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Box-Office Weekend: Rise of Skywalker Still the Top Dog
Easily holding onto the top spot of the box-office weekend was Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker, which made $72.0 million on the domestic front in its second weekend of release. This gives the final film of the “Skywalker Saga” a staggering two-week total of $361.8 million. With a little less than half of the take that The Rise of Skywalker boasted, Jumanji: The Next Level took ...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: The Force is King as The Rise of Skywalker Dominates
While there was little doubt exactly which film would top the box-office weekend before Christmas, what was up for debate was just how much the concluding chapter in the Skywalker saga, Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker would make. Ultimately, the film took in $175.5 million domestically its opening weekend, easily dominating the weekend box-office top ten. Despite the bawdy numb...[Read More]
Paul Thomas Anderson Returns to Focus Features for New Film
Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson is set to partner with Focus Features on his, as of this writing, untitled new film which Anderson will also produce along with frequent collaborators JoAnne Sellar and Daniel Lupi. Anderson and Focus Features previously collaborated on the director’s feature Phantom Thread (2017), which earned six Academy Award® nominations, including Best Picture, Director fo...[Read More]