James Mangold’s Ford v. Ferrari which is winning over crowds and critics in early screenings since its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival is looking at a solid start in the $23M-$30M range in early tracking when the Disney–Fox pic opens on Nov. 15. The movie, which stars Matt Damon as car designer Carroll Shelby and
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Here’s a little, but, huge box office stat: Focus Features’ Downton Abbey has finally outstripped the $83M domestic gross of three-time Oscar winner Brokeback Mountain to become the label’s highest grossing title of all-time stateside. Brokeback Mountain owned the record for the last 13 years and on Monday Downton beat it with $83.5M. Current domestic B.O. for the Michael Engler-directed
AMC Entertainment in an 8-K filing today announced that CFO Craig Ramsey is retiring on Feb. 28, 2020 after achieving 25 years of service with the theatrical exhibitor. In his place, AMC has tapped Sean Goodman as its new CFO. He’s currently the CFO of Fortune 500 company Asbury Automotive Group and he’ll start working
Warner Bros/Village Roadshow/Bron Studios’ Joker earned $13.9 million on Tuesday, easily making it the best Tuesday at the October box office and continuing to pummel Sony’s Venom records from a year ago. That movie owned the previous October Tuesday high of $8.2M. The domestic total for Todd Phillips’ R-rated movie stands at $119.8M through five days,
After Judy opened to nearly $3 million last weekend, the specialty box office has a hard act to follow this frame. But there are a couple of films that could possibly match Roadside Attractions and LD Entertainment’s biopic about musical legend Judy Garland. Fox Searchlight is releasing Lucy in the Sky today. The space drama stars
The Cinemark Century Huntington Beach and XD cineplex reopened Friday after closing yesterday evening when it received word of a “credible threat” surrounding the movie Joker. Cinemark said Friday it would not be making a statement about the closure at this time, saying the Huntington Beach PD will have more information later in the day.
EXCLUSIVE: Amid concerns about potential violent situations, the opening weekend of Warner Bros’ controversial Joker in New York City will see an increased police presence both in and out of uniform. Earlier this week, the NYPD’s Chief of Patrol Rodney Harrison told officers that the department plans to visibly station cops at theaters showing the
Mobile and online movie ticket retailer Atom Tickets reports tonight that the pre-sales for Warner Bros.’ Joker is beating that of last October’s Venom, this month’s It Chapter Two, Us and Glass. To date, Joker is Atom’s second best-pre-sales for a R-rated movie this year, behind John Wick Chapter 3 – Parabellum ($56.8M opening). And despite all the headlines out there about
It’s official: Warner Bros. is opening Clint Eastwood’s next movie Richard Jewell on Dec. 13. Paul Walter Hauser stars as Jewell, the security guard whose life was turned upside down after law enforcement leaked to a reporter that he was a possible suspect in the the 1996 Atlanta Olympics’ Olympic Park bombing. Sam Rockwell plays Jewell’s lawyer.
Dreamworks Animation and Pearl Studio’s Abominable rolled up $650K from early Thursday night previews that began at 6PM in 2,950 theaters. That figure is $200K shy of the $850K made a year ago by another Yeti movie, Warner Bros.’ Smallfoot which went on to have a $6.4M Friday and $23M opening. Abominable is the only big studio wide
With the media on high alert about possible threats during Joker‘s opening next weekend, Warner Bros is curbing broadcast and print interviewers from their Hollywood premiere Saturday night. Those press members invited to the premiere to watch the movie are still welcome to attend, but only photographers will be allowed on the red carpet at the
EXCLUSIVE: Comscore has promoted Arturo Guillén to Senior Vice President & Global Managing Director of their movie division. Guillén takes over for departing Comscore Film SVPs Steve Buck and Jim Zak. Guillén, a Spain native, was in Los Angeles this week meeting those in the stateside distribution and exhibition sphere as they came together for
Two and a half cheers for the Landmark Theatres in West Los Angeles. The parking escalators have been broken for weeks. Those purple and black staff outfits are a bit somber. And $15 dollars seems high for an hour and 35 minutes of Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice, as delightful as it is.
