Jul 11, 2018 | New Releases
The 20th installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe also marked a franchise first. With “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” audiences finally saw a Marvel movie co-headlined by a woman as Evangeline Lilly’s Hope Van Dyne (a.k.a. the Wasp) shared center stage with Paul Rudd’s...
Jul 4, 2018 | New Releases
In “The First Purge,” the National Founding Fathers of America — they’re the kind of fascists who pretend not to be — launch an audacious (or maybe it’s just sick) experiment in state-controlled chaos: a 12-hour zone of anything-goes bedlam in which the crimes you...
Jul 4, 2018 | New Releases
After a record-breaking second quarter, the domestic box office shows no signs of slowing down. July looks to start strong as “Ant-Man and the Wasp” eyes a debut between $70 million and $80 million when it launches in 4,100 theaters on Friday. Fellow newcomer “The...
Jun 27, 2018 | Box Office, New Releases
In this week’s edition of the Movie Commercial Tracker, powered by the TV advertising attention analytics company iSpot.tv, Universal Pictures claims the top spot in spending for the fourth week in a row with “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.” Ads placed for the latest...
Jun 27, 2018 | Box Office, New Releases
“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” proved one thing: dinosaurs aren’t going extinct anytime soon. The latest “Jurassic” installment — led by Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard — opened in North America with a monstrously good $150 million. Universal Pictures and Steven...
Jun 21, 2018 | New Releases
Dinosaurs continue to rule overseas. “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” earned an additional $173.6 million in 51 international territories this weekend, including $111.8 from its launch in China. The dinosaur tentpole began its overseas rollout last weekend, bringing...