CPXGF News and Press, Cineplex Inc From 07/25/22

Nope ( NASDAQ: CMCSA ) led the domestic box office over the weekend, striking a blow for original films and building some power for its brand-name director Jordan Peele. The mysterious horror/sci-fi mashup opened to $44M, which fell short of the surprising $71M drawn...

Those moviegoers who have sequel-and-franchise fatigue from current films have something new to look forward to this weekend at the box office. Nope ( NASDAQ: CMCSA ), the third major film from director Jordan Peele, is likely to become the top-drawing original film ...

Thor: Love and Thunder ( NYSE: DIS ) hammered the box office with the franchise's best opening yet, becoming the top draw at North American movie theaters and setting up a blockbuster battle for the rest of July's moviegoer dollars. The film opened to $143M, keeping ...

It's been two months since the opening of a new Doctor Strange movie , so naturally it's high time for another Marvel tentpole to take a stab at splashing into movie theaters. Thor: Love and Thunder ( NYSE: DIS ) opened Friday and looks to pose an immediate c...

Minions: The Rise of Gru ( CMCSA ) built on its three-day weekend lead with the July 4 holiday, and set an Independence Day weekend record in the process. The film scored a total $125.2M in domestic gross ticket sales during the four days, running past 2011's previous re...

The July 4 holiday marks the halfway point in the year's movie calendar - and the fireworks are coming from an unlikely place this year: When it comes to the big studios, so far in 2022, the last have become first. After a couple of years where Sony ( SONY ) took the annual crow...

The box office is set to look little, yellow - and different this weekend, as a steadily building animation franchise tests the resilience of family films in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. Minions: The Rise of Gru ( NASDAQ: CMCSA ), Universal's latest prequel i...

A heated weekend box-office battle came down to Sunday-night receipts and ... it turns out Elvis is still the King. Sunday estimates had two films in a weekend dead heat at $30.5M each - Elvis (NASDAQ:WBD), the new musical biography of Elvis Presley helmed by Baz Luhrmann, the director of fil...

A hot June release schedule for movies continues with this weekend, but the box-office summer stalwarts so far are likely to keep piling up the moviegoer dollars. Two films take a stab at wide release this weekend: Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD) is out with Baz Luhrmann's Elvis, a musica...

A lackluster Lightyear (NYSE:DIS) debut meant the film couldn't quite buzz to the top, falling behind some still-powerful dinosaurs as Jurassic World Dominion (NASDAQ:CMCSA) held its lead for a second straight week. The Jurassic World sequel lost 59% of its opening-weekend business, but still...