Two specialty films now in wide release hit the top ten this weekend with American Fiction at no. 8 and Poor Things, at no. 9 and claiming the mantle of the highest-grossing limited opening release of 2023. The Zone of Interest has had a terrific expansion for a foreign language film about a heavy subject…

SUNDAY AM: While the theatrical marketplace is starving for big movies post-strike, Apple Original Films’ $200M pick-up of Matthew Vaughn’s Argylle isn’t cutting it with a $18M domestic/$35M global start, C+ CinemaScore, and 3 stars on Comscore/Screen Engine’s PostTrak. At the end of the day, this…

EXCLUSIVE: MTV Documentary Films has announced a return theatrical engagement for its Oscar-nominated documentary The Eternal Memory, beginning today and extending throughout the month of February. Maite Alberdi's film, a love story that Deadline has compared to the narrative features Amour and Doctor…

It's quiet but Poor Things and American Fiction are selling tickets. The Yorgos Lanthimos film starring Emma Stone enters the weekend at just over $26 million on 1,950 screens, continuing a strong theatrical run for a movie some have called bonkers but is zipping along. American Fiction adds a few…

EXCLUSIVE, UPDATED: It’s official. The Disney+ movie, Young Woman and the Sea, is getting a limited theatrical release on May 31. This is after the Daisy Ridley movie tested in the high 90s. I also hear that the movie will have a marketing campaign tailored to a limited release. Originally, we heard…

With Apple and Amazon Studios embracing theatrical distribution to enhance their content on streaming, is Netflix far behind? Despite the streamer dipping its toes in the water with a $15 million-grossing limited release of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery during Thanksgiving 2022, and a hot title…

Reel Big Studios, Pinnacle Peak Pictures (God's Not Dead) and Fathom Events will be releasing Forty-Seven Days with Jesus at 800 theaters on March 11, 12 and 14 during the Lenten season. The pic stars The Chosen's Yoshi Barrigas as Joseph Burdon and Catherine Lidstone as Juliana Burdon. When the…

Apple Original Films’ third movie to go wide in theaters, the $200 million, Matthew Vaughn-directed Argylle, hits cinemas this weekend via a distribution deal with Universal. A mid-teens start is expected. As the old saying goes in distribution, “It would be nice if it had a 2 in front of it,&#8221…

Broadway box office held fairly steady last week, with Sweeney Todd‘s post-Groban slide at least partially offset by gains from most other shows. In all, the 25 productions grossed $24,615,726 for the week ending January 28, about 4% greater than the previous week. Attendance was up about 5% to 217,84…

A film about the impact of divine intervention on a failing relationship has become the first Filipino title to surpass $16M at the global box office. Rewind crossed the the 900M Philippine pesos worldwide gross mark this week, a huge return for the local box office. The local record was previously…

MONDAY AM: Turns out that high holy day of NFL yesterday which resulted in the Chiefs and the 49ers heading to the Super Bowl did pull guys away from Amazon MGM’s The Beekeeper. While the Jason Statham Miramax title did win Saturday over Paramount’s Mean Girls, $3.4M to $3.27M, Sunday belonged to the…

We're still in a holdover pattern for Hollywood at the global and international box office, though milestones continue to be reached on an offshore and worldwide basis for existing releases. Meanwhile, Anyone But You saw an uptick overseas and drops were good for others (including newly-minted Oscar…