EXCLUSIVE: Who says the home entertainment sector is dead? Lionsgate’s John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum has sold over 3M units in packaged media, electronic sales and VOD since its arrival in the post theatrical window in late August, becoming Lionsgate’s highest-grossing home entertainment title in five years since 2014’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. Among
Pennywise will be handing out balloons in 75 overseas markets as well as the U.S. and Canada this weekend, a nearly full day-and-date release versus 2017’s staggered rollout on the original. All in, industry sources are seeing a global debut that potentially scores the worldwide opening record for a horror pic with $200M+, besting the
Updated tracking has New Line’s It: Chapter Two opening between $90M-$100M, just behind the previous chapter’s all-time horror and September debut record of $123.4M. However, Fandango reports that advance ticket sales to the Stephen King sequel are their best ever for a horror pic, outstripping It, Jordan Peele’s Us, last year’s Halloween and The Nun. Best demos for It: Chapter Two are younger males
EXCLUSIVE: Before Hurricane Dorian reaches landfall sometime tonight, some theaters on the central east coasts of Florida have already boarded up including a slew of AMC, Regal and Cinemark multiplexes. Most of these sites aren’t expected to re-open until Tuesday and Wednesday, in time for New Line’s It: Chapter Two which starts previews on Thursday night. Weather
After announcing their U.S. and U.K. limited theatrical-streaming release plans for Martin Scorsese’s $160M mob opus The Irishman this morning, Netflix has announced the release dates for their entire awards season slate including Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat, the Eddie Murphy pic Dolemite Is My Name, David Michod’s The King, Wash Westmoreland’s Earthquake Bird, Noah Baumbach’s drama Marriage Story, Sergo
AMC’s Bob Lenihan Departing Theater Chain As President Of Programming – Deadline Click to Skip Ad Closing in… You will be redirected back to your article in seconds Skip to main content August 26, 2019 3:36pm EXCLUSIVE: We are hearing that that AMC’s U.S. President of Programming is leaving the company after a decade’s run.
While everyone is expecting New Line’s It: Chapter 2 to tee us off into what is expected to be a lucrative fall-holiday season with at least a $90 million-$110 million start, one shocker that hit tracking last Thursday: STX Entertainment’s Jennifer Lopez–Constance Wu stripper crime drama came on with a hot $24M-$26M projection. Typically we post projections
Fox Searchlight went after whatever remaining 18-34 demo was out there this summer with the launch of its black comedy horror thriller Ready or Not yesterday. It grossed an estimated $1.9 million at 2,244 locations (including $730,0000 in Tuesday previews) for Wednesday’s No. 2 spot. ComScore shows that by Friday the number of colleges remaining
New Line’s It: Chapter Two, the sequel to the biggest horror film of all time, is looking at a domestic opening similar to the 2017 pic’s $123.4 million first frame. We hear in regards to demos the pic is comping to the first title in the series, Stephen King’s $700M-grossing It, and 20th Century Fox’s Logan ($88.4M),
Update: CBS Films/eOne/Lionsgate’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark racked up $2.33M at 2,500 locations that began at 7PM. How front-loaded will the Andre Ovredal-directed PG-13 spooky film be? Tracking heading into the weekend had Scary and Dora colliding as they aim to grab young teen girls with $15M-$17M apiece. But Paramount’s live action take of the famed
Regal Entertainment owner Cineworld has reported a revenue decrease of 11.1% for the first six months of 2019, to $2.15B from $2.42B in the comparable period last year. The dip at the world’s second-largest exhibition chain was anticipated, it said, due to the timing of major film releases versus the first half of 2018. Encouraged
Exhibition giant Cineworld, which acquired U.S. chain Regal Cinemas in 2018 for $3.6B, reported a decrease in half-year results this morning out of London. An anticipated drop, it hasn’t diminished CEO and veteran exhibitor Mooky Greidinger’s bright outlook for the second semester while he’s also bullish on the uptake of nascent subscription program, Regal Unlimited,
Luxury dine-in theater chain iPic is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy amid financial woes that include a recent quarterly loss of $9.3 million, and missing a $10.1 million interest payment to the Employees Retirement System of Alabama and the Teachers Retirement System of Alabama. Today, the pic’s stock is at $0.70, down close to 60%
The weekend has had a sizable crowd of specialty newcomers, though as summer begins its sunset, it appears some audiences are going beyond the big studio brouhaha. Sundance psycho-thriller Luce lead the pack with a $132,916 start in five locations, grabbing a $26,583 per theater average for the Neon release in the three-day estimate, while not
Bringing Disney’s running total of $1B+ global grossers to four this year, the studio’s The Lion King will put its paw across the coveted threshold today. Getting there in 19 days, the Jon Favreau-directed CGI/live-action remake of the animated classic is at $999.4M worldwide through Monday, with $360.9M domestically and $638.5M from the international box
After Avengers: Endgame toppled Avatar to become the highest-grossing film worldwide on Comic-Con Saturday with $2.79 billion, FandangoNOW, Fandango’s video on-demand service, is reporting that the sequel directed by Anthony and Joe Russo is the most pre-ordered title in the company’s history. It’s now one of several records that Endgame has shattered this summer. Of note,
Disney’s Aladdin is scoring a hat-trick for the studio today, becoming its third film of 2019 to pass the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office. The Guy Ritchie-directed live-action remake of the 1992 animated classic grossed $999.3M globally through Thursday, with $343.1M domestically and $656.2M at the international box office. This makes Aladdin