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Mario Galaxy Powers to $190M: A Blockbuster Weekend with Something for Everyone
The box office had something for everyone this weekend! Big animated spectacle.Adult counter-programming.And some holdover hits that refuse to die. Let’s start at the top. MARIO OPENS BIG—AGAIN! The Super Mario Galaxy Movie opened this weekend to stellar numbers, earning $190 million over the 5-Day Easter Holiday weekend, and $131 million over the 3-day weekend…
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Project Hail Mary Opens to $80M: A Sci-Fi Box Office Smash Hit… But Is It Enough for Amazon MGM?
It’s been a year and a half since my last post, back when 2024 Thanksgiving box office shattered box office records, and signaled a full theatrical recovery for the industry. Now in March 2026, I’ve returned to ask a similar simple question:Are movies (and the studios behind them) still trending in the right direction? Let’s…
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Beetlejuice 2 Spooks Up $111 Million Debut, Resurrecting Warner Bros’ Box Office
This weekend Tim Burton and Warner Brothers’ Beetlejuice Beetlejuice opened to a spectacular $111 million. This is currently the third best opening of the year behind Inside Out 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine, and the second biggest opening ever for September, right behind Warner Brothers’ own It (2017). This is a huge rebound for Warner…
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Box Office Bliss: Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds Score Big with Top Two Hits
This weekend, Hollywood’s power couple Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds dominated the box office, with Deadpool and It Ends With Us claiming the top spots. This success underscores the power of female-driven narratives and beloved book adaptations, with Blake Lively proving herself as a box office magnet for smartly budgeted films. In this article, I…
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Marvel’s Dynamic Duo: Deadpool & Wolverine Smash Box Office Records with $211M Opening Weekend
Deadpool & Wolverine achieved a monumental, record-breaking $205 million opening weekend. This opening is more than just massive, it’s downright historic. Because of the enduring appeal of Ryan Reynolds’ portrayal of Deadpool and Hugh Jackman’s iconic Wolverine, coupled with promises of groundbreaking changes for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this is the biggest opening weekend ever…
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Bad Boys Ride or Die Blazes Past Expectations with $57 Million Opening Weekend, + Five reasons to be optimistic this summer
I was tempted to give this story the headline, “Will Smith Slaps The Box Office Into Overdrive”, but it seemed like such low-hanging fruit. The last time I wrote in this blog it was last summer, as Barbenheimer was saving the summer box office, which brought the 2023 box office to unprecedented heights post-COVID. Now…
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Everybody Wins: Toys, Turtles, Sharks, and Bombs create a Box Office Bonanza this weekend, why?
Four turtles, a shark, some dolls, and an atomic bomb walk into a theater…. box office success ensues. While Barbie is still queen bee at the box office for the third weekend in a row, there’s a fierce battle for second place this weekend, which is great to see for the industry. Teenage Mutant Ninja…
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BOMBS AND DOLLS: What is getting Americans off their couches and into movie theaters for Barbenheimer?
The theater event being hailed as Barbenheimer is going to be analyzed for years. Savor and remember this moment. What just started as a petty rivalry between two movies (in 2020 after Christopher Nolan quit Warner Brothers and moved to Universal, WB reacted by placing their film Barbie on the SAME date as Nolan’s next…
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Tom Cruise’s latest Mission Impossible opens to $79 million – but why didn’t it open bigger at the box office?
The last time I wrote in this blog, it was last year, as Top Gun Maverick was soaring past $700 million in the U.S. I asked the question then, “Can Tom Cruise be stopped?”, and, well, the answer to that question might exist sooner than I thought. Tom Cruise’s latest Mission Impossible film opened with…
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DC Films Leadership – James Gunn and Peter Safran now CEOS – how did this happen, and what could this mean?
James Gunn had a very great day yesterday, showing that getting FIRED from Disney 4 years ago, ironically, led to the best possible career jump he could have ever had.
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