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…
Onward, the DisneyPixar animated feature, is being made available online ahead of schedule due to the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on cinemas.
The studio will make the film available to buy digitally and on Movies Anywhere for $19.99 today at 5:00PM PST, and it will be released on Disney+ on April 3 in the U.S.
It…
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…
Disney, which has had the No. 1 movie over the last two weekends with Pixar’s Onward, as the coronavirus crisis has gripped the nation and shut down movie theaters nationwide, has announced it won’t be reporting numbers going forward.
While many will say, “Well, duh” given how 4,933 domestic theaters are closed…
UPDATE, writethru:: The last week has been a wild one, and clearly not in a good sense. With the coronavirus forcing the closure of movie theaters in such major markets as France and Spain (along with the previously shuttered China and Italy), the slowdown at the international box office continues and shows no signs…
Sunday AM final w/chart: Another 25 theaters closed overnight, raising the number to around 109, with some big circuits shuttering in New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Boston, and Seattle. The fear among distribution is that number will only grow into the week. Some of these closures are due to city ordinances…
If predicting box office openings wasn’t worse enough for the industry, the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. has studios and exhibition at the edge of their seats as concerns swell about how bad the impact might be.
This weekend’s wide entries — Sony’s Vin Diesel movie Bloodshot,  Lionsgate-Kingdom Story’s faith-based…
The Italian film industry was facing up to the worst box office session in its history this weekend, that was until the country's government issued a decree shuttering all of its cinemas on Sunday (March 8) for almost a month, meaning it became something of a moot point.
Box office was tracking 94% down on the same…
UPDATE, writethru: Disney/Pixar's Onward topped the global and international box office chart this weekend, but came in vastly below projections. A $68M worldwide start includes just $28M from 47 material offshore markets. That's well under the $40M-$55M range the industry was seeing ahead of the weekend. The spread…
4th Update, Sunday AM writethru final w/chart: Disney/Pixar’s Onwardsaw an estimated $16.56M on Saturday, a growth of 37% over Friday’s result, putting this morning’s industry estimate for the pic’s U.S./Canada opening at $40.4M. Disney is calling the weekend at $40M.
While that result is at the lower end of Pixar…
EXCLUSIVE: Disney/Pixar’s family film Onward has been banned in multiple Middle East markets due to the film’s minor reference to a lesbian relationship.
In the movie, about two teenage elf brothers in a mythical world who embark on a quest for magic, there is a passing reference to an LGBTQ relationship between two…
It is hard to believe that Pixar has hit the quarter-century mark, but it has been exactly 25 years since Toy Story took animated features in a new and most welcome direction. Since then, with just under one new movie a year, it has been in the enviable position of frequently topping itself. (Not always, but much of…
