The Mandalorian is far and away the most popular show offered by a new streaming service. This, according to a new study that was conducted by the folks at Parrot Analytics. It found that the live-action Star Wars series, which debuted on Disney+ last year, was a cut above the competition, with none of the
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On today’s earnings call for the No. 1 financially challenged exhibitor AMC, CEO Adam Aron took the high road in not damning Disney for their recent seisimic-shifting choice to take Mulan to Disney+ instead of theaters where the streaming service is available. “You might thing I’m disappointed that Mulan is moving, but AMC has no bigger friend
Filmmaker James Gunn’s birthday celebrations ended up giving DCEU fans an unexpected treat. The main cast of the filmmaker’s upcoming movie The Suicide Squad got together (virtually) to wish Gunn. The video, which was shared on Twitter, also contained references to the characters the actors will be playing, many of whom have had the identity
The CEO of the nation’s fourth-largest exhibitor warned studios not to “leave a good party in pursuit of a bad one” but called the debate over PVOD overblown. Greg Marcus, chief of Marcus, said consumers are likely to drift away from watching video-on-demand relesaes when things normalize post-pandemic. “The market for PVOD may not be
In what is sure to be a very welcome addition to the ongoing Marvel Cinematic Universe, director Nia DaCosta, who directed the highly anticipated Candyman reboot, has now signed on to direct the upcoming Captain Marvel sequel. The script is being written by Megan McDonnell, a story editor on the forthcoming Marvel Diney+ series WandaVision,
Auditions make me nervous. Not for myself — I’m beyond the casting-call stage of life. But rather for anyone who still has the nerve to endure the almost always disappointing, sometimes humiliating, process of being screened, interviewed, tested and most probably rejected for a role in show business. Or journalism. Or politics, wherein the final
Tom Hanks is reportedly in early talks to play Geppetto in Disney’s upcoming live-action Pinocchio movie. Hanks’ name was first brought up back in 2018, though that was when Paddington director Paul King was attached to helm the project. News about the project has been pretty quiet since then, except for the fact that Robert
Refresh for updates: On Disney’s 3Q earnings call today, it was announced that Mulan is going to Disney+ on Sept. 4. Specifically, Disney will be releasing the film theatrically in certain markets where the studio currently has no announced launch plans for Disney+ and where theaters are open (i.e. China). The concern with opening the film in
A couple of new images have been released for upcoming comic book action movie, The King’s Man. Matthew Vaughn’s 2014 hit Kingsman: The Secret Service proved to be a much-needed adrenaline shot for the spy genre, and though the sequel, Kingsman: The Secret Service, sadly failed to live up to the expectations set by its
Right now Universal and AMC are looking like saints in the exhibition business after taking a kicking in the teeth by rival circuits for their controversial deal last week to crunch the theatrical window to 17 days with an option for PVOD thereafter. Disney’s announcement after the market closed to bring Mulan to their 60.5M Disney+
WWE has been forced to get creative with their storylines now that they’re putting on shows with no audience, leading to some memorable brawls on their programming at some rather bizarre locations. Now, it looks like a recurring theme for WWE’s weekly Monday night show will be to present MMA-style wrestling matches as part of
Cinemark CEO Mark Zoradi weighed in this morning on all the noise that Universal and AMC stirred up last week with their plan to crunch the theatrical window to 17 days. “Consistent with our past practices, Cinemark does not comment on the actions of our competitors. That said we believe an exclusive theatrical window is critically
The hashtag #ReplaceEllen is trending amid rumors and reports that Ellen host Ellen DeGeneres could be losing her daytime talk show. In recent weeks, trouble has been increasingly dramatically behind the scenes at Ellen following claims from former employees that they had been mistreated by either DeGeneres or her staff. WarnerMedia has since launched an
Sing Street, the sold-out Off Broadway musical that was set to begin performances at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre just as the COVID-19 shutdown hit, is now targeting an opening sometime between winter 2021 and winter 2022. The announcement was made Monday by producers Barbara Broccoli, Brian Carmody, Patrick Milling Smith, Michael Wilson, Orin Wolf and Frederick
Last week we warned that the makers of Angry Asian Murder Hornets and 5G Zombies were up to something devious. It was later revealed that they will be closing out their summer 2020 trilogy of craziness with the ultimate dino-slasher Ebola Rex. Shot in the same amount of time it takes to get a bloodied
AMC Entertainment announced Monday it’s officially concluded a complex, and controversial, restructuring of approximately $2.6 billion of its debt that included an exchange and fresh capital raise. The news came as iyd new distribution deal with Universal Pictures continues to roil the industry. Holders of more than 87% of senior subordinated notes participated in an
As the world grapples with the global emergency, actor Sam Neill has a different sort of war in mind, as he gets ready to once again play the role of Dr. Alan Grant. The actor has posted a message on Twitter about getting ready to square off against a fresh generation of dinosaurs as he
Just when you think things can’t get any weirder. Residents in Rhode Island were in for a shock when they received ‘Mickey Mouse’ checks instead of their official Tax refund. Yes, the treasury department in the State of Rhode Island sent out some very real Tax checks, only they were signed by the fictitious animated