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It’s a big Labor Day weekend for Ann Sarnoff at WarnerMedia. She recently celebrated her first year anniversary as the first woman to oversee Warner Bros in its 97-year history on August 22 (coincidentally on the same day as the studio’s DC FanDome day, which drew 22 million global visitors), and she heads into a…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran Cartoonist and director Tony Cervone has signed with CAA for representation. He most recently directed and voiced a handful of characters in Warner Bros. Animation’s Scooby-Doo pic Scoob, which became #1 on PVOD when Warner Bros. released it in May. It was recently moved over to HBO Max in June…

EXCLUSIVE: Lots of movement on the international box office front this past weekend, and into the beginning of the week. Korean zombie sequel Peninsula, as we reported Sunday, made a meal of five overseas markets with a $21M Wednesday-Sunday frame. That's the best start we've seen since March when Onward opened to…

EXCLUSIVE: As the international box office slowly limps back to life, the tendency for audiences to lean into fresh and local titles continues. France, for example, saw a 23% increase in ticket sales across the Top 10 over the most recent weekend, led by Gaumont's new local comedy Tout Simplement Noir and followed by…

Warner Bros. feature animated film Scoob! which opted to have a PVOD and digital ownership release instead of theatrical given exhibition’s shutdown during COVID-19, will stream on HBO Max on June 26, it was just announced. The pic was first scheduled for theaters on May 15 before segueing for a 48-hour rental PVOD…

Cinemark CEO Mark Zoradi said the chain is in "active discussions" with Universal over windows but choses to do it privately instead of entering "the media fray" that exploded when AMC Entertainment threatened not to show Universal films. "I know that Universal is committed to the theatrical business" for big films…

AT&T chief financial officer John Stephens said the WarnerMedia parent is "optimistic" about HBO Max three weeks after launch and called the streaming service "a multi-year process, and so far so good," promising to provide subscriber data on the next quarterly earnings call in July. Speaking Wednesday at a CSFB Media…

It has taken half a century since the 1969 TV debut of lovable great Dane Scooby-Doo to see an animated feature come to fruition, but its time has come and thus we have Scoob! The Warner Bros toon originally was scheduled to open wide in theaters today, but the studio scrapped those plans because of the coronavirus…

EXCLUSIVE: We’ve learned and confirmed that some exhibitors will be sharing in this weekend’s revenues for the Warner Bros. digital and PVOD release of Scoob! Warner Bros. opted to take their Tony Cervone-directed animated release into homes this Friday instead of theaters given the continued near nationwide…

Live-action film production as we know it, from Jurassic World: Dominion to The Batman, remains shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, with myriad headaches involved in figuring out how exactly to return, from the possible elimination of group extras to paring down crew sizes. But throughout this entire COVID-19…

Just because Warner Bros.’ Scoob is heading into homes on May 15, doesn’t mean it’s not notching out an event pic marketing vibe. The #ScoobDance challenge, launched on May 3 by 14-year-old TikTok celebrity dancer Jalaiah Harmon with original music from Movers+Shakers, has accumulated 2.1 billion global views to date…

As more studios experiment with bringing high-quality pics into the home during the current COVID-19 home quarantine, Warner Bros is jumping into the mix by fast-tracking its animated pic Scoob! onto PVOD and premium digital ownership on May 15 in the U.S. and Canada. The Tony Cervone-directed feature animated take on…