Latest in Exhibition

As exhibitors nervously ponder the impact of the growing army of streaming services now unleashed on would-be moviegoers, results of a new study commissioned by The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) are heartening. Theatrical release and streaming seem to complement each other in a few different…

Disney CEO Bob Iger tweeted an apology to an elementary school in Berkeley, CA, after the company charged a $250 licensing fee for a fundraiser screening of The Lion King. “Our company apologizes to Emerson Elementary School PTA, and I will personally donate to their fund raising initiative,” Iger tweeted. The apology…

When you’re doing a movie trailer launch nowadays and need to grab everyone’s attention, it helps to throw a concert. Universal’s trailer for F9 (aka Fast & Furious 9), since dropping its near four-minute trailer on Friday ahead of the Super Bowl, has clocked a massive 439.3 million global views across YouTube…

We knew this was going to happen. By Oscar Sunday, if not before, Greta Gerwig’s feature revival of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women will cross $100 million at the domestic box office, a huge 33% surge in its domestic tally since notching six Oscar nominations on January 13 including Best Picture. While Gerwig already…

In expanding to the deeper parts of its DC universe, Warner Bros is launching Suicide Squad spinoff Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn this weekend, repping the comic book label’s continued march into R-rated fare post Joker and Watchmen. It is projected for a worldwide start between $11…

EXCLUSIVE: For a second year in a row, I hear Sony Pictures will not be holding an onstage presentation at this year’s CinemaCon, which runs from March 30-April 2 in Las Vegas. I understand Sony will make a return to CinemaCon at some point in the future, and will support this year’s confab in other ways. Essentially…

The spread of the Coronavirus – labeled a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization Thursday and routing the stock market heading into the weekend  – is credit negative for U.S. media and entertainment companies, according to a report out by Moody's this week. Markets swooned Friday with the Dow…

It’s no surprise but MoviePass, the once-highflying movie-ticket subscription service that crashed in an ocean of red ink last year, has announced its final demise, declaring Chapter 7 bankruptcy. So has its oddly-named parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics. Unlike Chapter 11, where companies can be reorganized…

Focus Features said Wednesday that it has set a May 29, 2020 domestic release date for Irresistible, the new film written and directed by Jon Stewart. The political satire, produced by Stewart and Plan B Entertainment, revolves around what happens when a small Wisconsin town becomes the main attraction of our…

MONDAY AM writethru after Sunday AM update: It’s huge. Sony’s Bad Bays for Life is now headed for a $73.4M 4-day and a $101M WW debut after posting a stronger Sunday with $17.05M per the Culver City, CA studio this morning. At $73M+, that’s 83% more than the $40M+ projection that tracking was seeing earlier last week…

Streaming and other leisure-time enticements appeared to take a bite out of movie ticket sales in 2019, with total admissions declining nearly 5% to 1.244 billion, according to the National Association of Theater Owners. Although the 2019 tally was slightly higher than the 1.236 billion recorded in 2017, the totals…

After abruptly pulling the George Nolfi-directed The Banker on the eve of its closing-night berth at AFI Fest last year and indefinitely postponing the December 6 release that was to mark Apple’s debut as a theatrical distributor, Apple has finally come forward and dated the period film for a March 6 theatrical…