Movies

Can cinemas play day-and-date releases from Warner Bros after continually refusing to show Netflix films? The big circuits have to be feeling really stupid now: If they had only made a deal with Netflix last year on Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman at a 45-day window instead of emphatically rejecting one, perhaps this looming apocalypse brought on
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Movie theater stocks were mixed Friday as the industry absorbed shock waves from Warner Bros.’ window-smashing announcement the day before when the cinema group collectively plunged by double digits. The smaller, publicly-traded U.S. chains have lower debt and are in better financial shape. Third- and fourth-ranked circuits Cinemark and Marcus both rose by more than
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Snow White is the original Disney princess. Unbelievably, Snow White was released in 1937, and the film was the first full-length animated feature to ever grace screens. While this iconic film has aged, and many other princesses and movies have followed after, it is, without a doubt, an epic. The movie is beautiful, not only
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Hugh Keays-Byrne — the actor who impressively played the bad guy in both the original “Mad Max” and “Mad Max: Fury Road” 36 years later — has died. Filmmaker Ted Geoghegan announced the Australian actor’s passing and hailed him as “an unsung hero of Aussie cinema” — adding he’s “continually floored” Hugh played the main
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Jurassic World: Dominion saw its story tweaked to fit with the COVID pandemic. Released in 1993, Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park brought state-of-the art CGI dinosaurs to movie screens, thrilling audiences to the tune of $1.033 billion at the worldwide box office. At the same time, the film delivered a classic monster movie message about the
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EXCLUSIVE:  Roadside Attractions is opening Roberto Benigni’s new Pinocchio movie from filmmaker Matteo Garrone on Christmas Day stateside on 2,000 screens. It’s more good news for those theaters which are braving the Christmas holiday. This past Thanksgiving proved that families will venture out during the pandemic where they feel safe and head to the movies; Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s The
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