DreamWorks Animation’s “Dog Man” fetched $36 million in ticket sales at the weekend box office, according to studio estimates Sunday, making it the biggest debut yet in 2025.
‘Dog Man’ bites off $36 million, taking No. 1 at box office
Category: Movies
Explaining the curious case of ‘Emilia Pérez,’ the woebegone Oscar frontrunner
Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” is an Oscar contender unlike any other. It’s a musical, a trans parable, and a Mexico-set melodrama, all combined into one unique amalgamation by an international filmmaking team. And just as singularly, it’s a best picture front-runner that, it sometimes seems, no one likes.
Column: That show should have been a movie
If you’ve sat down to watch a show and thought “That should have been a movie,” here’s why it’s become the scourge of streaming.
Column: A movie’s story exposition is a tricky thing. Consider how we learn what’s what in ‘Presence.’
Steven Soderbergh’s “Presence” requires some initial audience disorientation. Mistake? If so, why do we miss David Lynch so much?
Chicago’s Facets film presenter turns 50 this year. What’s on deck, beyond a new name for itself?
The hardy nonprofit Facets Multimedia has been re-branded as Facets Film Forum, and 2025 continues its movie programming evolution.
Lyons Township team goes silent for Film Festival challenge
Students from Lyons Township High School participated in the Student Silent Film Festival at the Tivoli Theater in Downers Grove.
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni get March 2026 trial date for her ‘It Ends With Us’ lawsuit
A New York judge set a March 2026 trial date on Monday and moved an initial conference from mid-February to next week as the public feud between Blake Lively and her “It Ends With Us” costar and director Justin Baldoni continued to grow and accelerate.
Column: Architecture is having a movie moment — but do ‘Brutalist’ and ‘Megalopolis’ make architects more than pure ego?
“There’s no place for originality in architecture! Nobody can improve on the buildings of the past!” Those are the second and third lines spoken in the 1949 film version of Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead,” adapted by Rand, contractually protected from studio meddling, from her 1943 bestseller about the world’s hunkiest and most uncompromising visionary architect. […]
Mel Gibson’s ‘Flight Risk’ is No. 1 at box office, ‘The Brutalist’ expands
Despite the turbulence, Mel Gibson’s “Flight Risk” managed to open No. 1 at the box office with a modest $12 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
‘I’m Still Here’ review: Life and disappearances under a brutal regime inform this Oscar-nominated Brazilian drama
Fresh off Oscar nominations for best picture, best actress and international feature, “I’m Still Here” is the kind of drama we need now.