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Venom Installment Wins but Not Convincingly
Venom Has a Low-Grade Victory
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Venom Has a Low-Grade Victory

Performance reflects a down year for superhero films

(Newser) - 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. Projections for the third Venom film from Sony Pictures had been closer to $65 million....

Second Smile Tops Weekend
Second Smile Wins Weekend
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Second Smile Wins Weekend

Joker 's collapse paves way for another horror victory

(Newser) - Horror movies topped the domestic box office charts, and an Oscar contender got off to a sparkling start this weekend. Smile 2, in its first weekend, and Terrifier 3, in its second, proved to be the big draws for general movie audiences in North America, while the Palme d'Or...

Terrifier 3 Slays Joker , Apprentice
Terrifier 3 Surprises Competition
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Terrifier 3 Surprises Competition

Meanwhile , Joker sequel plunges 81% in second weekend of release

(Newser) - 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 Pharrell Williams as a Lego. In the end, all were trounced by an ax-wielding clown. Terrifier 3, a gory, low-budget slasher from the small...

Joker 2 Audience Isn't Amused
Joker 2 Audience Isn't Amused
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Joker 2 Audience Isn't Amused

Anticipated sequel tops weekend but receives low scores from viewers

(Newser) - Joker: Folie à Deux is the No. 1 movie at the box office, but it might not be destined for a happy ending. In a turn of events that only Arthur Fleck would find funny, the follow-up to Todd Phillips' 2019 origin story about the Batman villain opened in theaters...

Guess Who's Not Retired Anymore?
Guess Who's
Not Retired
Anymore?

Guess Who's Not Retired Anymore?

Actor Daniel Day-Lewis is back after 7-year hiatus to appear in Anemone , directed by son Ronan

(Newser) - If an actor claims they're retiring, do they actually really mean it? That's a nay for Daniel Day-Lewis, the Academy Award-winning thespian who announced seven years ago , at age 60, that he was leaving the biz. He's now apparently retracting that decision, with a new movie in...

Coppola Poured Money and Soul Into This Film. People Hate It

Audiences reject Megalopolis , but defenders say it's a work of art that will be appreciated in time

(Newser) - American film audiences got their first chance this weekend to weigh in on legend Francis Ford Coppola's decades-in-the-making film Megalopolis . No thanks, they replied .
  • "There is no kind way to put it," writes Brooks Barns in the New York Times . The movie "died on arrival over
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Wild Robot Beats Coppola Flop
Wild Robot Beats Coppola Flop
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Wild Robot Beats Coppola Flop

Filmmaker's longstanding Megalopolis project debuts to $4M

(Newser) - Francis Ford Coppola's decades-in-the-making, self-financed epic Megalopolis flopped with moviegoers, while the acclaimed DreamWorks Animation family film Wild Robot soared to No. 1 at the weekend box office. Wild Robot, Chris Sanders' adaptation of Peter Brown's bestseller, outperformed expectations to launch with $35 million in ticket sales in...

Beetlejuice , Transformers Top a Slow Weekend
Beetlejuice, Transformers
Top a Slow Weekend
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Beetlejuice, Transformers Top a Slow Weekend

Joker: Folie à Deux could give theaters a draw soon

(Newser) - It's a three-peat for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The Tim Burton legacy sequel to his 1988 horror comedy topped the North American box office charts for the third straight weekend with $26 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. It edged out the animated new release Transformers One, which...

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Has Topped Charts Twice
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Is Twice a Winner
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Is Twice a Winner

Little new competition pushes the Tim Burton sequel

(Newser) - Moviegoers said yes to more Beetlejuice Beetlejuice this weekend. After its monster opening, the Tim Burton sequel easily topped the domestic box office charts again with $51.6 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. Down only 54% from a week earlier, the North American gross for the...

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Opens Bigger Than Original
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Opens Bigger Than Original
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Opens Bigger Than Original

Sequel has third-best opening weekend of 2024

(Newser) - After 36 years of waiting, the juice is finally loose again in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, this time racking up $110 million in its premiere weekend. The long-awaited Tim Burton sequel is the third-best opening weekend of the year, behind only box office triumphs Inside Out 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine. Michael...

