Tag: 2026

For a decade, the safest bet at the box office was a familiar logo. In 2026, the numbers are telling a different story: a Star Wars movie is hemorrhaging market share to original genre films, and the gap between what nostalgia is supposed to deliver and what it actually returns has never been wider. Let me show you what the data says.

Are movies actually getting better in 2026, or are we just rating them higher? I ran the question against every movie in the spameri.cz database with at least 100 Trakt votes — 5,433 films from 2015 through 2026 — and the answer is yes to both, but the math is more interesting than that.

Boots Riley's I Love Boosters lands in theaters this Friday, and it joins a 2026 slate where the $30–$50M movie has quietly been the smartest bet on the board. Let me show you what the numbers reveal — because if you only watch the top of the chart, you're missing the actual story of this year's box office.

This week ends an era — Wednesday May 20, the Boys series finale lands on Prime Video after a Tuesday-night 4DX theatrical preview. Then the weekend hands theaters over to one Star Wars title, with Boots Riley quietly counter-programming on the same day. Here is exactly where to spend your attention from May 18 to May 24.

Two films have combined for $1.14 billion worldwide in mere weeks, Q1 domestic revenue is up 24.8% year-over-year, and April has already surpassed 2024's entire monthly total in just 12 days. The numbers say the post-COVID recovery is finally real.

The biggest movie industry event of the year kicks off April 13 in Las Vegas. Avengers: Doomsday footage, Dune Part Three, Spider-Verse updates, and more. Here's your complete guide to what's coming.

A 1-billion-view trailer. A $300 million opening weekend tracking. And a plot that literally erases Peter Parker from existence. Tom Holland didn't just come back — he rewrote the rules.

In 1981, three college kids and a shoestring budget created one of the most enduring horror franchises in cinema. Forty-five years and six films later, Evil Dead Burn proves that you can't keep a good deadite down.

Dunkirk, Tenet, Oppenheimer, and now The Odyssey. At some point in the last decade, Nolan stopped being a filmmaker and became a gravitational force. The numbers, the hype, and the IMAX cameras all agree.

The DCU's second film sent its lead to space with a dog and a teenager instead of giving audiences another Metropolis slugfest. James Gunn just made the most confident creative bet in superhero cinema this year.

It's not a superhero sequel, a nostalgia reboot, or a Disney cash grab. The most overhyped movie of 2026 is a $19 million opening weekend from an Oscar-winning director — and we all saw it coming.

Every January, the prediction industry publishes its forecasts for the year ahead. Five months and billions of dollars later, the data tells a very different story. Here's how the 2026 box office predictions actually held up — and what the gaps reveal about the state of the industry.

The first five months of 2026 produced the best Q1 since the pandemic, a $179 million A24 record, and three animated films in the top seven. Here's what the data reveals about where movies really stand.

The first five months of 2026 gave us blockbuster trailers and franchise hype — but the best movies of the year so far are the ones most people walked right past. Here are six films that deserved better.

Marty Supreme went home empty-handed after nine nominations. Sinners broke records but still lost Best Picture. And Sean Penn couldn't even be bothered to show up. The 98th Academy Awards were a mess — and I loved every second of it.

From Avengers: Doomsday to obscure wildcards — here are the 2026 movies on my radar and why I track them on my own database.