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Box Office: ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Scares Up Near-Record $111M Domestic Opening
Tim Burton’s long-awaited sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is off to a rip-roaring start at the domestic box office as if no time had passed between now and when the first film graced the big screen 36 years ago. From Warner Bros., the first event pic of the fall season opened to a monstrous $111 million, coming […]
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Jason Reitman’s ‘Saturday Night’ Movie to Make Awards Push Early in Theaters
Sony is ramping up its award campaign plans for filmmaker Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night Live movie, a dramatic recreation of the 90 minutes leading up to the iconic NBC show’s first episode in the mid-1970s. The studio announced late Thursday that it will release Saturday Night in select theaters on Sept. 27 in New York, […]
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Studios to Avoid Releasing Movies Around Election Day: “It’s Going to Be a S***show”
Studios have voted — and the decision is unanimous. For the first time anyone can remember, the box office marquee notably will be devoid of new all-audience releases the weekend following the 2024 presidential election. The first and second weekends of November have become fertile ground in terms of launching a movie before the year-end […]
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Box Office: ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Delivers Pulpy $13M in Previews
The Juice is on the loose. Tim Burton’s long-awaited sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice grossed a promising $13 million in Thursday and Wednesday previews at the North American box office. The Warner Bros. event pic is on course to deliver one of the biggest September openings of all time with anywhere from $90 million to $110 million […]
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Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ Tracking for Anemic $5M-Plus Domestic Opening
Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project Megalopolis is tracking for an anemic domestic opening in the $5 million-plus range against a budget of $120 million before marketing, according to one major Hollywood research firm. Another leading service thinks it could come in at between $6 million to $8 million. Either way, that would rank among the […]
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Box Office Preview: ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Eyes Near-Record $100M-$110M September Opening
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is set to cast one of biggest magic spells of all time at the September box office. Filmmaker Tim Burton and Warner Bros.’ highly anticipated sequel is expected to gross anywhere from $100 million to $110 million in its domestic debut, based on tracking data and advanced ticket sales. Warner Bros. is remaining […]
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Summer Box Office Avoids Major Disaster as Domestic Revenue Falls Just 10 Percent
The numbers are in — domestic revenue for the 2024 summer box office hit an estimated $3.67 billion, down 10.3 percent over 2023, according to final numbers issued Tuesday by Comscore. As counterintuitive as it may seem, Hollywood studio executives and theater owners aren’t panicking. They were experiencing far different emotions at the end of […]
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Box Office: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Back on Top as ‘Blink Twice’ Underwhelms and ‘The Crow’ Collapses
New players at the late summer box office struggled to find their footing as the high season winds down. Holdovers Deadpool & Wolverine, Alien: Romulus and It Ends With Us easily beat new offerings on the August marquee, including suspense thriller Blink Twice and The Crow reboot. Marking Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut and starring Channing […]
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Sony Sets U.S. Theatrical Release for Anime Feature ‘Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom’
Sony Pictures has unveiled that the anime feature Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom, distributed by the company’s specialty streamer Crunchyroll, will get a theatrical release in North America on Nov. 8. The film is a continuation of the popular anime series Overlord, which adapts the novels of Japanese author Kugane Maruyama. The Sacred Kingdom picks up where […]
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Thai Blockbuster ‘How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies’ Scores Theatrical Releases in North America, China and Europe
Thailand’s biggest movie of 2024, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, will soon attempt a feat few commercial films from the country have tried before: conquering cinemas worldwide. Produced by the hitmaking Bangkok-based studio GDH, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies has struck a chord with its irreverent take on the story of a […]
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‘Alien: Romulus’ Wins Busy Box Office Weekend With $41.5M Opening, $108M Globally
Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus scared up strong business in its box office debut as it sets out to revive the classic franchise. The 20th Century and Disney movie topped the domestic weekend chart with $45.1 million, well ahead of a projected debut in the high-$20 million range and the second-best opening of the franchise, not […]
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Nicolas Cage’s ‘Longlegs’ Horror Pic Crosses $100M in Global Box Office
Neon’s Longlegs, from director Osgood Perkins and starring Nicolas Cage and Maika Monroe, has crossed the $100 million global box office mark since launching on July 12. The serial killer chiller has become the highest grossing film for Tom Quinn’s Oscar-winning specialty production and distribution outfit, home of Parasite, for 2024. Longlegs, which has to date […]
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