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The Star Movies of 2025: Every Film That Took Over a Week at the Box Office
The films that met the USA Times star-movie standard in 2025 — from A Minecraft Movie’s record $163M debut to Zootopia 2 and Avatar: Fire and Ash — with a sourced table and chart.
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The Star Movies of 2024: Every Film That Took Over a Week at the Box Office
The films that met the USA Times star-movie standard in 2024 — from Deadpool & Wolverine’s $211M debut to Moana 2 — with a sourced table and chart of the year’s biggest openings.
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What Is a Star Movie? The USA Times Definition
USA Times sets a precise, public bar for the films that briefly become the event: a movie qualifies if, in any single week, it takes ≥26.18% of the U.S. box office or ≥6.18% of the global box office. A golden-ratio standard — for the world to use.
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IMAX Aspect Ratios, Explained: 1.43:1 vs 1.90:1 — and How to Tell What You’re Really Getting
Not all “IMAX” is the same shape. The tall 1.43:1 is true IMAX; the wider 1.90:1 is digital IMAX — and the tall frame shows up to 40% more picture. Here’s the difference, where to find the real thing, and the answer to “what aspect ratio is AMC Empire 25’s IMAX?”
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Since 1940: Every Year’s Biggest Indian Film — and the Budget Boom That Changed the Math
USA Times charted the highest-grossing Indian film of every year from 1940 to 2026 — ₹0.55 crore to ₹1,850 crore — then set the modern era’s hits against their budgets. The long view is a hockey stick; the recent view is subtler: budgets exploded, yet the return on the year’s biggest film shrank. Interactive charts,…
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Wikipedia Credits a 1982 Bollywood Film With Nearly Double Sholay’s Gross. Its Citations Are About Completely Different Movies.
Wikipedia’s highest-grossing-Indian-films table credits Disco Dancer (1982) with nearly double Sholay’s gross. We checked its citations — they’re about entirely different, much more recent films. The number itself checks out anyway. Here’s how.
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Every Screen on Earth That Can Show The Odyssey in True IMAX 70mm — All 41 of Them
The Odyssey is the first film shot entirely on IMAX 15/70 film, and demand for the 70mm presentation has stunned IMAX. Only 41 screens worldwide can show it in 1.43:1 — here is the complete, verified list.
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The Definitive Guide to Manhattan’s Biggest Movie Screens
· Português Read in: English · Español · Русский · 中文 As of July 2026. Screen dimensions for commercial multiplexes are rarely published officially by theater chains, so figures below are triangulated from IMAX, AMC, and Regal materials alongside large-format enthusiast trackers (Cinema Treasures, AVS Forum, LF Examiner) and flagged as approximate where an exact…
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Every 70mm Odyssey Show on Sale at America’s Biggest IMAX Screen Is Sold Out
America’s biggest movie screen seats 480. We read the live seat maps for 18 IMAX 70mm showings of The Odyssey at AMC Lincoln Square; 15 were completely sold out and the rest were down to two seats.
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The 1% of Screens That Now Rule the Box Office: How IMAX Won the Post-Streaming Era
Update — September 10, 2026: The 70mm slate is growing. IMAX says at least four unannounced films will get a true 70mm release in 2027, and Star Wars: Starfighter — shot on IMAX film for the saga’s 50th anniversary — leads them, alongside a 70mm re-release of the 1977 original. Read the full story →…