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…

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…

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…

Exhibition trade organization Cinema United has promoted Amanda Martin to the newly created role of SVP, External Affairs, and Erin Von Hoetzendorff to VP, Membership and Global Affairs. “As exhibition continues to evolve, Cinema United is evolving with it,” said Michael O'Leary, President & CEO…

Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 5 cleared 20 million views in its first five days of streaming around the world on Disney+, enough to feasibly make it the No. 1 film on the OTT service. The Andrew Stanton-directed movie began streaming on Disney+ on September 23. The launch builds on the strength of Toy…