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Premiere Entertainment Group’s body swap comedy The Ballad Of Hortensia has become the most successful local film ever released in El Salvador after its opening weekend. The film, produced and sold by Premiere, drew an audience of more than 25,000 admissions over its first four days, according to Premiere and local distributor Balun Films. Directed by Arturo Menendez and starring noted Salvadoran comedian Julio Yúdice, Francisco Gattorno, and Helena Haro, The Ballad Of Hortensia overtook the previous record-holder La Rebusqueda, the 2014 release that garnered 22,300 admissions over three months. The Ballad Of Hortensia opened in eight theatres on December 12…

Worldwide box office December 13-15 RankFilm (distributor)3-day (world)Cume (world)3-day (int’l) Cume (int’l)Territories  1. Moana 2 (Disney) $83.8m  $717m $57.2m $379.5m  53  2. Wicked (Universal) $44m  $525m $21.5m $165.9m  82  3.  Pushpa: The Rule – Part 2 (various) $29.2m  $166.8m $27.6m $154m  37  4.  Kraven The Hunter (Sony) $26m  $26m $15m $15m  61  5.  Gladiator II (Paramount) $17.5m  $398.5m $9.7m $252.6m  66  6.  The Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim (Warner Bros) $8.6m  $10.3m $4m $5.7m  73  7.  Her Story (various) $7.1m  $88.1m $7.1m $87.7m  8 …

‘Venom: The Last Dance’ and ’Back To Black’ were the top performing films will a solo female director credit at the UK-Ireland box office in 2024, both taking over £12m. Kelly Marcel’s third instalment of the superhero film franchise starring Tom Hardy brought in £12.4m for Sony, while Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic currently stands at £12.3m for Studiocanal. A total of 13 films were directed by women, with a further three co-director credits, according to Box Office Mojo’s list of the top 100 best performing films of 2024 (excluding re-releases or holdovers from 2023) in the territory. In 2023, 13 were directed…

Universal Pictures has changed the title of its sequel to current musical hit Wicked from Wicked Part Two to Wicked: For Good. The sequel’s wide release date stays at November 21, 2025.  The new title refers to a song duet that stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande will sing in the sequel, based, like the first film, on the Wicked stage musical. Original director Jon M Chu returns for the sequel, along with Erivo and Grande and other cast members Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Yeoh.  Released on November 22, the original film this weekend reached $525.3m at the global box…

RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Dec 27-29)Total gross to dateWeek  1. Mufasa: The Lion King  (Disney) £4.2m  £12.6m 2  2. Sonic The Hedgehog 3  (Paramount) £4m £11.8m 1  3. Wicked  (Universal) £2.7m  £53m  6  4. Moana 2  (Disney) £2.2m £33.8m 5  5. Better Man  (EFD) £1.3m £1.6m 1 GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.25.  Disney animation Mufasa: The Lion King held off Paramount’s Sonic The Hedgehog 3 in the final UK-Ireland weekend box office of 2024. Mufasa fell a slim 4% on its second session, taking £4.2m; the…

Worldwide box office December 27-29 RankFilm (distributor)3-day (world)Cume (world)3-day (int’l)Cume (int’l) Territories 1.  Mufasa: The Lion King (Disney)  $114.2m  $327.9m  $77.1m  $214.5m   53 2.   Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Paramount)  $112m  $211.5m  $74m  $74m  53 3.   Moana 2 (Disney)  $54.3m  $882.5m  $36.1m  $487.9m  53 4.   Wicked (Universal)  $33.1m  $634.7m  $13.6m  $210.1m  82 5.   Big World (various)  $29.2m  $29.2m  $29.2m  $29.2m  1 6.   Nosferatu (Universal)  $24.1m  $43.3m  $3m  $3m  6 7.   Octopus With Broken Arms (various)  $21.5m  $21.5m  $21.5m  $21.5m   1 8.   A Complete…

Worldwide box office December 20-22 RankFilm (distributor)3-day (world)Cume (world)3-day (int’l)Cume (int’l)Territories  1.  Mufasa: The Lion King (Disney)  $122.2m  $122.2m  $87.2m  $87.2m  53  2.  Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Paramount)  $62m  $62m      12  3.  Moana 2 (Disney)  $45.9m   $790.1m  $32.8m  $431.1m  53  4.   Wicked (Universal)  $26.1m  $571.3m  $12.6m  $187.3m  82  5.  Gladiator II (Paramount)  $9.8m  $416.2m  $5.4m  $262.3m  66  6.  Kraven The Hunter (Sony)  $8.9m  $42.8m  $5.8m  $25.4m   63  7.  The Prosecutor (various)  $7.1m  $17.8m  $7.1m  $17.8m  5  8.  Homestead (Angel) …

Global box office will reach $33bn in 2025, a bounce-back from the expected slight downturn of 2024, according to predicitons from Gower Street Analytics, the UK-based film data and insights specialist.  It estimated 2025 will finish approximately 8% ahead of the estimated full-year 2024 result of around $30.5bn. The 2025 global projection would put the year down 14% against the average of the last three pre-pandemic years (2017-2019) at historic exchange rates. It is also 3% behind 2023’s full-year result ($33.9bn), though if re-calculated using current exchange rates, the 2025 projection would sit 1% ahead of 2023. The North America box…

Alejandro González Iñárritu’s untitled Tom Cruise film has been set for an October 2, 2026 Imax release by Warner Bros Pictures, giving the project a prime awards season slot.  The date had previously been claimed by Warner for Matt Reeves’ sequel to The Batman, which now moves to a global release on October 1, 2027, also in Imax.  The Inarritu project, the Mexican filmmaker’s first English-language film as a director since The Revenant, is being produced by Warner Bros and Legendary Entertainment and will also star Sandra Hüller, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons, Sophie Wilde and Riz Ahmed.  Plot…

Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (Dec 20-22) Total gross to date Week  1. Mufasa: The Lion King  (Disney) £4.4m  £4.4m 1  2. Wicked (Universal) £2.5m £48.2m 5  3. Moana 2 (Disney) £2.1m  £29.8m  4  4. Paddington In Peru (Studiocanal)  £649,278 £31.3m 7  5. Gladiator II (Paramount) £495,000 £29.6m 6  GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.26 Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King hit the top spot in its first weekend on release at the UK-Ireland box office, bringing in £4.4m from 663 venues, for a site average of…