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Gran Turismo - Barbie Race Is Almost Too Close to Call
Officially, Gran Turismo
Passes Barbie
box office
Aug 27, 2023 1:45 PM CDT

Officially, Gran Turismo Passes Barbie

National Cinema Day throws a wrinkle into race

(Newser) - Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story and Barbie are in a dead heat for the box-office crown, with the video game adaptation just edging Greta Gerwig's pop sensation, according to studio estimates Sunday. Sony Pictures reported that Gran Turismo opened with $17.3 million over the weekend, while...

Blue Beetle Sneaks Up on Barbie
Blue Beetle
Sneaks Up
on Barbie
box office
Aug 20, 2023 1:25 PM CDT

Blue Beetle Sneaks Up on Barbie

'Oppenheimer' sets an odd record

(Newser) - The DC superhero film Blue Beetle led weekend ticket sales with a modest $25.4 million opening, according to studio estimates Sunday, dethroning Barbie from the top spot after a record-setting run that left movie theaters colored pink for a month. The Barbie phenomenon is far from over. Greta Gerwig'...

Bradley Cooper's Prosthetic Nose Doesn't Go Over Well

Critics say prosthesis used in Leonard Bernstein biopic is antisemitic

(Newser) - On Tuesday, Netflix dropped a trailer for Maestro, a biopic about West Side Story conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein that's headed to theaters on Nov. 22 and to the streaming platform the following month. Netflix plugs the film as a "towering and fearless love story" and "a...

Barbie , Oppenheimer Reunite
Barbie, Oppenheimer Reunite
box office
Aug 13, 2023 1:50 PM CDT

Barbie, Oppenheimer Reunite

Summer blockbusters are 1-2 again

(Newser) - Barbie's star has not dimmed. Director Greta Gerwig's film phenomenon is a runaway No. 1 at the box office in its fourth week, bringing in $33.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Margot Robbie-led and produced film from Warner Bros., which is in 4,137 theaters,...

Barbie Becoming $1B Hit
Barbie Becoming $1B Hit
box office
Aug 6, 2023 12:00 PM CDT

Barbie Becoming $1B Hit

'Oppenheimer' is now the biggest World War II film ever

(Newser) - Greta Gerwig should be feeling closer to fine these days. In just three weeks in theaters, Barbie is set to sail past $1 billion in global ticket sales, breaking a record for female directors that was previously held by Patty Jenkins, who helmed Wonder Woman. Barbie, which Gerwig directed and...

The 'Barbenheimer' Memes Were Fun—Until They Weren't

Warner Bros. apologizes for atomic bomb-themed mashups for 'Barbie,' 'Oppenheimer' movies

(Newser) - The "biggest movie weekend in years" last month was thanks to the phenomenon known as "Barbenheimer"—the opening of both Barbie and Oppenheimer, two completely different films that sparked a slew of memes referencing their unlikely odd bond. Some of those memes, however, have irked the netizens...

Barbenheimer Parties On
Barbenheimer Stays on Top
box office
Jul 30, 2023 2:30 PM CDT

Barbenheimer Stays on Top

Blockbusters remain 1-2 for the weekend

(Newser) - A week later, the "Barbenheimer" boom has not abated. Greta Gerwig's Barbie and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer stayed strong this weekend, seven days after they conspired to set box office records, with Barbie taking in a massive $93 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Oppenheimer stayed in second...

Rivalry Hype Profits Barbie , Oppenheimer
Rivalry Hype Profits
Barbie, Oppenheimer
box office
Jul 23, 2023 2:15 PM CDT

Rivalry Hype Profits Barbie, Oppenheimer

Blockbusters hit milestones in opening weekend

(Newser) - "Barbenheimer" didn't just work—it spun box office gold. The social media-fueled fusion of Greta Gerwig's Barbie and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer brought moviegoers back to the theaters in record numbers this weekend, vastly outperforming projections and giving a glimmer of hope to the lagging exhibition business...

Latest Mission: Impossible Has Franchise-Best Opening

Latest Tom Cruise film starts strong but short of 'Top Gun: Maverick'

(Newser) - After a globe-trotting publicity blitz by star Tom Cruise, Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One launched with a franchise-best $80 million over five days, though it came in shy of industry expectations with a $56.2 million haul over the three-day weekend, according to studio estimates. The Paramount Pictures debut...

Horror Film Tops Indiana Jones
Insidious Bounces Indiana Jones
box office
Jul 9, 2023 1:50 PM CDT

Insidious Bounces Indiana Jones

Reviews again don't hurt horror series

(Newser) - Indiana Jones' reign atop the box office was brief. In its second weekend in theaters, the Disney release was usurped by another franchise fifth—Insidious: The Red Door. The horror film starring and directed by Patrick Wilson scared up $32.7 million in ticket sales from 3,188 theaters, according...

