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R. Kelly‘s manager was hit with federal charges Friday for allegedly making a threatening phone call to a Manhattan theater that was screening a documentary about the sex-abuse allegations against the R&B star, authorities said. Donnell Russell, 45, allegedly called the NeueHouse theater on Dec. 4, 2018, and said there was someone in the crowd …
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Andrew Lloyd Webber is doing his part to get the theater community back up and running. “Just completed the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine trial,” the 72-year-old “Cats” composer captioned a photo of himself receiving the vaccine on Thursday. “I’ll do anything to get theatres large and small open again and actors and musicians back to work.” …
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Shrugging off gloomy predictions about the city’s future, big-league developers on Monday unveiled plans for transformative new projects on Harlem’s famed 125th Street, including a new Target. The deals — remarkable strokes of confidence in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic — aren’t long-range pipe dreams either, but fully financed ventures that will break ground …
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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 …
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After multiple postponements, movie theater chain Cinemark said it’s ready to reopen, citing “high satisfaction” with its COVID-19 protections among theatergoers in Texas. In an earnings conference call on Tuesday, Cinemark Chief Executive Mark Zoradi said the Plano, Texas, company aims to start selling tickets at all of its 345 US-based theaters by August 31, …
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EXCLUSIVE: We’ve just heard that Cineworld, in response to the recent changes on the theatrical release schedule with “Tenet,” is reopening their US circuit Regal, starting Aug. 21. “Welcoming theatergoers back to our cinemas will be a celebration for not only our team and our industry, but most importantly for the fans who have been …
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Warner Bros. is keeping movie theaters’ hopes of a summer blockbuster movie alive. The Hollywood studio said Monday that it is releasing “Tenet,” the Christopher Nolan spy thriller in the US over Labor Day Weekend in “select cities.” Warner Bros. did not specify, which US cities will get the film, but it is safe to …
R. Kelly‘s manager was hit with federal charges Friday for allegedly making a threatening phone call to a Manhattan theater that was screening a documentary about the sex-abuse allegations against the R&B star, authorities said. Donnell Russell, 45, allegedly called the NeueHouse theater on Dec. 4, 2018, and said there was someone in the crowd …
