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Friday Box Office: 'Hoppers' Tops as 'Scream 7' Drops 83% and 'The Bride' Bombs With $3M
You’ll pardon a comparatively succinct Friday box office report.
15 hrs ago
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Scott Mendelson
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'The Bride!' Review: Whole Is Less Than Sum of Impressive (If Stiched-Together) Parts
Maggie Gyllenhaal puts Frankenstein's mate front-and-center in this cinematically scumptious, thematically rich, yet narratively thin, revamping of the…
Mar 4
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Scott Mendelson
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Make You Wanna Scream?!
Listen now | Aaron Neuwirth and Brandon Peters are, like the rest of us, also tired of A) injustice and B) the schemes.
Mar 4
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Scott Mendelson
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1:25:57
'Hoppers' Review: Shocker - Pixar Makes Yet Another Very Good Movie!
Not every Pixar flick has risen to the level of ‘Finding Nemo’ or ‘Up,’ but that doesn’t mean the studio hasn’t semi-regularly produced new toons on par…
Mar 3
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Scott Mendelson
6
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Box Office: 'Scream 7' Scares Up Boffo $97 Million Global Debut
What Paramount did right and what audiences didn’t care about, amid the nearly 30-year-old horror franchise soaring to new commercial heights on the…
Mar 1
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Scott Mendelson
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February 2026
Box Office: 'Scream 7' Shows, Yet Again, That The Internet Is Not Real Life
Online discourse and social media controversies no more negatively impacted Paramount's slasher sequel in 2026 than did the likes of 'Ain't It Cool…
Feb 28
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Scott Mendelson
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'Scream 7' Review: Someone Has Taken Their Love of White Feminism One Step Too Far
For all the reasons you'd expect, and some you didn't, this dull, badly-acted and poorly-written follow-up exists mostly to criticize you for enjoying…
Feb 26
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Scott Mendelson
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Disney's Original Toons Can Afford to Fail
As long as sequels like ‘Zootopia 2’ (which just passed ‘A Minecraft Movie’ to become 2025’s top domestic grosser) are nabbing sky-high box office, new…
Feb 26
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Scott Mendelson
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A Failure of Soft Powell
Listen now | Chicago-based film journalist/critic/author Marya E. Gates stops by to discuss film marketing war stories, what went right for 'GOAT' and…
Feb 24
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Scott Mendelson
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1:46:48
Weekend Box Office (02-22-26) - The Newbies
The Lunar New Year releases ruled globally amid a series of (mostly) soft domestic-skewing new wide/semi-wide releases.
Feb 23
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Scott Mendelson
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Weekend Box Office (02-22-26) - The Holdovers
'GOAT' held incredibly well here and abroad, while 'Wuthering Heights' displayed (like most big-deal erotic thrillers over the decades) disproprionate…
Feb 22
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Scott Mendelson
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Box Office: 'GOAT' Aims For $15M Weekend As Powell Flops 'Wuthering Heights' Legs Out Overseas
‘I Can Only Imagine 2’ opened far below its predecessor, while ‘Epic: Elvis Presley in Concert’ pulled strong grosses in IMAX.
Feb 21
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Scott Mendelson
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