Sony Pictures News Stories Exhibition News DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA INFINITY CASTLE Becomes Fandango’s Best First-Day Ticket Pre-Seller for an Anime Film of All Time Boxoffice Staff • Aug 18th Fandango announced today that Crunchyroll’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle is the platform’s best first-day ticket pre-seller for an anime film of all time. The film has surpassed Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train... Exhibition News Sony’s 28 YEARS LATER Becomes Fandango’s Best First-Day Horror Ticket Pre-Seller of 2025 Boxoffice Staff • Jun 5th Fandango announced that Sony Pictures’ 28 Years Later, the highly anticipated follow-up to Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award-nominated writer Alex Garland’s now iconic 2002 film 28 Days Later, is Fandango’s best first-day horror ticket pre-seller of 2025.... Exhibition News UNTIL DAWN Screening Competition to Test the Stamina of Hardcore Horror Fans Boxoffice Staff • Apr 21st In a twisted celebration of the upcoming Screen Gems film Until Dawn, diehard fans in eight U.S. cities will face off in the ultimate horror endurance challenge: stay awake until dawn, through an all-night marathon of the film on repeat.... CinemaCon CinemaCon 2025 Monday Recap: A Call for Longer Windows (and Longer Trailers) | Highlights From Sony’s Presentation Daniel Loria • Apr 1st Listen to our full recap on The Boxoffice Podcast A Renewed Call for Longer Exclusivity Windows Box office is down year-over-year in North America, leaving domestic exhibitors wondering how select overseas markets have successfully navigated the challenges of a weak... Forecasts & Tracking Long Range Forecast: Sony Makes a Play for Pre-Thanksgiving Audiences with Robert Zemeckis’ HERE Boxoffice Staff • Oct 4th Subscribe to our FREE email newsletters to be notified of our latest updates in pre-release tracking, box office analysis, and industry news. Long Range Forecast — November 1, 2024 Here | SonyDomestic Opening Weekend Range: $10M – $15M Once a dominant force in... Exhibition News IT ENDS WITH US Becomes the Highest Grossing Romantic Drama Since 2018 and Crosses $200M Globally Boxoffice Staff • Aug 22nd In its first 14 days of release, Columbia Pictures/Wayfarer Studios’ It Ends With Us has crossed the $200M marker at the global box office. Audiences have propelled the film to become the biggest female event movie of the year so... Exhibition News New Trailer: Live from New York, It’s the First Look at SATURDAY NIGHT! Boxoffice Staff • Aug 8th Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan, the filmmaking duo behind Ghostbusters: Afterlife ($129.3M domestic/$204.3M global) and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire ($113.3M domestic/$201.8M global), reteam to tell the story behind the origins of a television institution in Sony Pictures’ Saturday Night. According to... Exhibition Features Don’t Stop Believin’: HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON Star Zachary Levi Draws on the Power of Imagination Chad Kennerk • Aug 1st Based on the beloved 1955 children’s picture book written and illustrated by Crockett Johnson, Columbia Pictures’ Harold and the Purple Crayon brings the childhood classic to life—and to movie theaters—for the first time. Directed by Carlos Saldanha, the family adventure... Forecasts & Tracking Long Range Forecast: FLY ME TO THE MOON Boxoffice Staff • Jun 14th Subscribe to our FREE email newsletters to be notified of our latest updates in pre-release tracking, box office analysis, and industry news. Long Range Forecast — July 12, 2024 Fly Me to the Moon | Sony PicturesDomestic Opening Weekend Range: $12-$20M (as of 6/14)... Exhibition News Porsche is Back in Action in BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE Boxoffice Staff • Jun 13th In Sony Pictures’ Bad Boys: Ride or Die, the 992-generation Porsche 911 Turbo S was given a supporting role in the action-comedy, making this the third time that a sports car from Zuffenhausen has played a part in the hit... Exhibition Features Eat Your Heart Out: Director Mark Dindal Serves Cinemas the Lasagna-Loving Fat Cat in THE GARFIELD MOVIE Chad Kennerk • May 21st The world’s most famous orange tabby is heading back to the big screen this summer, appearing in a fully animated theatrical adventure for the first time ever. For over 45 years, Garfield has been indulging in all the major creature... Exhibition News New Trailer: Sony Pictures’ IT ENDS WITH US Boxoffice Staff • May 16th Sony Pictures has debuted the trailer for It Ends with Us, the big screen adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s best-selling book. According to the synopsis, Lily Bloom (Blake Lively) is a woman who overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a... Load more stories
Exhibition News DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA INFINITY CASTLE Becomes Fandango’s Best First-Day Ticket Pre-Seller for an Anime Film of All Time Boxoffice Staff • Aug 18th Fandango announced today that Crunchyroll’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle is the platform’s best first-day ticket pre-seller for an anime film of all time. The film has surpassed Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train...
