EXCLUSIVE: Abramorama and Zeitgeist Media are unspooling David Smick’s documentary America’s Burning with a set of special screenings at Regal Cinemas on Monday, Oct. 7 and Oct. 14. This comes following a special return engagement at the Angelika Film Center in NY, and ahead of the documentary’s…

Back in 1989, a ten-year old boy, Joshua Dennis from Kearns, UT, was lost in an abandoned mine. He spent five days beneath the Earth, hungry and cold. However, his cry was heard — and a rescue took place. John Skinner, a historian who had familiarity of the mine, and who had premonitions, traveled…

EXCLUSIVE: Cinema marketing agency PaperAirplane Media has hit another milestone with 1 million digital assets downloaded from their proprietary platform The Hangar.  PaperAirplane via The Hanger which launched in October 2020, connects movie theaters, studios and theatrical media ad agencies…

The second highest grossing movie of the year, Marvel Studios' Deadpool & Wolverine, will hit digital on Oct. 1 and 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD on Oct. 22. In regards to digital, that’s a 68-day window and in regards to DVD it’s an 89-day window. Disney post Covid has been providing long theatrical…

More family films hitting cinemas this weekend with DreamWorks Animation/Universal’s feature take of Peter Brown’s New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot, however, unlike Paramount/Hasbro’s Transformers One last weekend, this one is mom/female leaning. Opening weekend at 3,900 theaters is pegged at $20M…

Todd Phillips' 2019 Oscar-winning Joker did not release in China, but his sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux, has been confirmed for October 16 in the market. Warner Bros' and DC's official Weibo accounts confirmed the date. Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, had its world premiere…

With only three Broadway productions selling out last week, total grosses for the 29 shows was down about 7% from the previous week, settling in at $25,296,948. Total attendance was 226,267 for the week ending September 22, a slip of about 4% from the previous week. The sell-outs, as usual, were Oh, M…

EXCLUSIVE: Four-time Oscar nominated filmmaker Jason Reitman became the newest member of the National Assocation of Theatre Owners last night on the Sony lot as part of the exhibitor trade org’s opening festivities for their 2024 Fall Summit. Reitman, who is leading the charge to renovate and manage…

EXCLUSIVE: A24 has set Q4 theatrical releases for its Venice Film Festival acquisitions, Queer from Luca Guadagnino, and The Brutalist from Brady Corbet. Queer, which holds a 78% fresh grade with critics on Rotten Tomatoes, will go limited on Nov. 27. The pic, which is adapted from William S…

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all U.S. rights to The Shrouds, written and directed by David Cronenberg (Crash, Crimes Of The Future) and are planning a spring 2025 theatrical release.  The film world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival where it screened In Competition. It played the…

Here's to a solid indie weekend with BTS's Jung Kook: I Am Still, Mubi's The Substance, Whiplash is back and My Old Ass in limited release. Am I Racist? by conservative podcaster Matt Walsh also continued strong in week two. Mubi's release of Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance opened to $3.1 million…

UPDATED: Paramount/Hasbro Entertainment's Transformers One is out of the gate with a $39M global start. From just 50 international box office markets (representing only 40% of the overseas footprint), the first animated Transformers movie in close to 40 years grossed $14M. The Josh Cooley-directed…