Early morning estimates show that Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame clocked $37.6M, which makes it the third best Monday ever as we were expecting last night. Disney will file their official number later this morning. Endgame ranks behind Black Panther‘s all-time record of $40.15M (which was Presidents Day) and Star Wa…

FINAL UPDATE, Monday PM: All numbers are in, and Disney/Marvel’s record domestic weekend moola marathon for Avengers: Endgame will settle at $357.1M. Disney called the weekend at $350M, but when you’re dealing with such high numbers and records, you don’t want to walk any money back on Monday. The rest of the town…

Fresh off a record-breaking $1.2 billion box office weekend, Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, the filmmakers behind the Disney/Marvel epic Avengers: Endgame, made an appearance at the Milken Institute Global Conference. The pair discussed their journey through the Marvel Cinematic Universe that culminated with the…

The archives of the Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum, including Ball’s handwritten notes and family photographs, will be digitally preserved by the National Comedy Center. Located in Ball’s Jamestown, NY hometown, the Center is undertaking the project to mark the 30th anniversary of her death. Most of the material has…

Sinemia, a rival to MoviePass in the percolating movie ticketing space, said it is ending its operations in the U.S. effective immediately. The company let users know on their website this week, just ahead of the opening of Disney/Marvel’s now record-breaking juggernaut Avengers: Endgame. “While we are proud to have…

Fandango officially reports today that Avengers: Endgame — ahead of its U.S. opening at 6 PM tonight — is officially its biggest ticket preseller of all time with 8,000 showtimes already sold out coast to coast (and beyond), from Hilo, HI, to Newington, NH. This easily crushes Fandango’s previous record holder, Star Wa…

When it comes to the ideal way of watching movies, theatrical is king for two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro. Following De Niro’s opening keynote today at the Tribeca Film Festival media luncheon, Deadline asked the event co-founder about his take on theatrical versus streaming, especially as independent films are…

With Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame busting every imaginable presales record in AMC’s history, the world’s No. 1 exhibitor is making sure the Russo Brothers pic is available on as many screens as possible with millions of tickets still available stateside. As Deadline reported earlier, AMC — together with the No. 2…

According to Deadline sources, before Avengers: Endgame flickers even one image on a movie screen ahead of its Thursday night previews nationwide, advance domestic ticket sales for the Russo Brothers-directed Marvel sequel are estimated to be north of $120 million, with some figuring they’re as high as $140M. These…

4th Update, Sunday 10:17 AM Writethru: With chart As we were the first to say yesterday very early in the morning, it’s the lowest Easter weekend at the box office in well over a decade – actually, since 2003, per ComScore this morning (when it hit $107.1M), with the last three days totaling $110.8M in US/Canada…

Cannes Film Festival chief Thierry Frémaux this morning was asked to address the thorny Netflix issue that has been front and center at the event for the past few years. Beginning his remarks about the current situation and its potential evolution, he quipped, "Roma, I'll remind you, was a Cannes Film Festival film…

The cosmos somehow aligned for this to be the weekend in which two headlining actors star as singers in two limited releases that open in the same frame — albeit with quite different stories… In the end, it seems both Gunpowder & Sky's Her Smell and Bleecker Street's Teen Spirit mostly split the audiences — or shared…