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Box office: Hoppers holds well in its second week

Also: Reminders of Him is another Colleen Hoover hit, and Scream 7 is the year's first $100 million movie in North America.

Mar 16 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Hoppers skips, jumps to the best opening of any original animated movie since Coco

Also: Scream 7 had the steepest second-weekend drop of the franchise, The Bride! flopped right out of the gate, and Zootopia 2 finally got nudged out of…

Mar 9 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Black Phone 2 grabs the top spot in an otherwise slow week

The horror sequel had Ethan Hawke's 3rd-best opening ever. Meanwhile, Good Fortune and After the Hunt had record-low openings for Seth Rogen and Julia…

Oct 20, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Tron derezzes, Roofman comes second in an underwhelming week

Also: Soul on Fire was the latest in a string of weak openers for Affirm Films, which used to be the most consistently successful "faith-based" studio…

Oct 13, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Taylor Swift rises, Dwayne Johnson falls

The "release party" for Swift's new album accounted for 40% of the revenue in an otherwise slow week, while The Smashing Machine had Johnson's worst…

Oct 6, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: One Battle after Another sets a record for its director, but has one of Leonardo DiCaprio's lowest openings in years

Also: Netflix spin-off Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie had one of the weakest openings of any DreamWorks Animation film, while The Strangers: Chapter 2 set…

Sep 29, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Demon Slayer, The Conjuring set new records while most of the week's new films underperform

Him had the lowest opening of any Jordan Peele-produced horror film, and A Big Bold Beautiful Journey outright flopped, but Noah Live! was the first…

Sep 22, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Demon Slayer shatters anime record, gives September a second surprise boost

Also: Downton Abbey 3 and The Long Walk had so-so openings, Spinal Tap 2 flopped, and *three* of the week's top ten movies were (re-)releases of films…

Sep 15, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Newsbites: The Chosen universe! Scorsese! Ruth & Boaz! The Promised Land! The King of Kings!

The Chosen's animated series is coming to Prime Video in October. Also: Martin Scorsese plays someone named Isaiah (again!), and Netflix's modernized…

Sep 1, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Dune rises to new heights, while The Chosen slips some more

Interestingly, the weekend's two biggest new releases both feature prophecy-fulfilling messiahs, and they both mark the ends of the current phases of…

Mar 4, 2024 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Angels can't save this weekend

The combined power of Ordinary Angels and The Chosen Season 4 couldn't quite match other "faith-based" hits that have opened at this time of year.

Feb 26, 2024 • Peter T Chattaway

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