SATURDAY AM: Paramount-Spyglass’ Scream 7 is still shouting toward a $60M weekend in North America, maybe more if word of mouth can keep up. That’s the best opening the 30-year old franchise has ever seen. Definite recommend on PostTrak stands at 61% which is very good for any movie, but it’s lower…

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…

Exhibitors weren’t in favor of a Netflix and Warner Bros marriage, and a Paramount-Warner Bros union isn’t going to change their minds. Theater owners trade org Cinema United President and CEO Michael O’Leary emphasized again Friday following this week’s Paramount-WB news that “We have been…

The Walt Disney Studios reached a major milestone today as 20th Century Studios' Avatar: Fire and Ash officially crossed the $1 billion mark at the global box office.  James Cameron continues to redefine commercial success; with this latest entry, the Avatar series becomes one of the rarest triple-threat…

Focus Features’ $87M global grossing 8x Oscar nominated period pic Hamnet will start streaming on March 6 on Peacock, nine days before the Academy Awards ceremony. Note the date is also after final Oscar nom ballots are due, which is Thursday, March 5. Also that’s a 99-day exclusive theatrical window…

Amazon MGM Studios’ $150M feature production Project Hail Mary arrived on tracking today with some heat, eyeing a potential $50M start in North America when it opens on March 20. The film about a high school science teacher (Ryan Gosling) who finds himself thrust into space to solve a…

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…

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…

Sony’s Crunchyroll is looking to deepen the moviegoing demographics on the first weekend of summer with anime fans with the release of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea on May 1. The second film in the Slime franchise will go up against 20th Century…

Disney is doing cartwheels over Zootopia 2 becoming the highest-grossing domestic release of 2025, flying past A Minecraft Movie, with $424.2M at the domestic box office and $1.85B worldwide ($1.425B international) and counting. The first Zootopia grossed $1B worldwide back in 2016. Note that $337.9M…

TUESDAY UPDATE: Maoyan Research Institute reports that the Chinese New Year rang up $842.3M (RMB 5.75 billion) for the period of February 15-23 with total admissions at 120 million. That’s down 18% from last year’s reported $965.4M (7B RMB). Sources have told us that this was the lowest Chinese New…

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…