Before Moana 2 rains a monsoon of cash, Universal’s Wicked will not go quietly in the night. In fact, on Monday the musical starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande was grande indeed with a studio reported $15.8 million box office take. That’s the best Monday ever for November, better than Frozen II…

If you were shopping in Target this weekend, you didn’t hear the sound of Christmas carols over the loudspeaker, rather the showstopper “Defying Gravity” from Universal’s Wicked. But there’s more, for on the main throughfare at the Sunset Boulevard location is a standee of Wicked attire, from…

In the wake of one of the best pre-Thanksgiving frames in over a decade with Wicked and Gladiator II drumming up a $200M-plus frame, crowded lobbies around the world will remain intact this week as Disney’s Moana 2 joins the fray with what’s expected to be a $225M+ largely day-and-date global…

EXCLUSIVE: Angel Studios has taken worldwide rights to the animated feature The King of Kings, setting an April 11, 2025 release date leading into the Easter weekend of April 18-20. The movie is inspired by Charles Dickens' short story The Life of Our Lord, and was created by South Korea's Mofac…

Sterling K. Brown, Rita Ora and John Kim have been cast in Amazon MGM Studios’ Voltron movie, joining previously announced stars Daniel Quinn-Toye and Henry Cavill. Rawson Marshall Thurber is directing from a script he wrote with Ellen Shanman. Plot details are under wraps, but Thurber shared a video…

With Wicked conquering the Earth, the million-dollar question for filmmaker Jon M. Chu as he reaps the biggest box office opening of his career ($164.2M) is where, oh, where is the Crazy Rich Asians sequel? The Warner Bros. movie broke glass ceilings not only on-screen for Asian and Asian American…

Updated Tuesday: Broadway musicals adapted to the screen are an erratic genre at the box office, despite Miramax’s multi-Oscar winning Chicago reviving the long-dormant Hollywood genre back in 2002 with $306.8M WW. Yet for every Les Miserables ($442.7M) hit from Universal, there were massive misfires like…

SUNDAY AM: Two of the most anticipated tentpoles this year missed their projections, but are still rich enough to make exhibition happy in what’s driving an overall estimated $205M weekend. EntTelligence says that a combined 12M people went to see Wicked and Gladiator II, representing 81% of the weekend’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Kimsey and Roger Birnbaum’s Electromagnetic Productions are developing the feature film, Inconceivable. The film, written by Lauren Black, is a gripping thriller about 38-year-old college professor Sydney Drake, who is determined to obliterate any obstacle in her quest to conceive…

It’s a death-defying act to split one property into two movies. Warner Bros did it with the greatest of ease on the final film adaptation of Harry Potter, 2010 and 2011’s Deathly Hallows, which combined grossed $2.3 billion worldwide. However, Lionsgate ran into a buzz saw and tried it with the…

Guy Ritchie's next action thriller In the Grey won’t be coming out on January 17, 2025 as previously scheduled as the movie isn’t finished. Lionsgate has taken the title off the calendar for the time being. The trailer debuted for exhibitors back at CinemaCon, where the movie received its title. .In t…

EXCLUSIVE: When one thinks of Swedish cinema, the head fills with images of Ingmar Bergman movies, the gritty punk noir The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy, oh, and let’s not forget the takedown of the Bourgeois in The Triangle of Sadness. But along comes this year’s heartwarming and hysterical…