Neon has entered Artificial, a dark film about the people who run OpenAI, as a comedy at the Golden Globes. The winners are named on 10 January.
0 of 9None of nine serious festival films entered as a Globes comedy in 2017, 2020, 2024 and 2025 won the comedy prize.
Will Artificial win the Globe for best comedy or musical film?
Godzilla Minus Zero opens in North America on 6 November. $28 million would be 2.45 times the first film's opening. Four of ten sequels to films not in English grew that much, and six did not.
Four of ten such films opened 78% or more above their first forecast, and six opened no more than 4% above it.
14th, Ava DuVernay's film about the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, leads the Critics Choice Documentary Awards. Two of ten times the film with the most nominations won best documentary, and eight times another film won.
Horror films in their fourth weekend before Halloween, with new horror films opening, added 10% or more over the next three weekends twelve times out of thirty-one.
Directors with an earlier Best Picture nominee have had weak first weekends before. One of six such films still got a Best Picture nomination: Steven Spielberg's West Side Story.
Artificial was dropped by Amazon MGM and picked up by Neon, which opens it on Christmas Day. Five of six past festival films about famous living people opened in a few cinemas first and went wide later.
Two of the last four films to cross $2bn on a first run kept earning afterwards, and both crossed fast.
Most leg-driven runs stalled within $90m of the line. Michael needs $23m with international play still booked.
Every Pixar sequel opening above $110m has crossed $1bn worldwide. Only the speed varied.
Of the comparable low-budget horror breakouts, only It cleared $400m. Backrooms sits at $350m with the decay ahead.