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National CineMedia has clinched a deal with ATM.TV to air content on high-definition screens atop cash machines at 8,500 7-Eleven stores nationwide as the movie theater advertising network continues to expand in digital out of home locations. CEO Tom Lesinski teased the ad sales partnership on an earnings call last week. It’s the fourth deal

Great news for AMC which threw open the doors to its Century City and Burbank locations Monday after a year of being shutdown due to Covid restrictions: The No. 1 circuit’s Burbank location sold out 22 of its 32 showtimes, while Century City sold out 18 of its 30 showtimes yesterday. Remember, capacity is capped

Japanese box office phenomenon Demon Slayer – Kimetsu No Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train has been set for a North American theatrical release on April 23. Aniplex of America and Funimation are distributing the anime adaptation which in December became the highest-grossing film in Japanese history, dethroning Spirited Away, which had held the title

EXCLUSIVE: “That’s the first time I’ve seen the movie in a movie theater; I get chills,” beamed filmmaker Eddie Huang tonight watching his feature directorial Boogie at the AMC Century City 15. “My mother is in that first scene, and I just had to see how it looks,” he gushed. The director and writer of the

Refresh for latest…: As we first reported yesterday, James Cameron’s Avatar is again king of the all-time worldwide box office, having snapped the title back from Avengers: Endgame thanks to a very robust China reissue this session. The full three-day frame in the Middle Kingdom is estimated at $21.1M, also giving the sci-fi epic bragging

Theaters are beginning to open up on both coasts and the specialty box office life is starting to get some shine with each passing week. Things are slowly yet surely are gravitating to something a little more — dare I say — normal? This weekend, the Stage 6 Films rom-com Long Weekend from director Steve Basilone

Saturday AM Update: There’s lots of good news ahead at the box office, but we’re not quite there yet. The No. 1 box office market, Los Angeles (over $900M in 2019), won’t begin to wake up until really next weekend, and then the industry’s only headache is waiting for capacity restrictions to increase well beyond

As James Cameron’s Avatar once again became the highest-grossing film of all time worldwide today, a long-held Hollywood tradition of the previous record-holder paying homage continued. Marvel Studios, whose Avengers: Endgame was just eclipsed by Avatar, tweeted congratulations to Cameron, as well as producer Jon Landau and “all of the Na’vi Nation” for “reclaiming the

As has been expected over the past few days, James Cameron’s Avatar has swapped places with Avengers: Endgame, reclaiming the title of highest-grossing movie ever worldwide. The China reissue of the 2009 3D sci-fi phenomenon had taken an estimated RMB 58M ($8.9M) through 5PM local time on Saturday after re-releasing on Friday in the market.

Well, that didn’t take too long. About 18 months after Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame assailed to become the top grossing moving of all-time at the worldwide box office with $2,789.2 billion in July 2019, word is that James Cameron’s Avatar, which the Russo Brothers-directed Marvel movie defeated, will once again bounce back to reclaim that title. Avatar

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is looking better than ever in 4K, and fans can stream the 4K-remastered “Ultimate Edition” of the Zack Snyder movie on the same day Zack Snyder’s Justice League is released. Additionally, the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray version of the movie will be released soon after. Warner Bros. Entertainment has

While the No. 1 exhibitor AMC has traditionally been flexible about theatrical windows despite their pubic uproar against Universal last year, the chain’s CEO Adam Aron speculated today what the landscape would look like when we come out of this pandemic. “What we learned from the Universal agreement, is that every studio seems to have

A documentary chronicling the life and career of Paul “Pee-wee Herman” Reubens is in the works at HBO. A two-part documentary, the project hails from HBO Documentary Films and Elara. Uncut Gems directors Josh and Benny Safdie will produce with their producing partner Sebastian Bear-McClard as well as Joker producer Emma Tillinger Koskoff. Matt Wolf

This list will be updating: Finally, the movie capital of the world can show movies again in theaters after a year’s shutdown of all exhibition due to the pandemic. LA County this afternoon lined up with Governor Newsom’s order on Wednesday to move movie theatres into the red tier, allowing them to reopen at 25% capacity

We have a brand new teaser trailer for Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous season 3. Netflix has been releasing new episodes of the animated series set within the Jurassic Park franchise at a surprisingly quick pace, with the series debuting in September of last year. Yet, we’re already gearing up for the third season. Per this

Long-rumored for a China re-release, James Cameron’s Avatar suddenly popped onto the calendar this week. The erstwhile highest-grossing film of all time worldwide will hit Middle Kingdom cinemas on Friday, March 12. In so doing, it has a chance to jockey back up to the No. 1 spot globally, after Avengers: Endgame overtook it in

Jackass star Steve-O is celebrating thirteen years of sobriety with a before-and-after image showing just how far he’s come along. The “before” image, taken in 2006, shows Steve-O perched over a dirty table with a burning cigarette in hand, looking rather strung out. In 2021, the daredevil has replaced his vices with a vegan diet

Dalian Wanda, which acquired AMC Entertainment in 2012, surrendered control of the struggling exhibitor as it issued and sold tranches of new stock to raise cash — diluting the stake of the Chinese conglomerate. CEO Adam Aron confirmed the Wanda era was over although the company continues to be AMC largest single largest shareholder. Wanda

After nine exciting weeks, WandaVision is all wrapped up. And while we are all set to move forward with the next part of the MCU i.e., The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, many people are still miffed about the series finale episode. The fact that the majority of the wild fan theories amounted to nothing,

Scoring another record with a local title in Japan, IMAX has had its best opening day ever for a film there with Shin Evangelion. Overall, the movie, which is the fourth and final installment in the Rebuild Of Evangelion series, grossed nearly 828M yen ($7.6M). Of that, the IMAX portion was $740K. The sci-fi animated