The Vaughn Stein-directed psychological thriller Every Breath You Take made its theatrical premiere this weekend on 106 screens and added some coins to the specialty box office piggy bank. The film, which also landed on VOD this weekend, is on track to earn an estimated $35K with its debut. Written by David K. Murray and starring Casey
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Saturday AM Update: Godzilla vs. Kong is now up to $27.9M in three days after an $11.6M Friday at 3,064 locations, +73% over Thursday. The 5-day projection for the Adam Wingard-directed Warner Bros/Legendary title is $42M — far and away the best opening (3 and 5-day) we’ve seen at the domestic B.O. during the pandemic, meaning
Filmmaker James Gunn reported on Twitter that the first red band trailer for his upcoming The Suicide Squad movie hit a first week record with over 150M views. That number beats the 116M first week views of New Line’s Mortal Kombat, which recently held the record as the most-watched red band trailer. At the time of The
Jerry Seinfeld will be first comic on the reopened stage of the Gotham Comedy Club in Manhattan tonight, the sitcom great confirmed in a tweet today. “I asked @GothamComedy if I could be the first on stage at 7:00pm,” Seinfeld wrote. “They said ‘Yes’. So that’s when.” The comedy club, like other live venues in
Writer-director Emma Seligman brings her feature Shiva Baby to theaters and TVOD starting today — and it is quite a comedic ride. Released by Utopia, Shiva Baby follows a young woman who is trying to keep the different versions of herself in order when she runs into her sugar daddy and her ex-girlfriend at a shiva with her parents.
Yesterday, moviegoers demonstrated that they were truly yearning to go back to the movies. How’s that? Warner Bros.’/Legendary’s Godzilla vs. Kong posted what is a record opening day during the pandemic with $9.6M at the domestic B.O. from 2,409 theaters or $3,98K per location. Since mid-March 2020, when theaters closed, and slowly returned in late
Update, April 1: Sony is going a week later with the Tom Holland PlayStation videogame adaptation of Uncharted on Feb. 18, 2022 instead of Feb. 11. The pic will have access to Imax and PLF screens at that time. Uncharted goes up against Paramount’s Rumble and Universal/Endeavor Content’s Ambulance on Feb. 18, leaving behind Universal’s Jennifer Lopez-Owen
As France struggles with a rise in Covid variant cases, the country will enter a third nationwide lockdown beginning April 3, President Emmanuel Macron announced this evening in a televised address. This is currently expected to last until May 2. Some 19 départements (similar to counties) were already under a third lockdown that began on
Update: Screen Gems and Constantin’s Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City is going to Wednesday Nov. 24, leaving its Labor Day weekend release. The move comes after Disney plopped Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings on Labor Day weekend this year — which is unbelievable given how the box office truly ratchets down over that weekend (unless
Unlike Easter last year, we’re actually going to be able to go to the movies this weekend. With drive-ins solely operating a year ago in the U.S. and Canada as the main means of moviegoing, Universal released their DreamWorks Animation title Trolls World Tour into homes on PVOD for the rental price of $19.99 (over 48
Venom: Let There Be Carnage will now hit theaters a week later than previously announced, on September 24. The Venom sequel will have the full suite of 3D, IMAX and premium large format screens. It will open opposite Paramount’s Antoine Fuqua actioner Infinite, Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints of Newark, Michael Showalter’s The Eyes of Tammy Faye and Stephen Chbosky’s
New Line’s Mortal Kombat is opening on April 23 now, not April 16. Last minute decision comes as Warner Bros. is about to sop up $20M-$30M over the next five days from the opening of Legendary’s Godzilla vs. Kong which will rep the biggest domestic B.O. opening during the pandemic. Also, given the heat on Mortal Kombat –the pic’s
UPDATED: Warner Bros. has pushed up the release date for Hugh Jackman-starrer Reminiscence. Previously set to hit theaters and HBO Max on September 3, the film will now debut a week earlier, on August 27. The move takes the film out of Labor Day competition, with Paramount’s Jackass 4, Screen Gems/Constantin’s reboot of Resident Evil starring Kaya Scoldelario, and Marvel’s
After Disney plopped its Ryan Reynolds action comedy Free Guy from 20th Century Studios on August 13, a week before Lionsgate’s sequel The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard which also stars Reynolds, it stood to reason the latter would move. The new date for the Reynolds-Samuel L. Jackson sequel, which also stars Salma Hayek, is June 16.
The Justin P. Lange-directed exorcism horror pic The Seventh Day possessed the specialty box office this weekend. Released by Vertical Entertainment on March 26 in select theaters and on digital platforms, the movie stars Guy Pearce, Vadhir Derbez and Stephen Lang, and scared up an estimated three-day gross of $67K on the specialty box office front.
