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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
Paramount Did Not Promise 30 Films a Year. It Promised 156 Over Five
Paramount's settlement with twelve states is being reported as a commitment to 30 films a year. The Attorney General's own release says 32 for three of the five years, and the consent decree contains the part nobody is quoting.
September 24, 2026 2:56 pm
The Odyssey Is Universal’s Biggest Film Ever, and Still $50 Million Behind Jurassic World at Home
The Odyssey is Universal's highest-grossing film ever by $23 million worldwide. In North America it is $50 million behind the film it just dethroned, and only one Universal release has ever beaten it there.
September 20, 2026 3:36 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
Akira Did Not Earn Five Times Its History. It Earned About Twice.
Akira's 4K re-release is said to have earned five times what every previous North American release made combined. The multiple is real, the baseline is incomplete, and in tickets it is closer to two.
September 15, 2026 9:14 am
Spider-Man Is $1.5 Million From the Record. Two Outlets Already Called It.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is $1.5 million from the all-time North American record. One outlet has already declared it crossed, and another named the wrong film as the record holder.
September 14, 2026 4:29 pm
Nobody Has Confirmed What Disney Gets From Spider-Man, Including the People Reporting It
Everyone is printing the same number about Disney's cut of the next Spider-Man film. It is wrong in at least three ways, and possibly a fourth nobody has checked.
September 13, 2026 1:25 pm
Warner Bros. Has Not Had a $100 Million Domestic Film All Year. It Is Counting on Witches.
No Warner Bros. release has crossed $100 million domestic in 2026. The studio's best film of the year stopped at $84 million in April. On Friday it opens a sequel to a 1998 flop that scored 30% with critics — and it is the most promising thing on its calendar.
September 10, 2026 1:10 pm
Coyote vs. Acme Passed the Tax Write-Off It Was Killed For in Nine Days
Warner Bros. decided a finished Looney Tunes film was worth more as a tax deduction than as a movie. Ketchup Entertainment bought it, released it on 28 August, and in nine days it earned more than the write-off was reportedly worth.
September 9, 2026 1:05 pm
Netflix Just Announced Its Third Dungeons & Dragons Series. It Killed the Second One First.
Netflix has a live-action Dungeons & Dragons series in development called Ravenloft, with Alfonso Cuarón executive producing and John August writing. It also, quietly, has a dead one. That makes three D&D live-action series announced in three and a half years, and not one frame has ever been shot.
September 8, 2026 1:10 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
Forty-One Screens on Earth Can Show The Odyssey Properly. They Have Made $66 Million.
IMAX has extended The Odyssey's 70mm run to the end of September — the third extension, taking it to eleven weeks. Forty-one screens in the world can show the film the way it was shot. Those forty-one have taken $66 million between them, which is more than most films make anywhere.
September 6, 2026 1:00 pm
Disney Is Re-Releasing Endgame to Chase a Record. It Tried That in 2019 and Missed.
Avengers: Endgame returns to cinemas on 25 September as Endgame: Encore, with roughly four minutes of new footage and a look at Doomsday. Disney has run this play before, with this exact film, and it did not work then either.
September 4, 2026 1:05 pm
Summer 2026 Is $158M From a Record. In Real Money It Is $2 Billion Short.
The US summer box office sits at $4.598 billion, $158M short of summer 2013's all-time record with eight days left to run. Rentrak thinks it may fall $18M–$22M short. Either way, the record it is chasing is a nominal-dollar record — and the shape of the two seasons could not be more different.
September 3, 2026 1:20 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
The Movie Warner Bros. Threw Away Just Out-Opened Ridley Scott
Coyote vs. Acme opened to $15.4M and second place this weekend — three years after Warner Bros. shelved it as a $30M tax write-off. Ridley Scott's Dog Stars, which had an actual studio behind it and a $70M budget, opened to $8M.
August 31, 2026 3:05 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
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