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Few people expected a Japanese monster film to top the North American charts, yet that is exactly what happened over the November 6 to 8 weekend. Godzilla Minus Zero opened at number one with roughly $30.6 million, the biggest domestic debut ever for a foreign-language live-action release. The old mark belonged to a martial-arts classic …
Im Kino gelten oft einfache Regeln. Große Studios, große Budgets und bekannte Figuren landen an der Spitze, kleine Filme kämpfen um Aufmerksamkeit. Umso erfrischender ist es, wenn diese Regeln einmal nicht greifen. Genau das ist in den USA am Halloween-Wochenende passiert. Ganz oben in den Charts steht dort ein Dokumentarfilm. „You Can See Everything“ erzählt …
Halloween weekend at the cinema is usually a parade of masks, monsters and jump scares. This year the surprise came from somewhere else entirely. A documentary, You Can See Everything, took the top spot on Friday at the North American box office and is on course to finish the weekend narrowly ahead of Clayface, the …
For years, box office reports have followed a predictable script: one giant franchise film takes almost everything, and the rest fight over scraps. The final full weekend of October breaks that pattern in a refreshing way. Instead of a single juggernaut, cinemas are filling up with a surprisingly diverse mix of films, and the overall …
For years, comic book movies have competed on scale: bigger battles, bigger skylines, bigger crossovers. Clayface walks in the opposite direction. The new DC Studios release has no hero swooping in to save the day, a relatively modest budget and a premise rooted in body horror rather than spectacle. That makes its opening weekend one …
Nobody expected the biggest talking point of the October 16 to 18 weekend to be a nonfiction film that runs for three hours. Yet that is exactly what happened in North American cinemas. A24’s You Can See Everything, directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, earned an estimated $15 million from just 855 screens and …
If you ever wondered why studios keep making modestly budgeted horror films every October, this weekend offers a perfect answer. A small, simple scare movie is beating far more prestigious competition at the North American box office, and it is doing so with a premise that almost every child has lived through at bedtime. Other …
The first October weekend at the North American box office told a story of two very different openings. Verity, the adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling thriller starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson, landed at number one with a strong debut, while Tom Cruise’s new film Digger had to settle for a much quieter start further …
Hollywood’s first October weekend is shaping up as a two-lane race with very different expectations. Amazon MGM’s Verity, adapted from Colleen Hoover and led by Anne Hathaway, is tracking toward a robust $25–35 million opening across roughly 3,510 theaters from October 2–4. Warner Bros.’ Digger, starring Tom Cruise and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, looks …
On a weekend crowded with Marvel nostalgia and big studio launches, A24’s Primetime delivered a quieter kind of win. Starring Robert Pattinson as television host Chris Hansen, the drama opened to an estimated $19.2 million from roughly 2,863 North American theaters — a fourth-place finish that still counts as a breakout for a $15 million …
Disney’s theatrical encore of Avengers: Endgame just reminded Hollywood how loud Marvel’s biggest swing still sounds. The re-release weekend pulled in roughly $26 million domestically, topping new titles led by Brad Pitt and Robert Pattinson and giving the studio a clean weekend win built almost entirely on nostalgia, fresh footage, and pre-Doomsday buzz that spilled …
Fall box office needed a jolt, and Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil reboot delivered one. Over the September 19–21 weekend the film took about $60 million in North America and roughly $48.3 million overseas, for a global opening near $108.3 million. That figure sets a franchise record for the live-action series and blows past the cautious …
Six weekends. One No. 1. And a domestic haul that has Hollywood staring at a number once thought untouchable. Spider-Man: Brand New Day has cleared roughly $923–925 million in North America after another Labor Day weekend, leaving it only about $12–13 million behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($936.6 million), the long-standing domestic champion. Trackers …