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Box Office: Matthew Vaughn and Apple’s Big-Budget ‘Argylle’ Bombs With $18M U.S. Debut
Spurned by many critics and consumers alike, Matthew Vaughn‘s pricey spy comedy Argylle bombed at the North American box office in the biggest miss to date for Apple’s theatrical ambitions. The movie opened to an estimated $18 million from 3,605 cinemas against a price tag of $200 million to $250 million, according to sources. The […]
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Box Office: Matthew Vaughn’s ‘Argylle’ Starts Off With $1.7M in Previews
Matthew Vaughn’s action spy-comedy Argylle hopes to be an agent of change at the box office this weekend, but it could be a tough mission to complete. The pic, whose star-packed ensemble cast is led by Henry Cavill and Bryce Dallas Howard, started off its box office tour with a subdued $1.7 million in Thursday […]
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AMC Theatres Lands Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s Doc ‘Kiss the Future,’ Sets U.S. February Release
AMC Theatres is continuing its foray into the distribution business following Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour and Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé. The world’s largest cinema circuit revealed Wednesday it has pacted with Fifth Season to release the Matt Damon and Ben Affleck-produced documentary Kiss the Future in the U.S. The acclaimed film chronicles the […]
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‘Despicable Me 4’ Adds Will Ferrell, Sofia Vergara and Others to the Franchise
Gru is getting a gaggle of new friends and foes. Illumination and Universal revealed the full cast of Despicable Me 4 when airing a trailer spot for the animated summer tentpole during Sunday’s showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens AFC Championship game. The studio also released details of the plot for the […]
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Box Office: ‘Mean Girls’ Dances Past ‘The Beekeeper’ to Win Slow Weekend With $6.9M
On Sunday, both Mean Girls and The Beekeeper claimed victory amid an otherwise sluggish weekend at the domestic box office. It turns out Mean Girls was right. Weekend actuals show Paramount’s musical teen comedy earned $6.9 million, compared to $6.7 million for Amazon MGM Studios’ The Beekeeper. Both films came in behind initial estimates after […]
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Zöe Kravitz, Channing Tatum’s Movie ‘Pussy Island’ Changes Title
Zöe Kravitz and Channing Tatum’s upcoming movie has a new title and a release date. The suspense-horror drama, previously called Pussy Island, has been retitled Blink Twice, and it’s also landed a summer release in theaters, Amazon MGM Studios announced Friday. Blink Twice, which marks Kravitz’s feature directorial debut, will hit the big screen on […]
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Art House Movies Are Having Their TikTok Moment
The wrestling drama The Iron Claw has quietly grossed $31.5 million domestically at the box office since its Christmas launch, a veritable fortune for an independent film in the post-pandemic age and one of the best showings ever for distributor A24. And it isn’t the only specialty movie doing impressive business these days thanks to a […]
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Universal and Jordan Peele Board Dev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’ for April Release in Theaters
Jordan Peele and Universal have come aboard to release Dev Patel’s directorial debut, Monkey Man. The completed action-thriller — which was previously set up at Netflix — will hit cinemas April 4, Peele revealed Friday when introducing the first official trailer. Insiders say Peele had a chance to see the movie, and was so taken […]
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Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ Sets Rerelease in Imax to Promote Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune’ Sequel
A big screen bromance is afoot. Christopher Nolan’s Tenet will be released for one week in Imax screens later this month in the lead-up to the release of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two, Warner Bros. announced Thursday. The two filmmakers are big fans of one another, and Nolan was eager to help Villeneuve’s upcoming event […]
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Oliver Stone Apologizes for Previously Suggesting ‘Barbie’ Is Part of the “Infantilization of Hollywood”
Filmmaker Oliver Stone has apologized for remarks he made last summer about Barbie before even seeing the movie. In late June, Stone suggested that Barbie was contributing to the “infantilization of Hollywood” during an interview with City A.M. several weeks before Barbie unfurled in theaters and became a cultural phenomenon. Directed by Greta Gerwig, the […]
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Oscars: Searchlight Propels Disney to Top of Nominations Scorecard Ahead of Universal, Netflix
Searchlight, home of numerous Oscar best-picture winners, propelled Disney’s film empire to the top of this year’s studios scorecard of most Oscar nominations. Disney walked away with 20 nominations Tuesday morning for movies from its myriad film stables. Searchlight accounted for 13 of those, including 11 for Poor Things. The Yorgos Lanthimos-directed movie landed a […]
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Box Office: ‘Mean Girls’ Tops Quiet Weekend With $11.7M as Nasty Winter Freeze Begins
A winter freeze has set in at the domestic box office as theater owners and studios grapple with a slowdown in product due to last year’s labor strikes and resulting production delays. For the Jan. 19-21 weekend, Paramount’s Mean Girls musical stayed in first place in its second outing with an estimated $11.7 million from […]
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