New Year’s Day 2025 rang in an estimated $42.9M for all movies, the best result for the holiday post-Covid. New Year’s Day 2022 grossed $40.2M, led by Spider-Man: No Way Home ($23.1M). January 1 did 33% more than the first day of 2024 — a great new beginning to a box office year that is expected to cl…

UPDATED: Paramount's Sonic The Hedgehog 3 is off and running overseas, where the threequel officially began rollout on Wednesday after last week's sizable previews. Through Sunday, and with previews included, the little critter has amassed $74M from 52 offshore markets. That lifts the global tally to $211…

SUNDAY AM EARLY WRITETHRU after Sunday AM Update: Lion and land critter continued to go at like an episode of Mutual Omaha’s Wild Kingdom this weekend with each studio screaming that they’re No. 1. If you look at the standard 3-day weekend, it’s Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3 with $38M while Disney’s Muf…

Lin-Manuel Miranda has been very, very busy. Last week, Mufasa: The Lion King was released and is soaring at the box office, he's circling an EGOT (again) and he’s prepping for All In, his first ever play on Broadway. "And it's snowing like crazy here in New York!" he says, tilting his screen to…

THURSDAY UPDATE: Mufasa may have entered this holiday season as a lamb, but he remembered who he was on Christmas Day, as Disney’s Lion King prequel rebounded at the box office with $14.7M to Sonic the Hedgehog 3’s $10.3M. But the critter wasn’t just buried by the king of the jungle, but an arthouse…

Continuing to ride a wave, Disney's Moana 2 has crested the $800M global mark. With $804M through Monday, it is now the No. 4 studio movie of the year to date globally. The international box office portion of that is $440.6M. The sequel is also the No. 4 domestic and international release of the year&nbsp…

TUESDAY AM UPDATE: Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3 cleared $10M on Monday, the first full day of kids and colleges students off from school. This brings the 4-Day on the Jeff Fowler directed threequel to $70.1M, which was the 3-day estimate on the movie back on Friday. So, it just took another day to get…

SUNDAY UPDATE: The big new cat this weekend landed with more of a meh than a roar as Disney's Mufasa: The Lion King pounced on a $122.2M worldwide start. That's way below our pre-weekend projections, and just slightly under where we saw this prequel yesterday. The international box office bow was $87.2M…

SUNDAY AM Writethru: Who knew that hedgehogs were predatory creatures that could spring out of the ground and take down the king of the jungle in full? Paramount’s $122M production Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is the dominant heading into the Christmas frame with a $62M opening, well ahead of Disney’s $200M…

If 2024 will be remembered for anything, it will be the absolute return of Disney at the box office. After a string of events films that weren’t events in 2023, i.e. Pixar’s Elemental, The Marvels, The Haunted Mansion and Wish, the Mouse House came raging back this year, becoming the only motion…

After the Thanksgiving duel between two female-driven movies, Moana 2 and Wicked, the holdovers will give way to Christmas’ two big tentpoles: Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Disney’s prequel Mufasa: The Lion King. Given the teenage boy and gameboy rage, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 will upset Mufasa in…