EXCLUSIVE: Former EDO Theatrical President Derek McLay has acquired EDO Box Office and EDO Screenings from EDO, and is opening the doors to his new firm, Insight Theatrical.  McLay will continue EDO’s groundbreaking work in box office audience analytics, research, and prediction, while expanding the…

It’s Disney/Pixar’s weekend to lose with the third session of Inside Out 2, which is expected to do $55 million-$60 million at the domestic box office — and maybe even more. At the pace it’s going, many believe it will blow past the final domestic of Illumination/Universal’s Super Mario Bros Movie which…

A double-digit slip in the Nielsen ratings notwithstanding, the Tony Awards worked their magic at the box office, with this year’s winners, contenders and show-stealers reporting big increases in attendance and receipts. Just a few examples: An Enemy of the People, Merrily We Roll Along and Stereophon…

The next Yorgos Lanthimos directed feature Bugonia starring his Kinds of Kindness thespians Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons is hitting theaters on Nov. 7, 2025. Focus has the movie stateside, while Universal Pictures has the Will Tracy-written movie abroad sans Korea which is being handled by CJ…

The Independent Exhibition Conference, or IND/EX, launches today and it's at capacity with 700 attendees from art houses, indie theater chains, indie distributors, indie vendors and regional film festivals. This is the first time since Covid hit that the industry is gathering, and it's a critical moment…

MONDAY AM: A tornado watch across New England, plus a massive heat wave across the U.S., drove moviegoers into air-conditioned cinemas Sunday as Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 came in higher with a second weekend of $101M after a $32M Sunday per early AM estimates. Still a record second weekend for an…

SUNDAY UPDATE: …: $724.4M global. In 12 days…  Are we back in 2019? That's a worthwhile query given the crazy trajectory of Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 which has blasted past all expectations. The sequel is now the highest grossing movie of 2024 to date, passing Dune: Part Two. The overseas cume…

The indie box office roared to life this weekend as Thelma from Magnolia Pictures saw a hefty $2.2 million on 1,280 screens and Searchlight Pictures' Kinds of Kindness booked a stellar $75k per screen average at five theaters in LA and NY — the year's highest per screen average and best overall limited…

After knocking it out of the park with Poor Things last year, director Yorgos Lanthimos and star Emma Stone are back at the box office with Kinds Of Kindness from Searchlight, which looks set to shake up a sluggish arthouse market with the best limited opening this year. The best PTA in 2024 so far…

THURSDAY AM UPDATE: Disney has made it official: Their Pixar sequel Inside Out 2 had a very happy day with a Juneteenth box office record of $30M, up 3% over Tuesday, which is fantastic. Other records that Disney can be jubilant about: That’s the third grossing non-opening Wednesday of all-time…

In the wake of Inside Out 2's massive $295M worldwide debut last weekend, Disney Head of Global Theatrical Distribution Tony Chambers kicked off the studio's CineEurope presentation this evening thanking exhibitors in attendance for their part in the historic start — and was met in kind by enthusiastic…

Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 grossed $29.1M stateside yesterday, repping a Tuesday record for an animated movie. That beats the first Tuesday gross of 2018’s Incredibles 2 at $27M. The haul flies the Kelsey Mann-directed movie past the double century point at the domestic B.O. in its fifth day with…