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Wuthering Heights Opens Big, Though Everyone Isn't Buying It

Just half of audience would recommend the reworked classic

(Newser) - Emerald Fennell's bold reimagining of Wuthering Heights brought crowds to movie theaters this weekend. The Warner Bros. release topped the box office charts and nabbed the title for the year's biggest opening with $34.8 million in ticket sales in its first three days in North American theaters,...

Send Help Repeats, While Melania Plunges
Send Help Repeats,
While Melania Plunges
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Feb 8, 2026 2:50 PM CST

Send Help Repeats, While Melania Plunges

Film industry pins its hopes on trailers during Super Bowl

(Newser) - Hollywood largely ceded attention to the Super Bowl over a slow box office weekend, with the survival thriller Send Help repeating as No. 1 in ticket sales and the Melania Trump documentary Melania falling sharply in its second weekend. On one of the lowest-attendance moviegoing periods of the year, studios...

Melania Opens in Third Place
Melania
Outdoes
Industry
Expectations
box office
Feb 1, 2026 1:35 PM CST

Melania Outdoes Industry Expectations

Paying audiences appear to be bigger fans than critics so far

(Newser) - Lifted by a black-tie screening at the White House and a Kennedy Center premiere, Melania debuted this weekend with a better-than-expected $7 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. The film's release was unlike any seen before, the AP reports. Amazon MGM Studios paid $40 million for...

Friday a Big Test for Amazon's $75M Bet on Melania Trump

First lady's documentary opens in theaters around the US

(Newser) - One film sure to draw much attention upon its release on Friday will be Melania , a documentary about first lady Melania Trump's return to the White House. The film from Amazon MGM Studios will actually debut Thursday night at the Kennedy Center , newly rebranded as the Trump Kennedy Center,...

Mercy Unseats Fire & Ash
Mercy Unseats Fire & Ash
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Jan 25, 2026 1:21 PM CST

Mercy Unseats Fire & Ash

With hundreds of theaters closed, other recent releases have a tough time

(Newser) - With a winter storm blanketing much of the country, Hollywood had its quietest weekend of the year at the box office. The Amazon MGM sci-fi thriller Mercy dethroned Avatar: Fire and Ash from the No. 1 spot with $11.2 million in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday. Hundreds...

Fire and Ash Edges Bone Temple
Fire and Ash Edges Newcomer
With Strong Reviews
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Jan 18, 2026 12:44 PM CST

Fire and Ash Edges Newcomer With Strong Reviews

Zootopia 2 hits all-time milestones

(Newser) - 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple scored well with critics, but Avatar: Fire and Ash still proved a slightly bigger draw with moviegoing audiences this weekend. James Cameron's epic topped the North American box office charts for the fifth straight weekend with $13.3 million in ticket sales, according...

Johansson Loses Top-Grossing Actor Title to a Co-Star

Zoe Saldaña's Avatar success pushes lifetime box office haul past $16.8B

(Newser) - Zoe Saldaña just swiped a Hollywood crown from Scarlett Johansson. The Avatar and Marvel mainstay is now ranked the top-grossing movie star, edging past Johansson on the all-time box office list, per Entertainment Weekly . With Avatar: Fire and Ash passing roughly $1.23 billion worldwide as of Monday, Saldañ...

Fire and Ash Keeps Its Grip
Fire and Ash
Keeps Its Grip
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Jan 11, 2026 1:55 PM CST

Fire and Ash Keeps Its Grip

The Housemaid , Zootopia 2 remain draws

(Newser) - Avatar: Fire and Ash kept on smoldering at the box office, taking the top spot for a fourth straight week on a relatively quiet weekend as the January doldrums began setting in for the industry. The third chapter in James Cameron's Pandora epic brought in $21.3 million in...

Industry Starts 2026 Strong, Led by Avatar: Fire and Ash
Fire and Ash Hits $1B Worldwide
box office
Jan 4, 2026 12:30 PM CST

Fire and Ash Hits $1B Worldwide

After a down year, industry starts 2026 strong

(Newser) - Hollywood kicked off 2026 with Avatar: Fire and Ash atop the box office for the third straight week and with hopes for a blockbuster-filled year after a disappointing 2025. In three weeks of release, Fire and Ash has cleared $1 billion worldwide, the AP reports. The third chapter in James...

Hollywood's 2025 Comeback Fizzled
Hollywood's 2025
Comeback Fizzled
Jan 2, 2026 6:44 AM CST

Hollywood's 2025 Comeback Fizzled

Ticket sales rose a mere 2%, well under expectations

(Newser) - Movie theaters wrung a modest win out of 2025, but the bigger story is how much smaller the business still looks. Ticket sales in the US and Canada inched up 2% from the previous year to an estimated $8.9 billion, reports the New York Times . Industry analysts had expected...

