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Cinemark CEO Sean Gamble said Apple and Amazon, two behemoths of the tech world but newcomers to the wide-release movie business, are so far “very pleased” with their results. During a conference call with Wall Street analysts to discuss third-quarter results, the major exhibitor boss said Cinemark’s conversations with the two tech firms indicate they

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros‘ highly anticipated Paul King-directed feature musical Wonka has hit early tracking six weeks before its release on Dec. 15 with box office analytics corp The Quorum predicting a $20M-$23M opening. Note it’s still early in the campaign, so there’s potential for upside. Unlike other tracking services which project three weeks before a

A24’s Priscilla by Sofia Coppola catapults from four screens to 1,300, Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers from Focus Features expands to 60 from six and two new indies have wide debuts — What Happens Later from Bleecker Street, directed by and starring Meg Ryan, opens at 1,400 locations and Daisy Ridley-starring The Marsh King’s Daughter from Roadside

More theatrical release date changes due to the actors strike which is clocking 113 days, however, the good news is that it doesn’t impact 2024. Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s live action take of animated movie How to Train Your Dragon goes from March 14, 2025 to Friday, June 13, 2025. Uni had the latter date

Today, Universal/Blumhouse’s Five Nights at Freddy‘s is clocking past the $100M domestic mark, a box office milestone for the studio when it comes to its experimental theatrical day-and-date releases on its Peacock streaming service. That’s not only the highest that Uni has seen from a pic that’s been distributed via such means at the box

The ramifications of the actors strike at the weekend box office continues to be felt, as ticket sales this weekend plummeted to $58.3M, which is currently the third-lowest of 2023. Remember, Legendary/Warner Bros’ Zendaya-Timothee Chalamet-Austin Butler-Florence Pugh sequel Dune: Part Two was originally set to play this weekend, and with its departure, there’s at least

Radical with Eugenio Derbez built on its smash opening in Mexico to hit no. 5 at the U.S. box office with a super $2.7 million at 416 theaters. The Pantelion film had delayed its debut Stateside by two weeks to skirt The Eras Tour juggernaut, allowing word of mouth to build for the drama about

Universal/Blumhouse’s Five Nights at Freddy’s was still plenty game this weekend, crossing $100M at the international box office and $200M worldwide. The sophomore frame overseas, where this is a pure theatrical play, dipped 54% to deliver $35.6M in 74 markets for a $103.5M offshore cume and $217.1M global. Fazbear and crew have surpassed the reported

Deadline has compiled a list of the highest-grossing movies at the North American box office for each since 1989, including the most recent winner, 2023’s Barbie. With a few noted exceptions, the list is dominated by superheroes, Star Wars, animation and, of course, Harry Potter. Click on the photo above to launch the photo gallery

Here’s something we don’t see often: Opening projections plummeting for a Marvel Studios movie. Their latest sequel to 2019’s Captain Marvel, The Marvels, which is also an extension to Disney+ series WandaVision and Ms. Marvel, has seen its weekend forecast collapse from $75M-$80M three weeks ago to around $60M stateside. Some tracking services, such as

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Al Pacino is officially a father at 83 … his girlfriend, Noor Alfallah, gave birth and the two are already out and hitting the town together as a couple. Sources close to the couple tell us Noor recently gave birth, and both parents are ecstatic. We don’t yet know the sex of the baby. And

With the Tony Awards – and a seriously orange New York City sky – prompting some Broadway productions to reduce their playing schedules last week, total box office and attendance was down a bit, with the 33 shows taking in $30,961,479 for the week ending June 11. In all, four productions – Kimberly Akimbo, New

Play video content TMZ.com Meagan Good has raised some eyebrows in dating Jonathan Majors amid his domestic violence criminal case — but her old Nickelodeon costar isn’t worried one bit. We got Robert Ri’chard — who used to costar with Meagan on “Cousin Skeeter” — out in L.A. Wednesday … and we cut right to

