Broadway will remain closed through at least May 30 2021, the Broadway League announced today. The four-month extension beyond the most recent January date will force producers hoping for a Spring opening to come up with new plans. The Broadway League announced the continued suspension of all ticket sales for Broadway performances through May 30,
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Thursday marked the end of the Chinese National Day holiday with the world’s second largest box office market significantly tightening the gap between its turnstiles and those of North America. Takings for the period are estimated at RMB 3.95B ($589M). That does not include play of some of the releases that got a jump on
Filmmaker Garrett Bradley is known for tackling pressing issues facing the Black community with her work. Her documentary short America painted a portrait of how Black people are represented in American culture while Alone, investigated the impact of mass incarceration on the modern Black family through the eyes of a single mother in New Orleans. The latter
There has been some concern by some industry insiders that the family film may have gone the way of the dinosaurs during the pandemic, particularly as Disney has taken its marquee theatrical releases Mulan and Soul to Disney+. Some of those maneuvers stem from polling which shows that families aren’t entirely ready to head back to the box office
It’s reveals like this that remind us how excited we are for Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World: Dominion, which will also star Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jake Johnson, BD Wong, Justice Smith and Omar Sy. Dominion is expected in theaters on June 10, 2022. Check out what you can look forward to next year with
EXCLUSIVE: With Broadway dark at least until next summer, The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman has set a new opening night for 2022. The highly anticipated musical revival, costarring Sutton Foster, now will begin previews at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre on Monday, December 20, 2021, with Opening Night scheduled for Thursday, February 10, 2022. The
Further meltdown here of the immediate theatrical release schedule with Lionsgate pushing their current Oct. 30 thriller Fatale to first quarter 2021 and the Colin Farrell-Lily Rose Depp sci-fi movie Voyagers off its Wednesday Nov. 25 release date to next year as well. Blame Regal largely closing, as well as New York and Los Angeles’ purgatory. The interesting
Regal Cinemas is taking it to the streets, with the marquee of its iconic and shuttered Times Square multiplex admonishing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for being just about the last pol in the country to reopen cinemas. “48 states have reopened theatres safely. Why not New York, Governor Cuomo?” blared from that strip of
It’s ‘Mean Girls’ day and there’s no better way to celebrate October 3rd than to check up on Aaron Samuels and the rest of the fetch cast! Most of these famous faces could be recognized as just a few of the characters that felt personally victimized by Regina George in the famous teen comedy, ‘Mean
Focus Features’ femme thriller Promising Young Woman, which made its world premiere at Sundance back in January, has returned to the theatrical release calendar for a Christmas Day release. The movie was originally set to open on April 17 before the pandemic pushed all titles. Out of the gate, the film notched a high Rotten Tomatoes
Unfortunately, the wait for Spiral is going to be longer than anticipated. While it was originally set to hit theaters this past May, Lionsgate and company have since pushed it back a full year. The Saw franchise has never been far from theaters, but this new installment seemingly brings something new to the property, and
Imax Corp. has decided to furlough 150 workers due to the withdrawal of movie studios from the theatrical marketplace due to COVID-19. The large-format film company’s auditoriums have fared well in China and across Asia in reopening during COVID-19, but it has reached a crossroads in much of the rest of the world. Just about
EXCLUSIVE: No, it’s not all bad news for exhibition out there in the pandemic. Deadline has learned that seven Regal theaters–the only ones in the Cineworld owned U.S. chain– will remain open in California. The news comes after Cineworld announced that it was closing its UK locations and its Regal chain earlier this week on
Thanksgiving Week just got a lot more grim at the box office as Disney on Thursday moved its bit Pixar movie Soul to Disney+, where it will now be released on December 25. It had been set for a November 20 release in domestic theaters. The move is similar to what Disney did with Mulan,
Exclusive Katy Perry just got a little peace of mind — a judge granted a permanent restraining order against the man she claims has been stalking her and directing threats at her family. According to new legal docs obtained by TMZ … 38-year-old William Terry must stay 100 yards away from Katy, her fiance Orlando
