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Exhibition giant Cineworld reported its full-year 2021 earnings this morning in London, showing sharply narrowed losses and vastly improved revenues versus 2020. CEO Mooky Greidinger is bullish on the the outlook for the world’s second-largest exhibitor which also owns Regal in the U.S., as the company predicts admissions in 2022 could reach 85% of the
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Actor Samm Levine was just 19 years old when he shot “Not Another Teen Movie” — starring as the Asian-influenced character Bruce — a high school freshman who is parodying Jim Levenstein from ‘American Pie’ and Daniel LaRusso from ‘The Karate Kid.’ Samm shared this iconic role with Cody McMains who played the little brother
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Under the new hours-watched weekly metric charts implemented by Netflix back in November, the Shawn Levy-Ryan Reynolds re-team, The Adam Project, exploded with 92.4 million hours watched by the streamer’s subscribers for the week ending March 13. The figure includes all hours watched for the movie, both those who’ve watched the movie once and multiple times.
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American actress Kristanna Loken was 23 years old when she landed her breakout role in “Terminator 3: Rise of The Machines” — where she played the killer ‘T-X’ … a powerful and strong cyborg with a form-fitting figure. Playing such an adventurous and strenuous role in the ‘Terminator’ franchise, the actress’ workout regimen included a
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A BTS concert in Seoul this weekend will hit a milestone, with tickets for Saturday’s theatrical event in the U.S. priced at what might be a record $35 and the show poised to become the highest-grossing worldwide event-cinema release ever. Trafalgar Releasing will present two Saturday screenings of BTS Permission to Dance on Stage: Seoul
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BTS – specifically BTS Permission To Dance On Stage – Seoul: Live Viewing grossed $6.84 million in North America on Saturday for a per screen average of $8,500+ across 803 theaters, ranking third at the weekend box office so far after The Batman and Uncharted. Globally, it broke the event cinema record with a worldwide
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Last weekend when AMC CEO Adam Aron let the cat out of the bag, that his circuit was charging more for The Batman in its first eight days than other titles on the marquee, some producers grumbled. Not Jason Blum. “Theaters are experimenting with pricing, which I think is great,” Blum told us at Deadline’s SXSW
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In its sophomore outing, Warner Bros/DC’s The Batman kept a firm grip on the international box office, dropping just 42% to add $66.6M from 76 offshore markets. That brings the overseas cume through Sunday to $224.7M for $463.2M global. As the Robert Pattinson-starrer heads to $500M worldwide this week, in like-for-like markets and using today’s
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A group of theater owners from giant Regal to independent cinemas have signed on to screen Ukrainian director Oles Sanin’s 2014 feature film The Guide starting Friday with proceeds going to relief efforts for the war ravaged country. The expanding list of national and regional chains that have agreed to show the film include Regal,
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Neon said Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria starring Tilda Swinton will begin its tour of U.S. cinemas starting April 1. The distributor announced last year that the film — which opened in late Dec. for a one-week Oscar qualifying engagement at NYC’s IFC Center — planned to pursue an unusual release strategy it calls a “cinemas only…forever”
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UPDATED: We’ve heard that a number of these movies, which are VFX heavy, are being pushed due to the logjam many post-prod effects houses are facing as productions ramped up during Covid. The Flash alone has 2,500 VFX shots, we understand. The upside here is that it doesn’t put all of Warner’s DC event titles
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Besides being a wrestling icon and one of Hollywood’s most famous movie stars, Dwayne Johnson has also built a large social media following, particularly on Instagram. Head over to The Rock’s account, and among the content you’ll see are promotions of his other business ventures, fun encounters with fans and, of particular excitement to the
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Focus Features will open their Sundance acquisition Brian and Charles on June 17. The pic, which the Uni label acquired out of this year’s fest, reps Jim Archer’s feature directorial debut. Brian and Charles follows Brian, a lonely inventor in rural Wales, who spends his days building quirky, unconventional contraptions that seldom work. Undeterred by his lack
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Walt Disney CFO Christine McCarthy said the entertainment giant’s total exposure to Russia and Ukraine combined is about 2% of its total operating income — with Ukraine about 10% of that 2%. During a Q&A at Morgan Stanley’s technology, media and telecom conference, she called the situation there “very unfortunate.” Disney was the first Hollywood
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