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June 2016

June 19, 2016

Box office: Finding Dory has the best animated opening ever

Plus: Captain America: Civil War crosses $400 million in North America, and X-Men: Apocalypse crosses...

June 12, 2016

Box office: North Americans go for the ghosts, while foreign audiences go for a tale of humans battling orcs

The Conjuring 2 was the biggest hit by far in North America, but Warcraft ruled...

June 07, 2016

Filmmakers sue God’s Not Dead producers for $100 million

This is at least the second lawsuit alleging that Pure Flix Entertainment stole the film's...

June 05, 2016

Box office: Mutant turtles and superheroes lead a weak week

Plus: Zootopia is now the second film this year to gross a billion dollars worldwide.

May 2016

May 29, 2016

Box office: X-Men, Alice sequels top the box office but have softer openings than expected

Plus: a Whit Stillman film -- the Jane Austen adaptation Love & Friendship -- cracks...

May 22, 2016

Box office: The Angry Birds rule the weekend, while Captain America becomes the year’s first billion-dollar movie

Plus: X-Men: Apocalypse has a solid opening overseas.

May 15, 2016

Box office: Captain America continues to surge at home and abroad, while Last Days in the Desert has a so-so opening

Last Days in the Desert had the lowest per-screen average of any Bible film released...

May 08, 2016

Box office: Captain America has the fifth-best opening ever

Plus: Zootopia is now the sixth-highest-grossing animated film worldwide, and Miracles from Heaven is the...

May 01, 2016

Box office: Disney rules the box office with The Jungle Book in North America and Captain America overseas

Meanwhile, Zootopia -- another Disney release -- became the seventh animated film to gross over...

April 2016

April 24, 2016

Box office: Winter but no Christmas for The Huntsman, and Zootopia becomes the 8th-biggest animated film worldwide

This was also the first week without a "faith-based" film in the top ten since...

April 17, 2016

Box office: The Jungle Book exceeds expectations, while Barbershop: The Next Cut underperforms slightly

Also: Zootopia and Batman v Superman crossed the $300 million mark in North America this...

April 11, 2016

Ben-Hur release date gets bumped to a later week in August

Only twelve films released in the second half of August have grossed over $60 million,...

April 10, 2016

Box office: Melissa McCarthy beats Batman, while Zootopia becomes one of the top ten animated films in North America

The Boss and Batman v Superman are almost tied for the box-office crown this week,...

April 03, 2016

Box office: God’s Not Dead 2 and Batman v Superman both perform below (their not-high-to-begin-with) expectations

God's Not Dead 2 made less money in its first weekend than the original film...

March 2016

March 27, 2016

Box office: Batman v Superman breaks records, Deadpool becomes the top-grossing R-rated movie ever worldwide

Also: Risen narrowly missed being in the top ten again on this Easter weekend.

March 20, 2016

Box office: Miracles from Heaven opens strong, and both of the season’s Bible movies drop out of the top ten

The Young Messiah had possibly the steepest second-weekend drop of any Bible film in recent...

March 13, 2016

Box office: The Young Messiah has a smaller opening than expected, and Zootopia keeps tracking ahead of Frozen

Despite healthy Thursday-night previews, The Young Messiah had the smallest per-screen average of any major...

March 11, 2016

Battle of the Thursday-night Bible-movie previews!

The Young Messiah made more money in fewer venues at its Thursday-night previews than Risen...

March 06, 2016

Box office: Zootopia sets a new Disney record, and Risen is on the verge of passing Hail, Caesar! in North America

Hail, Caesar! and Risen are now the 9th- and 10th-highest-grossing "Bible movies" of the past...

February 2016

February 28, 2016

Box office: Risen drops, Gods of Egypt flops, and Deadpool becomes the 3rd-biggest R-rated movie ever worldwide

This is the week that Ben-Hur was going to come out. When it moved to...

February 21, 2016

Box office: Risen is the week’s top new film, and Deadpool takes aim at The Passion of the Christ’s R-rated record

Risen is currently on track to have the fourth-biggest opening of any "faith-based" film, behind...

February 04, 2016

The Brazilian Moses movie is big, but not quite that big

It didn't set any new records, but it was still very popular -- especially for...

January 2016

January 30, 2016

Brazil’s biggest home-grown box-office hit could be a Bible epic about Moses, re-edited from a local TV series

The film has already sold five times as many pre-sale tickets as Star Wars: The...

January 14, 2016

Oscar winners slipping at the box office — 2015

The Oscar for Best Picture used to go to films that were in the box-office...

November 2015

November 13, 2015

Professional wrestlers and medical miracles abound in two new “faith-based” movie trailers

Plus: an update on the box-office performance of this year's "faith-based" films.

October 2015

October 06, 2015

War Room is now the top-grossing evangelical movie ever

The Kendrick brothers may be the most consistently successful "microbudget" film producers this side of...

September 2015

September 07, 2015

War Room sets a new milestone for “faith-based” films

Sixteen years after The Omega Code cracked the box-office top ten, War Room is the...

February 2015

February 03, 2015

Exodus: Gods and Kings: Blu-Ray bonus features revealed

Plus an update on the film's global box-office performance.

January 2015

January 15, 2015

Oscar winners slipping at the box office — 2014

For the first time in decades -- and possibly ever -- the Academy may be...

January 11, 2015

Box office: Exodus: Gods and Kings slips some more, but is now the third-highest-grossing Bible movie worldwide

On the bright side, Ridley Scott's Moses movie has now passed The Prince of Egypt...