Cinemark had its first billion-dollar quarter with thirteen million fewer customers
Cinemark had its first billion-dollar quarter with thirteen million fewer customers
Cinemark posted the first billion-dollar quarter in its history. It did it with roughly thirteen million fewer customers than it served in a single quarter of 2019, and three of the figures inside the announcement disagree with each other.
Disney says 27 Doomsday chairs, Wikipedia says 26, and the running time backs Disney
Disney says 27 Doomsday chairs, Wikipedia says 26, and the running time backs Disney
Marvel's Doomsday cast reveal is the most-quoted marketing stunt of the decade and nobody can agree how many people were in it. Disney's own newsroom says 27 chairs. The encyclopedia says 26. The stunt's own running time settles it.
A24 beat Warner Bros this summer by less than the rounding in its own market share
A24 beat Warner Bros this summer by less than the rounding in its own market share
A24 finished the summer ahead of Warner Bros and Paramount. It finished ahead of Warner by $4.7 million, its published market share does not reconcile with the total printed in the same paragraph, and it was not even the biggest non-major of the season.
Endgame Returns Thursday and the Box Office Charts Have Already Made Room for It
Endgame Returns Thursday and the Box Office Charts Have Already Made Room for It
Box Office Mojo has already built the row. Every dollar Avengers: Endgame takes from Thursday's re-release will be added to its lifetime total — and the $124.3 million gap to Avatar was never a like-for-like comparison anyway.
IMAX Set a Global Record Without China, Then Broke an All-Time Record It Never Named
IMAX Set a Global Record Without China, Then Broke an All-Time Record It Never Named
IMAX has announced three different records for The Odyssey this summer. One excludes China, Japan and Korea, one never names the record it broke, and the number everyone is still quoting was superseded two weeks ago.
Resident Evil Broke a 16-Year Record About 36 Hours After Everyone Said It Had
Resident Evil Broke a 16-Year Record About 36 Hours After Everyone Said It Had
Resident Evil was reported as beating the franchise's all-time domestic gross on Sunday, when the estimate was $128,566 short. It cleared it on Monday's revision by $71,434 — on one tracker, while the other still shows the estimate.
The Odyssey Is Universal’s Biggest Film Ever, and Still $50 Million Behind Jurassic World at Home
The Odyssey Is Universal’s Biggest Film Ever, and Still $50 Million Behind Jurassic World at Home
The Odyssey is Universal's highest-grossing film ever by $23 million worldwide. In North America it is $50 million behind the film it just dethroned, and only one Universal release has ever beaten it there.
The Box Office Is About to Hit $10 Billion Again With 26 Percent Fewer People in the Seats
The Box Office Is About to Hit $10 Billion Again With 26 Percent Fewer People in the Seats
The domestic box office is on course for $10 billion for the first time since 2019. It will get there with roughly a quarter fewer people in the seats, and the most-shared article about it contradicts its own headline.
Resident Evil Opens on an $80 Million Global Forecast That Leaves Out Japan and China
Resident Evil Opens on an $80 Million Global Forecast That Leaves Out Japan and China
Resident Evil opens today on an $80 million global forecast that is not a result, is not global, and is being measured against a franchise record set in 2010 dollars with a 3D surcharge attached.
Spider-Man Took the All-Time Domestic Record by $110,909 and the Coverage Rounded It Away
Spider-Man Took the All-Time Domestic Record by $110,909 and the Coverage Rounded It Away
Spider-Man: Brand New Day took the all-time domestic box office record on Tuesday. The margin was $110,909 — about an eighth of that day's business — and almost nobody printed a number small enough to show it.
Paramount Starts Paying $7 Million a Day for a Deal It Cannot Close Until 2027
Paramount Starts Paying $7 Million a Day for a Deal It Cannot Close Until 2027
Paramount starts paying roughly seven million dollars a day next month for a deal it cannot close until 2027. And the headline price everyone quotes is not what shareholders are getting.
Akira Did Not Earn Five Times Its History. It Earned About Twice.
Akira Did Not Earn Five Times Its History. It Earned About Twice.
Akira's 4K re-release is said to have earned five times what every previous North American release made combined. The multiple is real, the baseline is incomplete, and in tickets it is closer to two.
Spider-Man Is $1.5 Million From the Record. Two Outlets Already Called It.
Spider-Man Is $1.5 Million From the Record. Two Outlets Already Called It.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is $1.5 million from the all-time North American record. One outlet has already declared it crossed, and another named the wrong film as the record holder.
Resident Evil Is Tracking for a Franchise Record, and Everyone Is Quoting the Wrong Number
Resident Evil Is Tracking for a Franchise Record, and Everyone Is Quoting the Wrong Number
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil opens on 18 September tracking for a franchise-record start. The number everyone is citing to prove the series never broke through — $26.6 million — is being misread, and it is almost exactly the entire American gross of the biggest Resident Evil film ever made.
Paramount Wants Twelve States to Post a Bond for a Penalty Paramount Invented
Paramount Wants Twelve States to Post a Bond for a Penalty Paramount Invented
Paramount's $31-a-share takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery is cleared in 68 countries and frozen by a courthouse in Oakland. It is now asking a judge to make twelve state attorneys general post a bond of around $1.9 billion — largely to cover a penalty Paramount invented itself, to outbid Netflix.
Warner Bros. Has Not Had a $100 Million Domestic Film All Year. It Is Counting on Witches.
Warner Bros. Has Not Had a $100 Million Domestic Film All Year. It Is Counting on Witches.
No Warner Bros. release has crossed $100 million domestic in 2026. The studio's best film of the year stopped at $84 million in April. On Friday it opens a sequel to a 1998 flop that scored 30% with critics — and it is the most promising thing on its calendar.
Coyote vs. Acme Passed the Tax Write-Off It Was Killed For in Nine Days
Coyote vs. Acme Passed the Tax Write-Off It Was Killed For in Nine Days
Warner Bros. decided a finished Looney Tunes film was worth more as a tax deduction than as a movie. Ketchup Entertainment bought it, released it on 28 August, and in nine days it earned more than the write-off was reportedly worth.
Netflix Just Announced Its Third Dungeons & Dragons Series. It Killed the Second One First.
Netflix Just Announced Its Third Dungeons & Dragons Series. It Killed the Second One First.
Netflix has a live-action Dungeons & Dragons series in development called Ravenloft, with Alfonso Cuarón executive producing and John August writing. It also, quietly, has a dead one. That makes three D&D live-action series announced in three and a half years, and not one frame has ever been shot.
Godzilla Is Back on a Streaming Chart, Two Places Below Dodgeball
Godzilla Is Back on a Streaming Chart, Two Places Below Dodgeball
Gareth Edwards' 2014 Godzilla — the film that started a $2.5 billion franchise — spent this week at No. 10 on the Paramount+ chart in the United States, two places below Dodgeball. It is on a service with no stake in the character's future, and the cross-platform data says the resurgence is a great deal smaller than the headlines.
Forty-One Screens on Earth Can Show The Odyssey Properly. They Have Made $66 Million.
Forty-One Screens on Earth Can Show The Odyssey Properly. They Have Made $66 Million.
IMAX has extended The Odyssey's 70mm run to the end of September — the third extension, taking it to eleven weeks. Forty-one screens in the world can show the film the way it was shot. Those forty-one have taken $66 million between them, which is more than most films make anywhere.
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