Universal Pictures' release of Illumination and Nintendo's The Super Mario Galaxy Movie will now open on Wednesday, April 1 instead of April 3, day and date with many global markets. This is the same release pattern as the first movie, Super Mario Bros Movie, which bowed on a Wednesday over…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate won’t be taking the stage at this year’s CinemaCon which runs April 13-16 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, however, the studio will still be representing on the ground. Details are still coming together in regards to how Lionsgate will be celebrating the theatrical business…

Natalie Portman-produced animated feature Arco from Neon, and Kino Lorber documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin, Oscar nominations in hand, open in limited release as awards season heats up just as much of America looks set to enter a deep freeze. H Is For Hawk starring Claire Foy debuts on 477…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has dated The Beekeeper 2 for Jan. 15, 2027, which is the MLK four-day holiday weekend. The first film was also released MLK weekend–January 12, 2024, ultimately grossing $162.6M at the worldwide box office and a 92% Verified Hot rating on Rotten…

EXCLUSIVE: Neon will open Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers in New York and Los Angeles on Friday April 10 before a nationwide break this spring. The Parasite and Anora multi Oscar winning studio acquired the movie following its world premiere at TIFF. Previously Neon released Soderbergh’s…

Days after telling the New York Times that Netflix would commit to a 45-day theatrical window after its acquisition of Warner Bros, the streamer’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos reiterated that pro-cinema message on a Q4 earnings YouTube video this afternoon. “I have in the past made observations about…

Broadway box office pretty much held steady last week with the 31 productions more or less settling into the post-holiday/pre-spring groove, though there was one big exception: Proving the star power of Jonathan Groff (as if proof were necessary), the weekly gross for Just in Time took a walloping…

While Lord of the Rings fans are waiting for the next installment in the franchise — the Andy Serkis-directed The Hunt for Gollum in December 2027 — they returned to cinemas this weekend to see Peter Jackson’s 25th anniversary of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) as well as its…

MONDAY AM WRITETHRU: The MLK weekend box office might have been sleep in the U.S., but overseas, Disney continued to reign with milestones, Zootopia 2, as we told you became the highest grossing MPA animated movie ever with $1.7 billion, but also James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash rising to $1.3B…

Chloe Zhao's Golden Globe winner Hamnet and Park Chan-wook's dark comedy No Other Choice are pumped up the theater count and bucks over a four-day holiday weekend (Monday being Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the U.S.) as Marty Supreme set a new record for A24 and The Lord Of The Rings returned bearing…

Zootopia 2 is now the highest grossing MPA title with $1.703 billion at the global box office, surpassing Disney’s Inside Out 2 ($1.69B). Overall, the Jared Bush and Byron Howard directed animated movie is the 9th highest grossing movie ever at the global box office, and also passes 2019’s The Lion Ki…

SUNDAY AM WRITETHRU: James Cameron’s Na’vi sent Sony’s Infected running away from the top spot at the box office as 20th Century Studios’ Avatar: Fire and Ash pulled in $17.2M over its four-day fifth weekend while 28 Days Years Later: The Bone Temple came in below its $20M+ tracking projections with…