Toho International's sleeper hit Godzilla Minus One grossed an estimated $853k this weekend for a cume of $50.9 million at 605 locations in week seven as arctic blasts buffet much of the nation. The film about the giant reptilian monster passed the $50 million market Saturday, becoming…

In an intriguing move, yet retro, move for Disney on the 2024 theatrical release calendar which is starving for product, three Pixar movies –2020’s Soul, 2021’s Luca and 2022’s Turning Red –which were sidelined on Disney+ during the pandemic, are getting special engagement theatrical runs. We hear…

Bo Burnham’s Inside and its song “All Eyes on Me,” H.E.R.’s Oscar-winning song from Judas and the Black Messiah, the Oscar-winning score from Soul and the scores from Warner Bros’ Dune and Netflix’s Bridgerton were among the film and TV works  nominated for Grammy Awards on Tuesday. The pair of noms mark the…

EXCLUSIVE: In a recent Samba TV measurement, 783K U.S. households tuned into Universal’s The Boss Baby: Family Business on the studio’s streaming service Peacock over the four-day July 4th holiday weekend. That number for the DreamWorks Animation title beats the four-day Memorial Day debut of Disney’s live-action…

UPDATED, 10:10 AM: Downtown Los Angeles’ Union Station is pretty much back to normal after hosting the 2021 Oscars on April 25, and now the final and far from normal numbers are in for 93rd Academy Awards. No surprise, the ambitious affair from ABC and producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh…

The 93rd annual Academy Awards spread the wealth more than usual on Sunday night, with Nomadland scoring a leading three wins over two each for The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, Mank, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Soul and Sound of Metal.  Oscars TV Review: Unconventional, Intimate Ceremony Reinvigorates Hollyw…

The 93rd annual Academy Awards were handed out tonight, and in a departure from Oscar history, the Best Picture category was not saved for last. Instead, Searchlight’s Nomadland went home with the night’s marquee prize, and its star Frances McDormand took Best Actress, hours after the film’s Chloé Zhao made…

Soul picked up its second Oscar win of the night for Original Score and Jon Batiste called out Duke Ellington, Bach and Nina Simone in a stirring celebration speech. Batiste scored the Pixar feature along with Nine Inch Nails founder Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. "You know what's deep is God gave us 12 notes…

The director and producer of Soul, the first Pixar film to feature an African-American protagonist, paid tribute to music and art teachers and jazz musicians after their Oscars win. Pete Docter and Dana Murray won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature – continuing Pixar's dominance in this category with 11 wins in…

A new short from Pixar Animation Studios will revisit the skeptical new soul 22 long before she ever met Joe Gardner. Debuting on Disney+ on April 30, the animated 22 vs. Earth returns Tina Fey back to “The Great Before” as the voice of quick-witted and sarcastic soul 22. Set before the events of Soul, the…

UPDATED with full list of winners: Tonight at the 57th annual Cinema Audio Society Awards, Amazon Studios drama Sound of Metal and Disney/Pixar’s Soul won out in top categories. Sound of Metal was named Best Motion Picture – Live Action, besting Mank (Netflix), Greyhound (Apple TV+), News of the World (Universal…

UPDATED with full list of winners: Netflix’s Aaron Sorkin drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 won the marquee Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic) honor Saturday to cap the American Cinema Editors’ 71st annual ACE Eddie Awards. Alan Baumgarten, ACE, edited the pic, about the unrest around the 1968 Democratic National…