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One Piece's Monkey D. Luffy joined the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade floats, the latest Demon Slayer film earned $780 million at the worldwide box office in 2025, and the animated musical KPop Demon Hunters (though not technically anime) became the most-watched original Netflix movie of all time. As someone who had no one to talk to growing up during the days of Naruto and Dragon Ball Z, it's tough to even process that the genre has reached mainstream status around the globe.

Is " Gas-Leak Cinema" dead? Ella McCay debuted at number six at the domestic box office, with $2.1 million in ticket sales. That's across 2500 screens, putting James L. Brooks's latest flick in the Christy zone. Not even Lisa Simpson doing the #EllaMcCayChallenge could save the film at the box office. The film also has a 22% on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics calling it

After breaking box-office records with a string of $40 million openings, the studio released Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, which just bolstered its status as the season's most formidable Oscar contender by sweeping the first week of precursor awards. And if, for some reason, One Battle stumbles before the finish line, the title that's best positioned to likely win in its stead is another Warner Bros. movie: Ryan Coogler's Sinners, which, like OBAA, has shown up everywhere it's needed to this season.

The reviews rolling out for Five Nights at Freddy's 2 are brutal, featuring F grades and one critic saying that "there's simply nothing of value here." The sequel premieres in theaters today, December 5, and stars Josh Hutcherson, Piper Rubio, Matthew Lillard, Elizabeth Lail, Mckenna Grace, and Megan Fox. On Metacritic (a GameSpot sister site), Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is currently sitting at a 32 metascore. That means "generally unfavorable," and of the 15 reviews so far, only one is positive.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

Eyes Wide Shut is a dreamlike odyssey where eroticism is everywhere. Stanley Kubrick's last film, adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's novella Dream Story, follows doctor Bill ( Tom Cruise) and his wife Alice (Nicole Kidman), who have what seems like the perfect life. But after they attend a swanky New York City Christmas party, they have a candid conversation about their desires. Bill can't fathom the idea of Alice being unfaithful, but she reveals that she's been fantasizing about a naval officer

Its global total at the end of the weekend stands at $226m, considerably up on the $164.2m earned by its predecessor. The major change was in the domestic takings: while last year's film took more than double its initial take in the US $114m to $50.2m overseas this concluding instalment has corrected that overindexing, with $76m banked from international territories.

Things used to be so simple. A movie opened in theaters, and if its total box office was lower than what it cost to make and market it, minus the half theaters took, we could easily call it a flop. It was dead in the water. Some were worse than that and were true bombs, though we're splitting hairs on the terminology here.