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If you’re dying to know what the total revenue reap was from Disney’s combined PVOD/Disney+/overseas theatrical release experiment of Mulan, well, we just have to wait for the studio’s investor day on December 10. That’s when they’re reportedly going to tell us more. Disney CEO Bob Chapek said on Thursday’s Q4 and…

EXCLUSIVE: For all the headlines today that everything is coming up roses with exhibition after Pfizer’s good news about a COVID-19 vaccine, Regal Cinemas, will shutter the 18 locations the chain left open in New York and California, effective Thursday. Those sites will stay closed now with the rest of the U.S. chain…

With Disney already having erased two big movies from the holiday schedule, Free Guy and Death on the Nile, and Warner Bros. expected to punt its Christmas Day release of Wonder Woman 1984, movie theaters really don’t know how they’re going to be able to weather the next few months of the pandemic. The National Associa…

NATO of New York State sent a letter Friday to top aides of Governor Andrew Cuomo begging the administration to let theaters open in the Big Apple — or at least Manhattan — to give the industry a shot at revival as the key holiday season approaches. Movies continue to drop off the schedule largely because the New York…

Disney has officially pulled their 20th Century Studios movies Free Guy and Death on the Nile off the December calendar, leaving a grim immediate future in place for exhibition which was praying to make buck on the holiday moviegoing season. This move Thursday leaves Warner Bros’ Wonder Woman 1984 left standing on…

Tenet, the movie that was intended to jump-start exhibition out of the pandemic but really only did so abroad, will arrive on 4K, Blu-ray, DVD and digital on December 15. Christopher Nolan’s time-travel noir thriller grossed a lackluster $53.8 million at the domestic box office at a time when Warner Bros was…

Cinemark CEO Mark Zoradi said Thursday that the major exhibitor has started taking a “dynamic” approach to theatrical windows, negotiating release terms on a film-by-film basis in a concession to COVID-19. Upcoming Universal releases like The Croods 2, Let Him Go and Freaky, for example, will play in Cinemark…

Major movie chain Cinemark reported a COVID-battered quarter with revenue of $35 million versus $821 million the year earlier. It swung to a loss of $148 million from a $33-million profit. As of September 30, it had 252 domestic and 15 international theaters open to limited hours, showing library content and some new…

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has announced that the country will be tightening lockdown restrictions as it battles rising COVID-19 cases. As part of the measures, theaters, cinemas and museums will close from November 6 to November 29, according to journalist Jakub Krupa. Morawiecki said the country would…

Tenet hit theaters back in September, but Christopher Nolan finally has broken his silence on the action film’s pandemic performance. “Warner Bros. released Tenet, and I'm thrilled that it has made almost $350 million,” he told the Los Angeles Times in an interview published Tuesday. Tenet, which stars John David…

The nation's fourth-biggest cinema chain Marcus Theatres saw revenue plunge and swing to the red in its most recent third-quarter earnings released Tuesday. It beat Wall Street forecasts, however, and emphasized its solid financials underpinned by the fact it owns most of its theaters. Family-owned Marcus, based in…

European cinema trade body UNIC has today renewed its call to national governments for further public funding support of the exhibition industry during the COVID-19 crisis. UNIC says the current situation is "undeniably the most challenging period faced by European cinemas in their long history,” and adds that the coro…