By Boyd Falconer, PhD and Jim Amos Sometimes we pull a muscle patting ourselves on the back when even the smallest amount of change occurs. Lost two pounds in six months? Yes, let’s celebrate with ravioli. Managed to clean half…
AMC denies rumours, Megabox smartens ‘crew’, Deny drops ‘convenience’ charge, PayTM allows cancellation, Inox looks to premium, PVR boosts F&B spend, WB-Cineas spat in Spain, Galway art-house failure liquidated, Joe Masher Historical President, PVR PCI DSS, mother & son punched,…
Girl Power. DC’s “Wonder Woman” enjoyed one of the smallest drops for a superhero franchise in recent memory, falling a paltry 45% to finish its sophomore weekend at USD $57 million. That was good enough to easily remain atop the…
Regal, AMC & Imax shares slump, Korean cinemas boycott Netflix film, CJ CGV’s billionth customer, S. Korea attendance down – profits up, are S. Korea’s Big Three hurting indie film, French sing-a-long try, Tunisia boycotts “Wonder Woman”, chaos in Colombia, fracas…
Fresh off earning USD $223 million during its opening weekend in movie theatres around the globe, “Wonder Woman” walked off with the Best Of Show trophy at the 18th Annual Golden Trailer Awards. The preview for the Warner Bros. superhero…
Samsung-CGV Smart Signage, more opposition to 28% GST, Picturehouse staff suspended, CGV boycotts “Okja”, Kino back to Baden-Baden, no “Wonder Woman” in Algeria, Golden Village at 25 (30?), LA Times on cinema, Pathe robbery, Lotte fire evacuation, Movie Foods to…
Powered by a 52% female demographic (positively unheard of for a superhero movie), a Rotten Tomatoes score in the 90’s and a straight A Cinemascore, Gal Gadot put the gold bracelets to good use and scored a historic USD $100.5…
Screening Room hype, IMAX & AMC shares down, Indian cinema up, PVR 1,000 screen in 2020, RealD’s Lewis defends 3D, Cineplex thinks outside the box (office), Lebanon boycotts WW, CNN faults 4DX, UK arthouse problems, Barco Escape’s ‘The Recall’ reviewed,…
It’s hard to know if Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas was aware of the public outcry that would occur upon scheduling a women-only screening of the upcoming Warner Bros. super hero release “Wonder Woman,” or if perhaps provoking protest, however trivial, was…
“Nevertheless, she persisted” is a phrase famously uttered by US Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell in reference to fellow Senator Elizabeth Warren back in February but it could also sum up “Wonder Woman”s quest to finally make it to the…