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“J0hn Carter,” “Jupiter Ascending,” “Speed Racer,” Cowboys and Aliens,” “The Wolfman,” and … “Tomorrowland”? Unless something supernatural happens in Brazil and Japan, the only two territories where director Brad Bird’s left-wing “Tomorrowland” has yet to open, Disney’s Global Warming screed

“Pitch Perfect,” a moderately successful sleeper released in 2012, is now looking like a full-blown franchise. The sequel was expected to do well this weekend and still managed to blow away expectations with a projected (per Deadline) $62 – $65

“Furious 7” had enough left in the tank to top “The Age of Adaline” and lead the box office for a fourth straight week.

The high-octane “Furious 7” peeled out of the gates in its opening weekend, picking up a stunning $143.6 million from 4,004 locations to easily top the domestic box office, according to Rentrak estimates Sunday.

Sean Penn’s “The Gunman” was no match for the rebel kids of “Insurgent.”

Disney’s recent streak continued over the weekend with the $70.1 million North American debut of its traditional, sumptuously costumed fairy tale adaptation “Cinderella,” according to studio estimates Sunday. Interest in the film, directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Lily James of “Downton Abbey”, was boosted by a “Frozen” short, “Frozen Fever,” that played before the feature.

Merchants of Doubt, a new documentary film designed to paint climate change sceptics as “pundits for hire” in the pay of big business, has tanked at the box office. Based on a book of the same name by Naomi Oreskes

Fifty Shades of Grey has crossed $500 million at the global box office.

As cynical as I am about the sorry state of the American movie star, never in a million years did I expect Will Smith to be anything less than a superstar. “Seven Pounds,” Smith’s humiliating 2008 dramatic flop, appears to

Without a doubt “Fifty Shades of Grey” is a box office hit. There is also no question, though, its success was front-loaded and that the C+ CinemaScore (which is pretty awful) audiences gave the S&M love story has hurt repeat

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Fifty Shades of Grey” raked in the Valentine’s Day dollars, earning an estimated $81.7 million from 3,646 theaters in its first three days.

In enlightened, progressive, left-wing Hollywood, women currently hold more power than they ever have. And yet, according to this weekend’s box office, the Cineplex is more of man’s world than at any time in recent memory. Long gone are the

In its third weekend of wide release, director Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper” is expected to gross another $31.3 million, which breaks the record for the highest grossing film over Super Bowl weekend. What’s extraordinary about this feat is that previous

First Lady Michelle Obama spoke out against critics of American Sniper on Friday, saying the film is a “complex, emotional depiction of a veteran and his family.”

Deadline has looked at the box office tea leaves over the upcoming Super Bowl weekend and concluded that “American Sniper” will easily take the 3-day weekend with a $35-$36 million haul. If the weekday pace holds, that should put Clint

Over the course of about 5 years between 2004 – 2009, Hollywood produced no fewer than 18 anti-War On Terror box office bombs that defamed our country, our troops, and the righteous cause of the war against Islamic extremism. Every

In its first weekend of wide release “American Sniper” more than doubled its most optimistic projections with an incredible $89 million 3-day haul. That was an extraordinary achievement, no question, but one surpassed in weekend two when director Clint Eastwood’s

“American Sniper” hit the mark with moviegoers again. The military drama starring Bradley Cooper as Navy SEAL marksman Chris Kyle topped the box office for a second weekend in a row with $64.4 million in first place, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The box office belly-flop of “Mortdecai” has launched a number of “Is Johnny Depp’s Career Over?” think-pieces. The thinking is that after the combined failures of “The Lone Ranger,” “Transcendence,” and “Dark Shadows,” Depp’s career is now on the bubble,

Indignity after indignity continues to pile on producer Oprah Winfrey’s dishonest Civil Rights drama “Selma.” On top of countless award season snubs, audiences are staying away in droves. After 5 weeks in release and a ton of publicity (both good

Man alive, if you thought the Left was bitterly angry last week over the success of a film that portrays the War On Terror as a righteous cause, wait until they get a load of this weekend’s box office. “American

The Sundance Film Festival begins this week and you know what that means: a coming onslaught of oppressive, non-stop coverage from the entertainment media about dozens of films no one will ever see … ever. Deadline published a fine illustration

The science is now settled: Anti-American films are costly box office bombs at a rate of nothing less than 100%. On the flip-side, pro-American films make money. Many are outright blockblusters. Moreover, almost every the anti-American film produced over the

Deadline Hollywood reports that Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper—the film adaptation of U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle’s autobiography of the same name, starring Bradley Cooper—has broken multiple January box-office records, grossing over $100 million its first weekend of wide release. One studio executive described the critically-hailed film as a Marvel movie made for adults.

Despite an also-ran Best Picture Oscar nomination and a ton of publicity surrounding all the anti-science crybabying over “Selma’s” overall  Oscar snub, the dishonest Civil Rights drama stood alone in its box office free fall. Every other film nominated for

The early estimates for director Clint Eastwood’s pro-War On Terror masterpiece “American Sniper” hovered around $40 million. Obviously our provincial box office gurus under-estimated the American people’s desire to see their warriors, wars, and country properly honored and honestly portrayed.

It wasn’t just Oprah Winfrey‘s “Selma” and the late-Roger Ebert who felt Oscar’s snub after Thursday morning’s announcement of this year’s Oscar Nominations, so too did all of mainstream America.  Other than director Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper,” which is expected

After director Darren Aronosfsky’s “Noah” opened in March to a massive $44 million weekend — despite the fact it depicts God as a anti-human enviro-terrorist — anti-God Hollywood probably figured they had cracked the code: sell the movie to the

Despite a 16% increase in the American population between 1995 and 2014, film admissions in 2014 hit their lowest level since 1995. With 50 million additional American customers, Hollywood wasn’t able to put any more butts in seats. Overall, domestic

The Sony Pictures comedy The Interview took in $15 million from Video on Demand online streaming through Saturday, making the film the studio’s most profitable online release ever.

The big news out of the 4-day Christmas weekend is the startling over-performance of director Angelina Jolie’s “Unbroken,” which nearly doubled a predicted take of around $25 million to slide into Monday with a fat $47 million. “Unbroken” boasts no

Clint Eastwood’s Iraq War biopic shattered box office records over the extended holiday weekend, after debuting in only four theaters nationwide.

Angelina Jolie’s World War II drama “Unbroken” delivered big for Universal Pictures on Christmas Day, becoming the third highest-earning Christmas Day release ever.

It’s been a rough year for the Hollywood film industry, even before Sony Pictures’ decision to pull The Interview from its scheduled December 25 release date in the wake of a massive cyberattack.

Did Darren Aronofsky’s anti-God “Noah” scare faith-based moviegoers away from giving Ridley Scott’s $185 million “Exodus: Gods and Kings” a chance at box office success? According to Deadline, one box office expert thinks so, “I think Noah poisoned the well,