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It goes without saying that the domestic box office is struggling. That said, it feels that we are trying to find different ways of framing that story every week.  At the end of the day, it’s a win to report any numbers at all considering the circumstances — especially for the specialty box office space where many…

There aren’t any huge surprises in the specialty box office as we enter what is expected to be a very different Thanksgiving holiday week. Normally, this would be the time of year where people would be participating in post-Thanksgiving dinner moviegoing. But, as we know, theaters are shuttered. As the spike in COVID…

SUNDAY AM UPDATE: The weekend before Thanksgiving is one of the most lucrative ones on the calendar, last year bringing in $204.9M off the opening of Disney’s Frozen II, which posted November’s fifth-best domestic opening of all-time at $130.3M. Who would ever think that the domestic box office would sink to such an…

Gravitas Ventures has closed the deal for the North American rights to Vanguard, an action feature starring Jackie Chan and directed by his frequent collaborator Stanley Tong. Marking the ninth collaboration between the two, the film is about a covert security company, Vanguard, that is the last hope of survival for…

SATURDAY UPDATE: Patriotic pic My People, My Homeland edged up to the No. 1 spot in China on Saturday, overtaking Jiang Ziya: Legend Of Deification which had led since opening on National Day this past Thursday (see below). An anthology sequel to last year's My People, My Country, Homeland did an estimated RMB 281.9M…