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Disney/20th Century Studios' Death On The Nile has been confirmed for a China release, slated to go out on February 19. The date falls just after the Chinese New Year period ends, and is the day before the culmination of the Winter Olympics in Beijing. The Kenneth Branagh-directed mystery ensemble nabbed an…

UPDATE, writethru: In its fifth weekend, Sony/Marvel's Spider-Man: No Way Home swung past the $900M mark at the international box office to weave a $926.3M running cume after a $33.4M session in 63 markets. The worldwide total through Sunday is an Electro-fying $1.625B. Notably during the frame, this Spidey scaled new…

Powered by a slate of major tentpoles including Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home and MGM/Eon/Universal’s No Time To Die, Cineworld Group reports it generated positive cash flow for Q4 2021. The world's second largest exhibitor, which owns Regal in the U.S., did not disclose dollar amounts, but released a trading…

French film exports generated 91.4M euros ($103.6M) in 2021, a 5.5% increase on the previous year’s provisional figures, while admissions were up 8% to 14.8M. Comparatively, French films within France sold 39.2M tickets during the year. The figures were announced during the annual Unifrance Rendez-Vous with French Cine…

As we get rolling into the new year, optimism and caution are part of the outlook for 2022 at the international box office. The issue of China also remains top of mind as the territory — which maintained its status as the top global market in 2021 — has been even more ornery to navigate than usual, notably not…

UPDATE, writethru: Arachnomania continues to grip the globe as Sony/Marvel's Spider-Man: No Way Home has increased its worldwide cume to $1.53B through four weekends. Tom Holland's Peter Parker now fronts the No. 8 movie on the all-time global chart with No Way Home leaping past Marvel's The Avengers, Furious 7, Frozen…

Given the ongoing pandemic with regard to global box office, it's tempting to say "The more things change, the more things stay the same." To wit: Disney still leads all studios worldwide, piracy remains a major concern, and many markets are still in Covid-induced flux. But when looking back over 2021 versus 2020…

UPDATE, writethru: Happy New Year, Peter Parker! In its third weekend, Sony/Marvel's Spider-Man: No Way Home has lifted its global cume to $1.37B, becoming the 12th highest-grossing film of all time worldwide. Slinging up another $78.3M in 61 international box office markets this session, Spider-Man: No Way Home now…

Spider-Man: No Way Home on Tuesday officially became Sony Pictures' highest-grossing film of all time at the worldwide box office with $1.16B. This surpasses the global total of its predecessor, 2019's Spider-Man: Far From Home, which finaled at $1.13B. The split on the Tom Holland/Zendaya/Benedict Cumberbatch-starrer…

Cinemas in New Delhi have been ordered shut from today after Covid cases surged to a four-month high on Monday. These measures fall under the Indian capital’s Graded Response Action Plan which triggered the so-called "yellow alert" level that came into effect today as positivity rates were over 0.5% for two…

Stopping short of a lockdown or the addition of curfews as some other European countries have imposed recently, France is introducing new measures to combat the spread of the Omicron variant. Chief among them affecting the entertainment industry is that consuming food and drink in cinemas will be banned beginning…

UPDATE, writethru: Sony/Marvel's Spider-Man: No Way Home is having a joyous holiday as it is now officially the first movie of the pandemic era to pass the $1B mark at the global box office. The worldwide gross through Sunday is $1.05B which makes this installment Sony’s No. 2 film of all time, behind only Spider-Man…