• Hollywood Hits Pause on Films, Concerts and More Over Coronavirus

    Hollywood Hits Pause on Films, Concerts and More Over Coronavirus

    Stars have had to halt filming, concerts and more amid coronavirus outbreak — see the list
  • Hollywood rethinks movie release schedule as ‘Tenet’ stumbles at box office

    Hollywood rethinks movie release schedule as ‘Tenet’ stumbles at box office

    The disastrous debut of Warner Bros’ spy thriller “Tenet” at movie theaters has Hollywood studios fingering the panic button.  “Tenet” — a $200 million Christopher Nolan production which has amassed less than $30 million in ticket sales since it hit US theaters on Sept. 3 — has given Tinseltown a wakeup call, with studios grappling …
  • ‘Tenet’ snags $200 million globally, struggles at US box office

    ‘Tenet’ snags $200 million globally, struggles at US box office

    Christopher Nolan’s spy thriller “Tenet” had another lackluster weekend at the US box office despite raking in $207 million in global box office sales. The movie, starring John David Washington and Robert Pattinson, generated a paltry $6.7 million in the US and Canada during its second weekend of release, dropping 29 percent compared to its …
  • Disney’s ‘Mulan’ off to slow box office start in China

    Disney’s ‘Mulan’ off to slow box office start in China

    “Mulan” pulled in soft box office sales on its opening day in China — a market where Disney had banked on raking in the big bucks. The live-action remake of the 1998 animated classic amassed just over $8 million on Friday, according to Chinese online ticketing platform Maoyan. That would put “Mulan,” which was expected …
  • ‘Jurassic Park’ tops weekend box office, 27 years after original release

    ‘Jurassic Park’ tops weekend box office, 27 years after original release

    Steven Spielberg’s 1993 movie “Jurassic Park” was No. 1 for the fourth time in its release history this past weekend as movie theaters tried to have a semblance during the COVID-19 pandemic over what is typically a big moviegoing weekend, Father’s Day. While 2020 fare like Universal/Dreamworks Animation’s “Trolls World Tour” had been leading at a …
  • Box office could see 50 percent drop in ticket sales this year, analyst finds

    Box office could see 50 percent drop in ticket sales this year, analyst finds

    The coronavirus will slash box office revenues in half this year, and the pandemic is now poised to weaken the longtime status of movie theaters as destinations for first-run movies, according to an influential media analyst. Revenue from ticket sales will plunge to $5.5 billion this year, down more than 50 percent from $11.4 billion …
  • Surprise! Why ‘Cats’ wasn’t the biggest box office bomb of 2019

    Surprise! Why ‘Cats’ wasn’t the biggest box office bomb of 2019

    Deadline’s annual film revenue tournaments have celebrated the triumphs of each year’s most profitable films. For a third year in a row, we decided to look at the ones that amounted to a big swing and a miss. Here are the movies our experts said posted the worst losses of 2019. X-Men: Dark Phoenix 20th …
  • Hulu snaps back at Twitter users dissing ‘Parasite’ over subtitles

    Hulu snaps back at Twitter users dissing ‘Parasite’ over subtitles

    Hapless trolls learned the hard way not to trash the multi-Oscar-winning movie “Parasite” with their complaints about it being a Korean language film with subtitles. The streaming service Hulu, which made “Parasite” available to stream on Wednesday, crafted the perfect clapback to critics who slammed the darkly comic tale of class conflict, directed by Bong …
  • Coronavirus threatens to shrink struggling US movie theater chains

    Coronavirus threatens to shrink struggling US movie theater chains

    Coming to a theater near you: a marquee with no movie titles on it, but instead big letters that say “gone out of business.” With movie houses nationwide closed by the coronavirus, big cinema chains like AMC Entertainment and Regal Cinemas parent CineWorld are at risk of filing for bankruptcy in the coming weeks or …