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Although Super Bowl weekend has occasionally delivered sleepers or modest performers, this year looks to be another quiet one as major distributors sit out the frame once again.

Monday Update: While Sunday’s studio weekend estimates originally had The Beekeeper beating Mean Girls by $7.4M to $7.3M, Monday’s actuals revealed that Mean Girls actually won by $6.9M to $6.6M. While both films came in below their original estimates, Mean ultimately led for the...

#1 = Mean Girls Last weekend, Paramount’s musical remake of 2004’s high school comedy earned a $28.6M debut. Now in its sophomore frame, the musical remake falls -59% to $11.7M, remaining in first place amid scarce new wide release offerings....

The post-Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend outlook is a quiet one with most studios sitting out the weekend following the holiday and running up against NFL playoffs.

Update: article has been updated to reflect that the year-to-date box office is currently running behind last year’s, not ahead of it, as originally reported. #1 = Mean Girls Paramount’s musical remake of 2004’s high school comedy earns some mean...

Update: this article has been updated to reflect that 2024’s year-to-date box office is running below 2023’s, not ahead of it as originally reporter. #1 = Wonka In its fourth frame, Warner Bros.’ fantasy musical held like an Everlasting Gobstopper...

The first weekend of the new year kicks off with the latest horror-thriller hopeful from Universal and Blumhouse as other holiday holdovers look to continue anchoring the market.

Warner Bros. owns three of the top four films at this weekend’s box office. Yet the real story may be Universal, which this past Tuesday replaced Disney as the domestic yearly box office leader, if including each company’s subsidiary distributors....

2023 comes to a close with the final weekend of the year also marking the first frames of recent Christmas Day openers.

On Christmas weekend in most recent years, a single film has earned $100M+ – from four Star Wars releases in the 2010s, to Spider-Man: No Way Home in 2021 and Avatar: The Way of Water in 2022. This weekend, the...

The heart of the holiday box office season is upon us, and the second of three key Warner Bros. films opens this weekend alongside a variety of counter-programmers and the sophomore performance of Wonka.

The long range look ahead into early 2024 continues with a peak at key releases slated to open for Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend next month.