Film & TV Intelligence
The films. The people behind them. The business and cultural meaning beyond the opening weekend.
8 films
Theatrical · 2025
Highest 2 Lowest
Spike Lee
Worldwide box office
$1,500,000
When a titan music mogul is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.
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Theatrical · 2025
Sinners
Ryan Coogler
Worldwide box office
$371,568,759
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
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Theatrical · 2024
Mufasa: The Lion King
Barry Jenkins
Worldwide box office
$722,631,756
Mufasa, a cub lost and alone, meets a sympathetic lion named Taka, the heir to a royal bloodline. The chance meeting sets in motion an expansive journey of a group of misfits searching for their destiny.
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Theatrical · 2024
The Fire Inside
Rachel Morrison
Worldwide box office
$8,104,331
Claressa Shields becomes the first American woman to win a gold medal only to learn that not all dreams are created equal.
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Theatrical · 2023
Creed III
Michael B. Jordan
Worldwide box office
$276,148,615
Adonis has been thriving in both his career and family life, but when a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy resurfaces, the face-off is more than just a fight.
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Theatrical · 2023
Origin
Ava DuVernay
Worldwide box office
$4,837,191
The unspoken system that has shaped America and chronicles how lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.
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Theatrical · 2018
Creed II
Steven Caple Jr.
Worldwide box office
$214,215,889
Under the tutelage of Rocky Balboa, newly crowned heavyweight champion Adonis Creed faces off against Viktor Drago, the son of Ivan Drago.
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Theatrical · 2015
Creed
Ryan Coogler
Worldwide box office
$174,178,883
The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed.
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Pilot collection, not a complete filmography or a ranking. Inclusion currently means a film directed or co-directed by a Black filmmaker.
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