Exhibition News Sony’s 28 YEARS LATER Becomes Fandango’s Best First-Day Horror Ticket Pre-Seller of 2025 Boxoffice Staff • Jun 5th Fandango announced that Sony Pictures’ 28 Years Later, the highly anticipated follow-up to Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award-nominated writer Alex Garland’s now iconic 2002 film 28 Days Later, is Fandango’s best first-day horror ticket pre-seller of 2025....
Exhibition News UNTIL DAWN Screening Competition to Test the Stamina of Hardcore Horror Fans Boxoffice Staff • Apr 21st In a twisted celebration of the upcoming Screen Gems film Until Dawn, diehard fans in eight U.S. cities will face off in the ultimate horror endurance challenge: stay awake until dawn, through an all-night marathon of the film on repeat....
CinemaCon CinemaCon 2025 Monday Recap: A Call for Longer Windows (and Longer Trailers) | Highlights From Sony’s Presentation Daniel Loria • Apr 1st Listen to our full recap on The Boxoffice Podcast A Renewed Call for Longer Exclusivity Windows Box office is down year-over-year in North America, leaving domestic exhibitors wondering how select overseas markets have successfully navigated the challenges of a weak...
Forecasts & Tracking Long Range Forecast: Sony Makes a Play for Pre-Thanksgiving Audiences with Robert Zemeckis’ HERE Boxoffice Staff • Oct 4th Subscribe to our FREE email newsletters to be notified of our latest updates in pre-release tracking, box office analysis, and industry news. Long Range Forecast — November 1, 2024 Here | SonyDomestic Opening Weekend Range: $10M – $15M Once a dominant force in...
Exhibition News IT ENDS WITH US Becomes the Highest Grossing Romantic Drama Since 2018 and Crosses $200M Globally Boxoffice Staff • Aug 22nd In its first 14 days of release, Columbia Pictures/Wayfarer Studios’ It Ends With Us has crossed the $200M marker at the global box office. Audiences have propelled the film to become the biggest female event movie of the year so...
Exhibition News New Trailer: Live from New York, It’s the First Look at SATURDAY NIGHT! Boxoffice Staff • Aug 8th Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan, the filmmaking duo behind Ghostbusters: Afterlife ($129.3M domestic/$204.3M global) and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire ($113.3M domestic/$201.8M global), reteam to tell the story behind the origins of a television institution in Sony Pictures’ Saturday Night. According to...
Exhibition Features Don’t Stop Believin’: HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON Star Zachary Levi Draws on the Power of Imagination Chad Kennerk • Aug 1st Based on the beloved 1955 children’s picture book written and illustrated by Crockett Johnson, Columbia Pictures’ Harold and the Purple Crayon brings the childhood classic to life—and to movie theaters—for the first time. Directed by Carlos Saldanha, the family adventure...
Forecasts & Tracking Long Range Forecast: FLY ME TO THE MOON Boxoffice Staff • Jun 14th Subscribe to our FREE email newsletters to be notified of our latest updates in pre-release tracking, box office analysis, and industry news. Long Range Forecast — July 12, 2024 Fly Me to the Moon | Sony PicturesDomestic Opening Weekend Range: $12-$20M (as of 6/14)...
Exhibition News Porsche is Back in Action in BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE Boxoffice Staff • Jun 13th In Sony Pictures’ Bad Boys: Ride or Die, the 992-generation Porsche 911 Turbo S was given a supporting role in the action-comedy, making this the third time that a sports car from Zuffenhausen has played a part in the hit...
Exhibition Features Eat Your Heart Out: Director Mark Dindal Serves Cinemas the Lasagna-Loving Fat Cat in THE GARFIELD MOVIE Chad Kennerk • May 21st The world’s most famous orange tabby is heading back to the big screen this summer, appearing in a fully animated theatrical adventure for the first time ever. For over 45 years, Garfield has been indulging in all the major creature...
Exhibition News New Trailer: Sony Pictures’ IT ENDS WITH US Boxoffice Staff • May 16th Sony Pictures has debuted the trailer for It Ends with Us, the big screen adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s best-selling book. According to the synopsis, Lily Bloom (Blake Lively) is a woman who overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a...