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Can 'Star Wars' Have it Both Ways?
The new trailer sells IMAX-friendly, mythology-lite pulp adventure, even while the upcoming tentpole must help re-establish ‘Star Wars’ as a…
 • Scott Mendelson
Box Office: 'GOAT' Roars With $7M Friday as 'Crime 101' Stumbles and 'Don't Die' Survives
Sony Animation's theatrical comeback title soared to (relatively) strong first-day grosses as Amazon MGM's cops-and-robbers thriller opened like, well…
 • Scott Mendelson
'Wuthering Heights' Box Office: Why U.S. Moviegoers Won't Determine Its Fate
Plus, a quick history of Hollywood releasing (and not releasing) big-deal love stories or female-skewing event films on Valentine’s Day weekend
 • Scott Mendelson
The Little Movies That Could
Listen now | Chrissi Michaels returns to discuss another needlessly slight (in terms of newbies from the biggies) Super Bowl weekend
 • Scott Mendelson
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'Wuthering Heights' Review: A (Very) Bad Romance Makes For A (Very) Good Movie
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi don’t wanna be friends as subtext becomes text in Emerald Fennell’s cinematically opulent, emotionally potent adaptation…
 • Scott Mendelson
Three Cheers For The Movie That is *Actually* The Current Domestic Box Office Champion
That Sam Raimi's R-rated original comic thriller is thriving alongside buzzy fan-driven event flicks is more proof that there’s room for hits of all…
 • Scott Mendelson
'Solo Mio,' Stray Kids and 'Dracula' Score Big(ger) Box Office For Small(er) Studios As Hollywood Fumbles Super Bowl Weekend
With Tinseltown mostly taking a holiday, the likes of Angel Studios, Vertical, and Bleecker Street soared to comparative commercial highs.
 • Scott Mendelson
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