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Oscar winners at the box office — 2025

The Academy appears to be inclined to give Best Picture to a popular film again. The only question is *how* popular.

Jan 22 • Peter T Chattaway

Oscar nominations — my own two bits, and a complete list

Sinners leads the pack with a record 16 nominations while One Battle after Another is close behind, and international films did really well across…

Jan 22 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Weapons tops the list again as summer ends with a whimper

Also: the week's top "new" film was the 50th-anniversary re-release of Jaws, while the top brand-new release was Darren Aronofsky's Caught Stealing, and…

Sep 1, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: A Netflix sing-along wins the softest weekend since March

KPop Demon Hunters grossed more in two days than any other movie this weekend grossed in three. Also: Superman and F1 both passed $600 million…

Aug 25, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Weapons has one of the year's best holds but can't hold back the late-summer doldrums

Nobody 2, the weekend's only major new film, had a softer opening than expected, while The Naked Gun had the smallest third weekend in the 37-year-old…

Aug 18, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Original-movie Weapons beats sequel-to-a-remake Freakier Friday

Originality strikes again, as Weapons is the sixth consecutive Warner Brothers movie to open at #1 with over $42 million — and of those films, it's the…

Aug 11, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: The Fantastic Four plunge back to Earth, while The Bad Guys 2 and The Naked Gun have so-so debuts

Marvel's first family had one of the steeper second-weekend drops in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — and the second-steepest of the MCU's non-sequels.

Aug 4, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: The Fantastic Four clobbers its way to one of the best opening weekends of any Marvel non-sequel

The fourth cinematic version of Marvel's first family is also off to a slightly slower start than the fourth cinematic version of DC's Superman... for…

Jul 28, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Newsbites: The King of Kings! The Promised Land! Godspell!

The King of Kings is a box-office hit in South Korea; the Moses comedy The Promised Land reveals a couple new characters; and a documentary about…

Jul 26, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Superman has one of the best second-weekend holds of the year

Meanwhile, attempts to revive the I Know What You Did Last Summer and Smurfs franchises fell flat.

Jul 21, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Superman takes off, but how high can he fly?

The latest Superman reboot had a slightly smaller opening than the last one, Man of Steel. But it also had the best opening of any PG-13 superhero movie…

Jul 14, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Dinosaurs rule the planet once again

Jurassic World: Rebirth had a five-day opening on par with the three-and-a-half-day openings of the last two Jurassic World movies.

Jul 7, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

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