It was a timid box office weekend for the new releases, while Clint Eastwood’s latest continues to dominate In at number 1 is American Sniper with $64.3 million, which brings its domestic total up to $200 million. That’s a 27% holdover from last weekend, which is extremely strong for a film that “opened” with $90M. Given what American Sniper has accomplished already, we wouldn’t be surprised if January became the new “heroic war story” month going forward. The Boy Next Door comes in at number 2 with $15 million.

The Lego Movie directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller have let slip that the sequel to Warner Bros.' hit animated comedy will take place four years later. Slight spoilers for The Lego Movie ahead. Lord and Miller, who probably won't return to direct but are currently writing the screenplay for The Lego Movie 2, told Empire that they're interested in continuing The Lego Movie's meta-story (the live action narrative starring Will Ferrell in the original film). "Well I don’t want to give you spoilers but we were really interested in what happens to that boy who’s in the meta story in the first movi

The story about the development of the Bioshock movie is an interesting, but ultimately disappointing one. The film is pretty much dead now, but every once in a while something rises to the surface giving us a glimpse at what could have been. The film went through a couple directors, but the most prominent was Pirates of the Caribbean’s Gore Verbinski. That eventually fell apart though because Verbinski was unwilling to make the movie PG-13. That is probably for the best too because the horror and violence of the franchise is pretty core to its concept.

With the last Hobbit film now in theaters, let’s look back at the success of the franchise at the box office, domestically, worldwide and even adjusted for inflation, starting with the 1978 animation and up to now. 1978 – The Lord of the Rings $30.5 Million ($105.7M Adjusted) J.R.R. Tolkien’s seminal work of fiction, The […] Read Box Office: The Most Successful Middle-earth Movies on Filmonic.

Where will Dory look for her family?Though we’ve learned some details about Pixar’s Finding Nemo sequel Finding Dory (including that Diane Keaton and Eugene Levy are playing the parents to Ellen DeGeneres’ forgetful fish), not much else had emerged about the film.