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at the box office
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Kids’ Movies Are Saving the Summer Box Office
After a slow start to the season,
Despicable Me 4
looks set to capitalize on the
If-Garfield-Inside Out 2
family-film momentum.
negotiations
June 7, 2024
How Anti-‘Algorithm’ Richard Linklater’s
Hit Man
Ended Up at Netflix
The Glen Powell–starring festival smash seemed destined for a big theatrical release. A rainmaking sales agent walks us through what happened.
cannes 2024
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Sean Baker’s
Anora
Is Scheduled to Hit Theaters This Fall
Neon is planning a prime awards-season release for its fifth consecutive Palme d’Or winner.
at the box office
May 17, 2024
IF
Looked Like a Surefire Bomb. Now It Might Win Opening Weekend.
How a kids’ flick starring Deadpool is going to overcome indifferent buzz and bad reviews to win the box office this weekend.
‘do i have it or not?’
Mar. 22, 2024
First a Cop, Then a Bodybuilder, Now a Movie Star
Love Lies Bleeding
star Katy O’Brian on the long journey of self-discovery that brought her to an A24 romance opposite Kristen Stewart.
oscars 2024
Mar. 6, 2024
‘I’m Not Going to Sell a $60 Candle’
Neon changed the Oscars game with
Parasite
. Four years later, A24’s rival is still betting on international film.
edglrd
Feb. 13, 2024
Harmony Korine Is Leaving the ‘Limited Experience’ of Movie Theaters Behind
The
Aggro Dr1ft
director’s new company wants to brand itself the next Supreme, with high-end merch, live performances, and film “experiences.”
backstories
Feb. 13, 2024
‘The Movie Just Couldn’t Withstand Another Brother’s Death’
The Iron Claw
director Sean Durkin on the hardest decisions he made while telling the tragic (and true) story of wrestling’s Von Erich brothers.
at the box office
Jan. 29, 2024
The Secrets of
Anyone But You
’s Unexpected Box-Office Success
The Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell rom-com’s unlikely journey to blockbusterdom benefitted from a singular confluence of factors.
barbenheimer
Dec. 15, 2023
How
Real Housewives
Became Hollywood’s Secret Movie-Marketing Weapon
The film industry looks to Bravoholics to save cinema.
festival preview
Dec. 6, 2023
The Sundance Movies We’ll All Be Talking About Next Year
A preview of what’s coming to Park City in January, from Kristen Stewart falling in love with a bodybuilder to Jesse Eisenberg starring as Bigfoot.
at the box office
Nov. 30, 2023
Inside
Elemental
’s Slow-burn Journey from Summer Flop to Year-end Hit
How one of the year’s most crushing box-office failures redeemed itself as an under-the-radar triumph (and Oscar frontrunner) after all.
the industry
Nov. 13, 2023
‘What Does Hollywood Want to Be?’
The strikes are over, but corporate entertainment’s identity crisis–cum–reckoning is far from resolved.
at the box office
Sept. 6, 2023
4 Lessons From a Box-Office Summer of Hopeful Highs and Panic-Inducing Lows
This summer taught us a lot about the new normal in audience behavior, even beyond the
Barbenheimer
of it all.
‘historic first step’
Aug. 7, 2023
Overworked and Underpaid, VFX Workers Vote to Unionize at Marvel
On Monday, a group of more than 50 on-set employees filed a petition for an election to be represented by IATSE.
at the box office
July 24, 2023
I Am Become
Barbenheimer
, Destroyer of Box Office Records
Barbie
and
Oppenheimer
’s staggering returns seem to signal franchise fatigue — or at least that audiences want alternatives to the same old, same old.
a long talk
July 17, 2023
From Blowing Up Toasters to a Seven-Figure A24 Deal
Meet Danny and Michael Philippou, a.k.a. RackaRacka, the excitable 30-year-old twin directors behind this summer’s biggest horror movie.
crack the whip
June 29, 2023
How
Indiana Jones 5
Could Become a
Top Gun: Maverick
-level Hit
Executives and industry insiders have three specific tips for Disney’s would-be summer blockbuster.
at the box office
June 23, 2023
The Summer of the R-rated Comedy Is Off to a Rocky Start at the Box Office
Coming from the first of four R-rated studio comedies in theaters this summer,
No Hard Feelings
’s tepid debut could have a chilling effect.
making a movie
June 23, 2023
‘Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts’
Four animators say unsustainable working conditions are behind the success of
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
.
what green screen?
June 20, 2023
There’s an Art to Setting Chris Hemsworth on Fire
Netflix tried to persuade stuntman turned director Sam Hargrave to use digital effects to set his movie star ablaze. He declined.
family
May 22, 2023
Stepping in to Finish Directing
Fast X
Wasn’t Stressful at All, No Sir
Louis Leterrier recalls going pale when asked to take over for Justin Lin, afraid of becoming the “guy who destroyed the
Fast and Furious
franchise.”
summer preview 2023
May 15, 2023
Here Come
Fast X
, Tom Cruise, and a Summer of Big Movies
But which will be the biggest? In a post-
Maverick
glow, anything is possible.
story behind the script
May 15, 2023
Air
Exists Because One Underemployed Guy in His 20s Saw
The Last Dance
Alex Convery had zero TV or movie credits when he saw three key minutes of the 2020 Michael Jordan docuseries and thought,
Man, this is a movie
.
cinemacon 2023
Apr. 27, 2023
Nolan Says
Oppenheimer
Is About ‘the Most Important Person Who Ever Lived’
Christopher Nolan previewed footage from his latest at CinemaCon, featuring Matt Damon in a mustache and Robert Downey Jr. talking about spies.
