14 h. ago James Cameron joins exclusive club of billionaire film directors – and still has another Avatar release to come

His forthcoming Avatar instalment is already projected to make at least $200m at the box office

Economics

40 h. ago Disney suffers box office disaster as political comedy Ella McCay opens to just $2.1 million

‘Zootopia 2’ is Hollywood’s highest-grossing film of the year, putting it in second place globally

Politics

52 h. ago Disney’s box office divide: Zootopia 2 sets new record while Ella McCay stumbles

‘Zootopia 2’ is Hollywood’s highest-grossing film of the year, putting it in second place globally

Society

52 h. ago 'Zootopia 2' retakes No. 1 at box office, crosses $1 billion worldwide

“Zootopia 2” has regained the No. 1 spot at the box office with $26.3 million in its third weekend of release

Society

5 d. ago See what iconic Seinfeld star looks like now at 70 as he tops the box office with new horror film

As meddling mailman Newman in Seinfeld, Wayne Knight played the quintessential character that you loved to hate.

Events

6 d. ago What a flop! Shares in cinema chain Everyman crash as film fans stay away

The troubled group, which runs 49 cinemas across the UK, said poor box office takings in recent months meant sales and profits will come in below City forecasts.

Events

6 d. ago Cinema chain Everyman to miss forecasts amid weak UK box office

Shares in Everyman Media Group slid by as much as 20% in early trading.

Politics

6 d. ago Fears for Ariana Grande: Family member finally admits what everyone's thinking... as they stage intervention and explain why Cynthia Erivo touches her so much

Wicked: For Good may be a box office hit, but multiple sources have laid bare to the Daily Mail the emotional toll Ariana Grande has faced during the film's demanding press tour.

Politics

7 d. ago All hail Avatar! How event movies are trying to bring back the box office blockbuster

Ahead of James Cameron’s latest Avatar sequel hitting the big screen, we look at how studios aim for ‘theatricality’ to get streaming film fans from sofa to cinemaIf anyone still knows how to fill a movie theatre, it’s James Cameron. Having broken the all-time worldwide box office record in 1997 with Titanic and again 12 years later with Avatar, his work is the acme of big-screen spectacle.His latest offering, Avatar: Fire and Ash, arrives in radically different circumstances. With several years now between us and the pandemic, it is clear that theatrical box office is likely not coming back to what it was: US total box office for 2025 currently stands at $7.6bn (down from $11.3bn in 2019); the worldwide haul is expected to be around $34.1bn, a 13% drop from pre-Covid times. All the more onus on Cameron’s hypertrophic Smurfs to bring in the box office cavalry at year’s end. And hopefully supply some further indications about the magic elixir needed to break the Netflix’n’chill stran...

Sport

9 d. ago Bad reviews didn’t scare off the ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ audience. It even broke a record

“Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” is dominating the box office in its opening weekend in North America

Events

9 d. ago Demon Slayer star confirms if he would return to hit anime after final films

Zach Aguilar, who voices Tanjiro Kamado, has shared what fans can expect from the two remaining Demon Slayer films after Infinity Castle's box office success

Events

9 d. ago 4 Celtic stars reborn in box office Wilfried Nancy XI as new formation to unleash the real Kieran Tierney

It's anyone's guess how the new manager will shake things up but there are a few tactical clues that hint at who will be in favour

Politics

1 week ago Huge Liam Neeson film fans say 'don't listen to the critics' on ITV tonight

The film which was critically panned but loved by audiences was a box-office smash, taking home over £200m

Culture

1 week ago Zootopia 2 bucks trend for Hollywood releases in China as it breaks records for foreign animation

Now China’s highest-grossing foreign animation, the films, known as Zootropolis in some countries, comes amid a boom for domestic productionsA comedy about animal cops investigating a reptilian mystery has become the highest-grossing foreign animated film ever in China, bucking the trend of declining interest in overseas productions that has resulted in Hollywood films struggling in the Chinese box office.Zootopia 2 (called Zootropolis 2 in some European countries), a hotly anticipated and widely marketed sequel to 2016’s Zootopia, was released in China last week. In its first seven days, it made about 2bn yuan (£213m) in ticket sales, making it one of the best-performing films of the year. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago Fackham Hall review – Downton Abbey spoof is fast, funny and throwaway

Period drama parody has some decent and often smart gags and benefits from a game cast including Damian Lewis and Thomasin McKenziePerhaps it’s the feeling of end times in the air: after years of inactivity, spoofs are making a comeback. This summer saw the resurgence of the lighthearted genre, which at its best sends up the pretensions of overly serious genre with a barrage of pitched cliches, sight gags and stupid-clever puns. The Naked Gun, starring Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson in a spoof of a buddy-cop spoof, opened to moderate box office success; the hapless rock band dialed it back up to 11 in Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. Reboots of the horror spoof gold-standard Scary Movie and the Mel Brooks Star Wars rip Spaceballs were greenlit, and there were rumors of a return for international man of mystery Austin Powers. Unserious times, it seems, beget appetite for knowingly unserious, joke-dense, refreshingly shallow fun.The latest of these goofy parodies, which premieres on...

Politics

1 week ago Scarlett Johansson joining the Batverse is good news for the franchise – but who will she play?

The actor who marries box office ratings with Wes Anderson cool should revive the Batman series, but trying to guess who she might play is a thankless taskFor years the follow-up to Matt Reeves’ slick but glacially paced 2022 comic-book epic The Batman has existed in a dimly lit rumour void. We know it will eventually get here (supposedly in October 2027), but nobody knows quite what it will look like. Entire geological epochs may come and go before the film-maker finally decides which doyen of Batman’s infamous rogues’ gallery he wants to unleash next. The foundations of Gotham itself may shift before Reeves works out which brooding, rain-soaked grunge ditty will form the basis of the new soundtrack.And then – out of nowhere – comes this week’s news that Scarlett Johansson is in final talks to join the cast of the sequel. We have no idea who she’s likely to play but it matters not: this feels consequential, a bat-signal flickering to life over a city long abandoned. Johansson is mo...

Politics

1 week ago 'The political equivalent of the living dead' ANDREW PIERCE reveals how everything is going wrong under the Starmer Reeves double act

Sitting side by side, they were all smiles. But look at the faces of Labour MPs sitting behind them. Grey, tense. They know that Reeves and Starmer are a political disaster.

Politics

1 week ago Monty Panesar takes another swipe at Steve Smith as box office Ashes feud re

Former England star Monty Panesar has responded to Australia captain Steve Smith ahead of the Second Ashes Test, with their feud ongoing

Politics

1 week ago Fear of facing the future has British politics stuck in the past | Rafael Behr

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves claim to be dealing with the world as it is, but their choices betray yearning for a world that has disappearedHollywood has stopped betting on original ideas. Sequels and remakes dominate the box office. Among this year’s Christmas movie releases are Zootropolis 2 (the first Zootropolis came out in 2016), Avatar: Fire and Ash (third in a series that began in 2009), and Wicked: For Good (part two of the adaptation of a musical that premiered in 2003).New stories are risky. It is safer to retell old ones. British politics feels similarly afflicted by paralysis of the imagination, intimidated by change, stuck in a narrative loop.Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Politics

2 w. ago James Cameron says he has a plan if Avatar: Fire and Ash doesn’t make enough money

‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ is slated for release in December

Economics