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lilo and stitch
Scott Mendelson May 19, 2025
Even without a record-breaking Memorial Day, the first half of 2025 is likely to land in solid box office territory thanks to Jack Black, ‘Sinners,’ and a bunch of Warner Bros. movies that are somehow hitting all the right notes.
sinners movie
Scott Mendelson April 22, 2025
The Ryan Coogler period horror-drama won the weekend, the Cinemascores, and word of mouth despite its unusual deal framework and the anxiety around Warner Bros. Here’s what Sinners says about the state of the business.
Minecraft Movie
Scott Mendelson April 8, 2025
A Jack Black video game tentpole offered up the year’s brightest box office., and saved Mike and Pam’s jobs—for now. So what went right with the ‘Minecraft’ movie?
snow white disney
Scott Mendelson March 25, 2025
Forget the movie’s controversies about Gaza, little people, and its leading lady. What doomed the vastly underperforming ‘Snow White’ is that Disney simply overestimated the value of a live-action remake of a historic, but not exactly beloved, film.


movie theaters covid pandemic china
Scott Mendelson March 18, 2025
Five years after the pandemic shut down movie theaters, so many other out-of-home industries have fully recovered—Broadway, the concert business, live sports, etcetera. But the exhibition industry’s “survive til ’25” mantra has proved naive.
Ne Zha 2
Scott Mendelson February 17, 2025
One territory accounts for almost half of Imax’s global footprint, and it helped drive the world’s first single-market, billion-dollar blockbuster. In this revealing conversation, Imax China C.E.O. Daniel Manwaring explains the recent jolt and what it might mean for Hollywood this summer.
Dogman
Scott Mendelson February 4, 2025
The success of this weekend’s ‘Dog Man’ is a reminder that animation sells, but the next major studio animation movie doesn’t arrive until mid-June. Why are theaters still being starved of wholly animated family movies?
a complete unknown Timothée Chalamet
Scott Mendelson January 28, 2025
Sure, Oscar nominations can give any individual movie a boost—see: last year’s ‘The Zone of Interest’—but unless a big mainstream hit is catching a lucrative second wind, they don’t mean as much as they did pre-streaming.


captain america: brave new world
Scott Mendelson January 21, 2025
With the strikes and Covid a distant (if bitter) memory, Hollywood is primed for a return to the old normal. Maybe? What will it take for this year to be The One?
Mufasa: The Lion King
Scott Mendelson January 3, 2025
An array of disparate success stories—from period horror gambles and animated sequels to an inter-gen biopic—made up for a lackluster summer and illustrated a new post-pandemic, post-strike, post-#Barbenheimer paradigm in this strange new box office world.
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