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Organizers of the New York Film Festival, whose 58th edition faced a welter of complications due to COVID-19, said attendance across virtual and drive-in screenings rose more than 9% over 2019 levels. With drive-in theaters set up in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens and state health restrictions idling the Film at Lincol…

British citizens missing the movie-going can experience films like they’re English royalty, almost. The Sandringham Estate, which has been the private home of her royal majesty Queen Elizabeth and monarchs before her, has opened up to host drive-in movie events. Starting Sept. 25, the royal house will open up for a…

While COVID has shut down many U.S. theaters, it's been great for one category of exhibition. Over the past two weekends, some of the top-grossing theaters in the country have been drive-ins. Specifically, The Paramount and The Van Buren in Southern California have packed them in for The New Mutants and…

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the hardest-hit state in the union will begin a staged reopening this Friday. Three regions of the state will begin reopening May 15th. Those are Finger Lakes, Southern Tier and Mohawk Valley. Cuomo said those areas had met seven metrics that will be used to determine when…

Drive-ins continued to hang on stateside as we weathered our fourth weekend of a coast-to-coast — let’s be honest, global — theatrical shutdown. About 25 drive-ins booked DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls World Tour, and among the grosses we could get our hands on (as Universal isn’t reporting numbers), the weekend looked…

Fourteen theaters in the United States remained opened at the weekend box office according to recent reports obtained by Deadline, 13 of them were drive-ins. Those locations standing tall in the COVID-19 climate included the Van Buren Drive-in in Riverside, CA; the Mission Tiki in Monclair, CA; the Galaxy Drive-in in…

What an amazing weekend this would have been at the box office, that is if all was well in the world. Disney originally had their live-action version of Mulan fired up to go before the worldwide exhibition shutdown occurred, plus it would have been sharing the marquee with the second-weekend of Paramount’s A Quiet Plac…

Even with a majority of the nation’s movie theaters shuttered due to the coronavirus outbreak, and distributors holding back on box office reporting and new releases, there continued to be a handful of cinemas around the country that braved this weekend, and kept their doors open. And for that, they should be…

Just to give you an idea of how bad things are right now at the box office… While yesterday reached the lowest we’ve seen at the domestic B.O. with $260K for all titles, it’s not a historical low yet because we haven’t seen how horrible today is yet. Yesterday was -98% from the third Wednesday in March a year ago when…