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The second highest grossing movie of the year, Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine, will hit digital on Oct. 1 and 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD on Oct. 22. In regards to digital, that’s a 68-day window and in regards to DVD it’s an 89-day window. Disney post Covid has been providing long theatrical windows of play

DreamWorks Animation/Universal’s The Wild Robot grossed $1.95M yesterday from showtimes that began at 2PM in 3,000 theaters. The Lupita Nyong’o voiced movie is expected to lead the box office with a $20M+ take, and that preview take indicates that given previous DWA comps, read it’s higher than Trolls Band Together ($1.3M) which resulted in a

Indie distributors are fretting about the current marketplace, specifically a glut of films vying for precious theater space and hard-to-snare audiences who, with exceptions of course, still seems mostly willing to come out for big ticket films. While there are fewer wide studio releases than pre-Covid, theaters are giving them more space, up to 60%-70%

Close to 40 AMC, Cinemark and Regal multiplexes are closed throughout Florida as the state braces for Hurricane Helene to hit landfall as a Category 4 with a force of 130 mph. Theaters from as far south as Fort Myers, Florida to as far north as Tallahassee, are shuttered. Their tentative re-opening date is tomorrow,

EXCLUSIVE: Abramorama and Zeitgeist Media are unspooling David Smick’s documentary America’s Burning with a set of special screenings at Regal Cinemas on Monday, Oct. 7 and Oct. 14. This comes following a special return engagement at the Angelika Film Center in NY, and ahead of the documentary’s debut on AppleTV, Amazon and Google Play on

Back in 1989, a ten-year old boy, Joshua Dennis from Kearns, UT, was lost in an abandoned mine. He spent five days beneath the Earth, hungry and cold. However, his cry was heard — and a rescue took place. John Skinner, a historian who had familiarity of the mine, and who had premonitions, traveled hundreds

EXCLUSIVE: Cinema marketing agency PaperAirplane Media has hit another milestone with 1 million digital assets downloaded from their proprietary platform The Hangar.  PaperAirplane via The Hanger which launched in October 2020, connects movie theaters, studios and theatrical media ad agencies, creating and fostering in-theater promotions. Essentially exhibitors don’t have to go distributor-by-distributor in obtaining marketing materials

More family films hitting cinemas this weekend with DreamWorks Animation/Universal’s feature take of Peter Brown’s New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot, however, unlike Paramount/Hasbro’s Transformers One last weekend, this one is mom/female leaning. Opening weekend at 3,900 theaters is pegged at $20M+. That’s around the average start for an animated major studio movie in September and

Todd Phillips’ 2019 Oscar-winning Joker did not release in China, but his sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux, has been confirmed for October 16 in the market. Warner Bros’ and DC’s official Weibo accounts confirmed the date. Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival

Two more movies this holiday season will land Imax screens: Disney’s Moana 2 and Mufasa: The Lion King. Moana 2 opens on November 27, the traditional Disney slot that’s the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, while Lion King prequel Mufasa: The Lion King will open on December 20. The 2019 The Lion King saw $63 million earned

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all U.S. rights to The Shrouds, written and directed by David Cronenberg (Crash, Crimes Of The Future) and are planning a spring 2025 theatrical release.  The film world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival where it screened In Competition. It played the Toronto International Film Festival as a Special

Here’s to a solid indie weekend with BTS’s Jung Kook: I Am Still, Mubi’s The Substance, Whiplash is back and My Old Ass in limited release. Am I Racist? by conservative podcaster Justin Folk also continued strong in week two. Mubi’s release of Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance opened to $3.1 million on 1,949 screens for the

Refresh for latest…: Paramount/Hasbro Entertainment’s Transformers One is out of the gate with a $39M global start. From just 50 international box office markets (representing only 40% of the overseas footprint), the first animated Transformers movie in close to 40 years grossed $14M. The Josh Cooley-directed origins story came in below projections domestically and international

A group of exhibitors in the U.S. and Canada will invest more than $2.2 billion over the next three years to upgrade and modernize their theaters amid renewed optimism at the box office after a battering by Covid and Hollywood strikes, said industry trade group NATO. The chains, representing over 1,600 locations across all 50

The first animated Transformers movie in close to four decades, Transformers One, from Paramount and Hasbro Entertainment grossed $3.36M from Wednesday fan shows (7 p.m.) and Thursday previews (5 p.m.). That figure beats out a slew of family movie previews including that of Paramount’s IF ($1.75M), The Garfield Movie ($2.3M), Trolls Band Together and even

Fathom Events and Warner Bros.’ DC Studios are blasting off documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, a favorite from Sundance, and Music Box has the festival’s Grand Jury Prize-winner In The Summers among a handful of solid new release including The Featherweight about boxer Willie Pep, and Who’s Afraid Of Nathan Law? a doc following the

Sony will be releasing the untitled Keke Palmer and SZA R-rated comedy on Jan. 24, 2025. The TriStar Pictures title is directed by Lawrence Lamont off a screenplay by Syreeta Singleton.  The project came together from the CoCre lab at Sony Pictures. The lab was a previous pact between ColorCreative and Sony Pictures to source

Crunchyroll has taken North American and select international theatrical rights for Solo Leveling -ReAwakening which is a recap of the first season of the anime series Solo Leveling, adapted from the best-selling Korean webtoon, with a special sneak peek of the first two episodes of the second season. The Sony distributed title will hit theaters on

As Disney readies the sequels to its uber-grossing $1.75 billion Frozen franchise, Walt Disney Animation Studios Chief Creative Officer Jennifer Lee is segueing from her position to direct and write Frozen 3 and executive produce Frozen 4 with Marc Smith. Effective immediately, Oscar winning Encanto filmmaker Jared Bush has been named CCO of Walt Disney

Sony will be releasing Spyglass’ horror romantic comedy Heart Eyes on February 7, 2025, the studio said Wednesday. The Josh Ruben-directed movie stars Olivia Holt, Mason Gooding and Gigi Zumbado with Devon Sawa and Jordana Brewster. Pic’s blurb: When the Heart Eyes Killer strikes Seattle, a pair of co-workers pulling overtime on Valentine’s Day are