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Dune (T -0.1%) surpassed expectations at the weekend box office, grossing $40.1 million domestically to easily outpace a decent crop of strong performers from the last four weekends. Its performance was particularly notable considering it broke a streak of relatively disappointing numbers fro...

Halloween Kills (CMCSA -1.7%) gored its way to the top spot of the domestic box office, as expected, scoring $50.4 million to easily outpace some healthy competition. That result came in healthy even though the film also launched simultaneously on NBCUniversal's Peacock streaming service...

"The movie business is dead, long live the movie business," says Morgan Stanley in a deep new note from a number of its analysts looking at an industry that has "permanently changed" in the wake of a COVID-19 pandemic and a rush of technological and cultural developments. "Since the onset of ...

It's Halloween season in the movie industry, and that means this weekend features a classic slasher brand name set to make its box-office splash. Halloween Kills (NASDAQ:CMCSA) is the 12th film in an improbable series based on 1978 horror classic Halloween. And it's the second film in a "rebo...

Venom: Let There Be Carnage (SONY -2.1%) opened to $90.1 million domestically at the box office - surpassing not only its own expectations (by far) but also every other film that opened during the COVID-19 pandemic era, providing the best news for the movie industry in a year and a half. The ...

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (NYSE:DIS) easily held off Dear Evan Hansen (NASDAQ:CMCSA) to keep hold of the top spot at the weekend box office, and in the process became 2021's top grossing domestic film. It grossed $13.3 million in its fourth week of release at the top, bringing...

Disney (DIS -2.9%) continued scoring at the 2021 box office, as Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings spent a third weekend topping receipts and Free Guy followed it up with just a small drop-off from last week. Shang-Chi drew $21.7 million to bring its cumulative domestic total to $176.9...

Add another film to the growing list of hybrid simultaneous online releases, as Universal's (NASDAQ:CMCSA) Halloween Kills - the latest entry in a venerable slasher franchise - will make a debut on Peacock on the same day it hits theaters. The movie, featuring Jamie Lee Curtis (who starred in...

Cinema stocks are rolling today after the latest Marvel superhero film shook up a traditionally slow weekend at theaters. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (DIS -0.1%) broke Labor Day records, drawing $75.5 million over three days and $90 million domestically for the four-day holiday ...

Free Guy racked up some not-so-free movie ticket sales over the weekend for theaters and for Walt Disney (DIS -1.1%). The film easily led the box office and outperformed expectations with $28.4 million in grosses. That's significantly better than expectations for $15 million-$18 million, and ...