Avatar , Marty Supreme Lift Industry's Spirits
Avatar, Marty Supreme
Lift Industry's Spirits
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Dec 28, 2025 1:55 PM CST

Avatar, Marty Supreme Lift Industry's Spirits

Christmas Day ticket sales harken to pre-pandemic era

(Newser) - Hollywood wrapped up a turbulent year with big ticket sales for Avatar: Fire and Ash and a box office hit for Timothée Chalamet with Marty Supreme over a busy holiday weekend in movie theaters. James Cameron's latest trip to Pandora dominated ticket sales, collecting $88 million over the...

Avatar: Fire and Ash Puts Cameron Back on Top
Fire and Ash
Shows Avatar,
Cameron Still Have It
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Dec 21, 2025 12:35 PM CST

Fire and Ash Shows Avatar, Cameron Still Have It

Holiday releases are coming soon

(Newser) - Avatar: Fire and Ash opened with $345 million in worldwide sales, according to studio estimates Sunday, notching the second-best global debut of the year and potentially putting James Cameron on course to set yet more blockbuster records. Sixteen years into the Avatar saga, Pandora is still abundant in box office...

James Cameron Reportedly Joins Elite Hollywood Club

Director is one of the few filmmakers to achieve billionaire status, Forbes says

(Newser) - James Cameron has long been king of the box office; now Forbes says he's a billionaire, too. The magazine pegs the 71-year-old director's net worth at about $1.1 billion, almost entirely from his film work—putting him in a small club of billionaire filmmakers that includes George...

No. 1 Zootopia 2 Is Even Bigger in China
No. 1 Zootopia 2 Is
Even Bigger in China
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Dec 14, 2025 12:58 PM CST

No. 1 Zootopia 2 Is Even Bigger in China

Ella McCay posts one of the year's worst showings

(Newser) - Zootopia 2 regained the top spot at the domestic box office with $26.3 million in its third weekend of release, according to studio estimates Sunday, as the Walt Disney Co. animated sequel became the year's second film to gross $1 billion worldwide. There were no major new releases...

Negative Reviews Don't Hurt Freddy's
Freddy's Fans Brave
Negative Reviews
box office
Dec 7, 2025 11:48 AM CST

Freddy's Fans Brave Negative Reviews

Horror film posts biggest opening ever for weekend after Thanksgiving

(Newser) - Five Nights at Freddy's has powered up the box office once again. The sequel opened in 3,412 theaters in the US and Canada this weekend and far surpassed expectations with $63 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. Seemingly immune to widely negative reviews, the film...

Coppola Just Sold One of His Watches for $10.8M

'I need to get some money to keep the ship afloat,' says director of Megalopolis

(Newser) - The most-prized watch in a collection auctioned by filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola sold for a healthy $10.8 million on Saturday, per the Hollywood Reporter . Coppola himself designed the FP Journe watch back in 2014 with the Swiss company, and the final price after "frenzied" bidding makes it the...

Zootopia 2 Has Record Opening
Zootopia 2 Has Record Opening
box office
Nov 30, 2025 1:25 PM CST

Zootopia 2 Has Record Opening

Sequels provide bright spot for theaters in a down year

(Newser) - Zootopia 2 had a roaring, record-setting opening at the box office. The animal city sequel from the Walt Disney Company brought in $96 million in North America over the weekend, earned $156 million over the five-day Thanksgiving stretch and scored a staggering $556 million globally since its Wednesday opening, according...

New Wicked Outdraws the First
New Wicked Outdraws the First
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Nov 23, 2025 12:03 PM CST

New Wicked Outdraws the First

Theatergoers appreciate second chapter more than critics do, exit polls show

(Newser) - Universal Pictures' two-part Wicked gamble continues to defy gravity at the box office. Just a year after Part One brought droves of audiences to movie theaters, even more people bought opening weekend tickets to see the epic conclusion, Wicked: For Good. According to studio estimates on Sunday, the film earned...

Now You See Me 3 Holds Off The Running Man
Now You See Me 3
Holds Off The Running Man
box office
Nov 16, 2025 12:25 PM CST

Now You See Me 3 Holds Off The Running Man

Winning film comes 10 years after the second installment

(Newser) - It's no illusion: The third installment in the thieving magician Now You See Me series beat the high-profile action pic The Running Man at the North American box office this weekend. Lionsgate's Now You See Me: Now You Don't pulled in $21.3 million, while Paramount's...

Predator: Badlands Leads Mild Rebound
Predator: Badlands
Leads Mild Rebound
box office
Nov 9, 2025 3:35 PM CST

Predator: Badlands Leads Mild Rebound

Other debuts trail far behind in follow-up to brutal weekend

(Newser) - Predator: Badlands led all films in North American theaters this weekend by taking in $40 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, a better-than-expected result that slightly lifted the box office from its autumn doldrums. Debuting on the heels of the worst box office weekend of 2025, Predator: Badlands easily topped...

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