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With the Christmas holiday fast approaching, two new wide releases – Sony’s video game adaptation Monster Hunter and Lionsgate’s Fatale – debuted in theaters this weekend, marking the first major Hollywood studio releases to hit multiplexes since Universal put out...

Fathom Events and Turner Classic Movies have unveiled the lineup for their seventh-annual TCM Big Screen Classics series in 2021. The films to be screened during the year-long series are: The Maltese Falcon (80th anniversary), Boyz n the Hood (30th...

With no new wide releases hitting theaters this weekend during an overall slow December, Universal’s The Croods: A New Age easily retained the No. 1 spot at the North American box office with an estimated $3 million, a drop of...

Entertainment technology company and digital publisher Hollywood.com is getting into the movie ticketing space with the launch of a new app, it was announced today (Dec. 10). Scheduled to launch early next year, the app will be available on iOS,...

Cinemark has sold over 100,000 private watch parties to more than 1.3 million moviegoers since the launch of its private watch party program, the exhibitor announced today (Dec. 9). “Cinemark consistently puts the customer first and is thrilled that more...

After debuting to $14.27 million over the five-day Thanksgiving frame and $9.71 million over the three-day weekend – the largest debut of the pandemic era to date — The Croods: A New Age dipped to $4.4 million in its second...

The Croods: A New Age was a breath of fresh air at North American movie theaters this weekend, grossing an estimated $14.22 million over the five-day Thanksgiving frame and $9.71 million from Friday-Sunday on 2,221 screens. If the latter figure...

Universal updates this morning with an early weekend estimate of $9.73 million for the three-day frame, part of an overall estimated $14.23 million five-day domestic opening for The Croods: A New Age. Globally, the studio projects a $35.83 million total...

Following last week's announcement that the studio will be distributing Wonder Woman 1984 as part of a hybrid day-and-date strategy with theaters and a streaming option in the United States on Christmas Day, Warner Bros. this morning confirmed its theatrical...

A little-noticed milestone was achieved at the theatrical box office this weekend: $2 billion in North American ticket sales. For the prior three years, the $2 billion threshold was reached in early-to-mid March. In 2019 it came in mid-March, on...

Freaky, the Universal body swap horror-comedy that topped the box office last weekend, again finished at No. 1 over a quiet pre-Thanksgiving frame that saw a dearth of major new studio releases. Grossing an estimated $1.2 million in its second...

Warner Bros.’ long-delayed Wonder Woman 1984 will open simultaneously on domestic cinema and television screens on Christmas Day, the highest-profile studio film to ever break the theatrical exclusivity window. The film’s overseas theatrical release will begin a week earlier, on...