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Box office is big news this week, not so much for its totals as for its totemic significance. Throngs will greet Top Gun: Maverick, but will kids join the grownups to see a nearly 60 year-old actor starring in a sequel to a 36 year-old hit? At the other end of the audience spectrum, will seniors conquer their torpor…

Some say CinemaCon shouldn’t even be taking place this week. That Las Vegas is a hotbed for the virus. How the whole conference should have been virtual (actually, some studio presentations were entirely filmed). That exhibition and the domestic box office aren’t even back to form yet, with the year-to-date total at…

The number of movie theaters closing today in U.S. and Canada went from around 200 this morning to well past 3,000 locations tonight according to sources. Alamo Drafthouse has just shuttered all its corporate-owned sites and all but one franchise-owned location in Winchester, VA. Over the weekend, it had already…