SATURDAY AM: What’s the trick to keeping the post-Thanksgiving period alive? Great holdovers from the holiday weekend before. One of the dullest box office periods historically of the year is not in 2024 with all films grossing $129M, the best this frame has ever seen. That surpasses the previous…

An army of indies are populating the last few weeks of the year in a fall box office that's the most buoyant it's been in years but still picks and chooses among specialty fare which travels from festival standouts to the Odyssey to Y2K.   The latter is A24's dial-up disaster hijinks, the directorial…

Numbers are fun as many a math teacher once said, and in a rivalry between Disney’s Moana 2 and Universal’s Wicked, the latter is having the upper hand at the U.S./Canada box office, not just yesterday, but today as well. Wicked made $5M on Wednesday, and is looking at $4.5M today, -10%. That’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal/Warner Bros’ Twisters has debuted as streamer Peacock’s biggest Pay 1 film ever in its 14 days on the platform. The previous biggest Peacock Pay 1 film debut in its first 14 days was Universal’s 7x Christopher Nolan directed Oscar winner, Oppenheimer…

Sony Pictures Classics will open the docu-concert movie Becoming Led Zeppelin exclusively in Imax on February 7. You can watch the trailer above. Ahead of the release, Imax theaters will hold early-access screenings in 18 markets starting February 5.  Becoming Led Zeppelin explores the origins…

Moana 2‘s “Hauʻoli lākou” aka good luck continues this weekend as it eyes a $60M second frame. For the post-Thanksgiving first weekend of December, that’s an absolute mind-blowing record for a No. 1-ranking title, whether holdover or new release. The previous high for this frame was in 2019, when the…

Sony is going one week earlier with the Keke Palmer and SZA R-rated comedy, One of Them Days, unspooling the title on the 4-day MLK weekend which kicks off Jan. 17, 2025. Pic’s new spot will take advantage of 95% colleges on break on Monday. There are also no comedies dated this holiday season, so…

The National Association of Theatre Owners is bestowing their Marquee Award next year on Cinemark President and CEO, Sean Gamble. The executive will receive the award at NATO’s exhibitor-studio confab CinemaCon during the “State of the Industry” program on April 1, 2025. NATO President and CEO…

Searchlight Pictures’ James Mangold-directed Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, starring Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet, will sneak screen in Imax at 30-plus theaters on Dec. 18. The movie opens wide on Dec. 25. The exclusive 'A Complete Unknown: IMAX Early Access' screenings will be held at…

Regal Cineworld Group has secured a new $1.9 billion in Term Loan B facility. The new facility is priced at SOFR + 525 bps with a maturity date of Dec. 1, 2031, and replaces the Group's existing Term Loan B. The refinancing included a $350M Revolving Credit Facility that replaces the company’s…

UPDATE, with full report: Broadway had its best attended and highest grossing Thanksgiving week in the industry’s recorded history, the Broadway League said today, with its 38 productions grossing a combined $46,046,759, a huge increase over last year’s turkey holiday take of $34,512,033. Attendance…

After six days of release worldwide, Disney’s record-breaking Moana 2 stands at $404.5M, passing this year’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes ($397.4M) and Bad Boys: Ride or Die ($404.5M), already the No. 9 movie of the year. Yesterday, Moana 2 led at the domestic box office with $5.7M, -83% from…