Minions Edge Toy Story in a July Fourth Weekend That Reveals the Market's New Rules
Minions & Monsters topped the US chart with $36.4m over Toy Story 5's $31m — a win with caveats in a tighter, more international summer box office.
Resident Evil reboot scores franchise-record UK box office opening
Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil reboot opened at No.1 in the UK and Ireland, setting a live-action franchise record with £4.2 million.
UK cinema admissions hit a post-pandemic high as Practical Magic 2 and the Oasis documentary lead the chart
More than 17 million admissions in August, driven by The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day, have carried British exhibitors into autumn on their strongest run since the pandemic.
Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom opens in UK cinemas
Aardman's Halloween-tinged stop-motion adventure arrives today via Sky, landing in a UK box office led by Practical Magic 2 and the Oasis concert film.
Oasis documentary opens with £675k preview box office
Don't Look Back In Anger, the film charting Oasis's 2025 reunion tour, has made about £675,000 on its first preview day ahead of a wide weekend opening.
Toy Story 5 holds off Supergirl — and exposes the new box office hierarchy
Pixar's sequel took about $70m as Supergirl opened to roughly $38m, showing family animation's pull while superhero films must now earn trust film by film.
Supergirl's $38m opening is a warning: familiar capes no longer sell themselves
A $170m Supergirl opened soft while Toy Story 5 soared past $585m worldwide — a blunt lesson in audience trust for DC's rebooted universe.
Toy Story 5 roars to a record $312m global opening — the biggest debut of 2026
Pixar's long-awaited fifth instalment took an estimated $160m in North America and $312m worldwide, the franchise's strongest-ever launch and the year's biggest opening so far.
Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' lands $93m global bow, the biggest opening of his original-film career
The 79-year-old director's UFO thriller starring Emily Blunt and Colin Firth has handed Universal the summer's most encouraging original-movie launch, even as a soft CinemaScore raises questions about its long legs.
How a $750,000 horror film called 'Obsession' became the box office story of 2026
Focus Features' micro-budget chiller has done something almost no wide release ever manages: grown its audience weekend after weekend, smashing records and turning into the studio's highest-grossing film of all time.
Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' lands the director's biggest original opening in years
Steven Spielberg's UFO thriller starring Emily Blunt debuted at number one in the United States, marking his strongest launch for an original film since 2018.
'The Super Mario Galaxy Movie' becomes 2026's first billion-dollar hit
Illumination and Nintendo's animated sequel has cleared the $1bn mark worldwide, pushing the Mario film franchise past $2bn and cementing Universal's grip on family entertainment.
'Masters of the Universe' flops with a $29m domestic bow against a $170m budget
Travis Knight's long-gestating He-Man epic, starring Nicholas Galitzine and Jared Leto, has become one of 2026's most painful box office misfires, opening behind even infamous tentpole disasters.
Toy Story 5 tracks for record $150m opening as Pixar eyes 2026 box-office crown
Disney and Pixar's latest sequel is projected to deliver the franchise's biggest-ever debut and the largest opening of the year so far when it lands on 19 June.
Michael overtakes Bohemian Rhapsody as highest-grossing music biopic ever
Antoine Fuqua's Michael Jackson biopic has crossed roughly $912m worldwide to dethrone the 2018 Queen film, with a release in Japan tipping it toward the billion-dollar mark.
Scary Movie reboot tops US box office with franchise-record opening as summer momentum builds
The Wayans-led horror spoof opened to roughly $55m in North America, handing Paramount its biggest comedy launch on record and outpacing Amazon MGM's costly Masters of the Universe.
West End attendance tops 17.6 million as London outsells Broadway
Society of London Theatre data shows record footfall in 2025 even as average ticket prices held steady, with theatre outperforming football and cinema for audience growth.
Sanitised biopics are becoming Hollywood's safest event-cinema bet
Music and celebrity biopics may frustrate critics, but estate-approved versions of famous lives are proving increasingly useful to studios hunting reliable box office.