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BOX OFFICE: “Scream 7” became the highest opening weekend for the franchise opening at #1 with $63.6 million. Two concert movies also did well. “Twenty-One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined” made $4.3 million and “EPIC: Elvis Presley in Concert” went from limited to wide adding approx. 1600 screens and made $3.5 million. They were #4 and #5 on the top domestic box office for the weekend.
Overall, since the Olympics are now over the box office rebounded going up 47% with at domestic total of $111.4 million
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: Worldwide box office “Scream 7” was also impressive making almost $100 million worldwide. However, the big news was the Chinese movie “Pegasus 3” grew to over $550 million worldwide – a lot of it from China – so it’s now the #1 movie of 2026 (so far).
OTHER NEWS:
The biggest news is that last week Warner Bros announced that the latest Paramount offer is better than the Netflix offer. After that, Netflix declined to make another offer. So, Paramount will now buy Warner Bros Discovery although there is STILL a lot of people who are against the merger – including movie theaters who say the amount of theatrical movies will go down (Paramount says they’ll still release 30 movies a year between the two studios but I doubt that and so do a lot of other people) and it still has to be approved by the US and other countries regulators.
Apparently, there’s someone named “Chris Fame” who is selling UNOFFICIAL movie novelizations on Amazon.
I know they’re unofficial because the books are released around the same time as the movies come out (“The Bride” isn’t even released yet) and I’ve seen “Good Luck Have Fun Don’t Die”. There are no large robots and hardly any guns in it like there are in the cover photo. He also has a book called “Send Help” which is described as a “spoiler free companion guide” to the movie (although it was released a week before the movie) and a book called “Scream: Bloodline: Evil Runs in the Family” which is supposedly about the entire “Scream” franchise.
Due to the employees of the WGA West offices being on strike, they announced that the west coast WGA award show has been cancelled. The east coast show will still go on.
The Producers Awards and the Actors Awards were this past weekend.
Producers Awards winners:
Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Picture – One Battle After Another
Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures – KPop Demon Hunters
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures – My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay
PGA Innovation Award – The Wizard of Oz at Sphere
Screen Actors Guild “Actor Awards”:
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A CAST IN A MOTION PICTURE – Sinners
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE – Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE – Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE – Amy Madigan, Weapons
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE – Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
OUTSTANDING STUNT ENSEMBLE IN A MOTION PICTURE – Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
LITTLE BIT OF HUMOR: More clickbait news over the weekend…..
There were reports that the news site Deadline reported that Quentin Tarantino and/or Jerry Seinfeld were killed by Israel bombings over the weekend. So, Deadline had to post a REAL story that the news is fake.
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