SATURDAY AM: This weekend, it’s a game of Marvel trying to beat Marvel at the weekend box office. Spider-Man: Brand New Day continued to post an all-time record opening day/previews yesterday with $168M, feasibly outstripping the previous first day record owned by Avengers: Endgame ($157.4M). Still…

Raunchy comedy I Want Your Sex starring Olivia Wilde as an artsy dominatrix and Cooper Hoffman as her muse is spinning some R-rated counter programming to Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The Gregg Araki film from Magnolia Pictures, which world premiered at Sundance (see Deadline review), hits about…

Expanded theatrical windows, an increase in young moviegoers and strength in emerging forms of content are ushering in a new phase, and a better one, at the box office, according to a pair of exhibition CEOs. The head of Marcus Theatres lauded the "well-balanced" mix of films that buoyed the…

THURSDAY UPDATE: As we told you, Universal’s The Odyssey passed Oppenheimer‘s $330M lifetime cume in 13 days with a Wednesday take of $13.6M and running total of $334.2M. It took 7x Oscar winner Oppenheimer 595 days to final at $330M, and that was with Imax re-releases. Odyssey will play deep…

Lionsgate and Universal's Michael passed the $1 billion mark, setting a record as the most successful biopic in history and marking a historic first for Lionsgate. Universal also reached a major milestone in early June when Illumination and Nintendo’s animated sequel The Super Mario Galaxy Movie crossed the $1…

The nation's third and fourth largest theater chains, Cinemark and Marcus Theatres, both posted upbeat earnings amid a long-awaited box office recovery. Plano, Texas-based Cinemark saw sales rise 15% to $1.1 billion for the June quarter, a milestone for the company, on rising admissions and…

EXCLUSIVE: The Bruin Theater in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles is coming back with a hopeful re-opening in mid-October thanks to Toronto-based exhibitor Rui Pereira. Pereira recently signed a lease with the Martyn Skouras family (descendants of Spyros Panagiotis Skouras, president of…

Here it is, once again, the biggest opening of the year as Sony/Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day looks to eradicate all superhero fatigue with an estimated $465M global debut in what is a 99% foreign footprint. That would stand as Sony’s biggest-reported global opening ever after its…

Broadway was on a bit of a rebound last week, with box office for the 30 productions jumping up by about 13% over the previous week, hitting a total $34,864,840 with attendance of 273,061 showing a 7% increase over the previous week and 11% over last season at this time. Just about every…

EXCLUSIVE: Neon is moving the Chloe Domont-directed adult thriller A Place in Hell from a Christmas Day release to April 23, 2027. We’re hearing that this office-knives drama about a successful cutthroat criminal defense attorney (played by five-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams) who has her…

UPDATE MONDAY AM: Sunday went into over-drive for not just Universal’s The Odyssey, which posted a higher second frame of $90 million, but also for Bleecker Street/Crosswalk & LD Entertainment’s Broadway feature capture of Hadestown, which filed in at $10.243M. The latter bests the opening of…

Bleecker Street's Hadestown: The Musical swept to the second biggest opening for a live show capture since Hamilton, pushing $9.7 million in a terrific debut on 1,949 screens. Due to "extraordinary response and demand,” the distributor said its new event cinema label Crosswalk and partner LD…