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Samba TV has provided an update on the number of U.S. Smart TV terrestrial households which have tuned into Disney+ Premier’s Black Widow with a running cumulative U.S. household viewership of 2 million. Last weekend, Samba TV reported that 1.1M U.S. households bought Black Widow in its first weekend. That means an additional 900K households bought the Scarlett
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Debuting in Black Panther as the leader of Wakanda’s Mountain Tribe, a.k.a. the Jabari, Winston Duke’s M’Baku was among the 2018 superhero movie’s most praised aspects. M’Baku was initially depicted in an antagonistic light, as he challenged Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa for the Wakanda crown in ritual combat. However, after Erik Killmonger entered the picture, M’Baku
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Sebastian Stan is celebrating his 10-year anniversary of playing Bucky Barnes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Stan made his MCU debut as James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes back in Captain America’s first solo outing in 2011, subtitled The First Avenger. First presented as Steve Rogers’ childhood best friend, the two fought side-by-side during World War II
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UPDATE: Disney/Marvel’s Black Widow narrowly led the international box office for Hollywood films this weekend, grossing an additional $29.9M from 48 material markets. That’s a 55% drop from opening, which most agree is decent even if there’s no getting around the fact that these are not Marvel-ous numbers. The overseas total is now even with
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Warning: Major Spoilers for Marvel’s The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21! The Captain Marvel villain Star has taken the reins from experienced sorceress Wanda Maximoff a.k.a. the Scarlet Witch to become Marvel Comics‘ villainous reality warper. Introduced during 2019’s Captain Marvel Re-Entry event, social reject Ripley Ryan began as a tortured soul thrust into the role of a
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Saturday AM Update: Refresh for updates. Warner Bros.’ long awaited sequel to the 25-year old family classic Space Jam –Space Jam: A New Legacy–had a three point shot at the box office yesterday with $13.1M at 3,965 theaters for what will be a $32M opening weekend. The results squash the second Friday and anticipated weekend of
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Two releases, very well reviewed and pretty widely available by recent specialty standards, look set to heat up the arthouse box office this weekend — Pig with Nicolas Cage in one of his best performances in years and Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain open on 600 and 952 screens respectively, and only in theaters. Oscar-winning
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EXCLUSIVE: Mooky Greidinger, CEO of Cineworld, the world’s second-biggest exhibition circuit and owner of Regal Cinemas, says he’s satisfied with this past weekend’s $80M domestic theatrical box office opening for Disney/Marvel’s Black Widow. But he also tells Deadline he remains “convinced” that with an exclusive theatrical window, “we could have brought in maybe $110M, maybe
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Just to be clear, Universal Pictures has in no way said it’s exploring bringing the Fast & Furious and Jurassic World franchises together, let alone greenlit the project. And from Ludacris’ perspective, that’s for the best, as he doesn’t find this crossover appealing. As the actor said to guest host Wanda Sykes on Jimmy Kimmel
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After posting a record domestic opening during the pandemic with $80.3M, Disney/Marvel’s Black Widow went on to do north of $7.16M, which is the best non-holiday Monday during the Covid era to date. Paramount’s A Quiet Place Part II easily owns the best Monday during the pandemic at $9.54M, however, that was on Memorial Day. Through eight
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Lars Olsen’s musical journey through time to be jam-packed with cameo appearances by celebrities from the past, present and the future!  San Antonio based Mutt Productions has teamed with Allied Artists Film Group to bring a rock n’ roll time travel adventure to the big screen. The project, tentatively titled “Rockin’ In Time,” follows 22
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Shares of publicly traded move chains fell sharply Monday while broader markets rose as Disney’s Black Widow helped drive the post (ish) pandemic box office to new highs but plenty of viewers siphoned off to Disney+, raising an alarm or  at least a lot of questions. AMC Entertainment, the biggest U.S. chain, saw its shares
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Questlove’s Summer of Soul (…Or When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) will hit a cumulative $1.4 million rising to an estimated $1.47 million Monday with a $375,000 second-week gross in 752 theaters. The best performing documentary so far this year “may possibly get to $2 million, that’s our goal,” said Searchlight Pictures head of
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Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for Black Widow. In Black Widow, Natasha discovers her attempts to end the Red Room by killing its leader, Dreykov, were futile. He survived and has continued his operation of taking young girls and turning then into more Black Widows. These new Widows are controlled with chemical conditioning that suppresses their will – a mind
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Moviegoers not far removed from the isolating strains of lockdown may find The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52 strikes a chord. Distributor Bleecker Street and director Joshua Zeman hope so as the doc, a shift from the helmer’s true crime roots (The Sons of Sam: Descent into Darkness, Cropsey), opens in 75 theaters. Digital release
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