Theater
This weekend was one for the box office history books. Movie theaters across the nation were jamming with Gen Z crowds, who showed up en masse for not one but two buzzy horror films. A24’s “Backrooms” collected a jaw-dropping, record-breaking $81 million from 3,442 North American theaters in its opening weekend. That’s as ticket sales […]
For the first time in nearly seven years, “Star Wars” fans finally had a reason to go to the movies. And plenty of ’em showed up for “The Mandalorian and Grogu,” which collected $82 million in its opening weekend and an estimated $102 million through Monday. Those ticket sales are aligned with expectations, though box […]
The highly anticipated, high-fashion sequel The Devil Wears Prada 2’s owned the box office runway this weekend, strutting out to a sensational $77 million at the domestically and $233.6 million globally, per Comscore. Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic Michael In its second weekend in theaters, grossed $54 million domestically, for a former total of $183.8 million, and $134.8 million […]
The self-proclaimed King of Pop proved his generational staying power again at the box office over the weekend when the Michael Jackson biopic, Michael, earned a record-breaking $97 million domestically during a global launch that exceeded $217 million. The Antoine Fuqua-directed chronicle of Jackson’s life takes viewers from the singer’s humble Indiana beginnings to the peak of his stardom, briefly […]
In another win for a non-franchise title, Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic pulled off a moon walk for the ages at the worldwide box office with a record-smashing $97 million domestic opening and $120.4 million foreign launch for a global blast-off of $217.4 million, according to Sunday estimates. Michael, coming in nearly $30 million ahead of expectations, boasts the […]
Snoop Dogg and Jonathan Daviss, the Outer Banks actor who plays the hip hop superstar in an upcoming untitled biopic, kicked off Universal Pictures’ CinemaCon outing, taking the stage to talk up the film by Craig Brewer. “I wish I could give you more details” on the project, Snoop said. But there were not many, yet. It starts filming in Los Angeles this summer. “We’ll be […]
The Rochester Broadway Theatre League raised the curtain on the 2026-2027 M&T Bank Broadway Season at the West Herr Auditorium Theatre on Tuesday. Performers with the Broadway company of The Lion King and the Broadway company of The Outsiders helped with the grand announcement. The season will kick off in October with BOOP! The Musical, […]
“Sinners,” a vampire movie that unfolds in the segregated South, triumphed at the 2026 Actor Awards on Sunday night, winning the top prize for best ensemble in a motion picture while its star Michael B. Jordan was named best lead actor. “The Studio,” a sendup of many of the powerbrokers in the show’s audience, won a leading […]
It was the clip heard around the world after Sunday night’s BAFTA ceremony in London — a man yelling a racist slur as two celebrated Black actors, Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo, presented an award on stage. The man was John Davidson, the subject of the British indie film “I Swear,” about a man […]
Rochester’s Own actor-singer Taye Diggs will be inducted into the Rochester Music Hall of Fame as part of its 2026 class, the hall announced Monday morning. Diggs and The Skycoasters are the first two inductees to be announced. The Hall of Fame said in a press release that more inductees would be announced in the […]
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