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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
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
Practical Magic 2 is being judged against a forecast that was raised two days before release
Practical Magic 2 is being written up as a film that missed a $40-50 million forecast. That forecast was a release-week upgrade. The August projection was $30-40 million, and the film missed the bottom of that one too.
September 26, 2026 4:51 pm
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
Endgame Returns Thursday and the Box Office Charts Have Already Made Room for It
Box Office Mojo has already built the row. Every dollar Avengers: Endgame takes from Thursday's re-release will be added to its lifetime total — and the $124.3 million gap to Avatar was never a like-for-like comparison anyway.
September 23, 2026 11:24 am
IMAX Set a Global Record Without China, Then Broke an All-Time Record It Never Named
IMAX has announced three different records for The Odyssey this summer. One excludes China, Japan and Korea, one never names the record it broke, and the number everyone is still quoting was superseded two weeks ago.
September 22, 2026 4:49 pm
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
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
The Box Office Is About to Hit $10 Billion Again With 26 Percent Fewer People in the Seats
The domestic box office is on course for $10 billion for the first time since 2019. It will get there with roughly a quarter fewer people in the seats, and the most-shared article about it contradicts its own headline.
September 19, 2026 12:44 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
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
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
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
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
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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