More from Pamela McClintock
Austin Butler, Jodie Comer’s ‘The Bikeriders’ Lands New Home at Focus Features
The Bikeriders has found a new home. Focus Features has acquired worldwide rights to the New Regency movie, which was previously set up at Disney’s 20th Century. Directed by Jeff Nichols, the movie about a motorcycle club in the 1950s stars Jodie Comer, Austin Butler and Tom Hardy. It had been been scheduled to open […]
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Box Office: ‘Napoleon’ and ‘Wish’ Take Their Seats at the Thanksgiving Table
The Thanksgiving box office feast is underway. Disney Animation Studios’ holiday tentpole Wish opens everywhere across North America on Wednesday after starting off its domestic run with $2.3 million in Tuesday previews. The music-infused movie is tipped to win the Thanksgiving stretch with at least $45 million to $50 million for the five-day corridor, including […]
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Box Office: ‘Hunger Games’ Prequel Opens to Subdued $44M, ‘The Marvels’ Suffers Historic Drop
Lionsgate’s prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes opened to $44 million at the domestic box office, easily enough to win the weekend but coming in behind expectations. The event pic has plenty of time to make up ground over Thanksgiving week, one of the most lucrative corridors of the year at […]
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Box Office: ‘Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ Slithers to $5.8M in Thursday Previews
Let the games begin. Lionsgate’s prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes slithered its way to $5.8 million in Thursday previews at the domestic box office. Tracking shows The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes opening in the $50 million range, which would be viewed as a solid start considering that it’s been […]
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Movie Theater Veteran John Fithian Launches New Consulting Venture
Former top theater lobbyist and exhibition veteran John Fithian has found his next chapter. Fithian, who headed up the National Association of Theatre Owners for nearly two decades, announced Wednesday he is launching a new consulting firm alongside two of his longtime lieutenants at NATO, Patrick Corcoran and Jackie Brenneman. The Fithian Group will be […]
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Marvel Studios Taking Stock of Strategy Amid ‘The Marvels’ Meltdown
The anything-but-marvelous performance of The Marvels is a moment of reckoning for Marvel Studios, the production house that has been the superhero of the box office for much of the past 15 years, since Iron Man burst onto the scene in 2008. Over the Nov. 10-12 weekend, The Marvels debuted to $46.1 million in North […]
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Box Office Bomb: ‘The Marvels’ Opens to $47M in New Low for Marvel Studios
The Marvels box office debut is anything but marvelous. From Marvel Studios and Disney, the superhero tentpole opened to an estimated $47 million at the domestic box office to rank as the worst start in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It also came in behind expectations overseas, where it launched with $63.3 million […]
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‘The Marvels’ Earns Meh $6.6M in Box Office Previews, Eyes Record Low MCU Opening
The Marvels has started off its box office run with a meh $6.6 million in Thursday evening previews, well behind the $20.7 million grossed by Captain Marvel in 2019. And if Friday matinee returns are any indication, the movie is on course to score the lowest opening ever for a title in the Marvel Cinematic […]
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Back on the Publicity Train: Stars Rush to Promote Projects as Actors Strike Ends
One of Hollywood’s hallmarks — talent promotion and publicity — is back in full swing as actors and studio marketers reunite. By mid-day Thursday, less than 24 hours after the SAG-AFTRA strike ended, Tom Hiddleston was booking a TV appearance in the U.K to promote the season to finale of Marvel Studios’ series Loki. He’ll […]
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‘Deadpool 3’, ‘Captain America 4’ Among Marvel Release Date Changes as Strike Ends
Summer tentpole Deadpool 3 will swim into theaters a bit later than originally anticipated as part of a slate shift for Marvel Studios. Disney announced late Wednesday that the high-profile threequel will now open at the domestic box officeJuly 26, 2024 instead of May 3, 2024. Captain America: New World Order, which previously held that […]
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Hollywood Studios Launch Rescue Mission to Save 2024 Tentpoles as Actors Strike Ends
The rescue mission to save Hollywood’s 2024 calendar — and the summer lineup in particular — has officially commenced now that the actors strike has been resolved. One source says some major film productions are up and running as of Thursday. High drama unfolded Wednesday as the studios informed SAG-AFTRA that it had until 5 […]
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Bob Iger on Disney’s Movie Woes: “We Lost Some Focus”
For years, Disney ruled the roost at the global box office, shattering one industry record after another. Now the company’s film empire is under pressure to rebound from a rough streak. Disney chief Bob Iger didn’t mince words when asked about the losing streak during Wednesday’s earnings call, although he did first have to remind […]
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