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Abbey Road Focus Features’ historical drama sequel Downton Abbey: A New Era opened in second place with $16.0M, on the lower end of pre-release projections. That’s -48% behind 2019’s original Downton Abbey ($31.0M). The sequel is one of the few...

Trafalgar Releasing’s event cinema release and concert film Twenty One Pilots Cinema Experience debuted Thursday with an $875K+ domestic gross, good for runner-up of the day behind only Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness. Playing in 763 theaters, Pilots earned...

Bryan Braunlich named Executive Director of Cinema Foundation, Lou DiGioia NATO CFO The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) and The Cinema Foundation today announced the hiring of two new executives. Bryan Braunlich was named Executive Director of The Cinema Foundation and Lou DiGioia was named to the newly...

Follow-Up Visit Disney and Marvel Studios’ superhero sequel Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness easily maintained first place but with a sharp -67% decline to $61.0M. A few stats and comparison to put that drop in context: Last frame,...

Disney and Marvel Studios’ superhero sequel Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness earned an impressive $185 million domestic and $450 million global debut this weekend. That domestic opening is: 11th place all-time, behind 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron ($191.2M)...

Friday, May 6: Disney reports this morning that Marvel Studios' Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness earned $36 million from domestic previews beginning at 3pm on Thursday.

From Bad to First Heading into last weekend, Universal / DreamWorks’ animated The Bad Guys was projected to come in somewhere around third place with about $15M. Instead, it beat most expectations by debuting in first place with $23.9M. With...

Not a Bad Start Heading into this weekend, Universal / DreamWorks’ animated The Bad Guys was projected to come in somewhere around third place with about $15 million. Instead, it beats most expectations by debuting in first place with an...

Let’s Get Ready to Dumble Warner Bros.’ Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore underwhelmed at the box office with an estimated $43 million opening. That’s by far a new low for the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts franchises, although it’s...

Hedging Your Bets Paramount’s family action-comedy Sonic the Hedgehog 2 raced to an estimated $71 million domestic debut, setting a record for the biggest opening weekend of all-time for a video game adaption in North America.  Paramount’s pair of Sonic movies...

Sony Pictures’ Morbius surpassed the nine-digit mark worldwide on Thursday, with a $55.8M overseas and $102.7M global total. The Sony / Columbia film, which debuted atop the domestic box office this past weekend with $39.0M, has now earned $46.9M in North...

Fandango sold more tickets for Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness in the first 24 hours of sales, than for any other 2022 film so far, including its previous 2022 leader, The Batman. The first day presales for Doctor...