River, the IFC title that Universal and Blumhouse Atomic Monster acquired out of TIFF’s Midnight Madness section for $10 million, is getting a January 15, 2027 theatrical release. Universal already had this MLK weekend date on hold for a Blumhouse title. Also opening on this date so far is…

Well, on the bright side of things, the autumn box office should continue at a great hum this weekend thanks to Amazon MGM Studios’ feature take on the Colleen Hoover thriller Verity, starring Dakota Johnson, Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett. The domestic outlook is $30 million-plus at 3,510 theaters…

Sony and Marvel's Spider-Man: Brand New Day crossed the $1 billion mark at the global box office in five days earlier this month, becoming the second fastest film in history to hit the milestone, behind 2019's Avengers: Endgame. Christopher Nolan’s epic, The Odyssey, also sailed into the billion-dollar threshold…

KPop Demon Hunters has broken streaming records for Netflix, amassing 325.1M views in its first 90 days on the platform and spending 63 consecutive weeks in the Global Top 10. The direct-to-streaming animated Sony title showed a massive box-office potential too — two months after KPop Demon Hunters…

At a time when the major exhibitors are in town for Cinema United’s Fall Summit, Sony made a slew of release date adds and changes Wednesday. Chief among them is that Ridley Scott’s feature take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island starring Hugh Jackman as Long John Silver is coming out on…

UPDATED with CA AG statement, Block The Merger response: A federal judge has approved the Sept. 21 settlement between Paramount and a group of state Attorneys General that sued to block its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, removing the last hurdle for the deal to close. “The Court finds the…

EXCLUSIVE: Longtime Cinema United (né National Association of Theatre Owners) vet Mitch Neuhauser will be retiring following CinemaCon 2028. Neuhauser has been the face of CinemaCon, typically kicking off most presentations onstage, not to mention a relentless organizer of the event. He was key…

Curry Barker fever will continue into next summer as Focus Features and Blumhouse Atomic Monster are releasing the Obsession filmmaker’s next movie, Anything but Ghosts on May 7. That’s similar to the launch date of Obsession, which bowed during the third weekend of May this year (May 15). It ope…

Blame it on the rain? Broadway box office dropped by 11% last week as New York suffered a decidedly soggy Nor’easter weekend. All but three of the 26 productions on the boards saw a drop in grosses from the previous week, with the total tally coming in at $24,093,388 (compared with $27,070,361…

Oscar nominees Margot Robbie and producer Jason Blum have boarded exhibition trade org Cinema United’s Filmmaker Leadership Council, a strategic group of producers and directors united in a single cause to champion the future of theatrical worldwide. The duo join council leaders Jerry Bruckheimer and…

Soon to be taken over by Paramount, Warner Bros just dated a big tentpole: Game of Thrones: Aegon’s Conquest is set to hit theaters June 1, 2029. Owen Harris directs off Oscar-nominated scribe Beau Willimon’s screenplay. No cast or production start info yet. The movie reportedly…

EXCLUSIVE: The Hangar, the digital asset management platform from exhibitor and distributor theatrical marketing corp PaperAirplane, has clocked over 2 million downloads. The Hangar is a first-of-its-kind digital interface that connects exhibitors with studio partners whereby the former can…