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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…

Not to send everyone screaming for the exits, but it wouldn’t be out of the question if Warner Bros. moves Wonder Woman 1984 off its Christmas Day global theatrical release. Facts are facts, whether former Vice President Joe Biden takes the U.S. presidency or President Donald Trump continues: Movie theaters in New…

AMC CEO Adam Aron channeled Winston Churchill Monday, comparing the exhibition industry’s last stand against COVID-19 (and Chapter 11) to the U.K.'s fight for survival during World War II. Wall Street analysts on a conference call were too polite to bring up the word bankruptcy directly, nor did Aron. He said again…

AMC Entertainment said revenue for the September quarter plunged 91% to $119 million. Losses widened to $905 million from $54 million as the financially strapped exhibitor struggles with the impact of the global pandemic. The financially struggling chain’s COVID trials have been high profile and heavy hitting because…

AMC Entertainment plans to sell 20 million of its Class A shares, netting $47.7 million, as it contends with ongoing shutdowns of many of its movie theaters and a withdrawal of studio films from the 2020 release calendar. COVID-19 hampered the release of Tenet in August and aside from less-expensive, targeted titles…