There are plenty of pros and cons at the box office this week. We’ll start with the good news. The Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, opened with a decent but not spectacular $44 million, enough to propel the Francis Lawrence-directed pic to No. 1 domestically, per Deadline. Internationally, Songbirds collected $54.5M, … Read more
David Fincher’s The Killer reigns supreme on Netflix’s Top 10 chart as the most-watched title of the week with 27.9 million views. David Fincher’s The Killer made its streaming debut on Netflix just a few days ago, but it’s proven to be quite popular, shooting to the top of the streaming service’s Top 10 English … Read more
Top Gun: Maverick took 2022’s Memorial Weekend crown with tons of people contributing to its box office record success. But that doesn’t mean everyone’s seen it yet. One cop pled guilty to pulling a gun on a colleague for threatening to spoil the Top Gun sequel. While no one likes movie spoilers, it’s a whole … Read more
Audiences opted for scares this weekend and powered the latest Exorcist chapter, The Exorcist: Believer, to $27M, per Deadline. The trade notes that Universal Studios purchased the horror franchise from Morgan Creek for $400M in the hopes of making a new trilogy. While this new installment cost just $30M to produce, the numbers, while good, … Read more
American Fiction has edged out films by Hayao Miyazaki, Alexander Payne, Richard Linklater and more to win TIFF’s People’s Choice Award. American Fiction, Cord Jefferson’s drama starring Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown and Tracee Ellis Ross has officially moved ahead in the Best Picture race, winning the People’s Choice Award at this year’s Toronto International … Read more
The King’s Man director Matthew Vaughn is rumored to be the top choice to direct the next James Bond movie. Just as there are many actors said to be in the running to play James Bond, there are just as many directors supposedly being eyed to helm the next installment. Take this with a grain … Read more
On a surprisingly busy September weekend, moviegoers flocked to The Nun 2 and propelled the latest Conjuring chapter to the top of the domestic box office with a solid $32.6 million haul, per Deadline. That opening lands in the middle of the pack for the James Wan horror franchise, below Annabelle: Creation ($35M) but above … Read more
The live-action adaptation of One-Piece and You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah are rising to the top of the Netflix charts! The live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece sailed to the top of Netflix’s English-language TV charts during a formidable premiere week with 18.5M views from August 28 to September 3. One Piece is performing … Read more
In an incredibly tight race, Gran Turismo narrowly edged out Barbie for the top spot at the domestic box office, $17.3 million to $17.1M, per Deadline. Granted, the racing drama benefited from advanced previews, but it takes the podium for now. The Neill Blomkamp-directed pic comes in at the lower end of video game adaptations, … Read more
The trailer for Top Boy Season 3 previews the final chapter of the Netflix series, which will decide who reigns as Top Boy of Summerhouse. “Sully’s actions at the end of the last series have rewritten his business rules with Dushane,” reads the official season 3 synopsis. “As new shared problems arise, everything they’ve built … Read more