Mank, David Fincher’s movie about Oscar-winning Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his tumultuous development of the Orson Welles’ classic, will hit Netflix on December 4 following a November release in theaters. Take a look at the official teaser above. The movie is one of many Netflix 2020-21 awards season contenders; their latest Aaron Sorkin-directed political
Ryan Reynolds comments come from a recent press event for his new movie Free Guy, which was attended CinemaBlend’s own Sean O’Connell. Eventually the conversation turned to his brief tenure as a DC character, and the actor’s penchant for joking publicly about Green Lantern. Deadpool 2 famously saw Wade Wilson going back in time to
Exhibition shares headed south Monday amidst a broader market rally as continued delays in big studio releases pushed a major circuit to close its doors, again, and raised a new round of jitters over the long term health of the sector. Regal parent, U.K. chain Cineworld, which is traded in London, saw its share plunge
Thanks, but no thanks, San Francisco Mayor London Breed. While San Francisco County gave the go-ahead for movie theaters to reopen today, members of the National Association of Theatre Owners of California/Nevada have agreed unanimously to remain closed in the City by the Bay. Why? San Francisco’s current ban on movie concessions “makes it economically impossible
Breaking News The latest ‘Jurassic World’ flick just got hit with a viral meteor, of sorts, and it’s putting things on ice behind and in front of the camera, yet again. Director Colin Trevorrow made the announcement Wednesday, saying a new batch of COVID-19 cases were discovered on the set of “Jurassic World: Dominion” …
Cinemark, the No. 3 theatrical exhibitor in the U.S, has confirmed that they’re currently planning to stay open during the pandemic. The news comes in the wake of Cineworld’s plans to close its Regal movie theaters nationwide on Thursday, Oct. 8 until further notice, in large part due to New York continuing to be shuttered
And where things go from here is anybody’s guess. There were a lot of different names thrown around as potential new Bonds when it was unclear if Daniel Craig would be back, and now that we’re near the end of that run, the conversation is starting up again. There have even been calls to make
EXCLUSIVE: Vue International CEO and founder Tim Richards wants to avoid “the nuclear option” of temporarily closing his cinemas in the UK and other overseas markets amid recent shifts to the landscape. However, in the wake of the news that MGM’s No Time To Die was pulling out of November and heading to April 2021,
New York City will shutter nonessential businesses again in new COVID clusters in Brooklyn and Queens and restrict restaurants to takeout only as well as shutting schools and clamping down on religious services and mass gatherings, Governor Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday. The measures, under a newly unveiled ‘Cluster Action Plan,’ are stricter than what Cuomo
Universal is protecting one of its biggest assets from the pandemic and moving Jurassic World: Dominion from June 11, 2021 to June 10, 2022. I hear this has nothing to do with the production, which is about three weeks from wrapping in the U.K., and remained on course despite some positive COVID-19 tests from the crew. Rather
Netflix is being dragged into a criminal courtroom in Texas over the controversial film, “Cuties” … a film a grand jury believes shows young kids in sexual situations. The grand jury in Tyler County, TX just handed up the indictment … and according to the docs, Netflix is being charged with promotion of lewd visual
In the wake of Cineworld’s decision to shutter its UK venues and Regal U.S. theaters, AMC, the No. 1 exhibitor in the world, will remain open. AMC joins No. 3 exhibitor Cinemark in staying open during the pandemic, despite Cineworld and Regal’s plans to close this Thursday. More than 80% of AMC’s U.S. circuit is
While every other Disney theme park around the world is open for business to one degree or another, the parks at Disneyland are still shuttered while the parks and the state of California try to hammer out a set of guidelines for reopening that both find acceptable. However, in the meantime, Disneyland Resort has found
The risk of patrons gathering as they come in and out of shows is one reason why New York State is reluctant to open theaters, or even publish guidelines ticking off measures that would lead to a reopening as it’s done with other industries, according to a state official. Exhibition players have been confused at
We’re hearing that Warner Bros. release of Legendary’s Dune is no longer going on Dec. 18, rather Oct. 1, 2021. Right now that’s the same release date as Matt Reeves’ The Batman, so we have to figure Warners moves Batman. Duh. Many in distribution land always believed it was too good to be true for Warners to keep