The 'Barbenheimer’ phenomenon: How a movie meme inspired the 'crazy, weird' double feature. Patrick Ryan. This weekend, it’s a battle of the bombshells at the summer box office.

Ever since “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” took the world by storm on Jul. 22, 2023, movie studios have been eager to create the next “Barbenheimer” phenomenon. This year, “Gladiator II” and “Wicked” will ...

The five-part movie franchise has grossed over $2.9 billion at the box office with only a collective budget of $495 million, making it the 21st highest-grossing movie franchise of all time. Even if ...

The new documentary THE PHENOMENON, directed by James Fox, starts off like any of a hundred other UFO documentaries, cataloguing eyewitness testimonies, all of whom seem credible, but in most cases, a ...

From art to logos and even films, the phenomenon’s effect on our collective memories continues to captivate us. In the case of Jaws 2 , Marge’s death is one of the most interesting commercial ...

A year after the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon, movie-theater chains AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc., Cinemark Holdings Inc. and Regal Cinemas are riding the wave of summer movies like “Deadpool ...

You can count Oppenheimer star Emily Blunt among the fans of the phenomenon.In a recent interview, Blunt said she believes there needs to be some way of recreating that excitement, for the sake of ...