Andrew Garfield, an actor who has defined the notion of being a modern leading man with feelings, thinks cinemagoers should be free to show their emotions without apology. Speaking to The Guardian, the star of We Live in Time, which came out this week, was told about a woman at a recent premiere of…

A record-breaking Thanksgiving frame is lifting all boats, tentpoles the most evident, with boom, boom, boom for Moana 2, Wicked and Gladiator II. Some 30 million moviegoers went to see one of these. In the weird post-Covid shift, tentpoles can slay, and indies can disappear. This weekend, however, they…

The independent film fall festival love affair with moviegoers continues with A Real Pain posting the year's third best per screen average. Anora continues its standout run as does Conclave. The Ralph Fiennes-starring Vatican thriller is no. 4 at the box office in week 2. A24’s We Live In Time is no…

Four top films this weekend are indies – five including The Substance at no. 11, as the specialty market roars back to life. No. 3 at the domestic box office is a great story, Conclave from Focus Features, the studio behind the Downtown Abbey films. excels at drawing still elusive but key older demos to…

SUNDAY AM WRITETHRU: After Saturday update … The previous Venom: Let There Be Carnage drew 10 million people during its opening weekend off a $90M opening, and the threequel here, Venom: The Last Dance, is pulling in close to half that in admissions. The numbers speak for themselves, at least at the…

With the last couple of October weekends stateside being off from the strike-laden marketplace a year ago, here’s hoping that superhero sequelitis and moviegoers’ erratic attitudes toward prestige fare don’t push the theatrical marketplace down further. Sony this weekend has its Marvel title Venom: Th…

SUNDAY AM Writethru: after Saturday post Paramount’s $28M production Smile 2 is in great shape with a $23M opening (or 1.6M admissions per EntTellgence) after a $9.4M Friday and great Saturday of $8.1M (a -15% hold against previews/Friday!) and a B CinemaScore. That’s better than the B- on the first one…

Neon opens Anora, its fifth consecutive Cannes Palm d'Or winner, in limited release this weekend — the highest-profile awards contender to hit theaters this awards season in a lively specialty weekend. Sean Baker's comedy debuts on six screens in New York (Lincoln Center, Angelika, Alamo Brooklyn)…

We Live in Time star Andrew Garfield unpacked the chaotic birth sequence from his nonlinear romantic dramedy, which featured a weeks-old baby who pooped on his hand and an action movie-feel where his self-described scene partner was colleague Florence Pugh’s butt. In a new interview with The New York…

In a weekend of wide releases, indies included, A24's Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh-starring We Live In Time popped on five screens with the third best limited opening of the year after Yorgos Lanthimos' Kinds Of Kindness and Jason Reitman's Saturday Night. The romance by John Crowley grossed…

Theaters are brimming over with an army of well-reviewed and buzzy indie films. But, in an unusual state of affairs, pretty much all of them are in wide release, meaning Terrifier 3, Piece by Piece, Saturday Night and The Apprentice, as well as animated My Hero Academia: You're Next. Limited openings are…

Andrew Garfield‘s onscreen chemistry with Florence Pugh might have been a little too palpable. As the Golden Globe winner discussed their new movie We Live in Time on Friday at 92NY, he recalled shooting a “very intimate, passionate sex scene” with Pugh on a closed set, which made cinematographer…