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As expected, Broadway will remain dark through 2020, with the Broadway League announcing today that theater owners will refund or exchange all tickets purchased for productions through Jan. 3, 2021. “The Broadway experience can be deeply personal but it is also, crucially, communal,” said Chairman of the Board of The Broadway League Thomas Schumacher. “The

Kobe Bryant has been honored by NBA 2K21 with the Mamba Forever Edition. The late Los Angeles Lakers star will appear on two different covers of the iconic video game. Bryant is the third cover star to be announced this week following Trail Blazers player Damian Lillard, who is considered the current-gen, and Pelicans rookie

EXCLUSIVE: While many offshore markets are showing increasing signs of life as cinemas return, there are still several question marks surrounding when the majority of the world gets back to the theatrical business – chief among them for the international box office is China. There has been some chatter that Middle Kingdom movie theaters may

Hamilton, the pop-rap Broadway musical reimagining the life of America’s founding father Alexander Hamilton is arriving on Disney+ soon as a 2016 recording of the stage show starring the production’s original actors. The recorded version has had a couple of swear words censored, a decision that many purist fans are decrying on social media. In

The international box office this weekend was again led by Korea, with major local release #Alive taking a 70% share of the market. The zombie horror thriller from Spackman Entertainment’s Zip Cinema sold 1.06M tickets in its first five days for a gross of $7.4M through Sunday, again demonstrating the strength of new offerings, particularly

We continue to inch ever nearer to movie theaters opening up their doors again in the U.S. Yet, some of us may not be ready to return to theaters even when that does happen and, even so, we’ve still got several weeks to kill before it’s even an option. With that, we’re left to stream

The Disney catalog joined Universal’s this weekend in playing whatever theaters were open at the box office as the majority of exhibition’s 5,9K theaters remain shuttered nationwide due to COVID-19. Overall, ticket sales continued to be distressed. Disney’s 2016 Oscar-winning hit Zootopia took the top spot with an estimated $280K, putting its liftime total at $341.5M,

The Conjuring 3 may be the next major Hollywood movie to get bumped back to 2021. With the ongoing movie theater closure that started in mid-March, a chaotic situation has emerged that has seen the 2020 release calendar shuffled around constantly. While quite a few titles have been delayed to later in the year in

EXCLUSIVE: The recent surge nationwide of coronavirus cases and California Governor Gavin Newsom‘s recent promise for tougher restrictions in Los Angeles tomorrow has many in exhibition and distribution really concerned that there’s no hard date in immediate sight as to when the big circuits will reopen again. I hear that after July 4, there will be

Wrestling horror movies are on their way to become a niche sub-genre. Just last week, we learned that WrestleMassacre was coming to DVD and Digital streaming this summer. Now, we have word that Parts Unknown will be here before the end of July, and it’s sure to give WWE fans some thrills and excitement away

Following big circuits AMC and Regal, Cinemark has reversed its face mask policy for guests as the chain plans its reopening from the COVID-19 shutdown. “For the safety of our guests, employees and communities, Cinemark will require that face masks be worn throughout our theatres. Masks may be removed when eating and drinking inside the

Regal Cinemas, the second-largest theater chain in the U.S., has pushed back its planned reopening date. Cineworld, the chain’s parent company, will now open its theaters on July 31. This represents a three-week delay, as the chain was previously set to reopen its doors on July 10. Cineworld will also open its theaters in the

101 Studios will release the Robert De Niro family comedy The War With Grandpa on Sept. 18 wide in conjunction with financier Brookdale Studios. Marro Media Company financed and produced the Tim Hill (The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run) directed movie based on the children’s fiction novel of the same name by Robert Kimmel

Little Monsters and Shivers are next in Lionsgate’s Vestron Video Collector’s Series. Michael Felsher made the announcement today, noting that both releases will be out in September with a wealth of bonus material. The Collector’s Series started back in 2016 with Chopping Mall and Blood Diner, before going through to 2018 and then disappearing again,

As expected with NYC and LA cinemas still not opened, and Tenet, the first big event pic heading to Aug. 12, the No. 1 exhibitor in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East, AMC, will now reopen its circuit on July 30 instead of July 15. On the new date, the Leawood, KS-based chain will

Moviegoers will have to wait a little bit longer to return to AMC Theatres. The largest movie theater chain in the U.S. has pushed back its reopening date by two weeks. The company had previously announced plans to resume operations on July 15. That has now been delayed to July 30. The move comes as

Amazon Studios and Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society are hosting a nationwide summer screening series “A Night at the Drive-In” with the Black Panther star is curating with a line-up of features celebrating diverse voices in cinemas. The series kicks off on July 1 and runs through Aug. 26. Attendance will be at no cost to local