Scott Mendelson

Even with a domestic debut 50% below its recent predecessors, Illumination’s $85 million ‘Minions & Monsters’ should still end the holiday with $165 million worldwide

Despite its PVOD availability, ‘Obsession’ is holding firm and will soon become among the very leggiest wide release movies of the post-'Batman' box office era

Disney’s latest live-action redo mostly goes through the pantomime motions, but compelling third-act visuals and a surprisingly strong star duo elevate it slightly above a metaphorical “Moana on Ice."

Artistically speaking, let’s hope that Denis Villeneuve’s trilogy capper ranks, among gratuitous threequels to excellent “rise and fall” dualogies, closer to ‘The Godfather Part III’ than ‘The Rise of Skywalker’

Am I a big fan of the ‘Evil Dead’ films? Admiration notwithstanding, I’ve long been mostly agnostic. But I think I’m now a Sébastien Vaniček fan.

'Evil Dead Burn’ earns okay $6.7 million as ‘The Invite’ expands with $2.4 million, but 'Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass’ can’t survive being this weekend’s *other* buzzy comedy.

Lionsgate and Universal’s ‘Michael’ just topped $1 billion and will soon (briefly) be the year’s biggest grosser, but where might it end on the 2026 charts by New Year’s Eve?

Kenji Tanigaki’s modern action classic was (by default) one of the top North American grossers for a (non-Indian) overseas actioner in a generation.

Many of DreamWorks Animation's top franchises stem from lesser-known or youth-skewing books and comics

The 2010s glut of “live-action” revamps of animated I.P. seems to have come to its final resting place after Moana's meek box office showing. With dwindling bankable I.P. and waning fan interest, this was probably bound to happen.