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Broadway took a somewhat humbling post-holiday slip at the box office last week, with the roster of shows down by three productions and overall receipts off by about 29% from the previous week when the New Year holidays helped boost attendance. In all, the 30 shows grossed $32,176,529 for the week ending January 12, with

Alamos Drafthouse has laid off 15 corporate staffers as well as a significantly larger number of hourly employees across its circuit, effective immediately. The corporate layoffs rep about 9% of the total focusing on support center and technical engineers to streamline the business, a person familiar with the situation told Deadline. The hit to hourly

The international box office for French cinema dropped by 11% in 2024, according to data released by Unifrance on Monday, but the film and TV export agency said the figures only gave part of the picture. Unifrance said French film productions racked up 33.4M admissions internationally in the first 50 weeks of 2024 for a

It’s less than five weeks until the first big opening of 2025, that being Disney/Marvel Studios‘ Captain America: Brave New World, which hit tracking service Quorum and is expected to do $86M to $95M over the 3-day of the 4-day Valentine’s Day/Presidents Day weekend on Feb. 14. The Friday through Monday figure is also bound

Refresh for latest…: This has been a solid holdover weekend with milestones crossed and neared for the major titles in release as we come off a really strong end to 2024. But it’s bittersweet as we cannot ignore the fire devastation in the home of Hollywood. My thoughts go out to you all who have

A24’s The Brutalist busted out in limited expansion this weekend with close to $1.39 million on just 68 screens, a $20.4k per screen average, excellent for a period film with a three hour and 35-minute run time about a Hungarian architect in 1950s Doylestown, Pa. It won multiple Golden Globes — for Best Picture –

Wildfires rampaging through Los Angeles means moviegoing won’t be top of mind for Angelenos. Some top indies are opening or holding over in L.A. theaters, one of the nation’s key movie markets, amid uneven fire patterns that have scorched and flattened huge areas of the city but left others untouched. “In West Hollywood, the sun

For Sean Baker, it’s theatrical or bust. Paychecks from streamers can be tantalized in front of him, but when it comes to his original work, not only is about making works for the cinema, but shooting on celluloid, too. “We shouldn’t abandon the medium which created this artform,” Baker tells us on this episode of

Lionsgate‘s Den of Thieves 2: Pantera made $1.35M yesterday from showtimes that began at 6PM, a figure that’s ahead of the $950K previews of the original 2018 movie by +42%, but under last year’s other guy meat and potatoes movie, The Beekeeper which did $2.4M in overall previews ($1.5M strictly in its Thursday) on its

Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation’s Shrek 5 will now open on Wednesday, December 23, 2026, instead of July 1 next year. At the same time, the studio said Friday it is moving up Illumination’s Minions 3 from June 30, 2027 to Shrek 5‘s previous July 2026 date. That’s because the Minions and Gru have ruled

The Italian box office softened by 0.4% in 2024 for an overall gross of $508M, on the back of a 1.3% dip in spectators to 69.7M, according to data detailed by Italy’s box office data monitor Cinetel on Thursday. The body suggested the results were broadly positive in a challenging year marked by big sporting

The highest-grossing Broadway musical movie of all time, Wicked minted a great first seven days on Premium VOD with $70 million, Universal reported Thursday. This is after the movie directed by Jon M. Chu and starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande landed in homes December 31. In the first day alone, Wicked yielded $26M in

Letterbox, the cinephile social platform that’s become perhaps the most effective tool for independent film in a landscape where moviegoers are hard to reach, hit 17 million members in 2024. That’s a big jump from 11.4 million at the end of 2023 and 1.8 million in 2020, according to the New Zealand-based platform’s 2024 Year

The Pacific Palisades wildfire had led to roughly ten cinema closures in Los Angeles, the nation’s No. 1 box office capital. Of those shuttered effective today are the AMC Americana in Glendale, the AMC Universal City Walk (the Uni Theme Park is closed today), AMC Topanga 12, Regal Sherman Oaks, the iPic Pasadena, and the

EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of scoring a Golden Globe win for Demi Moore in its first big theatrical release The Substance, Mubi has hired former IFC Films president Arianna Bocco as its new SVP of Global Distribution. Bocco will report directly to Jason Ropell, Mubi’s Chief Content Officer. U.S. Distribution will continue to be led

Gypsy got back on track and Wicked stayed in the stratosphere during New Year’s week, with most of Broadway‘s 33 shows posting strong numbers even while dropping down from the previous (and very lucrative) Christmas week figures. With Audra McDonald back in action after a week of illness that prompted the cancellation of all but

Gypsy got back on track and Wicked stayed in the stratosphere during New Year’s week, with most of Broadway‘s 33 shows posting strong numbers even while dropping down from the previous (and very lucrative) Christmas week figures. With Audra McDonald back in action after a week of illness that prompted the cancellation of all but

EXCLUSIVE: Following its surprise three Golden Globe wins Sunday including Best Feature – Drama, The Brutalist from Brady Corbet and A24 is heading into the top 15 regional markets after playing in nine theaters last weekend. The Adrien Brody-starring movie, which saw the actor win his first Golden Globe last night for Best Actor –

Searchlight’s Golden Globe winning A Real Pain will stream on Hulu on Jan. 16. Last night, the pic’s co-star Kieran Culkin won Best Supporting Actor Film at the Globes ceremony in the Jesse Eisenberg starring, written and directed feature. The movie delves into the universal themes of cultural heritage, acceptance and family relationships while set

An effusive Jon M. Chu accepted the Golden Globe for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement for Wicked this evening with the director praising fans and enthusing, “It shows us how important making this stuff is — in a time when pessimism and cynicism sort of rule the planet right now — that we can still