Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More Disney and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi delivered an early Christmas present for Hollywood and theater owners over the weekend with a near-record $220 million debut in North America, the second-best showing of all time behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The Last Jedi opened a mere 11 percent behind …
Read More »‘Coco’ Holds On To Top Spot At Box Office
Disney and Pixar’s Coco stayed No. 1 in its third weekend, taking in another $18.3 million and bringing the film’s domestic total to $135.5 million. Overseas, the animated tentpole danced to another $55.3 million for a foreign cume of $253 million — including more than $100 million in China alone …
Read More »Sanrio’s Aggretsuko will Premiere Globally as a Netflix Original Series in Spring 2018
Netflix announced the latest addition to its original series slate: Aggretsuko. An animated series produced by Fanworks and featuring a character originally created by Sanrio—known as the creator of Hello Kitty—will premiere globally as a Netflix original series in spring 2018. Retsuko is a 25-year-old red panda working as an office …
Read More »‘Coco’ Holds On To Top Spot
Disney and Pixar’s Coco continued to make magic in its second weekend, grossing a strong $26.1 million for a 10-day domestic total of $108.7 million. It also topped the foreign chart with $69 million for an early foreign tally of $171.3 million and $280 million globally, including a stellar $75.6 …
Read More »‘Coco’ Beats Up ‘Justice League’
Pixar’s Coco is the latest title from the Disney animated empire to win the annual box-office turkey trot, posting a hearty five-day debut of $71.2 million from 3,987 theaters to score the fourth-best Thanksgiving opening of all time behind Toy Story 2, Frozen and Moana. That includes $49 million for …
Read More »Disappointing ‘Justice League’ Manages To Grab Top Spot
The world’s most famous superheroes seemingly lost their powers over the weekend as Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment’s big-budget Justice League opened to a sorely disappointing $96 million in North America. Justice League posted the lowest domestic opening of any title in the DC Extended Universe dealing a major blow to the …
Read More »Jackie Chan And Pierce Brosnan Face Off In ‘The Foreigner’
Global superstar Jackie Chan(Rush Hour trilogy) returns to the big screen like you’ve never seen him before in the action-packed film, The Foreigner, arriving on Digital on December 26, 2017 and on Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand on January 9, 2018 from STXfilms and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Directed by …
Read More »Batman Hunts Jack The Ripper In Turn-Of-The-Century Gotham City in ‘Gotham By Gaslight’
The first true Elseworlds tale from DC comes to animated life as a steampunk Batman hunts Jack the Ripper through the shadows of turn-of-the-century Gotham City in Batman: Gotham By Gaslight. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation and DC Entertainment, the all-new, feature-length animated film arrives from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment …
Read More »‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Tops Box Office For Second Week
Thor: Ragnarok’ wins the box office for the second week in a row. The tentpole won the frame with $56.6 million for a 10-day domestic tally of $211.6 million. Overseas, Ragnarok also topped the chart with $75.9 million for a foreign total of $438.5 million and a global cume of …
Read More »‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Hits Box Office Like A Hammer
In an era when many tentpole franchise installments stall, director Taika Waitii’s Thor: Ragnarok is wielding nothing short of a golden hammer at the box office for Disney and Marvel Studios. Over the weekend, the threequel opened to $121 million from 4,080 theaters in North America, 41 percent ahead of sequel …
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