More from Pamela McClintock
Box Office: ‘Megalopolis’ Bombs With D+ CinemaScore, ‘Wild Robot’ Soars to No. 1
DreamWorks Animaton and Universal’s family film The Wild Robot is charming moviegoers and audiences alike, boasting both a stellar 98 percent Rotten Tomatoes critics score and a 98 percent audience score, not to mention an A CinemaScore from moviegoers. Thanks to great word of mouth, Wild Robot came in No. 1 with an estimated $35 […]
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Box Office: ‘The Wild Robot’ Beats ‘Megalopolis’ in Previews
DreamWorks Animaton and Universal’s The Wild Robot started off its North American box office run with $1.95 million in Thursday previews, a solid start for a family animated film. The movie is based on Peter Brown’s beloved bestseller about a robot nicknamed ROZ who forms an unexpected bond with an orphaned gosling and other creatures […]
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Box Office Preview: ‘The Wild Robot,’ ‘Megalopolis’ and Pro-Donald Trump Doc All Hit the Big Screen
The new arrivals on the box office marquee this weekend make for an unusual recipe, if not a spicy one. The safest and most traditional ingredient is DreamWorks Animaton and Universal’s family film The Wild Robot, based on Peter Brown’s beloved best-seller about a robot nicknamed ROZ who forms an unexpected bond with an orphaned […]
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Box Office: Can ‘Transformers One’ Borrow a Page From ‘Spider-Verse’ and Recover?
Behind the scenes, filmmakers Phil Lord and Chris Miller weren’t the happiest of campers when their critical darling Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse opened to $35 million domestically in early December 2018. After all, the CGI-animated film had earned effusive reviews and a coveted A+ CinemaScore from audiences, with many predicting a $40 million opening or […]
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Box Office: ‘Transformers One’ Loses to ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ in Surprise Upset
In a surprise twist, the bots got squeezed out by Beetlejuice Beetlejuice at the weekend box office. Paramount and Hasbro Entertainment’s Transformers One was expected to open to at least $30 million to $35 million in North America, more than enough to top the chart. Instead, it came in at an an estimated $25 million […]
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How ‘Am I Racist?’ Scored the Top Political Doc Opening in 20 Years by Duping DEI Gurus
[This story contains spoilers for Am I Racist?] “Decolonize yourself. Do your own white supremacy dismantling, and then you can start to bring in other people,” declares Regina Jackson at a Race2Dinner in Atlanta, part of an ongoing series she co-founded with Saira Rao designed to help white women confront their own racism, white supremacy […]
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Disney Animation Shake-Up: Jennifer Lee Exiting as Chief Creative Officer, Jared Bush Takes Over
Director-writer Jared Bush is replacing Jennifer Lee as chief creative officer of the Walt Disney Animation Studios as Lee returns to filmmaking full time at the company and stewards the Frozen franchise, Disney announced Thursday. Bush will report to Disney Entertainment co-chairman Alan Bergman, effective immediately. Lee, who had been in the top gig for […]
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Box Office: ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Stays No. 1 as ‘Speak No Evil’ Impresses and ‘Killer’s Game’ Bombs
Tim Burton and Warner Bros.’ Beetlejuice Beetlejuice lost none of its ghostly mojo in its second weekend and easily stayed atop the box office chart with an estimated $51.6 million as it hurtles toward the $200 million mark domestically. The pic, playing in 4,575 theaters domestically, fell just 54 percent for a 10-day domestic total […]
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Box Office: Revenge of the Franchises
Franchises are both the lifeblood and bane of Hollywood’s existence. When everything clicks, a series can keep consumers intrigued for years if not decades — James Bond, Batman, Star Wars, Mission: Impossible, Superman. But sooner or later, fatigue sets in and the complaints begin (i.e., what happened to originality?) The 2024 summer box office was […]
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Clint Eastwood’s ‘Juror #2’ Lands Limited November Release Date After Closing AFI Fest
Prolific filmmaker Clint Eastwood’s thriller Juror #2 will open in select theaters on Nov. 1, days after making its world premiere as the closing-night film of the 38th AFI Fest. The 94-year-old director’s new film stars Nicholas Hoult as a family man who, while serving as a juror on a high-profile murder trial, finds himself […]
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‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Tracking for $70M-Plus Opening, Well Behind First Film’s $96M Debut
Warner Bros. has its work cut out for it before Todd Phillips’ divisive sequel Joker: Folie à Deux opens in North American theaters three weeks from now. The movie starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga is tracking for a domestic opening of $70 million-plus, at least $10 million behind tracking for the first Joker, which […]
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Box Office Milestone: ‘It Ends With Us’ Is Top-Grossing Romantic Drama Since 2018’s ‘A Star is Born’
It Ends With Us continues to make history at the global box office. The film adaptation of Colleen Hoover‘s bestselling book about a woman whose fairy-tale marriage turns abusive has amassed more than $309 million in global ticket sales to become the top-grossing romantic drama since 2018’s Oscar-nominated A Star is Born, which earned $436.4 […]
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