13 posts tagged ‘lionsgate films’
Updates From Scream 7, Madame Web, and More
Christopher Landon next film after exiting Scream 7 is a werewolf horror. Get a look at Slimer’s return in Ghostbusters: The Frozen Empire. Schmigadoon is no more. Plus, Clone High returns for round two of its revival. To me, my spoilers! Read more...
The holiday box office was pretty merry for The Color Purple, middling for Aquaman
Even if most cities didn’t have a white Christmas this year, it was a green Christmas at the box office this year. With three major releases all slated on Christmas day—that’s The Color Purple, Ferrari, and The Boys In The Boat—families were keen to leave eggnog and wrapping paper behind to watch Adam Driver drive… Read more...
Saw XI is already coming out next year
If you don’t count 2021’s Spiral, which was of course only From The Book Of Saw, there were six years between Jigsaw and this year’s revival Saw X. And there were seven years between Jigsaw and Saw 3D. But it was an annual franchise before that, with a Saw movie coming out every October from 2004 to 2010. Now, after… Read more...
Napoleon conquers Wish but gets exiled by the Hunger Games prequel
November 2023: Napoleon is master of the domestic box office. Only The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes stands before it. Oceans are now battlefields. Or, you know, close enough. Ridley Scott’s Napoleon has successfully defeated every other movie at the U.S. box office this weekend—save for The Ballad Of… Read more...
Let us all be thankful for Songbirds And Snakes at the Thanksgiving box office
As far as holiday “weekends” go, American Thanksgiving has always been a bit of a weird one, box-office-wise. On the one hand, you have lots of people with a decent amount of free time suddenly sitting in their laps; on the other, a ton of cultural messaging that suggests they should be spending said free time in the… Read more...
Where could the Hunger Games go from here?
With the release of The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes, Lionsgate has used up the last of the source material that fed one of its most popular IPs. The Hunger Games book trilogy by Suzanne Collins yielded a series of four successful films, ending in 2015 with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2.… Read more...
May the weekend box office be ever in The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes’ favor
After a couple of slow weekends at the domestic box office, things have bounced back nicely thanks to four pretty big new releases that mostly did okay (and one movie with a limited rollout that did relatively good). The biggest of those big new releases is Hunger Games prequel The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes,… Read more...
Francis Lawrence on The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Olivia Rodrigo, and more
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