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Just as President Biden’s top medical adviser Anthony Fauci is declaring that the U.S. is exiting “the full-blown pandemic phase” of Covid-19, three studios are hoping to lure out adult audiences, especially women who’ve been slow to return to cinemas. Further curbing Sunday business is the Super Bowl, but if older moviegoers are determined to
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AMC Entertainment has hired former Frito-Lay, Pepsico and Hostess Brands executive Ellen Copaken to the new position of Vice President, Growth Strategy to lead recently announced initiatives like entering the retail popcorn industry. She starts Feb. 18, reporting to Mark Pearson, AMC”s chief strategy officer Copaken will head implementation of growth ideas “to broaden and
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Those theatrical motion picture studios earning Oscar Best Picture nominations today will put their best foot forward at the box office, and increase the cinema footprint of their contenders in an effort to capitalize on their success and raise the pics’ profiles. And while the box office has improved, natch, because of the reopening of
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Refresh for latest…: While Spider-Man: No Way Home continued to lead the international box office for studio films this weekend, weaving its way to a worldwide cume of $1.77B through Sunday, the biggest overseas action was out of (and limited to) China. The Lunar New Year kicked off last Tuesday and has come in at
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Paramount’s Jackass Forever counted $1.65M from 2,650 theaters from shows that began at 7 p.m. Thursday. The domestic box office weekend’s other wide opener, Lionsgate’s Roland Emmerich disaster epic Moonfall, started with $700,000 from about 2,300 locations. The Jackass take is higher than Jackass Presents Bad Grandpa which did $1.4M from 10PM showtimes in 2013, and just under
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Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back – The Rooftop Concert is heading back to Imax after a one-day, single-show screening last Sunday — the 52nd anniversary of the band’s iconic 1969 concert. The show and live Q&A with Jackson beamed directly to theaters had its share of sellouts, with audio and visuals about as close
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Jo Koy’s movie Easter Sunday, which was scheduled to open roughly two weeks before Easter weekend on April 1, is heading to August 5. We’re told that it’s a stronger weekend for the DreamWorks Pictures and Universal release. Koy recently moved his comedy tour, which was set to kick off on January 14, to this summer starting
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Paramount Pictures EVP of International Marketing & Distribution, Cameron Saunders, is leaving the studio to pursue other opportunities. This news was first announced when Paramount reorganized its global distribution and marketing departments, however, the EVP’s last day is today. Saunders arrived to Paramount in 2018. He oversaw the studio’s theatrical regional office for Europe, the
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After two weekends without any major-studio wide releases amid Omicron fears, Paramount and Lionsgate will try to lure moviegoers back with Jackass Forever and AGC Studios’ Moonfall, respectively Exhibition hopefully will see more traffic after the Northeast experienced cabin fever from winter storm Kenan last weekend. Rolling winter-into-spring breaks don’t go into effect until February 18,
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Mammoth, CA – February 1, 2022 – Live and in person from February 3-6th, 2022, Mammoth Film Festival™ 2022 will feature a robust program of the best episodics in the areas of TV, action sports and sports. Festival organizers Tanner Beard and Tomik Mansoori recently unveiled the 2022 festival slate featuring more than 90 films, inclusive of U.S
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Broadway’s pre-Omicron autumn might best be described using a song lyric sung on stage every night by American Utopia‘s David Byrne: “Same as it ever was.” As disappointing but hardly surprising private box office data obtained by The New York Times indicates, Broadway audiences returned from the 18-month pandemic shutdown last fall with old habits
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