Holdovers, Reagan Can't Topple Incumbent
Holdovers, Reagan
Can't Topple Incumbent
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Holdovers, Reagan Can't Topple Incumbent

Deadpool & Wolverine nears another milestone

(Newser) - Onscreen and at the ticket window, Deadpool apparently can't be killed. Deadpool & Wolverine, one of the defining movies of the summer, ruled a weekend with quiet openings and low theater attendance as the summer movie season came to an anticlimactic close. For the second weekend in a row,...

New Releases Can't Catch Holdover Hits
New Releases
Can't Catch
Holdover Hits

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New Releases Can't Catch Holdover Hits

Deadpool & Wolverine , Alien: Romulus again top weekend charts

(Newser) - In a sleepy summer weekend at the box office, holdovers reigned supreme as newcomers landed without a splash. Deadpool & Wolverine reclaimed first place at the North American box office in its fifth weekend with $18.3 million. Its cumulative international earnings now sit at over $1.2 billion. The...

Alien: Romulus , in Debut, Bumps Deadpool & Wolverine
Alien: Romulus,
in Debut, Bumps
Deadpool & Wolverine
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Alien: Romulus, in Debut, Bumps Deadpool & Wolverine

Hits put summer weekend ahead of last year

(Newser) - Alien: Romulus, the latest installment in its 45-year-old franchise, opened in first place at the North American box office. The 20th Century Studios release earned an estimated $41.5 million in its first weekend, playing in 3,885 locations in the US and Canada. Including $66.7 million from international...

Lively's Opening Pushes Reynolds' Hit
Lively's Opening
Pushes Reynolds' Hit
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Lively's Opening Pushes Reynolds' Hit

It Ends With Us nearly knocks Deadpool & Wolverine out of top spot

(Newser) - In the Ryan Reynolds-Blake Lively box office showdown, both husband and wife came out winners. Reynolds' Marvel Studios smash Deadpool & Wolverine remained the top movie in North American theaters for the third straight week with $54.2 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. Worldwide, it's...

Shyamalan Was Called 'the Next Spielberg.' Then, a Fall

David Sims profiles the horror/thriller filmmaker's struggles, and eventual resurrection, for the Atlantic

(Newser) - By the time M. Night Shyamalan was in his early 30s, he had a huge hit to his name thanks to 1999's The Sixth Sense , his psychological thriller starring Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment, and two follow-ups—2000's Unbreakable and 2002's Signs —that seemed to...

Challengers Don't Budge Deadpool & Wolverine
Challengers Don't Budge
Deadpool & Wolverine
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Challengers Don't Budge Deadpool & Wolverine

Marvel hit holds R-rated record after less than two weeks

(Newser) - After 10 days in theaters, Deadpool & Wolverine is already the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever, not accounting for inflation. The Marvel Studios blockbuster starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman continued to steamroll through movie theaters in its second weekend, collecting $97 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. That raised its...

Deadpool & Wolverine Returns Marvel to Glory
Deadpool & Wolverine
Has Year's Biggest Opening
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Deadpool & Wolverine Has Year's Biggest Opening

Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman film restores Marvel's glory after flops

(Newser) - Marvel is back on top with Deadpool & Wolverine. The comic book movie made a staggering $205 million in its first weekend in North American theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday. It shattered the opening record for R-rated films previously held by the first Deadpool of $132 million and notched...

Blame Spielberg for What Didn't Happen at End of Twisters

Note from famous director apparently led to a nixed final kiss between blockbuster's stars

(Newser) - (Spoilers ahead, so stop reading now if you don't want to know what happens.) Moviegoers who've been flocking to see Twisters, the stand-alone sequel to 1996's Twister, are now likely hoping for Part III—if only to see a consummation of the romantic relationship between the...

Twisters Kicks Up $80M Weekend
Twisters Has
Blockbuster Debut
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Twisters Has Blockbuster Debut

(Newser) - Moviegoers ran toward the tornadoes this weekend, propelling Twisters to a blockbuster opening. The standalone sequel to the 1996 hit rang up $80.5 million in ticket sales from 4,151 theaters in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday. That's about $30 million more than analysts expected initially...

Despicable Me 4 Repeats
Minions Swamp
Fly Me to the Moon
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Minions Swamp Fly Me to the Moon

Surprise of the weekend is a horror film's success

(Newser) - Gru and the minions celebrated a second week in first place at the North American box office this weekend, while a small horror movie called Longlegs upset the starry $100 million Fly Me to the Moon. The supremacy of Despicable Me 4 was hardly a surprise, as the Universal and...

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