A week and a half prior to the exhibitor-distributor love-in CinemaCon, the Motion Picture Association of America has released their annual entertainment industry report, showing that the theatrical and home ancillary sectors were vibrant at a record $96.8 billion in revenues in 2018, +9% over 2017. Global box office…

Every day, in every way, the movies are getting better and better. Or so you might think, based on a steady increase in RottenTomatoes.com critical scores for wide film releases during the past nine years. In a simple but intriguing exercise, movie marketing consultant David A. Gross recently calculated Rotten Tomatoes…

Lionsgate exceeded Wall Street forecasts for revenue in its fiscal second quarter, racking up $901 million, but saw profits hurt by charges related to shareholder litigation. On an adjusted diluted basis, earnings per share came in at 22 cents, which was also better than Wall Street estimates. But a net loss in the…

UPDATED with closing stock price. Imax Corp. beat Wall Street’s third-quarter expectations, but investors did not immediately seem impressed, sending the company’s already slumping shares down more than 6% despite a broad rally that boosted most media shares. Over the past month, the stock has sagged nearly 25% and it…

Hollywood rode a powerhouse summer lineup to post double-digit gains in box office and attendance, setting itself up to hit a new full-year record haul in 2018 as long as the holiday season delivers. According to figures just out from the National Association of Theatre Owners, summer box office totaled $4.398…

Another financial milestone is expected to arrive this weekend for Marvel Studios’ Black Panther, which should cross the $700M level in domestic box office gross at some point, making it the third film ever to top that mark. The film, released Feb. 16, is now in its 25th weekend. With an A+ CinemaScore and a  97%…

During a spring and early summer of corporate angst about the state and fate of the studio business, the box office kept humming along, according to second-quarter figures from the National Association of Theater Owners. The Hollywood hit parade led to a 23% leap in year-over-year box office revenue, putting the first…

Structurally, the movie box office is pointed back to the future, but with a couple of twists. As we approached mid-July, according to data compiled by Boxofficemojo.com, the domestic box-office take for films released in 2018 was startlingly top-heavy. According to numbers posted Friday—before the current weekend is…

With blockbusters including Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, Incredibles 2, Deadpool 2 and Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom, the latter of which opened to $148 million this past weekend, the North American theatrical box office has hit $6 billion through yesterday. That makes it the earliest that benchmark has ever…

One of the hardest things about covering Hollywood for New York editors is trying to convince them that most of the next year's stories have already happened. Films are made on a long lead time of, say, 18 months, give or take. So most of the touchy decisions, political fights, minor victories, major failures and…

Three weeks and a day before the Oscar ceremony, those supposedly vibrant, film-hungry viewers of the seasonal contenders are still curled up in a ball. By now, they should be pouring into theaters to sample Best Picture nominees that have been primed, promoted, and prepped for the big night—March 4—with an armload of…

Exhibition, a sector under heavy pressure on Wall Street in recent months, saw stocks rise across the board during today’s abbreviated trading session, reflecting investor bargain-hunting and optimism about holiday box office. AMC shares led all gainers, increasing nearly 5% to finish at $13.65. That’s still far below…