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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell no Tales on ScreenX

Cinema Surround Screens Battle For Film Content

The battle between three rival cinema surround-screen operators is heating up, with different films used to promote the various immersive premium large format (PLF) propositions. CJ 4DPlex has secured two major Hollywood titles for ScreenX, while Barco’s Escape will next focus on films shot sp…

Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales & Baywatch posters

Can Depp and His Salty Crew Make The Rock and the Baywatch Babes Walk the Plank This Memorial Day Holiday? This Coming Weekend at the Boxoffice

There’s star power galore coming to a multiplex near you this Memorial Day weekend with stars such as Johnny Depp, Dwayne Johnson, Javier Bardem and Zac Efron, to name but a few. “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” and “Baywatch” try to lure moviegoers away from their barbeques for so…

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Long Haul Alien Covenant Everything Everything posters

Guardians Grab Galactic 2nd Week but an Alien Invasion is on the Horizon. This Coming Weekend at the Boxoffice

“I was surprised that Guardians of the Galaxy won the weekend”, said absolutely no one on the face of the planet. The Marvel gang’s second weekend of USD $63 million brought the film’s overall gross to USD $246 million and easily outdistanced this past weekend’s two new openers. Then again, we use t…

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Here They Come to Save the Day!!! Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Marks the Start of Hollywood Summer. This Coming Weekend at the Boxoffice

Forget about the calendar, summer actually begins in North America this coming Thursday night when previews of “Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 2” come to a multiplex near you. But we’ll get to that in a bit. As for this past weekend there were a couple of nice surprises for an industry treading water…

Sleight, How to be a Latin Lover, The Circle posters

The Calm Before the Guardians Storm as It’s Another Weekend of Less-Than-Unforgettable Titles on The Horizon. This Coming Weekend at The Boxoffice

To the surprise of absolutely no one (not named Katherine Heigl), none of the new openers this past weekend were any match for the second weekend of “The Fate of the Furious”. The eighth edition of the high octane franchise took in another USD $38 million at the boxoffice on 4,329 screens. That scre…

Free Fire, Born in China, Unforgettable posters

Disney Pandas, Gun Totting 70s Gangsters and Lovestruck Armenians No Match For Record Breaking-ish F8

The Fate of the Furious was clearly to make box office history – though only abroad, as the F8 sequel fell short of the last high octane outing in North America, taking a drop over USD $100 million (USD $100.2 million to be precise), compared to USD $147.2 million for “Furious 7” and thus fall…

F8, Gifted, Lost City of Z

Moviegoers Primed for a Furious Easter Holiday. This Coming Weekend at the Boxoffice

“Boss Baby” continued its boxoffice dominance this past weekend as all three newcomers performed exactly as CJ predicted last Monday. The best, and I do use that word loosely, of the bunch was Sony’s “Smurfs: Lost Village” which hobbled its way to a USD $14 million debut. The launch was yet another…

Power rangers, Life, Chips movie posters

Trio of New Titles Try to Power Past Belle’s Boxoffice Bounty. This Coming Weekend at the Boxoffice

Ho hum, another day another Disney franchise is reborn. The live action version of “Beauty and the Beast” proved a boxoffice juggernaut this past weekend, pulling in a beastly USD $170 million domestic and another USD $180 internationally. Global BO on B&TB was led by China with USD $44 million…

212 Warrior

Fox International Productions Ventures Into Emerging Indonesian Movie Market

While the film industry has been preoccupied with the growth of monolithic movie markets in China and India over the last decade, another country in Asia, Indonesia, has quietly emerged as a territory worthy of cinematic investment. Last week Fox International Productions (FIP) positioned itself wel…

Minha Mae e uma Peca 2 - My Mother is a Character 2

“My Mom is a Character 2” Becomes Brazil’s Highest Grossing Domestic Film

On Tuesday of last week a new box office record holder for domestically produced films was crowned in brazil. The BRL R$117.2 million (USD $37.7 million) earned by the comedy “Minha Mãe é uma Peça 2: O Filme” (“My Mom is a Character 2”) surpassed the BRL R$116.8 million (USD $37.5 million) brought…