Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Box Office: “A Star is Born” Takes $42.6 Mil, Soundtrack Conquers Charts with 16 of iTunes Top 100

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“A Star is Born” totals up at $42.6 million including previews through today, which is maybe a little softer than expected but just fine.

The main story right now is that the soundtrack has placed 16 slots on the iTunes top 100 including several songs by newly minted hitmaker Bradley Cooper.

“ASIB” has the top three songs on iTunes. It’s also the number 1 album. It couldn’t have done any better.

Back in the comic book world, the “Spider Man” spin off “Venom” did a whopping $80 million for Sony. Sony still holds on to Spider-Man related material for Marvel, and is thanking God– in this case, Stan Lee– that they do. The worldwide appetite for Marvel never abates. “Venom” has $205 million in the bank so far internationally.

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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