Franchise
Paramount’s new G.I. Joe movie casts Bradley Cooper as Duke
A major star is suiting up as Duke in Paramount’s G.I. Joe reboot, putting real marquee power at the center of its next chapter.
October 6, 2026 11:27 am
Resident Evil passed $100 million at home and is still $115 million behind the 2016 film
Resident Evil is the first film in the franchise to pass $100 million in North America. It got there in eleven days on a 57 per cent opening weekend and a 62 per cent second-weekend fall, which is a different kind of hit from the one the headlines describe.
October 1, 2026 12:53 pm
Cinemark had its first billion-dollar quarter with thirteen million fewer customers
Cinemark posted the first billion-dollar quarter in its history. It did it with roughly thirteen million fewer customers than it served in a single quarter of 2019, and three of the figures inside the announcement disagree with each other.
September 30, 2026 9:38 am
A 2019 film won the weekend and the 100 per cent animation finished fifth
A film from 2019 won the American box office this weekend, beating three new wide releases. And the animated film that opened at 100 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes finished fifth with 12.8 million dollars — the lowest number any tracker had it at.
September 28, 2026 9:43 am
Resident Evil Broke a 16-Year Record About 36 Hours After Everyone Said It Had
Resident Evil was reported as beating the franchise's all-time domestic gross on Sunday, when the estimate was $128,566 short. It cleared it on Monday's revision by $71,434 — on one tracker, while the other still shows the estimate.
September 21, 2026 1:06 pm
Resident Evil Opens on an $80 Million Global Forecast That Leaves Out Japan and China
Resident Evil opens today on an $80 million global forecast that is not a result, is not global, and is being measured against a franchise record set in 2010 dollars with a 3D surcharge attached.
September 18, 2026 5:53 pm
Resident Evil Is Tracking for a Franchise Record, and Everyone Is Quoting the Wrong Number
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil opens on 18 September tracking for a franchise-record start. The number everyone is citing to prove the series never broke through — $26.6 million — is being misread, and it is almost exactly the entire American gross of the biggest Resident Evil film ever made.
September 12, 2026 1:20 pm
Paramount Wants Twelve States to Post a Bond for a Penalty Paramount Invented
Paramount's $31-a-share takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery is cleared in 68 countries and frozen by a courthouse in Oakland. It is now asking a judge to make twelve state attorneys general post a bond of around $1.9 billion — largely to cover a penalty Paramount invented itself, to outbid Netflix.
September 11, 2026 1:15 pm
Godzilla Is Back on a Streaming Chart, Two Places Below Dodgeball
Gareth Edwards' 2014 Godzilla — the film that started a $2.5 billion franchise — spent this week at No. 10 on the Paramount+ chart in the United States, two places below Dodgeball. It is on a service with no stake in the character's future, and the cross-platform data says the resurgence is a great deal smaller than the headlines.
September 7, 2026 1:05 pm
Zack Snyder Made a Small Movie With His Own Money, and TIFF Just Squeezed It In
TIFF has added a last-minute special screening of The Last Photograph, the independently financed revenge film Zack Snyder shot in Colombia, Iceland and Los Angeles. It premieres 6:30pm on Sunday, Sept. 13.
September 1, 2026 1:10 pm
Curtis Lum Is Doing Double Duty on The Rookie: North and Cross
Curtis Lum has joined two shows at once: ABC's The Rookie: North and season three of Prime Video's Cross, per Deadline.
August 23, 2026 12:41 pm
The Mid-Budget Movie Died and It's Why Cinemas Feel Strange Now
Think about the films that defined your twenties. A lot of them cost between thirty and sixty million dollars — adult dramas, thrillers, comedies with a star and a script. That entire category has largely vanished from theaters, and its absence explains most of what feels off about going to the movies.
August 22, 2026 11:25 am
Not even $20 million could sway Vin Diesel toward '2 Fast 2 Furious'
Vin Diesel lays out why he walked away from a massive sequel paycheck — and no, it wasn’t about the money.
August 17, 2026 3:12 pm
Sadie Sink’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day role finally sorts a 63-year Marvel problem
Amid talk of a smaller, street‑level reset, the next Spider‑Man film will also lay groundwork for Sadie Sink’s Marvel debut — but they’re keeping exactly who under wraps.
August 3, 2026 12:29 pm
The Odyssey shatters box office records, beating Superman and Spider-Man
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is smashing box office records, outpacing Superman and Spider-Man and stirring a major IMAX debate — but what’s really at stake in that tussle?
July 28, 2026 8:56 am
The 15 most expensive Hollywood blockbusters ever — and the astronomical price tag at No 1
Go inside the 15 priciest Hollywood epics ever made, where eye-watering budgets, audacious filmmaking, and global box office muscle collide.
July 20, 2026 8:11 am
Silent Hill Movie Bombs With Critics Before Theater Release
The latest Silent Hill film adaptation crashes with a devastating 6% critic score, sparking debate about whether video game movies can ever capture the psychological depth that makes the games so haunting.
January 25, 2026 8:03 pm
Fast & Furious Star Names Shocking Pick for First Action Film
The blockbuster franchise star reveals his surprising choice for cinema's original action movie, pointing to an unexpected 1939 classic that redefined danger on screen.
January 25, 2026 6:45 pm
Sebastian Stan's Career-Changing Audition Disasters Revealed
The Marvel star opens up about missing out on two massive Hollywood roles that could have changed everything. His candid confession about feeling completely outmatched reveals the brutal reality of A-list competition.
January 25, 2026 6:32 pm
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