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With Covid-19 decimating theme parks, sports, production and other pillars of its business, the Walt Disney Co. should be limping toward the end of 2020. Instead, investors have bought into the media giant’s resilience in a big way, sending the company’s stock up more than 25% in the past month. Shares finished today…

Shares in major exhibitor Cinemark, along with most movie theater stocks, are rising today as Wall Street salutes another milestone release window agreement. Universal and Cinemark announced a windows deal late Monday that shares a lot of traits with AMC’s breakthrough pact with the same studio earlier this year. It…

Cinemark CEO Mark Zoradi said Thursday that the major exhibitor has started taking a “dynamic” approach to theatrical windows, negotiating release terms on a film-by-film basis in a concession to COVID-19. Upcoming Universal releases like The Croods 2, Let Him Go and Freaky, for example, will play in Cinemark…

Imax CEO Rich Gelfond rejects the popular notion that premium video on demand is the future for blockbuster movie releases. “PVOD is a failed experiment,” Gelfond said during an online appearance Wednesday at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference. “The numbers haven’t worked in a pandemic, so how would they work…

AT&T CFO John Stephens saw Tenet in a theater, as did a large swath of the U.S. and the world over the past couple of weeks. Elaborating on the experience Wednesday at the Bank of America Securities 2020 Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference, Stephens said he “couldn’t even imagine being able to see that…

Imax stock surged almost 10% Monday after the stellar debut in China for The Eight Hundred, the locally produced war epic that took in $83 million over the weekend. Multiple Wall Street analysts have also given Imax shares a boost, reaffirming their positive ratings and noting the company’s unique strategic position…

The CEO of the nation's fourth-largest exhibitor warned studios not to "leave a good party in pursuit of a better one," but called the debate over Premium VOD overblown. Greg Marcus, chief of Marcus, said Tuesday that consumers are likely to drift away from watching video-on-demand releases when things normalize…