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AMC stockholders today overwhelmingly approved a pair of provisions that would dramatically enhance the company’s ability raise fresh cash by issuing and selling shares and boost the price of the company’s shares in a ten-for-one-reverse stock split. The approval at a special meeting of shareholders help virtually would also trigger the immediate conversion of AMC
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A raft of Broadway’s recent arrivals led by Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street helped push the industry’s total box office last week to $28,638,821, up 13.8% from the previous week. Total attendance was up commensurately to 229,771. Sweeney Todd, starring Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford, contributed a whopping $1.8 million to the
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Australian–American actor Keir O’Donnell was 26 years old when he was cast as the hilarious Todd Cleary — the black sheep of the family who enjoys painting semi-nude portraits — in the classic comedy movie “Wedding Crashers” back in 2005. Joining Keir in the classic movie was Vince Vaughn as the wise wedding crasher and
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Refresh for latest…: Paramount/Spyglass Media’s Scream VI has slashed its way to a franchise-record opening at the global box office with $67.1M, topping Scream 3 for the best in the bunch of this long-running Kevin Williamson-created series. At the international box office, it also set a franchise-best start with $22.6M from 53 markets, a whopping
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Play video content TMZ.com Versace’s fashion show was an absolute hit — despite a last minute call to move it up one day — with some of the biggest names in Hollywood dressing to the nines to attend. The fall/winter show wound up getting rescheduled from Friday to Thursday due to rain — it was
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Shout! Studios presents The Magic Flute by Florian Zigl, executive produced by Roland Emmerich, at 325 theaters with expansion likely. A reimagining of the Mozart opera, it follows a present-day teen sent from London to the Austrian Alps on singing scholarship at the legendary Mozart boarding school. There, he discovers a century old forgotten passageway
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American actress Julie Michaels was only 19 years old when she was cast as the blonde beauty Denise — who spends her nights dancing topless at The Double Deuce dive bar and in quarrels with her abusive boyfriend Jimmy — in the 1989 spin-kicking Patrick Swayze action film “Road House.” While Julie’s character sided with
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Oscar-nomination afterglow for this year’s Best Picture contenders was largely felt more in the home than it was at the box office, with a majority of titles already available to be viewed on the couch except for 20th Century Studios/Disney’s 3D title Avatar: The Way of Water. Since noms were first announced on January 24
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American actress Cozi Zuehlsdorff was just 12 years old when she was first cast as Hazel Haskett — the bubbly and talkative little girl who works at her father’s aquarium — in the family/adventure movie “Dolphin Tale” back in 2010. Zuehlsdorff shared the big screen with Harry Connick Jr. as Cozi’s protective father and the
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Paramount/Spyglass Media’s Scream VI is headed to a franchise-record opening of $50M+ worldwide from roughly 50 offshore territories including domestic. The most recent Scream pic opened to $48M WW, $30M from U.S./Canada last year. The highest opening for the Kevin Williamson-conceived horror series was Scream 3, which opened to $34.7M domestic in 2000. Scream VI,
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The revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, with Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford in previews at the Lunt-Fontanne, is firmly in Broadway’s $1 million club, with receipts for the week ending March 5 at a bloody good $1,526,254. And that’s just for six performances. The Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical filled every
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Refresh for latest…: MGM’s Creed III is enjoying a knockout opening weekend, punching up $100.4M globally. Of that, $41.8M is from 75 international box office markets. Domestically, the Michael B Jordan-directed movie opened to a franchise record and the best debut ever for a sports title. Internationally, this is also the biggest opening for the
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The power of a wide theatrical release was realized this weekend by streamer Amazon in its pivot back to the big screen with MGM/United Artists Releasing’s Creed III. It easily minted the best opening ever for the Seattle-based parent, as well as for the Rocky franchise, with $58.6M domestic, $100.4M worldwide. While Amazon has snapped
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