The Academy has clarified what movies are eligible to win Best Picture at this year's Oscars, and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 isn't among them.

Plenty of more commercial movies also didn't make the cut, including Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Madame Web, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, and the musical remake of Mean Girls. Boy Kills World, The Garfield Movie, The Girl with the Needle, Harold and the Purple Crayon, and Mother's Instinct are all also ineligible for Best Picture.

Ride or Die," "Mean Girls" and Andrea Arnold's "Bird" are among the titles excluded from competition for the top award The post More Than a Third of Oscar-Qualifying Films This Year Are Not Eligible for Best Picture appeared first on TheWrap.

Elsewhere, Golden Globes best picture contenders including 'Wicked,' 'A Complete Unknown' and 'The Brutalist' make gains on the eve of Sunday's show.

Reflecting back on 2024, it was a notably up and down year for films at the box office. The labor battles of 2023 forced some major schedule changes that had a big impact, and there were some notable flops and down periods,

The Walt Disney Co.’s “Mufasa” claimed the No. 1 spot on the North American box office charts over the first weekend of 2025.