The Sundance Institute Science-in-Movie initiative with the Alfred P. Sloan Basis named Sophie Barthes’ The Pod Generation as this 12 months’s Function Movie Prize winner. As well as three artists grants went to recipients for 3 initiatives in growth. The prizes had been handed out at a reception following the …

SATURDAY AM UPDATE: Thank to the legs on Christmas holdovers Avatar: The Way of Water and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and M3GAN running to $72.6M, the 2023 box office is surging to an estimated $512M for the Jan. 1-Jan. 22 period, +38% over last year, which was at …

At today’s opening day Sundance press, Director of Programming, Kim Yutani announced the addition of Doug Liman’s first documentary, Justice, about Brett Kavanaugh. It was the first in-person press conference since Sundance went totally virtually over the last two years. Yutani marveled about the doc lineup at this year’s 39th …

In an age of streaming and Covid concerns when many older-skewing dramatic films find their way safely into homes, Sony Pictures rolled the dice on the Tom Hanks drama A Man Called Otto. It grossed $15.3 million in its third–weekend wide expansion over the four-day MLK weekend, well surpassing its …

FRIDAY AFTERNOON: As expected, Disney/20th Century Studios/Lightstorm’s Avatar: The Way of Water remains number one again in its fifth weekend with an MLK four-day take of $35M after a $7M Friday, -39% at 4,045 sites. 3-day looks to be around $27M-$28M, -40%. That will get the James Cameron sequel to …

SUNDAY AM, NEW YEAR’S DAY: Whereas New 12 months’s Eve is often a greater moviegoing day than Christmas Eve, enterprise was nonetheless down yesterday at -27% from Friday for all films. That’s the same decline to final weekend’s Friday-to-Christmas Eve (-26%). Nevertheless, New 12 months’s Eve made greater than Christmas …