ENTERTAINMENT NEWS, REVIEWS
Amaze. Amaze. Amaze! Epic space adventure Project Hail Mary launched with the highest-grossing film debut of the year, landing at a $140.9 million box office opening weekend.
RECORD BREAKING news welcomed Regal Entertainment, Inc. this 2026 as its entry to the Metro Manila Film Festival 2025, ‘Shake, Rattle & Roll: Evil Origins’ sets a new record, grossing P110M in two weeks.
The Walt Disney Company has officially become Southeast Asia’s number one Hollywood studio of 2025, wrapping up a blazing box office run this year with The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Lilo & Stitch and Captain America: Brave New World leading the charge as the studio’s top-performing releases in the Philippines. This weekend, fans in the Philippines felt the heat of Avatar: Fire and Ash on the big screen, as the film grossed US $2.4M at the box office.
“Shake, Rattle, and Roll” is back with a vengeance at the 51st Metro Manila Film Festival. The latest installment of the Regal Entertainment’s iconic movie series, “Shake, Rattle, and Roll: Evil Origins,” is drawing record crowds after it hit cinemas on December 25, marking the biggest opening day for a Filipino horror film in over a decade.
Zootopia 2 has slithered straight to the top of the global box office, raking in a record-breaking US$556 million in its opening weekend, clinching the highest global debut of 2025, the 4th highest global opening of all-time, and the highest global opening for any animated film in Disney history.
A congratulations is in order as Wicked: For Good earns ₱163.5 million in the 5-day opening weekend box office. That’s a 54% jump from the opening weekend of the first Wicked film. The Philippines charted high international sales, ranking sixth worldwide outside of the United States. Wicked: For Good also holds the achievement for having the biggest opening weekend for Universal in 2025, and since 2018.
“Final Destination Bloodlines” made a killing at the box office on its opening weekend.
Venom: the Last Dance took a huge chunk out of the box office as it grossed $175 million USD globally. The final chapter to the epic Venom saga stepped into #1 in the Philippines and most territories where it opened.
Blake Lively has had the biggest motion picture opening of her career as a lead actress to date with It Ends With Us, with a US weekend gross of $50 million, and $30 million from the rest of the world. The emotional adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s #1 New York Times bestseller of the same name was also produced by Lively, and is directed and co-starred by Justin Baldoni.
MANILA, July 22, 2024 – Nature’s fury rocked the global box office as “Twisters” stormed into North American and Philippine theaters at No.1, nabbing third-biggest opening of 2024 in the US with a sensational $80.5-million.