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Obviously, from a commercial standpoint, we wanted a better opening weekend and all that. But hindsight is 20/20. I will say for all the noise about the box office and all that, it's almost four years since 'Bros,' and people, not only gay men, but a lot of gay men, come up to me all the time and talk about 'Bros' in a very emotional way...Sometimes they really pour their hearts out.

“I never want to be cocky about how anything's going to land or play. You think about it, and you theorize it,” he told Entertainment Weekly.

'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest' became the first 'Pirates' film to cross a billion dollars and probably the first film based on a theme park ride to do that, too.

The Resident Evil film franchise has grossed over $1.2 billion worldwide since the first film debuted in 2002, but an attempt to reboot it a few years ago floundered.

Principal photography for Desert Warrior was completed in 2021, but post-production dragged on for several more years, as executive shakeups led to 'creative differences' that caused Wyatt to exit (and later re-join) the film.

The King's Warden has rewritten box-office benchmarks, earning over £70m to become the top-grossing film in the country's history, according to The Korea Herald.

Kirsten Dunst gave an interview to Town and Country Magazine declaring that while she was still committed to doing smaller movies, she'd love to do a movie like Minecraft 2, 'because her kids loved the first one and because she'd like to make a pile of cash. Maybe I can just make a movie where I don't lose money?'

After its $45.3 million debut, The Walt Disney Co.'s 'Hoppers' release dipped a modest 37% in its follow-up weekend, a promising sign for an animated movie hoping to have strong legs through March. The Pixar original, about a young woman who transforms into the body of a beaver to help defend a pond from development, is hoping to keep attracting audiences with good reviews (94% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and strong audience scores (an 'A' CinemaScore).

After a better-than-expected opening weekend in theaters, box office for Amazon's "Melania" fell 67%, to $2.37 million, in its second weekend. The documentary about First Melania Trump has grossed a total of $13.5 million so far (almost all of that in the United States), which means it's extremely unlikely the film - which Amazon spent $40 million to acquire and $35 million to market - will break even in theaters.

In what seems to be the most uniting moment since Chardonnay was invented, older white Republican women flocked to movie theaters this past weekend to watch Melania, the nearly two-hour-long documentary about the First Lady financed by Jeff Bezos and directed by accused sex pest Brett Ratner. The film allegedly follows her during the 20 days leading up to Trump's second inauguration in 2025, though the trailer basically just showed her wearing sunglasses.

Instead, the big success story was , a new film directed by Mark Fischbach, better known as the popular YouTuber Markiplier. Inspired by the 2022 horror game created by David Szymanski, Iron Lung was made for $3m and has made $21m to date, Impressively, the film also reigned supreme over Sam Raimi's new horror comedy Send Help, starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien.