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Box office: How to Train Your Dragon soars to franchise-best opening

Also: Celine Song's Materialists had the best opening of any non-IP film directed by a woman in over two years.

Jun 16 •

Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Ballerina underperforms with the weakest debut of any John Wick sequel or spin-off

The Ana de Armas-starring revenge flick, like last week's Karate Kid: Legends, fell well behind initially optimistic predictions.

Jun 9 •

Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Karate Kid: Legends can't knock Mission: Impossible out of the #2 spot

Also: Lilo & Stitch is already the 2nd-highest-grossing American movie of the year.

Jun 2 •

Peter T Chattaway

Box office: The Lilo & Stitch remake beats the Mission: Impossible sequel in a record-setting weekend

Also: Neal McDonough, who worked on the Tom Cruise movie that beat the original Lilo & Stitch at the box office 23 years ago, starred in his third movie…

May 26 •

Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Final Destination scores the best R-rated horror debut of the decade

Also: The Weeknd's Hurry Up Tomorrow flopped, Friendship landed in the top ten despite playing in only 60 theatres, and The King of Kings moved up a…

May 19 •

Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Thunderbolts* holds well enough in a week with no new major films

Also: The King of Kings is now the first Bible movie to be in the top ten for at least five straight weeks since The Passion of the Christ.

May 12 •

Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Thunderbolts* has one of the lowest opening weekends of any summer-launching Marvel movie

Also: Sinners had the one of the best third weekends of any R-rated movie ever, and The King of Kings is the first Bible movie to land in the top ten…

May 5 •

Peter T Chattaway

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