Much like a Beach Boys song from the 1960s, North American distribution has been focused far too long on the spoils of summer, jamming tentpole after tentpole into the four-month long summer season. I’m sure there’s a musical analogy for…
Ironically, at a moment when the motion picture industry is suffering from an existential dilemma over the definition of a movie and the relevance of theatrical distribution, the trailers that help promote and market upcoming releases to the public have…
Some of you may have noticed our usual box office post wasn’t published last week as we made our way to CinemaCon in Las Vegas. For those of you who came up to us in the hallways at Caesars Palace…
WEEKEND RECAP It was a rare weekend of both quantifiable quality and muchos mullah at the box office. Of the new films, four out of five scored 80% or higher on Rotten Tomatoes, with “A Quiet Place” posting an astonishing…
Dear Junkies, Seriously – did someone decree that 5 April should officially be “Everything Newsworthy in Cinema Happening At Once Day?” Because if so, then we didn’t get the memo. But we got the press releases – all of them!…
The roaring success of this year’s Chinese New Year box office releases has led to renewed speculation about China soon overtaking the United States as the world’s largest cinema market. Despite the failure of previous such predictions, there is a…
WEEKEND RECAP For the fifth consecutive weekend, Marvel’s “Black Panther” found itself perched atop the boxoffice charts, tallying USD $27 million and easily defeating newcomer “Tomb Raider”’s $23 million. Panther is now up to a gargantuan USD $605 million domestic…
WEEKEND RECAP It was the boxoffice version of Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities” this past weekend. It was the best of times (Disney) and the worst of times (everyone else). On a weekend where diversity reigned supreme, Marvel’s “Black…
Saudia Arabia issues cinema licences; Lotte to spin off cinemas; US $1bn BO February; Samsung Cinema LED insights; Cinemark Movie Club 120K member; Vue’s Tim Richards interviewed; Indian cinema growth; VPF revolt in south India; Côté Cinema becomes BoxOfficeFrance; MoviePass CPO…
WEEKEND RECAP Can Disney/Marvel’s “Black Panther” be stopped? The answer so far is a resounding “Hell No!” as the film amassed another USD $65 million, propelling its overall cume past the USD $500 million mark. For this type of superhero…