This afternoon during the NCAA game, Dwayne Johnson in a short spot unveiled the release date for his New Line/DC superhero movie Black Adam: July 29, 2022. Johnson also posted on Instagram too, see below. “The Hierarchy of Power in the DC Universe is about to Change,” declared Dwayne Johnson in the short spot on TNT. Black
Refresh for top 10 chart and more analysis: Universal’s action genre defying feature Nobody starring Bob Odenkirk took the top box office spot with $6.7M in a theatrical marketplace which is in the throes of trying to come back. The good news is that Los Angeles is maintaining its stamina as the No. 1 box office
More films with Eddie Izzard and Judi Dench is something that the world needs. They starred together in Stephen Frears’ Victoria & Abdul in 2017 and now they reunite in the Andy Goddard-directed Six Minutes To Midnight which will be released by IFC Films in theaters and on demand starting today. Written by Izzard, Goddard and
Refresh for latest…: Warner Bros/Legendary’s Godzilla Vs Kong thrashed off to an estimated $21.5M (RMB 140M) start in China today, good for the best opening day of a Hollywood title in the market since Covid began and portending a weekend in the high $60Ms. The film positively dominated the Middle Kingdom with an 88% share and played
Amanda Kozlowski has been elevated to the position of EVP, Head of Data Strategy & Innovation for the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group. She previously served as SVP of Digital Marketing. Kozlowski will report to Jen Hollingsworth, Lionsgate’s Motion Picture Group COO. Hollingsworth’s Strategy and Innovation group is looking to further data- and measurement-based decision making
Focus Features said Friday that it will release its thriller Stillwater, directed by Spotlight Oscar winner Tom McCarthy and starring Matt Damon, in domestic theaters on July 30, 2021. The pic, from Participant and DreamWorks, centers on an American oil-rig roughneck (Damon) from Oklahoma who travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter (Abigail Breslin),
There’s a great axiom when it comes to success in Hollywood; a saying which remains true through good times and bad, even at a moment when streaming is stepping on theatrical’s feet, and that is “Talent rules.” Such talent is Russian filmmaker Ilya Naishuller whose Universal action movie Nobody literally turns the genre on its head.
More good news for the arthouse scene, Laemmle Theatres is reopening six of its eight Los Angeles-based cinemas on April 9. This includes the long-awaited brand new seven-plex in Old Town Newhall up in Santa Clarita, CA. Longtime general managers are being rehired with new and returning staff members being trained. In compliance with the
Cineworld CEO Mooky Greidinger said today that the No. 2 global exhibitor is “actively negotiating terms and structures of evolving theatrical windows with our studio partners.” He made the comment on an earnings call after Cineworld reported 2020 results which included its first-ever annual operating loss ($2.26B) as the industry has been greatly impacted by
EXCLUSIVE: New York-based Bleecker Street has hired Derval Whelan as its new President of Distribution. She replaces Jack Foley, who exited his post at President of Distribution last year. A highly respected industry vet in exhibition and distribution circles, Foley was at Bleecker Street since its launch and worked with CEO Andrew Karpen for several
Here’s more fallout from Disney’s release date changes moves on Tuesday: With the studio dropping their 20th Century Studios’ Ryan Reynolds action comedy Free Guy on Aug. 13, Universal is now moving their Amblin Tom Hanks sci-fi film Bios, which was on that weekend, to Aug. 20 instead. That leaves the calendar looking as follows: August 13Don’t Breathe
Cineworld Group today reported its first-ever annual operating loss with the figure dropping over $2.98B in 2020 as compared to 2019. The previous year had seen profits of $724.7M while the period ended December 31, 2020 was at a negative $2,257.7M. The results were severely impacted by the Covid pandemic which forced the group to
EXCLUSIVE: With Disney/Marvel’s Black Widow jumping from May 7 to July 9, there’s a lot more oxygen in the late spring theatrical release calendar. Open Road will take advantage of that pic’s absence and is moving up its horror feature Separation from April 23 to April 30. Deadline first told you about Open Road and Briarcliff Entertainment jointly
EXCLUSIVE: MGM and Miramax’s Guy Ritchie-directed action thriller Wrath of Man is moving to the May 7-9 weekend, which was recently given up by Disney/Marvel’s Black Widow. Wrath of Man was previously dated for April 23. United Artists Releasing will be distributing the feature, which reps the filmmaker’s fourth film with leading man Jason Statham, a canon
Edgar Wright announced today on his social media handles that his 2010 cult feature Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World will be getting a re-release on April 30 with a new Dolby Cinema cut. The movie will be reimagined in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos and will play exclusively at Dolby Cinema locations. The movie was based on
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