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How Disney Dominated the 2024 Box Office

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 […]

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‘Joker 2’ Stumbles With $40 Million Box Office Debut

“Joker: Folie à Deux,” a genre-bending sequel to the billion-dollar comic book smash, hit a sour note at the box office even as it opened to No. 1 with $40 million. Those discordant domestic ticket sales were behind initial projections of $50 million to $65 million — a range that was already revised down in the […]