cinemacon 2023
Apr. 26, 2023
The New
Indiana Jones 5
Footage
Would Make Marion Ravenwood Proud
A
Dial of Destiny
scene shown at CinemaCon provides a deliberate, dopamine-inducing echo of the Cairo chase sequence from
Raiders of the Lost Ark.
cinemacon 2023
Apr. 26, 2023
The Flash
Gets Praise (and Backhanded Compliments) After First Screening
“Audiences want nostalgia, and they want feel-good. Execution is less important,” said an executive from a competing studio.
cinemacon 2023
Apr. 25, 2023
This Barbie Gets Arrested and Goes to Jail in New CinemaCon Footage
Greta Gerwig and the
Barbie
cast introduced new details and clips from the upcoming film.
anyone but you
Apr. 25, 2023
Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney Flirt in Front of CinemaCon
Day one of CinemaCon brought banter from the
Anyone But You
stars and bloodshed in the first footage from
Kraven
and Ridley Scott’s
Napoleon.
at the box office
Apr. 18, 2023
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Is-a Going to-a Make a Billion Dollars-a
2023’s most lucrative domestic opening is already the biggest video-game adaptation of all time, and it’s only going to make even more money.
backstories
Apr. 14, 2023
‘This Was
The Fast & the Furious
— But One of the Cars Is a Bear’
Cocaine Bear
director Elizabeth Banks breaks down the “scientific precision” of that mostly improvised ambulance chase.
exit interview
Mar. 29, 2023
‘We’re Going to Do the Biggest Stair Fall You’ve Ever Seen’
Chad Stahelski on hurling Keanu Reeves into the gnarliest pratfall imaginable, why Scott Adkins appears in a fat suit, and whether this is good-bye.
oscars 2023
Mar. 13, 2023
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Didn’t Just Win the Oscars, It Dominated Them
Inside the Academy Awards after-party, the industry took stock of the A24 movie’s historic trophy sweep.
anonymous in hollywood
Feb. 22, 2023
‘Honestly, I Equate It to Human Greed’
Three VFX workers break down why
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
looks the way it does.
the industry
Feb. 17, 2023
How
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
Trolled Its Way to Box-Office Success
“There was a petition against us. There were death threats. People were trying to call the police on us at one point.”
sundance 2023
Jan. 31, 2023
Sundance’s Year of Existential Crisis Yielded Back-to-Back Megadeals
Insiders call this year’s Sundance a return to form, with several all-night bidding wars and multiple eight-figure deals.
sundance 2023
Jan. 20, 2023
Netflix Draws First Blood at Sundance With a Deal for
Run Rabbit Run
For some Hollywood watchers, whom
Run Rabbit Run
sold to and when carries unmistakable symbolic import.
sundance 2023
Jan. 20, 2023
Sundance’s Identity Crisis Might Be a Good Thing for Hollywood
Insiders call it a crucial year for the festival. But with streamers’ tightening budgets and a looming writers strike, no one’s sure how it’ll go.
sundance 2023
Jan. 17, 2023
22 Movies We Can’t Wait to See at Sundance 2023
From
Cat Person
(starring Cousin Greg) to the new Nicole Holofcener to an Ottessa Moshfegh–Anne Hathaway collaboration and more.
the industry
Jan. 13, 2023
Inside the VFX Union Brewing in Hollywood
Visual-effects technicians have never been more vital to movies and TV. Can studios like Marvel accept that?
out of the uncanny valley
Dec. 20, 2022
Why Does
Avatar: The Way of Water
Look Like That?
A tour of the VFX tech that pushes the look of James Cameron’s
Avatar
sequel — shot at 48 fps, twice the industry standard — into a deeper ocean.
what’s next?
Dec. 9, 2022
With Wonder Woman 3 Canceled, the DC Extended Universe Could Be Very Different
Here is a character-by-character breakdown of what
could
happen to the DCEU.
season’s beatings
Dec. 6, 2022
Violent Night
Was an Idea ‘Just Stupid Enough’ to Exist
The guys behind the R-rated holiday shoot-’em-up still sound incredulous — not only that it overperformed but that it reached the screen at all.
delectable
Dec. 2, 2022
Hollywood Couldn’t Risk Making a Movie Like
Bones and All
Luca Guadagnino knew Hollywood didn’t have the requisite taste for flesh. So to finance his first American-set movie, he turned to an Italian backer.
at the box office
Nov. 14, 2022
Wakanda Forever
Closes Out Marvel’s Phase 4 With a Record November Opening
It provided a much-needed boost to reeling multiplexes that have been starved of big-budget event titles since summer.
sleeper hit
Oct. 4, 2022
No One in Hollywood Wanted to Make
Barbarian
The horror hit’s journey to No. 1 packed in the twists: “I had a movie, I lost the movie, I rescued the movie, then I lost the movie again.”
darling we’re worried
Sept. 23, 2022
Don’t Worry, Darling, It’s Judgment Day
Will all the rubbernecking directed at 2022’s hottest movie mess translate into ticket sales?
light and pain
Sept. 15, 2022
Channeling David Bowie’s Light into
Moonage Daydream
A near-death experience turned Bowie’s musings on art, alienation and existence into a “resurrection” for director Brett Morgen.
silver linings
Sept. 2, 2022
The Summer of
Almost
No Flops
Unlike just about every other summer on record, nearly every major release delivered profits at the box office.
batgirl
Aug. 5, 2022
Everything We Know About the Future of Warner Bros. Discovery
HBO Max and the DC Extended Universe are in for some serious revamping.
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