When Dwayne Johnson takes the stage at San Diego Comic-Con next week, it would be truly seismic if he was to announce that Warner Bros was moving up the release date for its New Line/DC movie Black Adam from October 21 to earlier in the fall. However, that’s not going to happen. A pileup of big studio fare is amassing…

The start of the fall box office just got bleaker as Warner Bros is moving New Line’s adaptation of Stephen King vampire novel Salem’s Lot from Sept. 9 to April 21, 2023. I hear the move is due to Covid-related delays in the post production realm. The Gary Dauberman-directed pic also had a handful of days of…

A24's Marcel The Shell With Shoes On hit the top ten in North America at no. 8 with an estimated $340k in week three at just 48 locations and a cume north of $963k – the latest hit for the distributor after powerhouse Everything Everywhere All At Once blasted off at the specialty box office. Marcel, based on a popular…

UPDATE, writethru: Disney/Marvel's Thor: Love And Thunder has come in largely in line with pre-weeekend projections, landing a $159M start in 47 international box office markets, and $302M globally. Worldwide, this reps the 3rd highest weekend for any Hollywood movie during the pandemic and the 2nd best of 2022…

UPDATED, Sunday AM after Saturday PM writethru: Disney/Marvel’s Thor: Love and Thunder held steady on Saturday, despite those lower than normal CinemaScore and PostTrak exits for a Marvel Cinematic Universe title. The Taika Waititi-directed sequel grossed $42.1M yesterday which is 4% above Friday’s true take of $40.5M…

Following the phenomenal success of Top Gun: Maverick at the international box office, one of its stars has revealed he has been "having some conversations" about a follow-up film. Miles Teller, who plays Rooster, son of Maverick's late best friend Goose, opposite Tom Cruise in the title role, told Entertainment Tonigh…

SATURDAY UPDATE: Now out in a total 47 material international box office markets, Disney/Marvel's Thor: Love And Thunder has grossed $79.4M through Friday. That sets it on track to reach, and likely surpass, the pre-weekend offshore debut projection of $150M. Coupled with domestic through Friday, the global gross is $1…

The nation's fourth-largest cinema chain is testing a new subscription program called MovieFlex+ that includes a curated set of small and mid-sized films each week for no extra charge. "We can't live off just blockbusters," chairman and CEO Greg Marcus tells Deadline. "We cannot just live off dinner. We need breakfast…

EXCLUSIVE: Korean-American actor Don Lee (aka Ma Dong-seok) is playing the long game — and it's paying off. Acting since 2005, the 51-year-old star broke out with 2016 zombie smash Train to Busan and has seen his career speed along ever since with leading roles in such local hits at The Outlaws, The Bad Guys: Reign of…

With Illumination/Universal's Minions: The Rise Of Gru continuing its dastardly ways at the global box office, the origins story has propelled the Despicable Me franchise across the $4B mark worldwide. The Chris Meledandri-produced series was already the biggest animated franchise of all time, and now has another…

Malaysian historical action movie Mat Kilau: Kebangkitan Pahlawan, directed by Syamsul Yusof, has become the highest-grossing local film of all time in the Asian country, breaking the record set by the director's own horror film Munafik 2 in 2018. Mat Kilau has grossed $11.97m (RM53m) in 13 days across Malaysia…

Update: With the lack of major studio product in the fall, and Lionsgate’s Judy Blume movie, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret heading to the end of April 2023, Searchlight is going to have a moderate theatrical release with their comedy caper See How They Run, and moving it up to Sept. 16. On its new date, See How…