Latest in Valentine’s Day

The top 20 movies yesterday saw an average 120% spike over Monday as moviegoing exploded on Valentine’s Day led by Warner Bros. theatrical release of original HBO Max R-rated title Magic Mike’s Last Dance which led all titles with $1.93M and a five day take of $11M at 1,496 locations. Magic Mike 3 saw a…

Editor’s note: Deadline presents the 49th episode of its video series Take Two, in which Pete Hammond and Todd McCarthy tackle the artistry of films just opening in theaters every weekend. Each has reviewed and written about the craft for decades and built a remarkable breadth of knowledge of films past an…

Universal’s Jennifer Lopez-Owen Wilson romantic comedy Marry Me led the Valentine’s Day Monday box office with $3 million, raising its four-day total to $10.99M. The pic, which also was available to watch on the paid tier of Uni’s streaming service Peacock, is booked at 3,642 theaters. Marry Me‘s Monday was up 109%…

“This is the most unbelievable thing that could ever happen in life,” says Sarah Silverman’s gal-pal character Parker in the first trailer for Universal’s Marry Me. Have a look above. Described as Notting Hill meets The Proposal, the story centers on pop superstar Kat Valdez (Jennifer Lopez) who, moments before…

“It's interesting, the White House is releasing their own line of Valentine’s Day cards this year. Have you heard about this?” ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel said, to a crickets response from his studio audience. “That's because we made it up," Kimmel was compelled to explain, because in a world of Trump steaks…

The studios are elated because box office numbers coming in this morning for Tuesday’s Valentine Day are above and beyond their wildest expectations. In particular, Sony Pictures/Screen Gems’ romantic tearjerker The Vow made a whopping $11.6M for the biggest mid-week Valentine’s Day gross ever (beating the $7.5M for…

I already reported this, but here’s the official Warner Bros announcement: BURBANK, CA – July 26, 2010 – On Sunday, July 25th, Warner Bros. Studios became the only studio in history to surpass $1 billion at the domestic box office for ten years in a row. In addition, the division has crossed the billion-dollar…

TNT has landed the TV rights to Chris Nolan’s blockbuster Inception in a deal between parent company Turner and corporate sibling Warner Bros. that includes several other WB titles: romantic comedies Sex And the City 2 and Valentine’s Day, action flicks Clash of the Titans and Jonah Hex and the upcoming Robert Downey…