AMC Theatres Posts Its Best Admissions-Revenue Week in the Company’s 103 Year History, July 21-27, and the “Barbenheimer” Phenomenon Continues for a Second Straight Weekend
AMC Theatres (NYSE:AMC & APE), the largest theatrical exhibitor in the United States and the world, today announced it achieved its highest single-week admissions revenue in the Company’s entire 103-year history, during the Friday-Thursday film week, July 21-July 27. It was an admissions-revenue…
Cineworld Successfully Emerges from Chapter 11 Cases
The reorganised Cineworld group, including its newly incorporated parent company (“New Cineworld” and, together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”), today announces that Cineworld Group plc and certain subsidiaries within the Group (together, the “Chapter 11 Companies”) have successfully completed t…
Strong 4th Weekend Propels “Sound of Freedom” to Nearly $150 Million in Total Domestic Box Office
Angel Studios—a platform and studio empowering filmmakers to crowdfund, create, and distribute films and TV series globally, backed by thousands of Angel investors—is announcing its July cumulative-to-date and fourth weekend results for its Alejandro Monteverde written and directed film “Sound…
IMAX Corporation Reports Q2 2023 Results
IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX) today reported strong top and bottom-line financial results for the second quarter of 2023, demonstrating the value of its unique global entertainment technology platform and content portfolio. “IMAX continues to be a winner in a dynamic global marketplace for ent…
Angel Studios Announces First Round of International “Sound of Freedom” Release Dates
Angel Studios, the platform empowering filmmakers with full creative control to crowdfund and create, is building a global Angel cinema network to extend the power of Pay It Forward to theaters around the world. Beginning with direct to theaters distribution in Latin American countries, the UK, and…
“KANGDANIEL: My Parade” Marches Into Movie Theaters Worldwide August 30 and September 2 Only
Following his explosive career as a member of one of Korea’s hottest K-pop groups, the multi-million-selling Wanna One, KANGDANIEL (aka Kang Daniel) chose to walk down a path all his own. With the release of his first studio album in 2022, KANGDANIEL stood before fans for his first solo concert in S…
“Barbenheimer” Sets Records at Harkins Theatres and the Box Office
Harkins Theatres, the largest independently owned theatre company in the U.S., is celebrating after the highly anticipated films – “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” broke box office records this past weekend. Both films blew past box office predictions and combined to bring in the f…
Vertigo Films and Haifaa Al Mansour Team With Film AlUla on Empowering Filmmaker Programme
Film AlUla, the Royal Commission for AlUla’s film agency, today launches ‘AlUla Creates’ short film competition, joined by acclaimed production company Vertigo Films (“Monsters,” “Britannia,” “Bronson”), award-winning Saudi Filmmaker Haifaa Al Mansour (“The…
IMAX and Cineplex Expand Long-Term Partnership With Additional IMAX Locations Across Canada
IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX) and Cineplex Inc. (TSX: CGX.TO) today announced an expansion of their longstanding partnership with new state-of-the-art IMAX systems in key locations across Canada. The deal adds an additional five new IMAX systems across the country, as well as two upgrades to IMAX wi…
Arts Alliance Media Powers Yorck Kinogruppe’s ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum with Screenwriter TMS
Arts Alliance Media (AAM), the global leader in digital cinema software and services, has reconfirmed their commitment to Yorck Kinogruppe, Germany’s largest network of arthouse cinemas, by enabling Screenwriter to manage all content and scheduling at the ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum, a summer open-a…
Gravitas Ventures to Distribute Documentary “Downwind” About Fallout From Nuclear Testing in United States on August 18th
Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Emmy-winner Martin Sheen (“The West Wing”) narrates “Downwind,” a harrowing documentary that exposes an infamous chapter of United States histor…
GKIDS to Release “Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia” in Select Theaters Nationwide on September 1, 2023
GKIDS, celebrating its 15th anniversary as a producer and distributor of award-winning and artist-driven animation from around the world, announced today it will bring “Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia,” to select theaters nationwide. The film will open September 1st in New Y…
Alamo Drafthouse to Open New Cinema in Naples, Florida
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema continues to expand with the announcement of its first Florida theater, Alamo Drafthouse Naples. The Austin-based cinema-eatery will be taking over the space from Silverspot Cinema and plans to have the theater fully converted and open to guests by early 2024. Updates to the…
Record-Shattering $35 Million Debut for “Oppenheimer” Lifts IMAX to Top-Five Weekend All Time at Global Box Office
IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX) exploded to one of the Company’s biggest weekends ever at the global box office on the strength of Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”, delivering a massive $35 million debut on only 740 screens worldwide. The stunning figure represented IMAX…
More Than 7.8 Million Moviegoers in the U.S. and Internationally Saw a Movie at AMC Thursday-Sunday, as AMC Theatres Records Its Biggest and Busiest Weekend Since 2019 Based on Global Attendance and Global Admissions Revenue
AMC Theatres® (NYSE:AMC & APE), the largest theatrical exhibitor in the United States and the world, today announced it set multiple post-reopening records, as the company recorded more than 7.8 million moviegoers at an AMC in the U.S. or ODEON Cinemas location internationally from Thursday to S…
Sensational Openings of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” Driving Cinemark Toward Record-Breaking Summer Box Office Weekend, Tracking to be Among the Highest Box Office Weekends of All Time
Cinemark Holdings, Inc., one of the world’s largest and most influential movie theater companies, today announced that the weekend of July 21, 2023, is tracking to be the exhibitor’s best summer weekend box office of all time, as well as one of the highest grossing box office weekends in the Company…
Parkway Cinema Barnsley Chosen as Only Cinema in the North to Show “Oppenheimer” on Traditional 70mm Film
The independent and family-run cinema managed to secure a rare print of the film after owner and respected cinema engineer Rob Younger was involved in preparing 70mm projectors in central London, ahead of the film’s upcoming UK Premiere. With only a handful of these traditional 70mm prints available…
“Sound of Freedom’s” Third Weekend Stronger than First Weekend as Independent Film Surges to Nearly $125 Million Total Domestic Cume
Angel Studios—a platform and studio empowering filmmakers to crowdfund, create, and distribute films and TV series globally, backed by thousands of Angel investors—is announcing its July cumulative-to-date and third weekend results for its Alejandro Monteverde written and directed film “Sound…