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Established in 1932, Japan's Toho Group has grown into a film-industry powerhouse, not only at home but globally. Working across production, distribution and exhibition, it has recently been on an expansion spree, reeling in box office around the world and with recognition from major awards…

Godzilla Minus One, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Poor Things, Talk To Me and The Last Of Us top the winners list for the 2024 Critics Choice Super Awards. The honors are bestowed on the best in genre movies and TV series by Critics Choice Association members. Godzilla Minus One, Mission Im…

Non-English-language movies stormed the Oscars this year, with five films taking home statuettes — the most ever in one ceremony. Justine Triet and Arthur Harari's Best Screenplay Academy Award for French-language courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall followed three past non-English-language winners…

Waves of joy were interrupted by a brief struggle with the English language as the euphoric group behind Japan’s Godzilla Minus One accepted the Oscar for Best Visual Effects. As soon as the film’s name was announced as the winner, a large flock of representatives from it jumped in the air from…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. This week, Helen Mirren at the American Cinematheque Awards, the history-making connection between Godzilla Minus One and Stanley Kubrick, plus live on stage with Maestro and Anatomy of…

Toho International's Godzilla Minus One – with an Oscar nom and a $2.6 million estimated three-day gross – was no. 10 at the U.S. box office in week 9, and hit a milestone Friday. The giant radioactive reptile, on 2,001 screens, became the third highest-grossing foreign-language film Stateside passing Hero…

As Godzilla Minus One winds down its notable theatrical run, distributor Toho International said it will play a remastered black-and-white version of the film for one week. Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color will be in U.S. theaters starting Friday, Jan. 26. Both versions of the film will end their…

Toho International's sleeper hit Godzilla Minus One grossed an estimated $853k this weekend for a cume of $50.9 million at 605 locations in week seven as arctic blasts buffet much of the nation. The film about the giant reptilian monster passed the $50 million market Saturday, becoming the highest…

Godzilla Minus One, now at $14.36 million at the box office, has stomped into a record — it’s now the highest grossing live-action Japanese film in North America. This follows an opening weekend that marked the biggest Stateside debut of a foreign film this year. Distributor Toho International said…

SUNDAY AM: AMC’s second concert movie, Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé, though clearly frontloaded in its previews/Friday with a Saturday tumble of -48% ($6M), remains solid enough to hit a $22M opening, per industry sources. AMC is calling the weekend at $21M. For a movie opening during the listless first…

After countless variations and sequels, plus major studio Hollywood versions, Toho is back in the driver’s seat for the first time since 2016 with a new take on the 70-year-old Godzilla franchise, a consistent run far longer than Bond and just about anything else. The very good news here is that just when…

AMC’s second concert movie theatrical release, Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé, is hoping to liven up what typically is a dull frame at the box office — the post-Thanksgiving/early December downer corridor — with what’s looking like a $30M global opening, maybe $40M. The second movie ever to be…