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  1. box-office beatdown
    Top Gun: Maverick Sinks Titanic at the Box OfficeNext goal: a reference in the spoken-word section of a Britney Spears song.
  2. it’s morbin’ time
    Gentleminions Help Minions: The Rise of Gru Top Box OfficeThe Morbius Effect, but it actually worked.
  3. box office
    Top Gun: Maverick Has One More Record to BreakIt’s coming for the big boat movie.
  4. the bat man
    Morbius Out-Flops Itself, Viral Twitter Memes BlamedSony execs have to be embarrassed.
  5. at the box office
    Record Opening Turns Top Gun: Maverick into 2022’s First Instant Blockbuster“Audiences have been starved for a big movie to root for and to go see that isn’t a Marvel or DC movie.”
  6. box office
    Everything Everywhere All at Once to Beat Uncut Gems As A24’s Biggest HitAt the domestic box office in this universe, at least.
  7. year in culture 2021
    The Movies Are Gonna Be All RightI gave Spider-Man: No Way Home a lousy review, but even I’m happy to see it doing well. In fact, I’m flat-out optimistic about the future of movies.
  8. at the box office
    Why Spider-Man: No Way Home Shattered Box-Office RecordsThe Spidey sequel webbed its way to the third-biggest box-office opening ever at a time when many counted out the movie theater for good.
  9. no time to release a movie
    The Huge Hidden Cost of Holding a MovieAccording to experts across the industry, the financial disarray of COVID-era Hollywood goes much deeper than bankrupt movie-theater chains.
  10. box office
    Shang-Chi Just Beat Black Widow to Become the COVID Era’s Biggest HitMarvel’s first Asian-led superhero movie has racked up $196.4 million since its release.
  11. box office
    Dear Evan Hansen and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad ReviewsCould the movie musical be the next Greatest Showman? Early negative reviews suggest yes, but producers hope fans show up anyway.
  12. box office
    What Shang-Chi’s Success Means for Movies in 2021The calculus of pandemic-era movie distribution may have fundamentally changed … again.
  13. box office
    Venom: Let There Be Carnage May Be Delayed Until 2022Will more fall movies follow?
  14. box office
    Possible Future Presidential Candidate Attempts to Save American Box OfficeWhether Jungle Cruise can beat the pandemic-era record currently held by Black Widow will come down to The Rock’s ability to put butts in seats.
  15. box office
    M. Night Shyamalan’s Old Gives Us the Pandemic Era’s First Big Box-Office UpsetIt arrived as the lowest-grossing July No. 1 in a quarter-century.
  16. box office
    How A Quiet Place Part II Set a Pandemic-Era Box-Office Record“This is the start the industry needed. And it’s saving the theatrical experience as we know it.”
  17. box office
    Godzilla vs. Kong Stomps Off With the Biggest Opening of the Pandemic EraThe movie grossed $48.5 million over its first five days to become the “next big step toward theatrical recovery,” even while streaming on HBO Max.
  18. obtainium
    Pandora’s Box Office: Avatar Once Again the Highest-Grossing Movie Over EndgameWe’re starting to think this James Cameron guy was onto something.
  19. at the box office
    You All Dropped the Cat-and-Mouse Game and Saw Tom and Jerry in TheatersThe movie had a very encouraging opening weekend in theaters, all pandemics considered.
  20. box office
    Wonder Woman 1984 Earns Highest Box-Office Opening of the Pandemic EraDespite middling reviews, Patty Jenkins’s superhero sequel hauled in $16.7 million at North American movie theaters.
  21. box office
    Christopher Nolan Is ‘Thrilled’ With Tenet’s Box Office, ActuallyThe update you wanted and needed.
  22. box office
    What Exactly Does Disney’s ‘Reorganization’ Mean for the Movie Industry?Hollywood’s most dominant box-office force is shifting emphasis away from the blockbuster biz to try to eat Netflix’s lunch.
  23. fall movies fantasy league
    The Only Thing That Can Stop Tenet Is Old GuysDon’t look now, but it appears we may have our first serious challengers to Tenet’s fantasy league hegemony — vehicles for grizzled male stars!
  24. 007
    2020 Is No Time to See No Time to Die As New Bond Gets Pushed to 2021The new release date is April 2, 2021. That’s the time to die.
  25. box office
    The Problem With Calling Tenet a FlopIn the midst of a pandemic, nobody wants to use the F word. Yet Christopher Nolan’s movie is coming to be viewed as a theatrical misfire nonetheless.
