Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there’s nothing more profitable than a theatrical release and the downstreams that come with it. If anything, theatrical is the advertisement for a movie’s longevity in …
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UPDATED SATURDAY AM: Luca Guadaganino’s Zendaya movie, Challengers, is still eyeing a $15.2M opening. Friday/previews stayed the course at $6.2M and Amazon MGM Studios believes that Saturday will only ease -17% from that with $5.1M. The movie gets a B+ CinemaScore which isn’t shabby for this 2 hour 11 minute, …
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Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there’s nothing more profitable than a theatrical release and the downstreams that come with it. If anything, theatrical is the advertisement for a movie’s longevity in …
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UPDATED with more details: Financier and producer Participant is shuttering after 20 years. Founder Jeff Skoll alerted staff at 10:30 a.m. PT on Tuesday, Deadline has confirmed. Sources say Skoll did an audit of the company and wanted to pivot from entertainment. We understand that most of the 100-person staff …
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FRIDAY PM: “Great number,” heralds one rival distributor about the weekend results for A24‘s Civil War which will easily become the studio’s biggest opening of all-time at $23M-$25M after $10M Friday/previews at 3,838 theaters. That beats the $13.5M start of Ari Aster’s 2018 movie Hereditary. It’s an impressive result for …
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Thank God — with hits like Dune: Part Two, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and Kung Fu Panda 4, the domestic box office may finally be shaking off the ashes from the double strikes, now counting close to $1.8 billion, with moviegoing gaining momentum. We told you quite early …
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SATURDAY AM: After a better-than-expected $8.5M Friday, Legendary/Warner Bros’ Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire has hope that its second weekend can propel back to that $30M vicinity we were projecting earlier this week. The first Godzilla in 2014 had a 67% second frame drop, so anything lighter is great. …
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EXCLUSIVE: The Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson sci-fi thriller Mercy is adding four with A Star Is Born‘s Rafi Gavron, Chris Sullivan, Kenneth Choi and Kylie Rogers. Timur Bekmambetov is directed the Amazon MGM Studios project which was penned by Marco van Belle, which follows a detective (Pratt) who is …
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No dart gun, nor First Omen, nor Monkey Man will put Legendary/Warner Bros’ Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire to sleep this weekend, for after an unexpected $80M Easter weekend start, will continue to rumble with a -55% to -60% second weekend between $32M-$36M. Through four days, the Adam Wingard …
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EXCLUSIVE: Big news here. Hot off his Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for Barbie, Ryan Gosling is launching a new production company General Admission with former Apple Original Films executive Jessie Henderson. In launching the new venture, the duo have inked a three-year first-look film deal at Amazon MGM Studios. …
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Nothing says Easter tentpole quite like Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire which is set to conquer the world with a box office debut around $135M, bolstered by 63 foreign markets and 3,850 theaters stateside. Warner Bros had great fortune in releasing the Legendary IP during Easter 2021 with Godzilla …
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FRIDAY PM: As of right now, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is looking all right with a $16M Friday and $42M-$43M opening at 4,345 theaters. That Friday is on par with Ghostbusters: Afterlife‘s first day (plus previews) of $16.6M, and should that 3-day keep up, it will only be a $1M shy …
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