The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

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....

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...

#1 = Wonka Warner Bros.’ fantasy musical took a bite out of the box office with a first place debut of $39.0M. That’s higher than comparable openings of December family-friendly musicals from the past decade: +25% above 2014’s Into the...

#1 = The Boy and the Heron GKIDS’ and Studio Ghibli’s Japanese-language anime from director Hayao Miyazaki soared to $12.8M, securing the top spot over the weekend. For comparison, that’s higher than the final domestic totals of several Miyazaki films,...

#1 = Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé The AMC Theatres Distribution + Variance Films concert documentary can pay the “bills, bills, bills” with a $21.0M debut. Renaissance earns first place despite playing in 2,539 theaters, only the #5 widest release...

#1 = The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Last frame, Lionsgate’s dystopian action prequel started in first place with $44.6M, substantially below the openings for all four installments in the original franchise. It opened -56% below the...

#1 = The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Lionsgate’s dystopian action prequel starts with $44M, substantially below the openings for all four installments in the original franchise: -71% below 2012’s The Hunger Games: $152.5M -72% below 2013’s...

A new Disney animated musical, a new Marvel Cinematic Universe installment, a new Hunger Games prequel. With 14 wide releases, by Boxoffice PRO‘s count, this might mark the largest amount of new wide releases of any post-pandemic month to date....

This morning, Lionsgate announced they're pushing forward with a continuation of The Hunger Games on the big screen by adapting author Suzanne Collins's upcoming prequel novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. While no release date for the film has...