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Christoper Nolan’s spy thriller, ‘Tenet” is hitting Los Angeles drive-ins, granting fans who have been unable to see the film in the theater a reprieve. Initially, the $200 million flick, starring Robert Pattinson and John David Washington, was off limits at drive ins in any market where indoor cinemas remain dark, such as Los Angeles. …
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Netflix co-Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings told The Hollywood Reporter that his company isn’t looking to acquire cinema chains, despite buzz of the contrary. In the last two years, Netflix bought Hollywood’s historic Egyptian Theatre and it inked a long-term deal to lease the New York City’s Paris Theatre, raising questions about the company’s designs …
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The backlash around Disney’s “Mulan” is escalating, with a US senator accusing the Mouse House of “whitewashing genocide” as it cooperated with the Chinese government to get the movie made. As the film nears its theatrical debut in China on Friday, critics have pointed to a line in the movie’s credits that thanks the Xinjiang authorities, …
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Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” — the first blockbuster film to enter the theaters following widespread lockdown orders — brought in an estimated $20.2 million through the holiday weekend in US and Canadian theaters. The movie’s Labor Day weekend release displayed the new realities for US theaters as Americans went to the movies en masse for the …
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AMC Entertainment, the largest movie theater chain in the US, is selling off nine cinemas in the Baltic region as the coronavirus crushes sales. The company on Monday announced that it has signed a deal to sell nine venues across Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, to Up Invest, owners of a Baltic cinema group, for $77 …
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Movie theaters are back! Sort of. This weekend AMC and Regal Cinemas will reopen many of their screens nationwide, which have been shuttered since March. And although some independent theaters have remained in operation around the country during the COVID-19 pandemic, the major chains revving up again means we can finally enjoy brand-new blockbusters on …
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Ever since the ’50s, when the motion-picture industry felt existentially threatened by the rise of television (much as forces within it today feel existentially threatened by the rise of streaming), the movies have found ways to entice people into theaters with added benefits. 3D was the original P.T. Barnum attraction (the golden age of 3D …
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Shares of struggling cinema chains jumped on Friday after the Department of Justice scrapped 72-year-old rules severely limiting Hollywood’s ability to buy movie theaters. Friday’s ruling paves the way for film studio giants like Disney and Netflix to look beyond one-off purchases of small theaters and set their sights on buying larger swaths of cinemas. …
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AMC Entertainment, the nation’s largest movie theater chain, said it lost half a billion dollars in the second quarter, making it the company’s worst quarter since it was founded in 1920. The chain, which was forced to close cinemas across the nation as the coronavirus swept the nation in March, said it swung to a …
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News this week that Disney is bypassing cinemas by premiering “Mulan” directly onto Disney+ in major territories has provoked a furious backlash from international exhibitors who feel the House of Mouse is declining to support them in their hour of need. Emotions are high – as evidenced in our piece speaking to UK operators yesterday …
Christoper Nolan’s spy thriller, ‘Tenet” is hitting Los Angeles drive-ins, granting fans who have been unable to see the film in the theater a reprieve. Initially, the $200 million flick, starring Robert Pattinson and John David Washington, was off limits at drive ins in any market where indoor cinemas remain dark, such as Los Angeles. …
