The Boy and the Heron

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,...

One more quiet weekend is on deck before the heart of holiday season ramps up with Wonka on December 15. First, can Beyoncé repeat atop the box office in Renaissance's second frame, or might Hayao Miyazaki's final film contend for...

December marks the first full month since the ending of the actors’ strike, allowing for full publicity and talk show appearances by casts. How much will that help the box office? The month’s release calendar is poised to offer much...

Animation producer and distributor GKIDS announced Friday its acquisition of North American distribution rights to The Boy and the Heron, the new film from Academy Award-winning Hayao Miyazaki. Released in Japan as Kimitachi wa Do Ikiruka, translated as How Do You Live,...