It looks like this weekend, more people preferred to watch a sci-fi thriller with a woman lead over a testosterone-fueled mythical action flick. Or maybe they were just into Scarlett Johansson more than they were into Dwane "The Rock" Johnson. Or maybe it's just unfair to compare the work of Luc Besson to that of … » 7/26/14 2:37pm Saturday 2:37pm

Maleficent has become Angelina Jolie's top grossing movie: as of this weekend, it's made over $500 million worldwide. Jolie's last highest grossing? Mr. & Mrs. Smith. » 6/23/14 10:40am 6/23/14 10:40am

The film adaptation of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars made $42 million dollars this weekend, taking down previous champ Malefiecent forcing the weekend's other big debut from Tom Cruise into third place. » 6/08/14 9:30pm 6/08/14 9:30pm

Disney's dark, villain-centric flick Maleficent — a re-imagining of the Sleeping Beauty tale — raked in $70 million from North American box offices this weekend — and another $100.6 million overseas. This was, as The Hollywood Reporter puts it, "thanks in large part to girls and women." » 6/02/14 2:40pm 6/02/14 2:40pm

Catching Fire, the second installment of The Hunger Games saga is not actually an experimental art house film about a family arguing over a pizza order as they play an epic game of Monopoly, crossed the $400-million mark at the domestic box office this week. With a domestic haul of $409.4 million, the Jennifer… » 1/12/14 12:00pm 1/12/14 12:00pm

Get ready for all the headline puns about Frozen "icing" out all the competition, because Disney's latest animated film pretty much killed it at the box office this weekend, with $20.7 million in ICE COLD cash (ha!) Second place went to Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones with $18.2 million; The Hobbit: The… » 1/05/14 9:19pm 1/05/14 9:19pm

It's official — The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has made all the money, racking up $110 million during the long Thanksgiving weekend. Domestically, Catching Fire has earned $296.5 million, just about half of its global haul of $573 million. » 12/01/13 1:50pm 12/01/13 1:50pm

Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom starring Idris Elba broke box office records in South Africa, just ahead of its U.S. release. And now, to celebrate, please present us with your favorite Idris Elba gifs below. » 11/30/13 12:30pm 11/30/13 12:30pm

It's a good day to be in the movie business. Both The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Frozen are doing some batshitcrazy record breaking box office business today. Good; I love when people hit up the theaters on Thanksgiving. More leftovers for me to steal. » 11/29/13 12:37pm 11/29/13 12:37pm

Catching Fire, the vastly superior second installment of the Hunger Games saga, has set a record for November earnings, pulling in around $161.1 million over its opening weekend. That success has Hunger Games fans tingling with joy, so much joy, in fact, that some of them have started comparing Catching Fire to… » 11/24/13 4:00pm 11/24/13 4:00pm

Not too shabby! Hunger Games: Catching Fire has pulled in $135 million so far domestically and worldwide combined. It is naturally expected to topple Thor:The Dark World as box office champ this weekend. No word yet on what ridiculously adorable thing Tom Hiddleston will do to get people back in theaters to see Thor. » 11/23/13 5:05pm 11/23/13 5:05pm

On Friday night, Best Man Holiday beat Thor: The Dark World at the box office. While Thor was still number one movie of the weekend — earning $38 million — Best Man raked in $30 million, prompting a bunch of people to question: What does it mean? » 11/18/13 3:30pm 11/18/13 3:30pm

Despite Wall Street Journal movie whisperer Joe Morgenstern fretting that too many big-budget comedies seem to be exploiting the extremely talented Melissa McCarthy, and that, as a result, McCarthy-starring movies may soon be subject to the law of diminishing returns , that time is not yet nigh because everyone a) who… » 6/30/13 6:00pm 6/30/13 6:00pm

Maybe you went to see Oz the Great and Powerful: Don Juan Seduces All the Witches because you found yourself suddenly in the possession of psilocybin mushrooms, a box of wine, and burning desire to see some kick-ass summer movie previews. Maybe you avoided Oz because you heard through the grapevine that it represents… » 3/10/13 3:30pm 3/10/13 3:30pm

We're going to play a little game of guess that exorbitant sum of money. Ready? In its opening weekend, Breaking Dawn the Deuce: OMG There's Werewolf Poop Everywhere!, the final installment of the peripatetic Twilight franchise, made a) $100 million, b) $141.3 million, or c) all the money that there is or ever will be… » 11/18/12 4:00pm 11/18/12 4:00pm

For the first time in four weeks, Hunger Games was not number one at the box office this weekend. That honor went to ridiculous rom-com Think Like a Man, the movie based on a self-help book by Steve Harvey. With an impressive $33 million debut, this movie features some fine actors, black people and white people … » 4/23/12 11:40am 4/23/12 11:40am

After a four-week reign as the most popular dystopian YA movie based on a dystopian YA novel in a dystopian era of Hollywood filmmaking, The Hunger Games was trotted out to the box-office public square and unceremoniously beheaded by the generally meh romantic comedy, Think Like a Man, which made $33 million. Maybe it… » 4/22/12 4:30pm 4/22/12 4:30pm

With a cast of favorites: Gabrielle Union, Taraji P. Henson, Turtle from Entourage, Michael Ealy and Kevin Hart, among others, Think Like a Man just might earn $19 million, making it the number one movie at in theaters this weekend. According to Entertainment Weekly: » 4/20/12 6:00pm 4/20/12 6:00pm

Titanic, boosted by 3-D ticket prices, has crossed the $2 billion threshold, assuring the world that James Cameron will reign as the all-time box office king probably until his death when it becomes appropriate for someone to remake all of his movies. Only one other movie has grossed more — Cameron's Avatar, which… » 4/15/12 6:15pm 4/15/12 6:15pm

The numbers are sort of in and if you happened to be any movie other than The Hunger Games opening this weekend, it's looking pretty grim right now — according to Deadline Hollywood's Nikki Finke, the Suzanne Collins bestselling book turned blockbuster event movie opened Friday with $68.25 million, raking in $19.75… » 3/24/12 3:30pm 3/24/12 3:30pm