What’s better than being the No. 1 film in America? Being the No. 1 film in the world. Although Halloween only managed to double the returns of its closest competitor—not quadruple them, like it did last week—at the domestic box office this weekend, it took in an extra $25.1 million overseas, making it the No. 1 film…

Hope you’ve got a quiver full of Activia jokes workshopped and ready to go, because as we reported yesterday, Halloween was by far the biggest draw at the U.S. domestic box office this weekend. In the end, David Gordon Green’s much-hyped horror reboot came just $2.5 million short of breaking Venom’s record for biggest…

With the release of the season’s buzziest horror flick, Halloween, still a week away, this weekend at the U.S. box office was once again marked by a battle between two titans whose partisans are engaged in all-out war: Venom and A Star Is Born. And sadly for the little monsters out there, the thiccer beast triumphed ag…

Finally, after a couple months of waiting, this weekend saw the battle to end all battles: Venom vs. A Star Is Born. Fans of slimy alien tongues took on fans of that “Shallow” song, superhero nerds battled musical romantic drama nerds, and Riz Ahmed nerds squared off against Lady Gaga nerds. It all came down to this.…

Turns out that this last weekend wasn’t just a crappy time for an entire half of the human population of America—it was also pretty sucky for theaters, too. Even the country’s top performer, Tiffany Haddish and Kevin Hart’s new comic collaboration Night School, couldn’t do much more than make back its budget, posting…

Eli Roth’s first foray into the realm of the family-friendly seems to have worked out well for all involved: It’s pretty good (“an ooky-spooky, creepy-crawly Halloween treat for horror-fans-in-training,” per our own Katie Rife), it made some real money, and Cate Blanchett got to wear some great sweaters. Not bad for a…

Looks like Warner Bros. is back in the habit of making truckloads of money from its massive horror franchise based on The Conjuring. Studio execs were presumably giving praise to the Almighty in response to the box-office returns for The Nun, which obliterated its secular competition with a $53.5 million opening…

Labor Day weekend’s always been a good one for catching up on the movies you missed, and, with only the flimsy Nazi drama Operation Finale and so-so sci-fi flick Kin as competition, it’s little surprise that Crazy Rich Asians, The Meg, and Mission: Impossible—Fallout continued their reign over late summer cinema. …

This time last week, our box office report headline was “Crazy Rich Asians is a hit, duh.” That’s an apt, well-deployed “duh”—the movie greatly outperformed expectations, but as our own A.A. Dowd put it, “Hollywood once again underestimated the appeal of a crowd-pleaser starring people of color and the desire of an…

In an outcome that’s both surprising (considering the plop with which it landed with critics) and not surprising at all (because it’s Jason Statham and a giant fucking shark), The Meg was the No. 1 movie in America last weekend. By quite a bit, too—the film outperformed expectations with a megalodon-sized $44.5…

The top two films at the domestic box office this weekend should come as no surprise. Just like last week, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is currently the No. 1 movie in America, adding $60 million to a worldwide haul that’s now only $67 million from crossing the celebrated $1 billion mark. And just like it did last…

The giddy, cathartic appeal of watching dinosaurs stomp all over humanity’s hubris remains as strong as ever, as Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom exceeded expectations with a dino-sized $150 million domestic debut. The film also demolished this week’s per-theater average like so many outhouses, making an average of…

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…