As if the great Moana 2 box office news wasn’t enough Wednesday morning, Disney’s Barry Jenkins- directed Lion King prequel Mufasa and Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3 has hit three-week tracking. Currently, the Hedgehog is looking to outrun the Lion, $55 million+ to $50 million, but keep in mind…

Before Moana 2 rains a monsoon of cash, Universal’s Wicked will not go quietly in the night. In fact, on Monday the musical starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande was grande indeed with a studio reported $15.8 million box office take. That’s the best Monday ever for November, better than Frozen II…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Cillian Murphy and artist Yvonne McGuinness are the new proprietors of The Phoenix Cinema in Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland. After 105 years in operation as a movie theater and dance hall, The Phoenix will remain an independently owned venue, which Time Out has previously named "one…

MONDAY PM: With schools and colleges off today, that means there’s a cushion at the box office. Venom: The Last Dance over four days is coming in at $18 million over the Friday-Monday span, while Lionsgate and A24 are still fighting over second place with, respectively, The Best Christmas Pageant and Heret…

When it came to the bombing of Borderlands, among other late summer and fall releases, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer made no bones about emphasizing culpa nostra. “On Borderlands, nearly everything that could go wrong did go wrong: it sat on the shelf for too long during the pandemic, and reshoots and…

Top movie theater owner AMC Entertainment unveiled what it calls its “GO Plan” — short for “go on offense” — a set of major improvements to seating, projection and auditoriums during the next few years. Related Stories …

Sony will own the first weekend of November at the box office, with the second frame of the Culver City lot’s Venom: The Last Dance down around 60%, or $20 million, for No. 1, followed by the studio’s release of Miramax’s adult drama Here. Here, which reps the Forrest Gump reteam of filmmaker Robert…

Amazon MGM Studios’ big $200 million Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans Santa Claus caper movie Red One landed on tracking recently, and it’s eyeing a $36M opening in the U.S. and Canada with a chance for upside. The Jake Kasdan-directed reteam with his Jumanji franchise star Johnson opens November 15. Re…

With the last couple of October weekends stateside being off from the strike-laden marketplace a year ago, here’s hoping that superhero sequelitis and moviegoers’ erratic attitudes toward prestige fare don’t push the theatrical marketplace down further. Sony this weekend has its Marvel title Venom: Th…

SUNDAY AM Writethru: after Saturday post Paramount’s $28M production Smile 2 is in great shape with a $23M opening (or 1.6M admissions per EntTellgence) after a $9.4M Friday and great Saturday of $8.1M (a -15% hold against previews/Friday!) and a B CinemaScore. That’s better than the B- on the first one…

New York real estate mogul Charles Cohen has filed a notice to appeal a New York State Supreme Court ruling in his battle with Fortress Credit Corp. that found him liable for a $187 million personal loan guarantee pending an auction of Landmark Theaters and other assets that is still scheduled for next mon…

There’s really one true one wide release this weekend and it’s Paramount’s sequel Smile 2, which currently sees presales pointing toward a high-teens-millions opening. Tracking earlier this week indicated higher, in the $20 million-plus range, but that all depends on whether Latino and Hispanic moviegoers…