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…

Robert Eggers Nosferatu from Focus Features sank its teeth into the Christmas box office. With James Mangold's A Complete Unknown – Searchlight Pictures' top-grossing film since it was acquired by Disney in 2019 – they ushered in a heady post-Covid moment for indie films at no. 3 and 5 at the domestic box…

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…

Nearly 20 years later, James Mangold is still finding inspiration in the musical biopic genre, despite previous jabs at his work. The 2x Oscar nominee, who co-wrote and directed the 2005 Johnny Cash pic Walk the Line, has not been scared off from paying cinematic tribute to other legendary musicians…

While James Mangold's A Complete Unknown spotlights mainly the life of Bob Dylan (portrayed by Timothée Chalamet), the lives of several other musicians intertwined with the iconic troubador's. His visit to Woody Guthri (Scott McNairy) and Pete Seeger (Edward Norton) proved formative in his career and rise…

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…

A splash of auteurish openings on Christmas Day, with Focus Features’ Nosferatu, Searchlight’s A Complete Unknown, A24’s naughty Babygirl and Rachel Morrison’s The Fire Inside, is poised to send the holiday week’s box office to a potential $280 million tally. That puts it on par with last year’s holiday…

James Mangold has made a career out of versatility in tackling the kinds of movies he wants to do as a filmmaker. In fact. I compared him to Howard Hawks who seemingly could do it all. That versatility ranges from indie breakouts like his first success H…

With another year in the books, Barack Obama has some new recommendations for his fellow cinephiles. On Friday, the former president of the United States shared his annual list of top 10 movies, which featured a papal thriller, a sex worker’s romantic-dramedy and a Timothée Chalamet double…

Following his latest nominated performance, Timothée Chalamet is opening up about the unfortunate reality of awards season. The A Complete Unknown star, who recently secured his fourth Golden Globe nomination for playing Bob Dylan, shared his honest experience after losing the awards for his roles in…

Many of us survived the Covid days by rediscovering old MGM musicals, humming tunes from Singing In the Rain or doing a Fred Astaire tap from Top Hat. So if they represented islands of good cheer, let's get real about the new cycle of musicals: Like…

Ladybird (2017) and Little Women (2019) co-stars Timothée Chalamet and Saoirse Ronan reunited at the BFI Southbank in London on December 18 for a conversation about their careers, collaborations with each other and new films. When discussing his portrayal of Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s upcoming…