Boys, fashion comedy Idiotka, Jessica Chastain- starring Dreams, and Werner Herzog’s documentary Ghost Elephants debut with the unusual Hypnosismic – Division Rap Battle-Interactive Movie. Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert from Neon expands to 1,000 screens after the buzzy doc’s weeklong Imax exclusive run on 325 big screens.
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Woody Harrelson is set to present the Life Achievement Award to Harrison Ford at Sunday’s Actor Awards (formerly the SAG Awards), The Hollywood Reporter can report exclusively. In addition, Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall, Allison Janney, Sarah Paulson and Christoph Waltz also will serve as presenters. Del Toro, who is on the cover of the
SUNDAY AM: The David Ellison owned Paramount can claim the first big No. 1 opening of the year for an MPA title as Spyglass’ Scream 7 roars to a franchise best opening of the year with a $64.1M domestic opening and $97.2M opening worldwide. But that’s not at all as far as records go: It’s
The good news continues for Paramount as Scream 7 blew past all expectations at the weekend box office, where the Spyglass Media pic easily opened to a franchise-best $64.1 million domestically and $33.1 million overseas for a global start of $97.2 million. In North America, it’s the biggest launch ever for a horror title going
Twenty One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined – Live in Mexico Cityand EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert are sitting at nos. 4 and 5 in North America making for a great music weekend at the specialty box office. The Twenty One Pilots concert film from Trafalgar Releasing is rocking to a $3.7 million opening
Since his first screen credit in the 1976 thriller Partners, Delroy Lindo has always managed to stand out among even the most star-studded casts, be it as West Indian Archie in Malcolm X, Woody Carmichael in Crooklyn, Bass Reeves in The Harder They Fall or his latest role as Delta Slim in Sinners. “I have
Paramount/Spyglass’ Scream 7 scored the best opening year to date for a Hollywood movie with $97.2M at the global weekend box office. As we told you there were myriad records broken for both a Paramount horror pic opening and a Scream franchise movie. Our full analysis of Scream 7‘s international is here. However, post New
“It’s easy to get lost,” says Amy Pascal of being a movie producer. “There are so many voices and so many people. But if you know why something matters, and you just stick with that, that’s the job.” That job has now earned Pascal — the onetime head of Sony Pictures turned three-time Oscar nominee
Call New York City’s recent weather what you want – bomb cyclone, blizzard, or plain old snowstorm – but it definitely chilled Broadway‘s box office over the weekend. Receipts for the week ending Sunday February 22 were down 6% from the previous week, settling at $31,554,841 – and that’s with a 28-show roster, one more
Paramount is taking an unusual move to figure out one of its key IP franchises, G.I. Joe. The David Ellison-owned studio has tapped Max Landis, the screenwriter canceled in the late 2010s during the height of the #MeToo movement, to work on a treatment for a feature adaptation of the Hasbro toy brand. At the
Paramount and Spyglass‘ Scream 7 has no intention of slowing its slay of the box office, with the latest installment in the 30-year old franchise bound for $60M+ worldwide start. That would rank as the series’ second-best opening following 2023’s Scream VI, starring Jenna Ortega and Melissa Barrera, which posted the best domestic opening ever
Audiences get a chance to book a stay with a forthcoming thriller movie starring Liam Neeson and Zachary Levi that centers on Iran. Inaugural Entertainment has acquired domestic distribution rights to writer-director Guy Moshe’s Hotel Tehran and is planning a wide theatrical release for later this year, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. Neeson, Levi
Few filmmakers are better placed than Alexandre Trudeau to talk about artists addressing political issues after the Berlin Film Festival no-politics backlash, as both his father, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, and brother Justin Trudeau both served as Canadian prime ministers. “Coming from politics in my family, politics are everywhere. There’s always politics. They’re in everything,” Trudeau
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Jason Blum’s name is synonymous with horror. And look up the word prolific, you’ll likely find him as part of that definition. Blum has over 200 produced credits to his name, mostly in movies but in television too. In 2025, he saw seven movies released, all in the horror field except one, the true-life drama
Imax saw revenue and operating earnings surge last quarter with numbers meeting and exceeding forecasts as the big screen exhibitor posted its best ever $1.28 billion global box office haul in 2025 and anticipates the number will grow to $1.4 billion this year. The stock popped 4% in after hours trading. Fourth quarter gross box
During the pandemic, Grammy Award-winning musician Anderson .Paak was looking for a way to connect with his son’s two obsessions at the time: YouTube videos and K-pop. “He was like eight years old, and [I didn’t know] about either of those things,” .Paak tells The Hollywood Reporter. So he started pulling from his own experiences
Milwaukee-based Marcus Theatres, the nation’s No. 4 exhibitor, saw revenue gain 2.25% to $123.8 million on a favorable mix of films. Income jumped to $7.7 million from $3.3 million, including $5.2 million of noncash charges. Adjusted ebitda rose 1.9% to$24 million. The chain said it outperformed the industry by 7.6 percentage points during the fourth
A slew of top Oscar contenders won ACE Eddie Awards for the best in editing on Friday night, affirming their positioning as top Oscar contenders as final Academy voting has just gotten underway. When it came to top best-picture candidates One Battle After Another and Sinners, at least, the American Cinema Editors guild did not