‘Moana 2’ sails to a record $221 million opening as Hollywood celebrates a moviegoing feast
Christmas came early at the box office this year.
‘Venom: The Last Dance’ misses projections as superhero films’ grip on theaters loosens
“Venom: The Last Dance” showed less bite than expected at the box office, collecting $51 million in its opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, significantly down from the alien symbiote franchise’s previous entries.
‘Terrifier 3’ slashes ‘Joker’ to take No. 1 at the box office, Trump film ‘The Apprentice’ fizzles
The choices on the movie marquee this weekend included Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker, a film about Donald Trump, a “Saturday Night Live” origin story and even Pharrell Williams as a Lego. In the end, all were trounced by an ax-wielding clown.
‘Megalopolis’ flops, ‘The Wild Robot’ soars at box office
Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-in-the-making, self-financed epic “Megalopolis” flopped with moviegoers, while the acclaimed DreamWorks Animation family film “The Wild Robot” soared to No. 1 at the weekend box office.
Ridley Scott rebuilds Rome for ‘Gladiator II’
An inevitable fact of interviewing Ridley Scott is that, whatever movie he’s about to release, you’ll find him already knee-deep in his next project.
Shelley Duvall, star of ‘The Shining,’ ‘Nashville,’ dies at 75
Shelley Duvall, the intrepid, Texas-born movie star whose wide-eyed, winsome presence was a mainstay in the films of Robert Altman and who co-starred in Stanley Kubrick's “The Shining,” has died. She was 75.
‘Despicable Me 4’ debuts with $122.6M as boom times return to the box office
After a historically bad first half of the year, the box office is suddenly booming.
‘Inside Out 2’ scores $100M in its second weekend, setting records
Weekend number two was just as joyous for “Inside Out 2.”
Donald Sutherland, the towering actor whose career spanned ‘M.A.S.H.’ to ‘Hunger Games,’ dies at 88
Donald Sutherland, the Canadian actor whose wry, arrestingly off-kilter screen presence spanned more than half a century of films from “M.A.S.H.” to “The Hunger Games,” has died. He was 88.
‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ boosts Will Smith’s comeback and the box office with $56 million opening
“Bad Boys: Ride or Die,” the fourth installment in the Will Smith-Martin Lawrence action comedy series, opened with an estimated $56 million in theaters over the weekend, handing Hollywood a much-needed summer hit and Smith his biggest success since he slapped Chris Rock at the Academy Awards.