  26. box office
    Tenet Rakes in $200 Million at Global Box Office, Struggles StatesideThe Christopher Nolan film pulled in $6.7 million domestically in its second weekend in wide release.
  27. box office
    Tenet Could Be Chasing Profits at the Movie Theater for Months to ComeThe movie did resoundingly okay at the American box office opening weekend, and if Nolan’s past films are any indication, this is just the beginning.
  28. box office
    Lots of People Actually Braved the Coronavirus to See Tenet in TheatersThe Christopher Nolan caper racked up $53 million in over 40 countries across its opening five days in release. It hasn’t even opened in the U.S. yet.
  29. the movie
    Unhinged Is Still Hell-bent on Becoming the First Post-Lockdown Movie in AmericaThe Russell Crowe thriller wants to “ride the notoriety” of arriving in theaters at a time when moviegoers aren’t guaranteed to show up.
  30. what happens now?
    Is 2020 the End of the Domestic Box Office As We Know It?Due to the ineffectiveness of COVID-19 measures in the U.S., Americans must wait to see Christopher Nolan’s Tenet. Is this the new normal?
  31. behind the numbers
    The Rise of the Netflix HitNearly 100 million people watched at least two minutes of Extraction. In the past, we could scoff at such numbers. Now, it’s all we have.
  32. rip blockbusters
    A Summer Without Movie Theaters Is InevitableTenet’s continuing absence from the big screen could have a chilling effect on the theatrical moviegoing business.
  33. box office
    What to Expect When Movie Theaters Reopen This SummerThe box office is coming back, with or without Tenet. But the industry’s measure of success is going to look a lot different.
  34. $$$$
    The Box Office Had Its Worst Weekend in Two DecadesSitting super close to strangers in a dark room? In this coronavirus climate?
  35. coronavirus
    How Mulan’s Delayed Release Will Alter the Movie Industry“With Disney postponing Mulan, you get every studio basically scrubbing their release calendar for the next few months.”
  36. box office
    Coronavirus Will Have ‘Disastrous’ Effects on the Movie Business“It’s going to change viewing patterns. It’s going to change behavior. It’s going to change the way people consume entertainment.”
  37. box office
    Sonic the Hedgehog Breaks Box Office Record Set for Video Game MoviesIt’s official: you guys love his little teeth.
  38. meowdy
    Cats Flopped and Then Things Got InterestingIn special movie-theater screenings across the country, a film that is considered a financial disaster thrives.
  39. box office
    Dolittle Is 2020’s First Official MegaflopExperts project a loss of $100 million for Universal — the studio’s second consecutive box-office failure after Cats.
  40. $$$$
    Frozen 2 Defeats Frozen to Become Highest Grossing Animated Film EverEntertainment conglomerates, rejoice!
  41. box office
    Star Wars: Rise of the Skywalker Crushes the Christmas Day Box OfficeLittle Women and Uncut Gems also made strong Christmas Day debuts!
  42. $$$$
    Cats Is a Jellicle Box-Office BombWas the digital-fur technology really worth it?
  43. 25 days of cats
    Make the Cats Kiss, You CowardsOut of an extensive list of perverse elements, the cat nuzzling in Cats is perhaps the most disturbing.
  44. the industry
    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Opens to $176 Million, Force Ghosts and AllThe movie failed to surpass the opening-weekend numbers of The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi. But it’s still on course to make a billion dollars.
  45. box office
    Knives Out Marks a Win for the Original Murder-Mystery GenreThe murder mystery just became one of the top-grossing original, live-action movies to debut during the coveted Thanksgiving release corridor.
  46. $$$$
    Frozen 2 Thawed a Whole Lot of Money This Weekend$350.2 million to be precise.
  47. $$$$
    Don’t Tell Bosley How Terribly Charlie’s Angels Is Doing at the Box OfficeIt didn’t even break double digits.
  48. box office
    Joker’s Unlikely Path to Becoming the Highest-Grossing R-Rated Movie EverEarly in development, studio executives wondered: Does Todd Phillips’s movie even need to be about the Batman villain?
  49. j’accuse
    How High-Frame-Rate Technology Killed Ang Lee’s Gemini ManIt would be silly to blame the film’s failure on the tech, but I’m going to go ahead and blame the tech.
  50. box office
    Joker Wildly High-Kicking Its Way to Biggest R-Rated Worldwide Box Office EverWho’s laughing now? You have three guesses, and the first two don’t count.
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