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Comscore/Screen Engine’s audience movie-polling service PostTrak is celebrating its 1,000th pic polled this upcoming weekend with a summary of moviegoing stats compiled since its inception seven years ago. And there’s a plethora of illuminating findings, especially: Streaming isn’t crushing moviegoing, with just under…

Don’t expect moviegoers in Louisiana’s Gulf Coast to head to Sam Raimi’s Category 5 hurricane/alligator movie Crawl this weekend, or any title for that matter. With Tropical Storm Barry expected to dump 25 inches of rain after it reaches landfall Saturday as a Category 1 hurricane, AMC is shutting down all New Orleans…

Leave it to a bunch of sour pickles –specifically, Dark Phoenix, Men in Black International, and Godzilla: King of the Monsters– to spoil headlines about the true success of the summer box office. There’s been a lot of news that the season’s theatrical business is back in the toilet, and overall, that’s false, with…

Coming off a banner $11.9B at the domestic B.O. and $41.7B worldwide in 2018, this year’s theatrical tickets sales aren’t anything to get excited about: The winter B.O. stateside for the period of Jan. 1-Feb. 18 at $1.2B is the lowest start since 2011 per ComScore, and this year’s Presidents Day four-day holiday frame…

Television was suppose to kill it. Then VHS. And, ultimately, streaming. But this summer, moviegoing was very much alive and kicking, with a projected near-record domestic box office haul of $4.8 billion, nearly toppling 2013’s banner $4.87 billion, per ComScore and Deadline calculations. That’s when we started the…

Cinemark’s net income plunged 42% on a nearly 8% decline in revenue for the third quarter ending Sept. 30, with the exhibitor blaming the “weak consumer appeal” of Hollywood’s summer slate. Net income of $38.1 million compared with $65.7 million a year ago. Revenue came in at $710.8 million compared to $768.6 million…

Monday AM writethru, 7th update: Labor Day is coming in slightly better than anticipated, but it’s still one of the lowest finales to summer since 1999, when the four-day stretch totaled $98.3M. ComScore is figuring $95M-$100M for the four-day Labor Day weekend; however, some studios’ internal numbers think it could…

Warner Bros. gets bragging rights for leading all major studios at the summer box office with $790M, fueled by DC’s Wonder Woman, Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and New Line horror film Annabelle: Creation.  After getting beaten up by film reviewers last year for its DC titles Superman v. Batman: Dawn of Justice and Suici…

There’s been a lot of crying out there over how this summer was the worst in 11 years, logging an estimated $3.78 billion. But there is a positive takeaway from this mess: Moviegoing habits aren’t broken. That’s right. The lack of an August marquee title in the spirit of last year’s Suicide Squad has slowed the annual…

UPDATED, Wednesday 2:39 PM: Many major chain circuits in the Houston area remain closed in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. Now that the rain has stopped, AMC is assessing its buildings with the hope to open over the next few days. Ditto for Regal, both in Houston and the Beaumont, TX area. However, parts of Louisiana…

It’s often said by distribution chiefs that moviegoing is a 52-weekend-a-year business, but that won’t be their philosophy this coming Labor Day weekend which runs Sept. 1-4. For the first time in 25 years, both major studio and specialty distributors will not be releasing any new wide releases in north of 1,000…

There’s been a lot of talk about sequelitis this summer, and how can there not be? The studios released a whopping 14 sequels. The last time that many hit the screen was 13 years ago. With only four out of 14 sequels opening to greater numbers than their previous installments’ debuts — Disney’s Finding Dory ($135M…