After a year plus of tabloid headlines about its star Ezra Miller, Warner Bros./DC’s Covid-delayed $200M Justice League standalone superhero movie, The Flash, finally arrives in theaters. The global opening looks better than domestic, $155M-$165M Global to a $70M+ in U.S./Canada. Despite a very good response out of CinemaCon and DC co-boss James Gunn exclaiming

Prosecutors in the fatal “Rust” shooting case are now saying they’ve got witnesses who will testify the set’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, was a bit of a party animal in New Mexico … and they say she was likely hungover when the live bullet was loaded into the gun. According to new docs, obtained by TMZ,

Lin-Manuel Miranda wants to keep directing movies, but don’t look for him to mount any large-scale spectacles. “My responsibility as a filmmaker — and I really hope to make more movies — is to make the weird little musicals that no one else can get made,” he told Rosie Perez during an appearance Tuesday at

Kevin Costner says his estranged wife Christine is refusing to pack her stuff and leave their home despite the clear terms of their prenup … claiming he’s already given her well over a million bucks to find a new place. According to the docs, obtained by TMZ, Kevin says according to their prenup, Christine had

It feels like Covid all over again, but it’s not. Disney has just made a slew of release-date changes, many due to the impact of the WGA strike and screenplays not being ready and productions paused. We already know that Thunderbolts and Blade are waiting the strike out before rolling cameras. Scripts aren’t fully ready

Amber Heard‘s million-dollar IOU to Johnny Depp has finally been paid — and now, we know exactly where the money’s going … different charities near and dear to his heart. Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … in light of the million recently making its way to Johnny — which, as we reported, was covered

Alex Newell of Shucked and J. Harrison Ghee of Some Like It Hot broke ground Sunday night as the first openly nonbinary Tony Award winners. Newell won for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical and Ghee for Best Actor in a Lead Role in a Musical. Both drew huge ovations with acceptance

Donald Trump thought he could use Matt Damon‘s voice to help raise some dough for his campaign, but the famous actor and his buddy Ben Affleck aren’t gonna let it fly. Trump pushed out a fundraising video on Truth Social last week which was almost entirely centered around a monologue from Damon’s character in the

While she was ebullient about Leopoldstadt‘s Tony Awards wins, including a crowning one for Best Play, producer Sonia Friedman offered some sobering thoughts about plays of its scale and cost Sunday night. “Oooh, this is a big conversation,” Friedman said when asked about the challenges of producing a show like Tom Stoppard’s multi-layered look at

Elizabeth Olsen has been really honest about her time with Marvel — namely, feeling like she invested far too many years working for them — and now … she’s hitting that point home. The actress — famous for playing Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch throughout the ‘Avengers’ movies — got candid yet again this weekend in a

Comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan will do a four-arena tour together this fall. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. The upcoming dates include Friday, November 3, at the Chase Center in San Francisco; Saturday, November 4, at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles; Friday, November 10, in Chicago; and Saturday, November 11, at

Clark Griswold and Cousin Eddie were face to face once again this weekend — ’cause the actors who play ’em reunited for what seems to be the first time in a long time. Chevy Chase and Randy Quaid were yukking it up Saturday at the Fan Expo Dallas … a pop culture convention where a

Paramount/Skydance/Hasbro’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is on the prowl overseas with $43.3M through Friday in 68 markets. This portends a $100M+ international box office debut, in line with projections. The domestic three-day is looking at $60M. China, a key market for the franchise, released the Autobots and Maximals at No. 1 on Friday with $11.8M,

Kim Kardashian’s got some serious star power as an actress … according to Zachary Quinto, who says he was ‘really impressed’ by her work on the upcoming season of “American Horror Story.” Zachary gave Kim the kind words at the recent Tribeca Film Festival premiere of his new flick “He Went That Way,” which he

Two from Magnolia Pictures, the story of an iconic record album design firm back and a sighting of Brian Cox usher in a specialty weekend with smoke clearing over New York City. Acrid plumes from Canadian wildfires have smothered the key arthouse market over the past few days in an unusual air quality event that