Not even the dynamic duos of Joy and Anxiety, Deadpool and Wolverine, Gru and his minions or Paul Atreides and those massive sandworms could push the 2024 box office to pre-pandemic heights. Domestic ticket sales have wound up at $8.7 billion for the year, down than 3.3% from 2023 (when revenues hit $9.04 billion) and […]
After surging back from the pandemic with a 16% growth in 2023, France’s box office continued to grow in 2024 with €1.36 billion ($1.41 billion) grossed from 183.1 million admissions sold, a 0.5% year-on rise, according to Comscore and the National Film Board (CNC). While the increase may appear modest, it nevertheless solidifies France as […]
As 2024 comes to a close, the biggest movies of the year are now available to stream from home — quite literally. “Inside Out 2” is streaming on Disney+ after earning a massive $1.6 billion at the worldwide box office to become the highest-grossing movie of the year and the eighth biggest global release in […]
Mark O’Meara, a Virginia-based movie theater owner, wonders and worries constantly about what exactly his customers will buy tickets to see on any given weekend. It’s not that people have fallen out of love with the big screen, he says, they’ve just gotten out of practice. In fact, in the 30-plus years O’Meara has worked in […]
If the original Inside Out was preparing children for the world of adult emotional complexity, Disney+’s Dream Productions is designed to prepare children for the world of grown-up entertainment clichés. Basically HBO’s The Franchise for kids, the animated series is a flatly innocuous spinoff, wedged pointlessly between the two Inside Out films in a way […]
The other day, as I was looking up a data point on boxofficemojo.com, I noticed something that shocked me: The top 10 grossing movies of 2024, from “Inside Out 2” to “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,” are all sequels. Every goddamn one of them. “Wicked” and “Moana 2” will soon bring break into […]
“Dune Part 2” won a pair of awards in the feature competition at the annual Hollywood Professional Association Awards on Thursday at the Television Academy in North Hollywood. It won trophies in color grading, which was awarded to Fotokem colorist David Cole, and in sound, which was presented to the team. Also in the feature […]
Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story led Nielsen’s streaming charts for a second straight week — and grew substantially from its debut. The Ryan Murphy-produced series was the top title for the week of Sept. 23-29 with just under 2.4 billion minutes of viewing time. That’s a 40 percent improvement on the drama’s […]
