‘Avengers: Endgame Encore’ topped the weekend box office with $26 million, mostly by trying to remind audiences of a time when most MCU movies were at least this good.

Listen now (93 mins) | Max Deering sits in as a resident video game expert as we discuss Sony’s blow-out opening weekend for the latest (and greatest) attempt to reboot ‘Resident Evil’

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and the 'Mission: Impossible’ sequels make up most of Skydance’s global box office and are what caused the company to be seen as a major Hollywood power player

An original centered on two (non-white) teen girls amid a wild fantasy rooted in Filipino folklore, it’s also stupendously animated, endlessly inventive and exceptionally funny.

Sony’s latest reboot of an oft-rebooted video game IP had more to offer (rave reviews, a marquee director, a clever structure, a no-homework-required story) than just appealing to an existing fanbase

Zach Cregger and Shay Hatten’s acclaimed and buzzy horror flick just nabbed (by far) the biggest single-day gross ever for an R-rated video game adaptation

With rave reviews and the promise of standalone entertainment value, Zach Cregger’s video game movie could open closer to $65 million than $45 million over the weekend

Zach Cregger’s relentlessly exciting and grimly hilarious video game adaptation is among the biggest “false hope” franchise revivals since, I dunno, ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’?

Tom Holland and Zendaya's superhero sequel became the top-grossing movie in raw domestic grosses despite being sold as a character-focused, non-event movie

You must do more than play to the fans, especially when the fanbase wasn’t big enough to make the first Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman-led comic fantasy a hit 28 years ago

A triumph of volume and variety, not just a few blockbusters, led to a record-setting $4.765 billion at the domestic box office for the 2026 summer movie season

Listen now (80 mins) | Rentrak's Paul Dergarabedian returns to talk the big picture for what indeed has become a record-breaking summer at the domestic box office

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A $900 million-plus domestic cume for Tom Holland and Zendaya’s ‘Brand New Day’ doesn’t mean audiences have rediscovered their mid-2010s love for Marvel movies

The Looney Tunes movie will likely open with $13.5 million this weekend (again showing that the Internet is not real), which would've been seen as a disaster for WB

The clever legal comedy will now be seen as a box office triumph for Ketchup even with grosses that would’ve been disastrous for Warner Bros. and the Looney Tunes brand

Jason Statham's lean and (not-so) mean ‘Die Hard on a ship' actioner works on its own terms by avoiding overcomplication and gratuitous pageantry

It’s the 2026 Summer Box Office prognosis which means there’s only one man for the job: Scott Mendelson!The Boys are joined by the Box Office analyst to look at the damage, see what’s to come, and go ...

There were 11 new releases and two notable expansions, meaning Tom Holland and Zendaya accounted for just 58% of the weekend total. However, only four of the newbies earned even $1 million on Friday.

News of a Netflix Animation film getting a global theatrical release arrives amid a slew of underwhelming debuts for the streamer's seasonal movie slate

Now running 98 minutes and with a greater focus on its "case of the week," Chris Carter's director's cut of 'I Want to Believe' now plays, for better or worse, more like a two-episode television arc

Anne Hathaway delivers her fourth great performance of 2024 in David Robert Mitchell's often thrilling, grimly funny and genuinely scary adventure.

Cutting sex scenes from ‘One Night Only’ makes as much sense as releasing PG-13 installments of ‘Robocop,’ ‘Expendables,’ and ‘Terminator’

Marvel's superhero sequel and Chris Nolan's adventure epic are both posting weekend-to-weekend drops and overall grosses that would be aspirational even if they weren't playing concurrently.

‘Ice Cream Man’ and ‘Super Troopers 3’ stumbled, as both ‘Tony’ and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ opened in limited release with promising per-theater averages

An otherwise harmless romantic comedy kneecapped by its indifferent treatment of its frighteningly plausible premise, the Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner-led release is scarier than any ‘Purge’ movie

‘Brand New Day’ will enter the “earned over $200 million less in its second weekend compared to its first” club and will have to settle for ending Sunday just over/under ‘Inside Out 2’s lifetime cume

As ‘Hadestown’ nears $20 million domestic and ‘Obsession’ tops $475 million global, the story of the summer will be the extent to which it wasn’t a zero-sum game.

Listen now | Aaron Neuwirth returns as we discuss why everything went better than right for Earth’s favorite comic book superhero.

And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue

'Brand New Day’ has earned $449 million domestically and $1.155 billion worldwide, already vaulting it past 'Toy Story 5' as the year’s biggest-grossing movie

Matt Johnson's compelling, visually scrumptious and superbly acted drama is a thoughtful coming of age story that just happens to be a "prequel origin story" focused on Anthony Bourdain

ALT: Web Shooting Spider-man

With $35 million on Wednesday and a likely over/under $120 million five-day debut, Marvel Studios will get its first Middle Kingdom blockbuster since, well, Sony's last MCU Peter Parker movie

While it gets a little busy and interconnectively-crowded at the end, Destin Daniel Cretton's MCU fantasy finally prioritizes the passion of the Peter

Chris Nolan's action fantasy took one of the smallest domestic drops ever for any $100 million-plus opener with a ten-day total higher than any movie that had opened below $125 million

Chris Nolan's latest will nab the biggest second-weekend ever for a film that opened below $125 million while holding as well as 'Inception' and outgrossing 'Oppenheimer's first Fri-Sun frame.