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AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron has sold another tranche of stock, the latest in a flurry of selling he had warned investors was coming but said today is now over. According to an SEC filing, the exec unloaded 312,500 shares yesterday at $22.846 — so about $7.14 million. Last month, he divested $9.65 million worth of…

Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home is expected to cede its four-weekend No. 1 run to Paramount and Spyglass Media’s Scream over the four-day MLK holiday, the latter eyeing a take that’s in the $20 million-plus range at 3,661 theaters. There’s a shot that Scream goes higher, but we’ll leave any lofty predictions in…

As we get rolling into the new year, optimism and caution are part of the outlook for 2022 at the international box office. The issue of China also remains top of mind as the territory — which maintained its status as the top global market in 2021 — has been even more ornery to navigate than usual, notably not…

UPDATE, writethru: Arachnomania continues to grip the globe as Sony/Marvel's Spider-Man: No Way Home has increased its worldwide cume to $1.53B through four weekends. Tom Holland's Peter Parker now fronts the No. 8 movie on the all-time global chart with No Way Home leaping past Marvel's The Avengers, Furious 7, Frozen…

The Disney-Pixar movie Turning Red will not debut in theaters on Friday, March 11. Instead, it’s heading exclusively to Disney+ worldwide, a big subtraction to movie theaters that were looking to play this title and at a time when Omicron was looking to calm. It’s the third Pixar movie to skip theaters and go straight…

Given the ongoing pandemic with regard to global box office, it's tempting to say "The more things change, the more things stay the same." To wit: Disney still leads all studios worldwide, piracy remains a major concern, and many markets are still in Covid-induced flux. But when looking back over 2021 versus 2020…

Canada’s No. 1 movie theater chain, Cineplex, has pink slipped close to 5K part-time workers given Ontario’s recent decision to close cinemas amid the Omicron surge. Cineplex closed their theaters in the Canadian province, effective today. “Because of the mandated closures of our theatre and entertainment venues…

UPDATED: “Are you really doing a domestic box office marketshare piece?” Such is the whine from several studio insiders and corp comms folk. Of course, we are. Why wouldn’t we? In the best and worst of times, in the published horserace of box office dollars, we still need to know where the studios stand when all the…

Before the pandemic, if there was something studio executives rubbed their hands about, it was the near total eclipse of the theatrical window. In 2021, for some studios that dream came true, and as far as 2022 goes, hopefully they’ve learned their lesson from this nightmare that, in Deadline’s annual survey, shows…

The domestic box office is about to take a single-percentile hit as the province of Ontario, Canada, which includes box office capital Toronto, shutters theaters due to the Omicron post-holiday surge. Movie theaters will close in two days, led by the country’s No. 1 chain Cineplex which will temporarily close 67…

In a New Year’s resolution shared on Twitter, AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron vowed to try to refinance the company’s debt and strengthen its balance sheet. He noted that in response to the pandemic, in 2020 and early 2021, the top movie theater circuit took on debt “at high interest rates to survive.” Aron said he…

United Artists Releasing likely won’t expand Licorice Pizza until next month and Sony Pictures Entertainment is going to take things slow with Jockey as the Omicron variant delays the return of the elusive older demo to cinemas. Jockey – one of the weekend’s few new releases – reported an estimated opening of $4,161…