The mother studio of franchise pics, Disney, made some release date changes today which further underscores studios’ planning that the summer box office season starts later than sooner. With Artemis Fowl, originally in the post Memorial Day corridor, heading to Disney+, and Universal’s Candyman now on Sept. 25…
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…
We are hearing from U.S. industry sources as well as those on the ground in the PRC that the offices of China Film Group in Shanghai and those of China’s Film Bureau are re-opened for business — a sign that the country’s exhibition business is on its way to a gradual recovery after being shuttered since the Lunar New Y…
UPDATED with charts of 2020 domestic box office standings to date, final charts for the weekend of March 13-15, Monday and Tuesday.
“For all intents and purposes, the industry is shut down,” screamed one studio boss last night about the state of exhibition. “What’s left that’s open?”
With Cinemark shutting down Tuesday…
EXCLUSIVE: If exhibition couldn’t be further beaten down more today, Disney has just moved Mulan (March 27), 20th Century Studios/Marvel’s TheNew Mutants (April 3) and Searchlight’s horror pic Antlers (April 17) off the release schedule. Disney says that it’s looking at potential 2020 dates in regards to where the…
Disney has cancelled the red carpet element of its European premiere for Mulan, the studio has confirmed to us.
The studio said it was cancelling the London red carpet "in an abundance of caution" over the spread of coronavirus.
The screening of the film will still go ahead as a "contained inside screening event"…
There may be a glimmer of hope —may being the operative word– in regards to China’s movie theaters re-opening after being shuttered since the Lunar New Year holiday over the COVID-19 outbreak.
We hear from multiple sources, both industry and on-the-ground in the PRC, that China Film Group, the state-owned film…
On Monday night, Disney had the world premiere of their forthcoming live-action version of the classic animated feature Mulanin Los Angeles and while some were expecting it to follow the lead of major festivals and events closing due to coronavirus fears, the premiere went on as planned and it was filled with red…
Disney’s Mulanboarded tracking this morning and is seeing a 3-day domestic start around $85M when it hits theaters on March 27. Some believe the live action remake of the 1998 musical animated pic has a shot to get to $100M+ based on tracking diagnostics and comparative titles, but the looming outbreak of the…
"The impact in 2020 from Covid-19 (coronavirus) on the motion picture business cannot be overstated," a finance source recently told us. That's as the closure of cinemas in China alone is approaching a loss of $2B to the global box office, while the disease has now seen spikes in Korea and Italy. What looked in late…
After conquering the box office last year with industry records of $3.76 billion domestic, $11.1B global off a slate of big IP, Disney comes alive on March 27 with their first live-action feature of the year, the reboot of animated classic Mulan. Today they dropped another trailer during the Big Game for the Niki…
After dropping the teaser trailer for next year's Mulan last July, Disney has released a new look at the live-action remake of the 1998 animated story about a young woman who risks everything to become one of the greatest warriors China has ever known.
When the original teaser dropped during half time of the Women's…
