The David Ellison owned Paramount can claim the first big No. 1 opening of the year for an MPA title as Spyglass’ Scream 7 roars to a franchise best opening of the year with a $64.1M domestic opening and $97.2M opening worldwide
The Columbus Film Office has announced an extension of the application submission deadline for its Local Filmmaker Grant Program to March 31, 2026. The extension comes in response to overwhelming interest generated at last week's Columbus Creator's Mixer.
Founded by Motown legend Smokey Robinson, The Miracles produced an amazing 26 Top 40 songs, four of which are in the Grammy Hall of Fame – big hits including “Shop Around,” “The Tracks of My Tears,” “Tears of a Clown,” “I Second That Emotion.” “Ooh, Baby Baby” “Mickey’s Monkey” “Goin’ to A-Go-Go” and many more.
The mixer marked a public launch of the film office’s broadened scope, which now encompasses gaming, music, podcasting and digital content creation alongside traditional film.
Some good news: the post-Presidents' Day weekend in U.S./Canada wasn’t that slow with all films grossing just over $79M, +2% from a year ago. The 2026 year to date B.O. stands at $1.05 billion, still ahead of 2025 by 7% per industry estimates.
The Columbus Film Office is having a creators mixer to “broaden the scope of film production” in the city of Columbus. Rather than solely traditional film production, the film office says they are expanding the horizon to gaming, music, podcasts and digital content creation.
Warner Bros is calling the global opening of Wuthering Heights at $82M, that’s $42M international and $40M domestic.
"Hidden Figures" production personnel discuss the surprisingly authentic 1960s locations used throughout Georgia. The NASA scenes, for example, were actually shot at five different locations, one of which was Columbus, Ga.
The Columbus Creators Mixer on Feb. 19 at 6 p.m. at The Loft in Columbus will provide information on "How to Become a Storyteller" and "The Economics of Storytelling," which will include creators across all disciplines, providing education on storytelling fundamentals and helping participants understand what resources are locally available to them.
What can be as bad as a 2,000-mile snowstorm that shutters theaters? Why, Super Bowl weekend. And while it’s not the lowest weekend of the year, it came close.
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