All articles by Charles Gant
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NewsChina’s ‘Dead To Rights’ leads ‘Fantastic Four’ at global box office; ‘The Naked Gun’ lands with $28.5m
Chinese historical drama ‘Dead To Rights’ knocked the ‘Fantastic’ superheroes off the top spot.
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News‘Fantastic Four’ blasts off with $218m at global box office; ‘Superman’ and ‘F1’ both hit $500m
The opening weekends for ‘Fantastic Four’ and ‘Superman’ were effectively a dead heat.
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News‘Superman’ hits $400m at global box office; ‘Smurfs’, ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ fall short
Warner Bros ‘Superman’ held on to the top spot with $100m in its second weekend.
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News‘Superman’ flies to $220m global box office debut; ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ stomps past $500m
Warner Bros and DC Studios’ latest superhero adventure made $122m in North America.
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News‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ flattens global box office with $322.6m debut
Meanwhile, ‘F1’ is now Apple’s biggest ever hit as it nears $300m.
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News‘F1’ zooms to $146.3m global box office debut; ‘M3GAN 2.0’ disappoints with $17m
Apple Original Films is well on track to deliver its biggest ever box office hit with a U $146.3m global launch for F1.
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News‘28 Years Later’ rages to $60m debut at global box office; ‘Elio’ disappoints with $35m
Universal’s ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ held top spot with an estimatred $90.6m worldwide for the weekend period.
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NewsSeven talking points from CineEurope 2025
The annual trade convention for European exhibitors took place in Barcelona from June 16-19
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NewsDisney showcases all seven studio brands at CineEurope presentation
The studio trumpeted a slate of releases that play “exclusively on the big screen, longer than any of our competitors”.
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NewsParamount pushes family films, adult comedies in CineEurope slate presentation
‘The Naked Gun’ and ‘Scary Movie 6’ are released this year, while Ariana Grande joins the cast of ‘Meet The Parents 4’
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NewsStudiocanal showcases D-Day drama ‘Pressure’, ‘Cliffhanger’, ‘Cold Storage’ at CineEurope
The company also trumpeted its “best year ever” at the global box office.
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NewsWarner Bros showcases ‘Superman’, ‘Wuthering Heights’ at CineEurope
Other titles featured in the studio’s slate presentation included Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Bride!’
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NewsUniversal declares “biggest, most diverse slate of any studio” at CineEurope
The studio showcased 16 titles including ‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’, ‘Nobody 2’ and ‘Wicked: For Good’.
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NewsSony shows first 28 minutes of ‘28 Years Later’ at CineEurope
The studio also presented a busy slate that includes the next Darren Aronofsky film and Sam Mendes’s four-film Beatles biopic.
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NewsStudio and cinema executives debate differing priorities at CineEurope
Executives on the day-one roundtable debated windows, the release slate, marketing spend and investment in cinemas.
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News‘Ballerina’ launches with soft $51m at global box office
‘Lilo & Stitch’ and ‘Mission: Impossible 8’ held on the top spots for another week.
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News‘Lilo & Stitch’ and ‘Mission: Impossible 8’ near combined $1bn at global box office
Disney’s ‘Lilo & Stitch’ is the second-highest-grossing US studio film of 2025.
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NewsSummer box office ignites with $304m debut for ‘Lilo & Stitch’ and $190m for ‘Mission: Impossible 8’
The simultaneous launch of the two blockbusters proved complementary rather than competitive at the weekend.
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News‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ scores $102m at global box office; ‘The Salt Path’ delivers in first markets
Warner Bros is celebrating a run of three consecutive worldwide hits.
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Features‘Pillion’ director Harry Lighton on finding the light in his transgressive queer drama: “I didn’t want the sex to feel like empty provocation”
Harry Lighton makes his feature debut with queer sub-dom drama ‘Pillion’.