Tag: box-office

Lucasfilm is trying a desperate new tactic to save The Mandalorian & Grogu after a brutal second-weekend crash. From a $165M start to a 70 0rop, the numbers tell a story that no amount of Force-healing can fix.

Premium-format seats — IMAX, Dolby, 70mm, PLF — crossed 16% of domestic gross in 2025, on roughly 1% of the screen count. Spielberg's Disclosure Day opens June 12 in IMAX, 70mm, and standard formats simultaneously — and the IMAX-share line, not the headline gross, is the only number that will move the next quarter's exhibitor earnings calls. That is what the dollar-per-seat math looks like when an exhibitor takes it seriously.

Disclosure Day opens wide this Friday, June 12, and the internet has already decided what it is. The numbers haven't. Here is what 49 years of Spielberg sci-fi releases actually say about the bar Friday's opening has to clear.

On May 19, 2006, Ron Howard and Tom Hanks released a $125 million prestige-tier adaptation of an airport thriller, watched the Vatican call for a boycott, and rode the controversy to $760 million worldwide. Twenty years later, the entire economic and cultural machine that made The Da Vinci Code possible has been dismantled — and we're looking at a fossil.

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.

Look, I'm going to say something nobody at a Hollywood pitch meeting wants to hear: Mortal Kombat II opened to $40 million this weekend — the best opening of the entire Mortal Kombat film franchise, by the way — and it still got out-grossed by a sequel about a fashion magazine editor. In its second weekend. A holdover. A legacy comedy. About clothes.

Three films cleared $36 million domestically the weekend of May 8-10, and the 20-year-old comedy sequel beat them both. The −44% drop is doing all the work — and the demographic data shows exactly why none of the new entrants laid a glove on Miranda Priestly.

The numbers tell a story the marketing didn't. The Sheep Detectives projects a $14.9M domestic opening weekend — Hugh Jackman's biggest non-Marvel debut since Pan in 2015 — landing on a 97% Rotten Tomatoes score from 128 critics, his career-highest ever. Pre-release tracking topped out at $15M low-end. The film cleared it. Here's what that data actually means.

Nintendo and Illumination just pushed the Mario film franchise past $2 billion in combined worldwide gross. Critics still landed on "mixed to negative" for Galaxy. And I'm tired of pretending the box office is the same thing as a defense.

Two very different films open the same Friday: a fashion-comedy sequel and an animated political fable. We don't have opening numbers yet — but we have a decade of historical clash weekends, long-gap sequel data, and audience demographics that tell us a lot about what to expect.

Lee Cronin's The Mummy made 79.1% of its current domestic gross in its opening weekend. By Wednesday — Day 6 — it had earned $17.09M total, with weekdays adding just $3.57M combined. That's the most front-loaded R-rated horror opening of recent memory, and it tells us exactly where Universal's monster reboot wave is heading next: nowhere good.

Last week CinemaCon told us what Hollywood is planning. This week, Hollywood shows what actually works — and what doesn't. Michael drops Friday, Boys S5 gets its midpoint shake-up Wednesday, and The Mummy's $13.5M debut is exactly the crash-landing skeptics predicted.

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.

CinemaCon is live in Vegas with every major studio showing off their biggest guns, Lee Cronin's R-rated The Mummy is already scaring the hell out of early audiences, and The Boys keeps dropping bodies in its final season. Here's everything worth watching this week.

Super Mario Galaxy Movie posted a $191M 5-day opening, making it 2026's first real box office monster. But here's the thing: critics gave it a 41% on Rotten Tomatoes while audiences gave it 89%. Let's look at what the numbers actually tell us.

Evil Dead Burn is the latest in a long line of horror franchise comebacks. We ran the numbers on every major horror series revival — from Scream to Halloween to Alien — and found a pattern the studios definitely already know: horror is the safest bet in Hollywood.

Twelve films. Three decades. Seven Oscar wins. One director who turned IMAX cameras into a storytelling revolution. We ran the numbers on Christopher Nolan's entire career — the data tells the story of cinema's most bankable auteur.

Disney has spent a decade remaking its animated classics. We put every film through the data — box office, budgets, critic scores, audience scores, and ROI. The numbers tell a story the studio probably doesn't want you to see.

This week brings Illumination's Minions & Monsters to the July 4th corridor, Angel Studios bets on Young Washington, and the holdover lineup — Supergirl, Jackass 5, Toy Story 5 — is still pulling crowds. Plus: July's upcoming slate might be the strongest of the entire summer.

Three consecutive weekends. Three potential hundred-million-dollar openings. June 2026 just delivered the most concentrated box office battle in years — here's what the data reveals about who won, who got hurt, and what it means for the rest of the summer.

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.

March belonged to Project Hail Mary. April belongs to a plumber in space. Here's your full breakdown of what's coming, what's still earning, and why April 2026 might be the most stacked month at the movies this year.