Box Office
Hollywood Once Dodged October With Horror Movies. Clayface Is Moving In.
In the 2010s, studios steered scary movies away from Halloween season. Clayface's move to Oct. 23, 2026 and last year's Black Phone 2 suggest the calendar is turning back.
Why Movie Theaters Are Still So Cold, 100 Years Later
A 1925 Times Square theater bet everything on an untested cooling system and accidentally invented the summer blockbuster. The habit it started never really stopped.
Why Only 10% of Movie Remakes Beat the Original
Rotten Tomatoes crunched the numbers on 400-plus remakes and reboots, and the verdict is almost uniform: the original usually wins.
Why Movie Ticket Prices Started Changing by Showtime
AMC spent a century of flat movie pricing and then broke it, charging more for in-demand films and, briefly, for better seats. Here's how the industry's experiment actually went.
Supergirl Opens to a $50M Test as Toy Story 5 Holds the Box Office
DC's reboot lands Friday with a respectable number that still may not win the weekend. The math around it tells the more interesting story.
Toy Story 5 Pushes Hollywood Toward a $4 Billion Summer
Pixar's fifth outing set a franchise record and the year's biggest debut, but the rebound it is fueling rests almost entirely on familiar IP.
Toy Story 5 Opens to a Franchise-Record $160 Million
Woody and Buzz haven't lost a step: the fifth “Toy Story” posted the year's biggest opening and the largest start in the franchise's history.