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Talk about pent-up demand. Detective Chinatown 3, which was originally scheduled to hit Chinese cinemas during the Lunar New Year period in 2020, has sprung out of the gate today with an astonishing Maoyan-estimated RMB 1.05B ($163M) to score the biggest opening-day gross ever of any movie in a single market. The debut overtakes Avengers:
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While Disney CEO Bob Chapek remains flexible about release strategies for movies between the big screen and the studio’s streaming service Disney+, he said today that Marvel’s long-awaited feature Black Widow is still set to be a pure theatrical release as mentioned back at the company’s December investor day. However, “we’ll be watching to see the reopening
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Sherry Nelson is always well endowed with positivity and light. A supermodel, a TV co-host, a writer, a businesswoman, and someone that finds time for everything that matters. She has become a mini influencer because of her innocence and authentic honesty. If there is no path ahead Sherry finds the stars to follow. She is
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Sunday AM Final: On one of the most difficult box office dates on the calendar, Super Bowl weekend, and during a pandemic, Warner Bros.’ second weekend of its Denzel Washington-Rami Malek-Jared Leto thriller The Little Things made $2.1M at 2,206 theaters, -55% from its first weekend; putting the pic’s running domestic total through ten days at $7.8M.
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Disney/Pixar’s Soul continues to shine overseas with a $96.2M cume after seven frames. In 11 markets this session, the Pete Docter-helmed original added $6.9M to its international box office kitty with No. 1s again in Russia and Korea. In China, it has surpassed Incredibles 2 to become the market’s 2nd highest-grossing Pixar title ever. China
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Pixar Popcorn, a new series of Pixar shorts on Disney+, includes a Finding Nemo short titled “Dory Finding” that has a dark message beneath its playful whimsy. Since the days of “Knick Knack,” “Gerry’s Game,” and “For The Birds,” Pixar has perfected the art of visual storytelling in their short films, as well as feature films like Up and Wall-E.
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Oscar-nominated actor Viggo Mortensen will make his feature directorial debut with Falling which makes its premiere in theaters, digital and on demand today. Mortensen went all-in with his feature debut because he also wrote, starred in and composed the score for Falling to show us that he’s not just a one-trick pony (but was there any doubt?)
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EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of receiving two Golden Globe nominations for its Sia-directed movie Music, Vertical Entertainment can boast that its Nate Parker feature American Skin has become the distributor’s highest grossing title on PVOD with $4M over two weeks. American Skin debuted on Jan. 15 in select cinemas and on on-demand platforms such as Apple, Amazon, Vudu,
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Jordan Belfort initially thought the GameStop stock market drama was a version of a “pump and dump” scheme, which the stock broker pleaded guilty for in 1999. After looking into the situation further, Belfort has shown his support for the “revolution” in association with Wall Street, calling the current controversy a paradigm shift that will
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Constantin’s new Resident Evil distributed by Sony Screen Gems has been set to open on Labor Day weekend, Sept. 3 this year. Paramount’s Jackass is the only other major studio wide release scheduled at that time. This is the movie we told you about that’s an origin story starring Kaya Scodelario, Hannah John-Kamen, Robbie Amell, Tom Hopper, Avan Jogia
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Shares of AMC Entertainment are down nearly 40% today on another wild ride, reversing gains after an explosion of support by retail traders that started last week catapulted stock of the pandemic-pummeled chain to levels not seen since 2017. Around midday, shares of the nation’s largest cinema operator are changing hands at $8.21 That’s still
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It’s understandable in terms of wanting your kids to retain as much of a normal life as possible, especially in their young years. He and Dax Shepard could relate to each other’s experiences, considering the Parenthood star is married to Frozen’s Princess Anna, Kristen Bell, which just about every kid is aware of. Timberlake talked
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