wicked 2024

Box office: Five Nights at Freddy's 2 shatters early December records

The film—directed, like its predecessor, by Emma Tammi—also marks one of the very few times that a woman has directed two consecutive hits within the…

Dec 8, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Wicked: For Good flies to the 2nd-best opening of the year

It also had the 8th-best opening of the decade and the best of any musical that wasn't a remake of a cartoon.

Nov 24, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Now You See Me magic-tricks its way to the top

The third film in the 12-year-old series had the lowest opening of the bunch but was the first to be #1 at the box office. Also: The Running Man…

Nov 17, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Dog Man tops a weaker-than-expected Super Bowl weekend

Also: Mufasa finally passed the total domestic gross of Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and Becoming Led Zeppelin set a record for IMAX-exclusive music movies.

Feb 10, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Dog Man is the year's first big hit

The Captain Underpants spin-off is currently on track to make at least as much in its opening weekend as the bigger-budgeted The Wild Robot and Mufasa…

Feb 3, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Weak debuts for Mel Gibson, Steven Soderbergh, Angel Studios

Meanwhile, Oscar nominee A Complete Unknown had the best hold in the top ten, while fellow nominee The Brutalist did pretty well in its first week in…

Jan 27, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: One of Them Days challenges Mufasa for the top spot while the latest Wolf Man reboot flops

Whichever film wins, it will be the lowest-grossing MLK weekend champ since 1997 (not counting 2021, when many theatres were closed because of Covid).

Jan 20, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Den of Thieves steals the top spot while Better Man flops

Also: Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is now the top-grossing live-action video-game movie ever in North America... but not the world.

Jan 13, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Mufasa takes the crown as holiday releases hold strong

Even without any new wide releases, this was the first time since 2020 that five films grossed $10 million or more during the first weekend of the year.

Jan 6, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Nosferatu brings horror to the holidays as Mufasa challenges Sonic for the top spot

Wicked and Moana 2 also surged post-Christmas, making this the first time in two and a half years that five films grossed over $18 million…

Dec 30, 2024 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Sonic the Hedgehog runs laps around the Lion King prequel

Also: Homestead had one of Angel Studios' best openings to date, and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is now one of only three "faith-based" films to be…

Dec 23, 2024 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Kraven and the Rohirrim flop hard while musicals and holiday films keep going strong

This week's top ten also included re-releases of the similarly-named Interstellar, with an R, and Interstella, without.

Dec 16, 2024 • Peter T Chattaway

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