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The National Association of Theatre Owners reported Thursday that the average ticket price for the third quarter of 2019, from July-September, was $8.93. That’s off 4% from the second-quarter average of $9.26, but up 1.1% from Q3 2018’s $8.83. Year to date, the average ticket price is $9.08, roughly even percent-wise…

3RD UPDATE/WRITETHRU SUNDAY AM: After Friday posts Those distributors complaining that they can’t find a release date on the calendar can just shush. Why? Because you didn’t book any wide releases over Labor Day weekend! Distribution often preaches that movies are a 52-weekend business per year, and for the second…

People left their homes and went to the movies this summer, shelling out $4.86 billion through Labor Day, +1% from the same period last year, which started at the end of April and lasted through Labor Day, and a few dollars shy of 2013’s $4.872B all-time record, per Comscore. True, close to 50% of this summer’s ticket…

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…