Box Office
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.