Giant theater chain AMC Entertainment swung to red as revenue fell in the second quarter. Fewer films hit screens due to the Hollywood actors and writers strikes, but CEO Adam Aron said the worst and a major uptick that started in June is continuing. In preliminary results, released ahead of its…

Focus Features said Tuesday that it has set Steven Soderbergh's upcoming spy drama Black Bag for a March 14, 2025 theatrical release. The high-stakes mystery stars Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender alongside Regé-Jean Page, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke and Pierce Brosnan. Producers are…

EXCLUSIVE: Marvel Studios/Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine finally opens this weekend, not only further rebounding the post-strike box office to a healthy place, but also revitalizing the MCU’s brilliance. It was only last November that the studio fell on hard times with its lowest opening ever in The M…

Baltasar Kormákur was in a reflective mood at the Taormina Film Festival, where his romantic drama Touch had its Italian premiere this past week. The Icelandic filmmaker compared Touch to his first feature, 2000's 101 Reykjavik. The former was "a black comedy about love," while Touch is "a way more…

AMC Entertainment had some good news Monday, as long talks with lenders have resulted in collaborative refinancing transactions that extend up to $2.45 billion in debt maturities from 2026 to 2029 and beyond. The company called the deals "transformative" and said they'll strengthen the balance sheet…

Regency’s historic Westwood Village and Bruin theaters are closing this week as their leases comes to end. “Regency Theatres lease of the Bruin & Village Theatres ends this month with the last day of operation being July 25th.  We have been proud to steward these buildings for the past 14 years and…

20th Century Studios’ successful reboot of The Planet of the Apes franchise, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, is streaming on Hulu on Aug. 2. That’s a great 85-day window since the movie opened in theaters to a notable $58.4M and current running domestic box office of $170.6M U.S./Canada, and $396.3M…

UPDATED MONDAY AM: Universal/Warner Bros/Amblin’s Twisters is higher this morning after a $21.57M Sunday, which puts the Lee Isaac Chung-directed, Mark L. Smith-penned tentpole at an opening of $81.2M. That’s close to double what the first movie opened to back in 1996, at $41M. The question now is…

Independents look solid this weekend with Vertical's Widow Clicquot nice alternative programming amid summer blockbuster season, IFC Film horror Oddity off to a fine start, and Thelma, one of the year's biggest specialty hits, passing $8 million. New films and holdovers in limited release did…

UPDATE: Universal/Warner Bros/Amblin's Twisters positively blasted past forecasts domestically this session. While the international box office result is pretty close to where we saw it coming in, there's no denying this is much more of a domestic play.  The global cume, largely boosted by domestic's…

Hollywood whines there’s a lost moviegoing audience in the middle and southern part of the U.S. that the industry doesn’t make movies for. Well, then make movies for them. That’s exactly what Universal, Warner Bros., and Amblin did in rebooting Twisters to a grand stateside start of $80M, an awesome…

EXCLUSIVE: Indie film vet Justin DiPietro has been named EVP of MPI Media Group and Dark Sky Films and will oversee the relaunch of the distribution labels with an aim on expanding the company's global footprint and identifying larger scale projects and releases. DiPietro will be responsible for…