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Where to Stream the Golden Globes-Nominated ‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Online

Previously available on Peacock, the Nintendo video game-inspired box office smash earned three awards nominations and is available to watch on Prime Video with exclusive bonus content.

French Cinema Admissions Rise 19 Percent in 2023, But Remain Below Pre-COVID Numbers

France closed out the cinema year on a high note, recording 181 million theater admissions for 2023, a 18.9 percent jump compared with 2022. The official box office figures, released Tuesday by state cinema body CNC, are still down double digits — 13.1 percent — from average admissions in the pre-COVID years between 2017 and […]

2023 Box Office: Domestic Revenue Clears $9B in Post-Pandemic First (Thanks, Barbenheimer)

Phew. Domestic box office revenue was able to clear $9 billion after all, despite a dismal fall season at the multiplex, according to Comscore. That’s the best showing of the post-pandemic era, with revenue in U.S. and Canada up 20 percent over 2022’s $7.5 billion. But movie ticket sales are still down sharply from pre-pandemic […]

Everything Is Peachy With Jack Black: Actor-Singer on Hit ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Song, ‘School of Rock’ Turning 20, Taylor Swift and AI

Jack Black’s performance of the emotional piano rock ballad “Peaches” as Bowser leveled up the box office hit The Super Mario Bros. Movie when it released earlier this year. But the hit song almost never happened. Black says when he signed on to the film, which hit theaters in April, music wasn’t part of the […]

Box Office: $4 Ticket Day Boosts ‘Blue Beetle’ and ‘Ninja Turtles’

The results are in for the second annual National Cinema Day. On Sunday, more than 3,000 theaters across the U.S. and Canada offered patrons the chance to see any movie in the theater, in any format, for only $4. That’s a huge discount, considering the average movie ticket price is at least $10.53, while the […]

Movie Theaters Offering $4 Tickets on Aug. 27 for Second Annual National Cinema Day

National Cinema Day is back in time to ring out summer. On Aug. 27 — a Sunday — thousands of theaters across the U.S. will slash movie ticket prices to $4 or less for any title in any format. The second annual National Cinema Day hopes to build on the success of a similar offering […]

Box Office: ‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Flying Past $500M in U.S.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie is jumping the $500 million mark at the North American box office in yet another milestone for the blockbuster. From Illumination and Universal, the movie adaptation of the Nintendo video game is only the fourth movie to cross the half-billion mark domestically in the pandemic era behind Spider-Man: No Way […]

Box Office Preview: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ Kicks Off Summer

Now that he’s the guardian of DC Studios, James Gunn is bidding farewell to his work for rival Marvel with the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in theaters across the globe this weekend. Guardians 3 continues a long tradition of Marvel movies kicking off the summer season at the box office. It […]

Box Office Milestone: ‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Hits $1B Globally

Illumination and Universal’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie is checking off another notable milestone. The Nintendo video game adaptation will cross $1 billion at the worldwide box office sometime on Sunday, its 26th day in release. It becomes only the 10th animated film to achieve the feat, and the first animated movie to do since […]

Universal Movie Chief Donna Langley Celebrates ‘Super Mario Bros.,’ ‘Oppenheimer’ at CinemaCon

The astonishing box office success of Universal and Illumination’s The Super Movie Bros. has infused this year’s CinemaCon with a sense of optimism among cinema operators still struggling to recover fully from the pandemic. So it was no surprise when Donna Langley, chair of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, received a resounding round of applause, plus […]

Box Office: New 2023 Global Revenue Forecast Issued on Eve of CinemaCon

Global box office revenue in 2023 could now hit $32 billion instead of a projected $29 billion, according to leading analytics firm Gower Street. The London-based outfit released its updated forecast on the eve of CinemaCon, the annual gathering of theater owners and Hollywood studios in Las Vegas. This year’s edition runs April 24-27. Throughout […]

Box Office: ‘Super Mario’ Hits $872M Globally, ‘Evil Dead Rise’ Opens to Big $23.5M in U.S.

The box office continues to heat up as the summer season approaches. Illumination and Universal’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie remained a monster at the multiplex in its third weekend as it crossed the $400 million mark domestically and $800 million globally to finish Sunday with a remarkable cume of $871.8 million. It easily won […]