UPDATED: Avatar: Fire and Ash is still the rage around the world with a global weekend of $86.9M, $65.6M of that minted in its fourth weekend abroad in 52 material territories taking the 20th Century Studios pic’s foreign haul to $888M and global $1.23 billion. The trilogy’s running cume is…

It’s the prank that is more than a quarter of a century old — and Conan O’Brien is still not tired of the joke. So much so, he expects Paul Rudd to perform the gag as he shuffles off his mortal coil. For those catching up, when Rudd appears on O’Brien’s shows to promote a movie, he dupes the…

Updated: James Cameron's Avatar: Fire and Ash has reached an estimated $760.4M through Sunday globally. Within that, this return to Pandora is now at $542.7M from the international box office.  The sophomore session added $181.2M overseas amid just a 25% dip (-15% excluding China), and increases…

SUNDAY AM UPDATE: There’s a really good sense of Chi during the final weekend of the 2025 box office with movies of varying sizes, i.e. a slew of mid-budget titles upward to a $400M 3D sci-fi epic and a a Thanksgiving animation holdover performing strongly. All of this leaves many around town with a…

UPDATED including Christmas Day business: Yes, Virginia, it was a great Christmas with all titles raking in an estimated $68.4M, the best the post-Covid period has ever seen for the holiday. Christmas Day outstripped that of 2023’s, the previous high, which fell on a Monday and minted $62.3M…

Despite what’s expected to be a better holiday stretch from Christmas Eve though New Year’s Eve than last year’s stretch of $396.3M (per Comscore), the 2025 annual box office is expected to come up short from its anticipated $9 billion with about $8.8B-$8.9B per distribution sources. That’s…

It is probably too much hyperbole to call Sony’s Anaconda the funniest movie of the year, but for my money it really is. It initially started out to be the studio’s desire to remake or “reimagine” its 1997 horror movie of the same name that starred Ice…

As Jack Black and Paul Rudd release their meta take on 1997’s Anaconda, at least one member of the original cast will return to the Amazon for a cameo. During Saturday’s Los Angeles premiere of the Sony Pictures comedy, Ice Cube revealed that he makes an appearance in the Tom Gormican…

EXCLUSIVE: Steve Zahn gulps down a swig of Evian and takes a moment to list what's on his plate: There's Hulu's sports comedy Chad Powers, out today; he's in the UK shooting Season 4 of Apple TV+ series Silo into December. And, wait, he's got to fly to Brisbane, Australia, for two days of reshoots…

Here's the first trailer for Jack Black and Paul Rudd's Anaconda.  The film follows Doug (Black) and Griff (Rudd), who have been best friends since they were kids, and have always dreamed of remaking their all-time favorite movie: the cinematic “classic” Anaconda. When a midlife crisis pushes…

Christmas Day 2025 is bulking up in regards to product. In the wake of Lionsgate dating the Paul Feig directed Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried thriller, The Housemaid and A24 with their Timothee Chalamet ping-pong champ movie Marty Supreme, Sony is darting their reimagined comedy Anaconda starring…

EXCLUSIVE: After landing Paul Rudd and Jack Black to star, the new Anaconda pic at Sony Pictures is building on its ensemble as Road House star Daniela Melchior is set to join the cast on the new take of the 90s cult classic. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent writers Tom Gormican and Kevin…