Joker starring Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck (The Joker) had a monster opening weekend. It made $93.5 million setting a box office opening record for October. This was also the 4th biggest opening weekend for a Rated R film. Read more... October 7, 2019

Downton Abbey is the number one film in theaters this weekend with a strong $31 million opening. The film based on the popular television series had a $10,068 per theater average. Read more... September 22, 2019

Martin Scorsese directed an upcoming film that will be released on Netflix called The Irishman. Netflix says the film is an "epic saga of organized crime in postwar America, as told by a hit man." It stars Robert De Niro and follows the Jimmy Hoffa story. Read more... July 31, 2019

The Lion King had a monster $191 million opening to easily top the box office this weekend. The big debut set a July weekend opening record. It was over $20 million more than the previous biggest of $169.1 million set by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 in 2011. Read more... July 22, 2019

There were two movies about toys in theaters this weekend but only one of them was for kids. Toy Story 4 dominated the box office and made $120 million. Child's Play, a horror movie, featuring the demonic toy-like Chucky character made just $14 million. Read more... June 24, 2019

HBO's new Watchmen series will premiere this fall. The series is based on the DC Comics graphic novel. There was a 2009 film (also titled Watchmen) directed by Zack Snyder based on the same comic. Read more... June 21, 2019

Avengers: Endgame broke many box office opening records with its massive debut. The $1.2 billion global and $350 million U.S. box office opening both set records. Read more... April 30, 2019

The Curse of La Llorona won the box office this weekend preventing Shazam from topping the box office for the third straight weekend. The supernatural horror film stars Linda Cardellini as a mother trying to stop a ghost from stealing her children. Read more... April 22, 2019

Shazam has extended its box office streak into a second weekend. Shazam added $25 million to bring its total gross to $94.9 million. The film is based on the DC Comics hero and stars Zachary Levi (Chuck). Read more... April 15, 2019

Warner Bros. has a clever April Fool's prank to promote Shazam. The movie company released a trailer on YouTube and elsewhere that appears to be for Aquaman 2. Shazam appears after a few seconds into the trailer. Read more... April 1, 2019

Jordan Peele's latest horror film, Us, dominated the box office this weekend. The film had a huge $70 million opening and an $18,800 per theater average. A family is terrorized by creepy dopplegangers in the film starring Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke and Elizabeth Moss. Read more... March 25, 2019

Captain Marvel easily won the box office for the second straight weekend. The hit Marvel film starring Brie Larson made another $69 million to bring its total gross to $266 million in the U.S. Captain Marvel has already made over $750 million worldwide and is on pace to become the next $1 billion Marvel movie. Read more... March 18, 2019

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part won the box office during its opening weekend in theaters. The animated sequel made $34.4 million. The film features the voices of Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Alison Brie and many others. Read more... February 10, 2019

Netflix is raising prices for U.S. subscribers for the first time since 2017. The price increase is significant with the monthly fee for the standard subscription service rising from $10.99 to $12.99 per month. This is an increase of 18%. Read more... January 15, 2019

Bohemian Rhapsody dominated the box office this weekend with a $50 million opening. The film about the band Queen stars Rami Malek as lead singer Freddie Mercury. It was directed by Bryan Singer. Read more... November 4, 2018

Venom won the box office this weekend with an $80 million opening. The impressive debut set a box office record for an opening weekend in October. The film stars Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock/Venom. It also stars Michelle Williams and Riz Ahmed. Venom has a B+ CinemaScore. Read more... October 9, 2018

Crazy Rich Asians is the number one film in theaters for the second straight weekend. The hit romantic comedy starring Henry Golding and Constance Wu added $25 million to bring its total gross to $77 million after two weekends in theaters. Crazy Rich Asians fell just 5% from its opening weekend. Read more... August 27, 2018

Mission: Impossible - Fallout is the number one film in theaters this weekend. It had a $61.5 million opening in 4,386 theaters. This is the sixth film in the Mission: Impossible franchise and the best opening yet for the franchise. Fallout has an A CinemaScore. Read more... July 30, 2018

Incredibles 2 dominated the box office this weekend with a monster $180 million opening. The sequel arrived in theaters 14 years after the original box office hit in 2004. The opening easily beat the previous record for an opening weekend by animated film. The previous record was $135 million by Finding Dory. Read more... June 18, 2018

Oprah Winfrey and Apple have announced a multi-year content deal. The deal has Oprah creating content original programs for Apple. This is a big win for Apple as the digital content wars continue to heat up between Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, HBO and other companies. Read more... June 15, 2018