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After showing up strong at the box office in the first three-quarters of the year, Disney (NYSE:DIS) took a bit of a breather in October, flush from the success of the year's top film, and some studio rivals posted strong openings. But it's November now, and it's Marvel time again: Ensemble h...

Dune (T +0.5%) held enough business at the box office in its second weekend to lead grosses, and Halloween Kills (CMCSA +1.7%) out-scared Halloween competition to follow closely behind. Business for Dune declined 62% to $15.5 million, still good enough to lead a slower weekend at movie theate...

Movie-theater companies are rallying today after closing the books on October, the best month for the domestic box office since the March 2020 start to the COVID-19 pandemic. And that marks the first time in modern history that October has been the year's best month, though spurred by the out...

A hot month for big-budget movie releases is yielding to a quieter Halloween weekend, where Universal's (NASDAQ:CMCSA) Halloween Kills will hope to hold its horror-hungry audience against two new contenders for the scares crown. Meanwhile, after a successful bow last week, Dune (NYSE:T) ...

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...

A strike that would have disrupted TV and movie production nationwide has been avoided at the eleventh hour. Over the weekend, a three-year deal was struck between the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, which includes film crews across the country, and the Alliance of Motio...

"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 ...

Off-screen Hollywood workers have voted overwhelmingly to approve a strike against film and television production in the event they can't come to a last-minute deal in stalled talks with studios. Members of the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees voted with a 98% margin (a...

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 ...

It's the busiest box office in several weeks starting today, with three films headed into wide release - and Sony, WarnerMedia and United Artists Releasing looking to knock Disney out of the top spot. Marvel film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (NYSE:DIS) became the year's top-gross...