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At The Box Office
at the box office
July 4, 2024
Kids’ Movies Are Saving the Summer Box Office
After a slow start to the season,
Despicable Me 4
looks set to capitalize on the
If-Garfield-Inside Out 2
family-film momentum.
By
Chris Lee
at the box office
May 29, 2024
Movies Like
Furiosa
Were Never Meant to Save Hollywood
We’re still expecting tentpole results from non-tentpole movies.
By
Bilge Ebiri
at the box office
May 17, 2024
IF
Looked Like a Surefire Bomb. Now It Might Win Opening Weekend.
How a kids’ flick starring Deadpool is going to overcome indifferent buzz and bad reviews to win the box office this weekend.
By
Chris Lee
at the box office
Jan. 29, 2024
The Secrets of
Anyone But You
’s Unexpected Box-Office Success
The Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell rom-com’s unlikely journey to blockbusterdom benefitted from a singular confluence of factors.
By
Chris Lee
at the box office
Nov. 30, 2023
Inside
Elemental
’s Slow-burn Journey from Summer Flop to Year-end Hit
How one of the year’s most crushing box-office failures redeemed itself as an under-the-radar triumph (and Oscar frontrunner) after all.
By
Chris Lee
at the box office
Sept. 6, 2023
4 Lessons From a Box-Office Summer of Hopeful Highs and Panic-Inducing Lows
This summer taught us a lot about the new normal in audience behavior, even beyond the
Barbenheimer
of it all.
By
Chris Lee
at the box office
July 24, 2023
I Am Become
Barbenheimer
, Destroyer of Box Office Records
Barbie
and
Oppenheimer
’s staggering returns seem to signal franchise fatigue — or at least that audiences want alternatives to the same old, same old.
By
Chris Lee
at the box office
June 23, 2023
The Summer of the R-rated Comedy Is Off to a Rocky Start at the Box Office
Coming from the first of four R-rated studio comedies in theaters this summer,
No Hard Feelings
’s tepid debut could have a chilling effect.
By
Chris Lee
at the box office
Apr. 18, 2023
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Is-a Going to-a Make a Billion Dollars-a
2023’s most lucrative domestic opening is already the biggest video-game adaptation of all time, and it’s only going to make even more money.
By
Chris Lee
season’s beatings
Dec. 6, 2022
Violent Night
Was an Idea ‘Just Stupid Enough’ to Exist
The guys behind the R-rated holiday shoot-’em-up still sound incredulous — not only that it overperformed but that it reached the screen at all.
By
Chris Lee
at the box office
Nov. 14, 2022
Wakanda Forever
Closes Out Marvel’s Phase 4 With a Record November Opening
It provided a much-needed boost to reeling multiplexes that have been starved of big-budget event titles since summer.
By
Chris Lee
at the box office
May 31, 2022
Record Opening Turns
Top Gun: Maverick
into 2022’s First Instant Blockbuster
“Audiences have been starved for a big movie to root for and to go see that isn’t a Marvel or DC movie.”
By
Chris Lee
at the box office
Feb. 7, 2022
Jackass Forever
Donkey-Kicked
Moonfall,
But They Didn’t Need to Compete
“There was plenty of time to move one of these films,” says a box-office analyst, who warns now is not the time for showdowns like this.
By
Chris Lee
at the box office
Dec. 20, 2021
Why
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Shattered Box-Office Records
The Spidey sequel webbed its way to the third-biggest box-office opening ever at a time when many counted out the movie theater for good.
By
Chris Lee
at the box office
Mar. 1, 2021
You All Dropped the Cat-and-Mouse Game and Saw
Tom and Jerry
in Theaters
The movie had a very encouraging opening weekend in theaters, all pandemics considered.
By
Halle Kiefer