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For a big movie that illustrates how the coronavirus pandemic has re-wired the film business, consider Army of the Dead. Released in May, the Zack Snyder zombie action spectacle cost about $90 million to make. Initially set up at Warner Bros. more than a decade ago, it traveled a winding path to Netflix, which grabbed…

EXCLUSIVE: Samantha Win (Army of the Dead) has been tapped to star in The Dresden Sun. The cyberpunk indie pic, written and directed by Michael Ryan, is said to combine elements of the sci-fi, action and thriller genres. It watches as a heist goes south, when a brilliant, principled mercenary with a traumatic past…

Netflix’s Lucifer finished as the top draw in the U.S. for the week of May 24 to 30, according to Nielsen. The show’s fifth season landed on Netflix at the end of May. After Fox canceled the drama after three seasons, Netflix picked it up, to the delight of fans. The show’s 83 episodes conjured almost 1.3 billion…

Zack Snyder's Las Vegas-set zombie heist movie Army of the Dead was the clear winner in U.S. streaming for the week of May 17 to 23, according to Nielsen. With an audience that was 60% male, the action outing easily won the week with 913 million minutes of streaming. It went on Netflix after a one-week run in about…

Cinemark CEO Mark Zoradi and CFO/COO Sean Gamble both praised the pending mergers of MGM and Amazon and Discovery and WarnerMedia, saying they would help strengthen film production. “We’re positive about this combination,” Zoradi said in response to a question about Warner Bros. Discovery. “We think this could be very…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has another feature hit on its hands in Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead which is on its way to becoming one of the streamer’s top 10 most watched movies, bound to notch 72M viewing households in its first four weeks. Army of the Dead, which repped the streamer’s widest theatrical release in 600…

Netflix spent at least “a few million” dollars to reshoot Chris D’Elia’s Army of the Dead role in the wake of accusations made against him, according to filmmakers Zack and Deborah Snyder. In a <a…

Indian actress Huma Qureshi is an established force in Bollywood, with her decade-long rise to fame encompassing credits such as Gangs of Wasseypur and Dedh Ishqiya. She is now getting her crack at Hollywood via Army Of The Dead, Zack Snyder's zombie movie that is currently screening in U.S. theaters ahead of its…

SUNDAY AM UPDATE: At a time when the box office looked to be making progress, especially with No. 2 chain Regal reopening more theaters, it was a downer of a weekend. Lionsgate’s R-rated Spiral: From The Book of Saw, starring Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson, came in with $8.7M, under the $10M-$15M many were hoping…

The robust, if short-term, theatrical run for Netflix’s Army of the Dead starting Friday is a sign of the marketplace to come, in the view of Cinemark CEO Mark Zoradi. During a virtual panel at the MoffettNathanson Media & Communications Summit, Zoradi said the Zach Snyder-directed action movie’s release took shape in…

It took a trip backwards to the spirit of his 2004 zombie flick Dawn of the Dead for Zack Snyder to finally reclaim his groove, but that he has done with Netflix’s super Army of the Dead, which can probably best be described as The Walking Dead meets Ocean’s 11, with a touch of Escape From New York and The Dirty Dozen …

Greg Marcus, CEO of Marcus Corp., was shocked when Arclight Cinemas and Pacific Theatres went dark. "I happened to notice that. It caught my attention," he joked. "I said, 'What? Arclight is not reopening?' Arclight's reopening. I'll take that bet with anybody who wants to bet me on that. Those theaters are so…