Weekend
Keanu Reeves is in talks for The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil, seven years after the remake was announced
Keanu Reeves is in talks to star opposite Ma Dong-seok in James Wan's remake of the Korean thriller at Paramount, seven years after the project was first unveiled. Trade reports say the original debuted at Cannes. By the time it screened there, 1.9 million Koreans had already seen it.
October 21, 2026 11:53 pm
Resident Evil overtakes Weapons as Zach Cregger's biggest hit, but only worldwide
China lifted Resident Evil to $320.2 million worldwide, $8.5 million of it from Australia. At home and against its budget, Weapons still leads.
October 14, 2026 11:38 am
Greig Fraser says Project Hail Mary was harder to shoot than Dune or The Batman
The Oscar-winning Australian says Project Hail Mary beat Dune and The Batman for difficulty. The $200 million film, built around a puppet on tiny sets, has made $684.5 million worldwide.
October 12, 2026 11:27 am
Tom Cruise's Digger takes fourth place by just $1,771 as loss estimates double
Iñárritu's political satire edged out an A24 film for fourth place on its opening weekend. Published budgets run from $125 million to nearly $180 million, and the loss estimates doubled in a week.
October 10, 2026 3:05 am
Positive first reactions greet Dune: Part Three, hype looks justified
After a limited screening, Dune: Part Three sparked the kind of buzz that turns into ticket lines.
October 7, 2026 7:06 am
Universal passed five billion dollars and two thirds of it came from outside North America
Universal became the first studio to pass five billion dollars at the 2026 global box office. Nearly two thirds of that money came from outside North America, and the studio's own announcement undersells one of its biggest films by sixty million dollars.
September 29, 2026 4:23 pm
Resident Evil broke a franchise record by beating a number that was never an opening weekend
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil did set a franchise opening record. The $60.12 million it is being measured against is not an opening weekend at all — it is a sixteen-year-old film's entire domestic run.
September 27, 2026 1:38 pm
A Netflix Series Is Competing for San Sebastian’s Golden Shell, and It Drops Today
Pablo Larrain's Mis muertos tristes is competing for San Sebastian's Golden Shell as a feature. It arrives on Netflix today as four episodes, two days before the jury decides.
September 24, 2026 10:18 am
One Animated Release, Six Opening Figures, and the Two That Are Actually Wrong
Six figures circulated for one weekend of one animated release: $6.8M, $7.8M, $12.7M, $26.5M, $35.5M and $36.6M. Only two of them are wrong, and the trap is the one that looks right.
September 22, 2026 8:47 am
TIFF Just Closed Voting on Its Most Predictive Award and Will Never Tell You the Score
Voting for TIFF's People's Choice Award closed at 4am. The festival has never published a single vote total in fifty-one editions — and the Oscar statistic attached to the prize counts films that did not win it.
September 18, 2026 6:18 am
Warner Bros. Lost a Fortune on The Bride! and Signed Its Director Again Three Months Later
Maggie Gyllenhaal is presiding over the Venice jury this week. Six months ago her second film, The Bride!, opened to $7 million and a C+ CinemaScore on a budget somewhere between $80 and $90 million. Warner Bros. absorbed it and then, three months later, bought her the next one.
September 14, 2026 1:30 am
Korea Spent Its Biggest Budget Ever on Hope. Na Hong-jin Made More Money With $8 Million.
Na Hong-jin has not released a film since The Wailing in 2016. His return, Hope, opens in the US on 9 September on the biggest budget in Korean cinema history — and has so far taken less money at home than the film he made for a fraction of the price.
September 10, 2026 1:10 am
Two Star Wars Films Just Reappeared on Paper. Neither Has a Date.
A trade listing dated 3 September put both Star Wars: New Jedi Order and Dave Filoni's long-dormant crossover film back on paper — the first sign of life from either in about a year. It is not a greenlight, and Lucasfilm has said nothing. But these are the two films Kathleen Kennedy pointedly did not discuss on her way out the door.
September 8, 2026 1:10 am
Tarantino Called Black Hawk Down the Best Film of the Century. Ridley Scott Says No.
Quentin Tarantino called Black Hawk Down the best film of the 21st century. Nine months later, Ridley Scott was asked whether he agreed and said: "No." Then: "I wonder what he was on, because whatever it is, I want some."
September 6, 2026 1:10 am
Spider-Man Needs $45M for the All-Time Record. Its Lead Over Star Wars Is Shrinking.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day sits at $891.5M domestic after five weekends at No. 1. It needs $45.1M more to take the all-time record from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Every outlet is treating that as a formality. The weekend-by-weekend numbers say otherwise.
September 5, 2026 1:20 am
Camila Morrone Is Joining Miami Vice, and the Cast Is Getting Genuinely Stacked
Universal's Miami Vice '85 added Camila Morrone this week, opposite Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler as Rico Tubbs and Sonny Crockett.
August 22, 2026 8:55 am
December 18’s box office showdown comes with bigger stakes than ticket sales
Call it the main event at the box office: Denis Villeneuve’s vision vs. RDJ’s MCU return — place your bets.
August 8, 2026 6:01 am
Where Was Kevin Hart’s 72 Hours Filmed? The Real Places Behind the Movie
Kevin Hart’s 72 Hours was filmed primarily on location across Atlanta and South Florida, with additional photography in Los Angeles.
July 27, 2026 3:19 am
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