Tag: movie theaters
Fathom Events Screening Three Horror Classics This October
People will want to spend this Halloween season at the movies. Fathom Events is celebrating a few spooky cinematic milestones by screening a trio of horror classics during October. First up is Sam Raimi’s mega-low-budget ghost-zombie-demon chiller The Evil Dead on October 7 for its 40th anniversar...
Read MoreAMC Reaches Theatrical Release Agreement with WB
The worst may be over for the movie theater industry. Variety reports that AMC Theaters has reached a deal with Warner Bros. to shorten its theatrical window to 45 days starting in 2022. This will coincide with a moratorium on WB movies streaming on HBO Max alongside their theater debuts. A similar ...
Read MoreThe Chinese Box Office Delusion
Spike | Jun 1, 2021 | 6
Billions of potential Chinese moviegoers, billions of dollars to be made… Sounds like a winning combination, right? A no-brainer. Maybe that’s been the problem; it appears no brains have been used to study the implications of pursuing the Chinese box office. Hollywood has always assumed it’s j...
Read MoreWarner Bros. to Release Movies on HBO Max and in Theaters
It turns out Wonder Woman 1984 really was the canary in the coalmine. In a press release earlier today, Warner Bros. Picture Group announced that it will be releasing its entire slate of films in 2021 simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max, as it is doing with the upcoming DCEU movie. Each film w...
Read MoreRegal Cinemas to Close Indefinitely
As 007 goes, so goes the cinematic landscape. In the wake of No Time to Die’s latest delay, Cineworld has decided to close all is theaters beginning October 8; this includes Cineworld theaters in the UK and Regal Cinemas in the United States. While losing some major end-of-year releases like the n...
Read MoreReturn of the Drive-In
The one positive result of the coronavirus pandemic in America has been the resurgence of the drive-in movie theater. Outside of those who grew up in the odd town in fairly wide-open states, drive-ins are something most in my generation (born in 1983, which is a way of not applying the M-word to mys...
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