UPDATE: 2024/10/06 08:28 EST BY BRENNAN KLEIN Joker 2 crashes below original $42-47 million projections with $40 million debut This article was originally written Saturday AM and was updated Sunday AM with altered box office projections (in bold), a full chart and further analysis. Joker: Folie à Deux is expected to debut with a total less than half of the original installment. The DC comic book movie, which re-teams director Todd Phillips and star Joaquin Phoenix, is a sequel to 2019’s JokerWhich made over $1 billion at the worldwide box office against a roughly $70 million budget. The sequel, which…
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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy has received an early renewal and a new cast member from New York Comic Con. The upcoming Starfleet Academy is a new Paramount+ show set to be the 12th series in the overarching Star Trek Franchise. Created by Gaia Violo, it will star Holly Hunter, Kerrice Brooks, Bella Shepard, George Hawkins, Karim Diané, Zoë Steiner, Tig Notaro, Robert Picardo and Sandro Rosta and follow the first group of academy cadets in over 100 years. Screen Rant was in attendance at the Star Trek Universe panel at New York Comic Con. During a special livestream from the…
The electric states trailer has arrived. The Netflix movie was directed by Joe and Anthony Russo (Avengers: Endgame And Infinity War) and is adapted from the 2018 novel by Simon StÃ¥lenhag. Set in an alternate 1997 where humanity is disconnected and robots have lost their freedom, the upcoming The electric state Follow Michelle (Millie Bobby Brown), who teams up with a robot to find her missing brother. The cast also includes Chris Pratt, Ke Huy Quan, Stanley Tucci, Giancarlo Esposito, and the voices of Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, Anthony Mackie, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Alexander, Alan Tudyk and Woody Harrelson.…
A Prince Charming Movie is in development at Disney with a director and screenwriters attached. Prince Charming is an archetypal character present in many fairy tales, but in terms of Disney princess movies he is most often linked to the 1950s Cinderella. While their original animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs featured an unnamed print that had similar characteristics, Cinderella was the first canonical Disney princess title to use the name Prince Charming, with subsequent princes usually given first names including Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid and Prince Philip in Sleeping beauty. Per Term, Paddington And Wonka…
The trailer for The Strangers: Chapter 2 has arrived. The movie is the second installment in a planned Renny Harlin-directed trilogy of home invasion movies starring Madeleine Petch as Maya. 2024s Chapter 1Which itself was the third entry in the franchise, earned a poor 21% on Rotten Tomatoes, but became a box office success, earning $47.8 million worldwide against its $8.5 million budget. The upcoming The Strangers: Chapter 2 will continue Maya’s story as she has another encounter with the titular trio of masked home invaders. Lionsgate Movies has now unveiled the official trailer for The Strangers: Chapter 2. The…
The Princess Diaries 3 Has found its director. The upcoming Princess Diaries 3 is a long-awaited follow-up to the movie franchise starring Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews who adapted the Meg Cabot young adult novel series of the same name in a pair of features in 2001 and 2004. The sequel was announced in 2022 with Supergirl Writer Aadrita Mukerji attached, though it’s not clear if that’s still the case. It has also not been officially announced if Hathaway will be reprising her original role, although original producer Deborah Martin Chase is on board for the project. Per Term, The…
The The highest grossing movies of 2024 All have one thing in common. The year took a completely different shape than the original plan, as many movies were rescheduled in the wake of the two Hollywood strikes in 2023. The Writers Guild of America and then the Screen Actors Guild took to the picket lines to fight for A fair payment, and the delays of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers in negotiating deals with both unions effectively shut down the industry in phases between May 2. and November 9 of that year. The result of this extended…
The wild robot broke a DreamWorks record with his Rotten Tomatoes debut. The new movie, which was written and directed by How to train your dragon Co-director Chris Sanders, is based on the Peter Brown book of the same name and follows a malfunctioning robot who lands on a deserted island and begins to bond with a young Gosling, accidentally reprogramming himself along the way. The Wild robot Movie is only the fourth non-franchise title released by DreamWorks in the 2020s after The bad guys, Ruby Gilman, Teenage KrakenAnd Orion and the Dark. Rotten tomatoes Has now compiled 25 different…
Megalopolis is struggling to come anywhere near its $120 million production budget in its opening weekend. The science fiction epic, which was written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, is a long-term passion project for the filmmaker, who self-funded it in a variety of ways, including selling part of his winery. The Megalopolis The release comes more than 40 years after the film’s development in 1983 and roughly two years after principal photography began with an ensemble cast including Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight and Laurence. Fishburne. As of Saturday morning, projections reflect…
The wild robot has passed a major box office milestone. The new DreamWorks animated movie, based on Peter Brown’s children’s book series of the same name, follows a robot (Lupita Nyong’o) who is stranded on a desert island and forms a maternal bond with an orphaned Gosling (Keith Connor). When the Wild robot In its debut weekend, it was no. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice from its perch at the top of the domestic chart after a three-week reign. Per ColliderAfter a week in theaters, The wild robot has now officially passed the $60 million milestone worldwideHitting a total of $61.3 million when…