No one could have imagined that Barbie and Oppeneheimer would accomplish fusion and create a weapon strong enough to help rescue the troubled summer box office. Until now, the overall recovery of the theatrical landscape has been anchored by younger men between the ages of 18 to 35 who are …

Barbie really is a pink unicorn. The movie is on course to earn $95 million or more in its sophomore outing, one of the best second weekends of all time at the North American box office, and the best second weekend gross ever for Warner Bros., not adjusted for inflation. …

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie will finish Sunday with well more than $700 million in worldwide ticket sales at the box office after serving up the biggest week in history for a Warner Bros. movie with $578.5 million. The pic is now assured of joining the billion-dollar club globally, as well as …

Tom Cruise, the star who is credited with saving the box office after Top Gun: Maverick flew to $1.5 billion in global ticket sales, is now facing another kind of reckoning — surviving the Barbenheimer effect. His Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One tumbled a franchise-worst 64 percent to …

The summer box office just went nuclear. Filmmaker Greta Gerwig’s female-fueled Barbie started off with a stupendous $70.5 million on Friday, including $22.3 million in previews. If early modeling is correct, the Warner Bros. movie is headed for a historic $155 million-plus opening domestically, a threshold usually reserved for male-driven …

On any given weekend, AMC Century City 16 in Los Angeles and AMC Empire 13 in New York City are generally high up on the list of a movie’s top-grossing theaters. Such wasn’t the case for Sound of Freedom, a new movie from Angel Studios, the Utah-based production and distribution …

Rewind to summer 1981, and a box office slump. A variety of factors were to blame for the downturn, including rising movie ticket prices and production costs (sound familiar?). But the summer season ended on a high note after Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark rode to …

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny dug up an estimated $60 million in its domestic debut, a troubled start for the fifth and final installment in the famed adventure-action series starring Harrison Ford. The hope now is that the Disney and Lucasfilm tentpole will hold in well, beginning this …

Any hope of The Flash recovering from its disastrous June 16-18 opening was dashed when the Warner Bros. and DC tentpole disappeared over a cliff in its second weekend. It tumbled 72.5 percent, the second-worst decline ever for a Hollywood superhero pic at the domestic box office behind Morbius, which …

In a box office upset, Sony holdover Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse edged out Pixar’s Elemental to win the weekend all the way in its fourth outing. Rarely does a film reclaim the top spot like that amid fierce summer competition. Spidey took in an estimated $19.3 million as it raced …

By late April, all indications pointed to The Flash opening to $100 million or more domestically. That’s when Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav took the stage at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, triumphantly telling theater owners it was the best superhero pic he’s ever seen. The powerful executive could have …

Pixar’s movie about a rat with ambitions of becoming an acclaimed French chef started off its box office run at a slow simmer when opening to a less-than-flavorable $47 million in summer 2007. Pundits were quick to pronounce Pixar had botched the recipe in a rare miss. But skeptics were …