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Grab your friends and head to distant lands because Adventure Time is coming back to comics. Oni Press announced a new partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products (WBDGCP) and Cartoon Network to bring the beloved, award-winning library of Adventure Time comic books and graphic novels back into print with brand-new, lovingly crafted …

Paramount’s Bob Marley: One Love delivered a huge $50 million-plus domestic opening over the six-day Valentine’s Day-Presidents Day corridor, enough to crush Madame Web‘s $25.8 million start, a record worst for Sony’s superhero adventures. Estimates show One Love racking in an estimated $51.1 million for the six days domestically, including $33.2 million for the four-day …

The Super Bowl sacked the domestic box office this weekend as revenue fell to historic lows due to the weekend-long frenzy over Sunday’s showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers in Las Vegas, and an ongoing winter slowdown in major Hollywood studio titles. Matthew Vaughn‘s big budget bust, Argylle, placed No. 1 …

Matthew Vaughn‘s pricey spy comedy Argylle bombed at the North American box office in the biggest miss to date for Apple’s theatrical ambitions.  The movie opened to an estimated $18 million from 3,605 cinemas against a price tag of $200 million to $250 million, according to sources. The results weren’t much better overseas, where Argylleopened …

The Beekeeper is claiming victory over Mean Girls at the weekend box office with an estimated $7.4 million from 3,337 theaters, but Mean Girls was hot on its tail.  Both films are in their third weekend, and their domination underscores the worrisome situation facing cinema operators as the production pipeline slows to a trickle because …

Cradle, the New York Times best-selling fantasy book series that started as a self-publishing operation a decade ago, has returned to its grassroots beginnings in its adaptation for animation – alongside award-winning Lex+Otis Animation Studio – with a Kickstarter designed to give fans even greater connection to the stories, realms …

The Mean Girls musical by Paramount maintained the top spot of the January 19–21 weekend, earning an estimated $11.7 million from 3,826 theaters, bringing the domestic total to $50 million. With a 59% decline, the Tina Fey musical was not as successful as the producers had hoped. I.S.S., a thriller …

At the domestic box office, Mean Girls’ projected opening of $32 million on Martin Luther King Jr. weekend makes it the clear winner for the weekend. Due to the four-day holiday, an updated count will be released on Monday. However, the movie is doing better than expected. Twenty years after Mark …

“Wonka” held onto the top spot at the domestic box office for the third straight weekend, with the Warner Bros. musical featuring Timothée Chalamet bringing in another $14.4 million in ticket sales.  Meanwhile, “Night Swim” swam to $12 million in its domestic box office opening, good enough for a second-place finish behind Christmas …

Wrapping up a turbulent 2023, Wonka has emerged victorious at the box office over the lengthy New Year’s weekend. New estimates released Monday morning put the domestic total of the Warner Bros. origin picture, which stars Timothée Chalamet as young candymaker Willy Wonka, at $140.2 million as of Monday morning. …