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The Croods: A New Age easily won the holiday box office weekend after taking in $9.7 million in three days. For the 5-day totals, the movie earned $14.2 million and then $35 million globally. This marks the highest debut since the public health crisis started and theaters reopened their doors. Warner Bros. was only able

As states and cities start new stay-at-home orders — specifically Los Angeles county — it is only expected that box office will continue to struggle. This applies even more to the specialty box office. This weekend we saw a trio of films about iconic figures in cultural history: the Gabriel Range-directed Stardust showed us the early

Glenn Close says Gwyneth Paltrow’s Academy Award win for 1998’s Shakespeare in Love “doesn’t make sense.” The Miramax movie ended up taking the Best Picture award home that evening too, which has been debated for over 20 years now. The comedy was the first in the genre since Annie Hall (1977) to win Best Picture

DreamWorks Animation/Universal’s The Croods: A New Age looks set to lead the weekend in China where the cume is an estimated $11.7M through its first two days, and pre-sales are solid. This portends an FSS frame of $20M, per Uni, with family uptick throughout. Six other overseas markets are also getting a first look at

Johnny Depp may have been fired from Fantastic Beasts 3 by Warner Bros., but Dion continues to stand by the actor following the loss of his libel case against The Sun earlier this month. This week, Depp was featured in an ad for the brand’s Sauvage cologne that aired in the United Kingdom during The

We know what you are thinking, “The Mandalorian is a part of the Star Wars franchise, so of course it is going to mention characters from its wider universe!” True, but when it comes to the latest episode of the Disney+ series, titled the Jedi, it includes some rather subtle callouts to the Jedi-turned-Sith-Lord, Anakin

Universal’s domestic release of Simon Kinberg’s directorial The 355 is jumping from its MLK 2021 weekend release to MLK weekend Jan. 14, 2022. While Universal has committed a number of fresh wide releases during the pandemic to exhibition during Q4, i.e. Focus Features’ Come Play, Let Him Go, Blumhouse’s Freaky, Dreamworks Animation’s The Croods: A New Age and Tom Hanks’ News of the

Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak hilariously went off on a contestant during a recent taping. The iconic host later apologized for his outburst. After decades of hosting a gameshow, one can understand the temptation to possibly go off on a contestant, who may come off as “ungrateful.” Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek kept his composure

Movie theaters in France will be allowed to reopen from December 15, President Emmanuel Macron announced this evening in an address to the nation. The country’s second COVID-19 spike has peaked, said Macron, and there will be an overall, gradual easing of restrictions over the next several weeks. Culture “is essential,” Macron insisted. A 9PM

For the longest time, Star Wars fans have day-dreamed about Bruce Lee becoming a part of a galaxy far far away. Just type the name of the fighter along with Star Wars and Google will serve you an overwhelming list of fan videos featuring Lee dishing out some seriously dope action while wielding a lightsaber.

As we enter the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend during an era when the box office is struggling and more weight is being placed on streamers for new product, there are still titles making theatrical debuts amid the digital film landscape as people recover from their turkey-induced tryptophan haze. It all starts with three films spotlighting

Filmmaker Chris Columbus has long been a dominant creative force in Hollywood, responsible for a variety of beloved movies, including Gremlins, Home Alone, and Mrs. Doubtfire. But for 90s kids, Columbus’s greatest work was as director of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, and its sequel Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. In an

Universal’s release of Dreamworks Animation’s The Croods: A New Age stayed on target from what we saw yesterday with an opening Wednesday of $1.85M in a very broken exhibition landscape where there’s only 2,650 theaters open right now out of national footprint of 5,5K. Croods 2 is booked at 2,211 theaters. Five-day projections are unpredictable as we don’t

Now that Thanksgiving has arrived, Americans are celebrating the occasion with an annual viewing of the 1987 comedy Planes, Trains & Automobiles. Written and directed by John Hughes, the iconic movie stars Steve Martin and John Candy as a pair of unlikely traveling partners forced to hit the road together during the Thanksgiving holiday season.

Germany has extended its partial coronavirus lockdown until at least December 20, meaning cinemas in the European major will not resume operations before that date. It is also possible, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, that restrictions could continue into January. A re-evaluation is due to take place on December 15. Warner Bros’ Wonder Woman 1984

When Gremlins debuted in theaters in 1984, audiences were simultaneously entranced and disturbed. The cutesy nature of the central creature called Gizmo, of the Mogwai species, was an instant hit with children. Yet, the movie also featured grisly scenes of horror and death that scandalized parents. In an interview with Collider, Chris Columbus, who wrote

EXCLUSIVE: Despite the severe ratcheting down of movie theaters during the pandemic in recent weeks, Universal is standing strong with a robust global promotional campaign behind their DreamWorks Animation sequel The Croods: A New Age which opens today at 2,211 theaters. While the marketing spend on domestic wide releases has been in the single digit

In a career spanning decades, and many different eras of Hollywood, actor Kurt Russell has played a variety of roles, from action to drama, to comedy. But age does not seem to have dimmed Russell’s dedication to his craft, even when the role does not really appear to need that kind of dedication. In an