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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes brought some much-needed heat to the early summer box office with a domestic debut of $56.5 million and $72.5 million overseas for a global start of $129 million. If those numbers hold once final weekend grosses come in, it will rank as the second-best launch of …

Universal’s The Fall Guy, the Ryan Gosling starrer inspired by the 1980s TV show starring Lee Majors, kicked off the summer movie season at No. 1 with $28.5 million. Disney’s rerelease of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace took the second spot pulling in $8 million for the slow weekend. Despite …

Romance-tennis drama Challengers easily won the weekend box office match with a $15 million opening from 3,477 theaters, in line with expectations and marking the second-best start for an original R-rated drama since the pandemic behind Don’t Worry Darling. Audiences aren’t embracing the R-rated film quite to the degree that reviewers did, giving it a …

The dystopian political action film Civil War about an America torn apart triumphed over the newly released vampire movie Abigail at the weekend box office. Civil War held the top spot in its second weekend with $11 million for a domestic total of $45 million for indie studio A24. Heading into the weekend, Universal’s Abigail was expected …

Alex Garland‘s dystopian action movie Civil War conquered the domestic box office this weekend with $25.7 million, ahead of expectations and scoring A24’s biggest opening ever. The $50 million movie about a divided America is a big swing for A24 as it tries to produce bigger movies, marking its most expensive production to date. …

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire dominated the box office this weekend, as Monkey Man and The First Omen both opened behind expectations. Godzilla, from filmmaker Adam Wingard, is proving to be a significant victory for Josh Grode’s Legendary Pictures on the heels of Dune: Part Two, which is the top-grossing film of the year …

Warner Bros. and Legendary’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire roared to an $80 million opening at the domestic box office, well ahead of the $45 million to $55 million that was expected. The film scored the fifth biggest Easter opening of all time, according to Sunday estimates. Critics panned Godzilla x …

Sony’s Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire won the weekend box office. Sunday estimates show Frozen Empire launching with $45.2 million in North America thanks to multi-generational turnout and families. In 2021, the pandemic-challenged Ghostbusters: Afterlife debuted to $44 million. Frozen Empire is a direct sequel to Afterlife, which succeeded in restoring some of the luster to the classic franchise …

Kung Fu Panda 4 dethroned Dune 2 in its second weekend in theaters with an estimated $30 million. It leapt past the $100 million mark to finish Sunday with a 10-day domestic total of $107.7 million. Overseas, it grossed another $39.6 million for a foreign tally of $68.6 million and $176.4 million globally.  …

Kung Fu Panda 4 opened to a stellar $58.3 million domestically, well ahead of expectations and a near-series best in a win for the family marketplace, as well as for DreamWorks Animation and parent company Universal. The only other Kung Fu Panda installment to open higher was the first one in 2008 with $62 …