Families will not stop heading to the cinemas this week as Illumination/Universal’s Despicable Me 4 storms into summer with what’s looking like a $110M-$120M 5-day U.S./Canada opening at 4,000 theaters. This as Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 remains strong after a third No. 1 weekend, that pic heading to…

Media mogul Barry Diller is exploring a bid for Paramount, The New York Times reports. The Hollywood potentate-turned-digital media pioneer’s IAC Corp. has inked nondisclosure deals with Shari Redstone’s National Amusements Inc., the company’s controlling stakeholder, the paper said. The Times said…

Universal’s massive musical tentpole bet Wicked originally was dated to go head-to-head with Disney Animation’s five-quad movie Moana 2 on Wednesday, November 27, the day before Thanksgiving, but will now go five days earlier on Friday, Nov. 22. A very smart release date change. Both movies are…

Lionsgate has set a release date of Labor Day weekend, August 30, for the action crime thriller 1992, which is one of Ray Liotta’s final film roles. The Emmy-winning actor co-starred in the movie opposite Tyrese Gibson. In addition today, Snoop Dogg boarded the movie as EP through his Death Row Pictures…

In 1961, a key architect of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann, was tried in Israel and sentenced to death. An odd thing happened. Officials didn't want to bury him and risk creating a shrine, so they decided on cremation. That is strictly against the Jewish religion and there were no crematoria in the…

It's July 1, summertime, a hot one. Political storms threaten. In West L.A., one of the awards-friendly billboards on Wilshire is blank; another is selling spring water. Not a moment to be worrying about the Oscars. Or is it? Last year on this…

UK's Odeon Cinemas Expands Family Offer  In a bid to bolster its draw for families, the UK's Odeon Cinemas is expanding the scope of its "adults pay kids prices" deal. The scheme will see admits for one adult and one child from as little as £10 for an Odeon Cinema and £15 for an Odeon Luxe throughout…

Inside Out 2 has entered the prestigious league of movies whose films have crossed the $1 billion mark in box office earnings. The animated film features the voices of Amy Poehler, Tony Hale, Phyllis Smith, Ayo Edebiri, Adèle Exarchopoulos, and Maya Hawke. The 2023 summer smash Barbie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan…

UPDATED: Paramount's A Quiet Place: Day One not only set a domestic opening record for the franchise, it also did it at the international box office. Of the $98.5M global start, $45.5M is from 59 overseas markets, well exceeding expectations. Overall, on a like-for-like basis, the offshore result on A…

Two Indian films flexed at the domestic box office — and when they hit they really do hit, buoying exhibitors through good times and bad — with Kinds Of Kindness hitting no. 10 in a major expansion and Thelma not far behind. Kalki 2898 AD, a Telugu sci-fi epic from Prathyangira Cinemas, is looking at…

UPDATED: There's joy all around as Disney/Pixar's Inside Out 2 has crossed the coveted $1B milestone at the worldwide box office. With $1,014.8B through 19 days, this is the quickest time to the mark for an animated movie ever, besting the previous record holder, Frozen 2, which got there in 25. Only 11…

UPDATED, SUNDAY AM FINAL: So, as we approach the end of the weekend, it wasn’t a close call for No. 1 between Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 and Paramount’s A Quiet Place: Day One, with the former beating the latter $57.4M to $53M. Global debut for A Quiet Place: Day One was $98.5M. Inside Out 2 passes the $1…