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International box office was led again by China this weekend with local titles A Little Red Flower and Shock Wave 2 at the top of the charts, and Disney/Pixar's Soul continuing its jazzy run there. The Pete Docter-directed original is soon to become Pixar's No. 3 highest-grossing title ever in the market. Other…

Even if there wasn’t a pandemic, odds are this would still be a hard weekend at the domestic box office, what with all the distraction that came out of our nation’s Capitol this past week. Television news seems to be filled with enough suspense and cliffhangers with the Capitol Insurrection, versus the big screen, as…

Refresh for latest…: China was the big international box office winner this weekend with three local movies at the top of the chart and a New Year's Day record set on Friday. That came just as it was confirmed the market led global box office for 2020, surpassing North America for the first time. We'll take a closer…

The first weekend of the year, which at its apex in 2016 grossed $219.5M off the heat of Disney’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, registered an estimated $13M for the entire weekend. That’s in a continued decimated exhibition marketplace that’s praying to reopen in 2021. Warner Bros.’ theatrical release of Wonder Woman 1…

Wonder Woman 1984 is only the latest in a long line of movies that have ventured into the District of Columbia to capture the backdrop of monuments and neoclassical architecture. But the mega pic is relatively rare in that is uses locations in the DMV — the moniker used to denote the greater metro area of the district…

This historically has been a week when we’re reporting on Star Wars movies doing a daily box office average of $20M, but in this distressed Covid environment where 60% of all U.S. and Canadian theaters are closed, we have only to highlight that Warner Bros.’ Wonder Woman 1984 did an estimated $22.5M in its first week…

The Patty Jenkins-directed DC sequel has grossed more than $100M worldwide according to Warner Bros. Wonder Woman 1984 opened to $16.7M domestic last weekend in the U.S. and Canada where 60% of 5.5k theaters are shutdown. The film is also available on the studio’s streaming service HBO Max which is only available…

AMC Entertainment on Wednesday filed to sell up to 50 million more shares in an ongoing quest to stay solvent as it outruns the pandemic. The nation's largest theater chain registered the shares in an SEC filing this morning, adding to the 200 million it previously registered. It said it’s raised $104 million as of…

As pollyannaish as it sounds, especially as the domestic 2020 box office crumbles to a historic all-time low of $2.27 billion due to the coronavirus pandemic, the global theatrical business is poised for a comeback in 2021. However, it might take a few months. How in God’s name can such a ridiculous projection be…

UPDATED with closing prices. The better-than-expected Christmas-weekend opening of Wonder Woman 1984 is giving most exhibition stocks a welcome boost as the misery of 2020 gives way to hope for a brighter 2021. Shares in Cinemark, Imax, Marcus Corp. and National CineMedia rose between 3% and 7% apiece after the sequel…

MONDAY UPDATE, writethru after Sunday 11:41AM post: There was a bit more varied action at the international box office this holiday weekend. Highlights include the continued rollout of Warner Bros/DC's Wonder Woman 1984 with a good start in Australia, a sizable bow for China's Shock Wave 2, the debut of Disney/Pixar's…

Wonder Woman 3 is being fast-tracked, Warner Bros. announced today. The news comes as the pic has amounted to $85M WW after a $16.7M domestic debut. The threequel will be written by Patty Jenkins, who is attached to direct, and starring Gal Gadot. The pic was released on HBO Max in the states and in theaters this past…