Here’s a headline that may induce some déjà vu: Over the weekend, The Incredibles 2, Pixar’s 14-years-later sequel to Brad Bird’s Oscar-winning superhero family adventure, set a new record for the biggest opening weekend of all time (for an animated film). If it’s hard to tell which records mean something anymore, we…

If Americans are suffering from a bad case of superhero fatigue, they have a funny way of showing it. The first half of 2018 has been marked by a succession of massively successful superhero tentpoles, each one breaking a record set by the one before, to the extent that breaking box-office records doesn’t really mean…

Mom doesn’t want flowers or a bottle of bubble bath for Mothers’ Day. She wants Captain America’s beard. That’s the takeaway from this weekend, where Avengers: Infinity War easily topped the domestic charts for the third weekend in a row with $61.8 million, beating the week’s two new wide releases: Melissa McCarthy’s …

True, Avengers: Infinity War crossing the billion-dollar mark at the worldwide box office was something of an inevitability. But the speed with which it did so is still pretty impressive. The film rung up $1 billion in box-office receipts in a mere 11 days, the fastest of any film in cinema history; it’s the 34th…

A Quiet Place has turned out to not only be what John Krasinski’s career needed to get out of its post-Office slump, but also what the American moviegoing public needed to get their butts off the couch and into the theater during an unseasonably cold spring weekend. Theater attendance was up 24 percent overall this…

Critics like to opine about how Hollywood needs to start taking more risks and nurturing fresh and original ideas, but this past weekend demonstrated why—well, why it doesn’t do that. Exhibit A: Trading on both a hit book and an established director whose name is enough to give an entire generation the warm and…

Wakanda is forever, but Black Panther’s reign atop the U.S. box office had to end some time. After a more than respectable five-week run as the No. 1 movie in America, this weekend the Marvel superhero adventure fell to No. 2, replaced by a different sort of nerd bait: The giant monsters vs. giant robots smash-‘em-up…

Thanks to the obsession with blockbusters that has preoccupied major studios for the past 40 years or so, there have been many weekends where two heavily promoted tentpole films—sometimes even from the same studio—have occupied the top two slots at the domestic box office. This past weekend, though, marked the first…

The Black Panther phenomenon continues to charge through the box office like a legion of weaponized rhinoceroses. Witness this little tidbit, dropped in a glowing THR report about the film’s $242 million domestic ($426.6 million international) Presidents’ Day haul—the second-biggest four-day total of all time after …

What’s that about movies starring people of color being a risk, again? Black Panther went beyond a hit movie to a pop-cultural phenomenon this weekend—this writer’s Saturday afternoon screening had lines out the door of the theater, through the lobby, and outside into the snow—surpassing the relatively conservative…

Thanks, in part, to Germany living up to its stereotype as Europe’s kinkiest commonwealth, Fifty Shades Freed defied the critics by pushing its franchise total over the $1 billion mark this weekend. It also topped (pun, as always, intended) the U.S. box office, easily beating the week’s other wide releases with $38.8…

Never underestimate the power of Dwayne Johnson’s charisma—or low expectations for a decades-late sequel. Unexpected box-office juggernaut Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle got another jolt over the weekend, topping the U.S. domestic box office for the third weekend in a row with a $20 million haul. That brings Jumanji’s…

Grossing $28.1 million in its fourth week out, Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle ended up topping a busy weekend that also saw The Post catapulting into its belated wide-release expansion. Steven Spielberg’s Nixon-era drama about The Washington Post and its role in publishing the Pentagon Papers has been picking up…

Looks like Disney will be able to buy as many solid-gold Porg statues as it wants this Christmas. Deadline reports that Star Wars: Episode VIII—The Last Jedi is already rolling in cash, as fans piled into opening night screenings on Thursday to the tune of $45 million.

Coco dominated the U.S. box office for a third week in a row this past weekend, proving that Pixar didn’t really need to put that interminable Frozen short in front of it to get American audiences to go see a movie about a Latinx family. The Day of the Dead-themed fantasy brought in an additional $34 million as it…