'Offending Image' Keeps Barbie Out of Vietnam

Nation takes issue with map seen in film that shows China's claims to South China Sea territory

(Newser) - Greta Gerwig's Barbie may be one of the most-anticipated movies of the summer, but some Southeast Asia residents awaiting its debut will now have to travel over the border to see it. Reuters reports that the film starring Margot Robbie in the title role and Ryan Gosling as sidekick...

Indiana Jones Doesn&#39;t Capture Audiences
Indiana Jones Doesn't
Capture Audiences
box office
Jul 2, 2023 2:08 PM CDT

Indiana Jones Doesn't Capture Audiences

'Dial of Destiny' nevertheless takes weekend's top spot

(Newser) - Indiana Jones, and executives at the Walt Disney Co. and Lucasfilm, made a somewhat dispiriting discovery this weekend. Moviegoers didn't rush to the theater in significant numbers to see Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and say goodbye to Harrison Ford as the iconic archaeologist, the AP reports....

Don&#39;t Let Turner Classic Movies Slip Away
Don't Let Turner
Classic Movies Slip Away
OPINION
Jun 27, 2023 8:00 AM CDT

Don't Let Turner Classic Movies Slip Away

Maureen Dowd puts in her plea to save the cable network and its films, a 'great expander of horizons'

(Newser) - The Turner Classic Movies channel is currently in "turmoil" and what will happen next remains unclear after a house cleaning under David Zaslav, the CEO of parent company Warner Bros. Discovery. Writing for the New York Times , Maureen Dowd makes a plea to "save Turner Classic Movies,"...

Spider-Man Rides High Again
Spider-Man
Returns to Top
box office
Jun 25, 2023 3:10 PM CDT

Spider-Man Returns to Top

'The Flash' plunges in its second week

(Newser) - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse slung its webs back atop the box office ranks while The Flash saw a drop faster than the film's speedy character. The Spidey animated sequel—starring Shameik Moore as the teenage webslinger Miles Morales—reclaimed the No. 1 spot in its fourth week in North...

The Flash Proves a So-So Champ
The Flash Proves
a So-So Champion
box office
Jun 18, 2023 1:30 PM CDT

The Flash Proves a So-So Champion

'Elemental,' 'The Blackening' trail in debuts

(Newser) - DC and Warner Bros.' long-in-the-works superhero movie The Flash opened to $55 million in its first three days in North American theaters, according to studio estimates on Sunday. Though a fair amount of money by normal standards, a sizable jump from DC's last release, the Shazam! sequel, and...

Crew Hurt as Gladiator II Set Is 'Plunged Into Chaos'

6 receive treatment for non-life-threatening injuries on sequel set in Morocco

(Newser) - Paramount Pictures says that multiple crew members were injured Wednesday in Morocco on the set of the Gladiator sequel, after a stunt went awry. "While filming a planned stunt sequence ... an accident occurred during which several crew members experienced non-life-threatening injuries," a spokesperson for the studio says in...

Reworked Transformers Rises to Top
Reworked
Transformers
Rises to Top
box office
Jun 11, 2023 3:45 PM CDT

Reworked Transformers Rises to Top

Latest installment outperforms reviews

(Newser) - It was Miles Morales and the Spider-Verse versus the Transformers at the box office, and the bots came out on top. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, the seventh entry in the series, was No. 1 in its first weekend in North American theaters with $60.5 million, according to studio...

Actors 'Lock Elbows' in Big Move Against Studios

SAG-AFTRA union members overwhelmingly vote for strike if deal isn't reached by June 30

(Newser) - As writers in Hollywood remain on strike , it now looks like another group may soon join them. Members of the SAG-AFTRA union, which represents 160,000-plus movie and TV actors and other performers, voted Monday evening to authorize a strike if an acceptable new contract isn't reached with studios...

Animated Spider-Man Soars in Debut
Animated Spider-Man
Soars in Debut
box office
Jun 4, 2023 1:45 PM CDT

Animated Spider-Man Soars in Debut

Latest installment far exceeds forecast and first film

(Newser) - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse opened in US and Canadian theaters to a massive $120.5 million, more than tripling the debut of the 2018 animated original and showing the kind of movie-to-movie box office growth that would be the envy of even the mightiest of Hollywood franchises. Sony Pictures' multiverse-spinning...

Little Mermaid Emerges a Winner

Little Mermaid
Emerges
a Winner
box office
May 28, 2023 2:35 PM CDT

Little Mermaid Emerges a Winner

Live-action remake dethrones 'Fast X'

(Newser) - The Little Mermaid made moviegoers want to be under the sea on Memorial Day weekend. Disney's live-action remake of its 1989 animated classic easily outswam the competition, bringing in $95.5 million on 4,320 screens in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday. And Disney estimates the film...

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