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Movies - Box Office

Universal Passed $5 Billion at the 2026 Box Office. The Real Star Is a $750,000 Horror Movie, and Hollywood May Learn the Wrong Lesson

Universal became the first studio to cross $5 billion at the 2026 global box office, powered by The Odyssey, Michael and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie — and by Obsession, a $750,000 horror movie that grossed $519 million. Here's my budget-vs-gross table, the fine print on Michael, and why I think Hollywood will learn the wrong lesson.

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. · SEP 28Read full story →
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Movies - Box Office Rereleases

Avengers: Endgame Encore Had the Second-Biggest Rerelease Weekend Ever. I Graded Every Rerelease Since 1997, and Marvel Isn't No. 1

Avengers: Endgame Encore reclaimed the box office's No. 1 spot Sept. 25-27 with $26 million domestic, beating Resident Evil's second weekend and landing as the second-biggest theatrical rerelease opening of all time. I built the full historical table and handed out my own letter grades to every legacy rerelease since 1997 — and Marvel still isn't the champion.

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. · SEP 27Read full story →
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Movies - Forgotten Island

DreamWorks Just Released Its 50th Movie, and I Think It Quietly Beat Pixar at the One Thing Pixar Used to Own

Forgotten Island, DreamWorks Animation's 50th film, opened September 25 to a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes from 68 critics after debuting at a perfect 100%. I broke down why the studio's cheaper, culturally specific bet is quietly outperforming Pixar's expensive originals, and built my own ranking of every original CG movie either studio has released since 2022.

MANILA & LOS ANGELES · SEP 25Read full story →
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Movies - Heart of the Beast

Brad Pitt's New Movie Hit 92% on Rotten Tomatoes. I Expected to Roll My Eyes at a Dog Movie, and Odin Wrecked Me Anyway

Heart of the Beast opens nationwide Friday with a 92% on Rotten Tomatoes from 37 critics, the best-reviewed movie of both Brad Pitt's and David Ayer's careers. I watched it, tracked how the score actually got there, and built my own ranking of every man-and-his-dog survival movie to see where it lands.

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. · SEP 24Read full story →
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Movies - Paramount & Warner Bros. Discovery

Paramount Is Two Weeks From Closing the Biggest Merger in Hollywood History. It Started Talking to Elon Musk About Helping Pay

Paramount Skydance's $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery cleared its last legal roadblock on September 21 and is expected to close in early October. Two days later, Semafor reported Paramount has discussed bringing Elon Musk on as an equity investor. My own studio-by-studio breakdown of what's merging, a personal tier list of what to actually watch, and why the Musk headline bothers me more than the price tag does.

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. · SEP 24Read full story →
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Movies - Avengers: Endgame Encore

Avengers: Endgame Already Made $2.8 Billion. Can Six New Minutes Send a Seven-Year-Old Movie Back to No. 1?

Avengers: Endgame Encore returns to theaters September 25 with about six new minutes bridging into Avengers: Doomsday, and trackers project it could out-open Resident Evil's second weekend. All four new post-credits scenes have already leaked. Here's what's new, what leaked, my own spoiler-risk ranking of the four scenes, and why I think the stunt is smarter than it looks.

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. · SEP 23Read full story →
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Movies - Toy Story 5

Toy Story 5 Just Became Pixar's Biggest Movie Ever. This Saturday, Disney Lays Off the People Who Helped Build It

Toy Story 5 closed its theatrical run as the highest-grossing Toy Story movie ever made, at $1.144 billion worldwide. On September 26, a California WARN notice puts roughly 108 Pixar employees officially out of a job, part of Disney's third round of 2026 layoffs. My own ranking of all five films, a side-by-side numbers table, and why I don't think this is as simple as a villain story.

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. · SEP 23Read full story →
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Movies - Cliff Booth

Leonardo DiCaprio Isn't in the New Trailer for His Own Sequel. One Line of Dialogue Explains Why

Netflix released the first full trailer for The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, David Fincher's follow-up to Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't appear on screen, Timothy Olyphant is back, and one throwaway line explains why. Here's every confirmed detail, our own cast-then-and-now table, and a director-DNA breakdown you won't find anywhere else.

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. · SEP 22Read full story →
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Movies - Practical Magic

Practical Magic Flopped in 1998. Twenty-Eight Years Later, Its Sequel Opened at No. 1 on Nostalgia Alone

Practical Magic 2 opened atop the domestic box office with $30 million, dethroning Spider-Man: Brand New Day after six straight weekends at No. 1 — but critics and audiences are watching two very different movies, splitting 37% to 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, nearly three decades after the original barely cracked $13 million on its entire opening weekend.

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. · SEP 17Read full story →
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Movies - The Odyssey

Jurassic World Held Universal's Box Office Crown for Eleven Years. A Three-Hour R-Rated Retelling of Homer Just Took It Away

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey closed its ninth weekend at $1.684 billion worldwide, sliding past Jurassic World's $1.677 billion to become Universal's highest-grossing film ever — and along the way became Nolan's biggest movie, the highest-grossing R-rated film in history, and the highest-grossing IMAX release of all time.

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. · SEP 17Read full story →

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