Box Office

ViacomCBS forecast streaming subscribers will grow to 65-75 million, mostly at Paramount+ as the company unveiled its new direct-to-consumer service to launch March 4. The company will ramp up investment in pure streaming content to $5 billion in 2024 from $1 billion last year and that could accelerate if its services…

Paramount Pictures CEO Jim Gianopulos gets it; just like Disney CEO Bob Chapek gets it: You can’t have a successful streaming service without big theatrical event films. The two go hand-in-hand, so don’t try and muddy the waters. Big screen drives big franchises, which in turn drives streaming features and spinoff…

In a clear sign that Paramount is committed to theatrical, but still open to the future of streaming,  A Quiet Place Part II and Mission: Impossible 7 will go on the streaming service 45 days after their theatrical release dates. A Quiet Place Part II was originally scheduled to open on March 20 last year before Covid…

It’s quite clear that we’ll get more Marvel series on Disney+ this year — potentially more than Star Wars series. At the top of the first Disney/Marvel TCA session, President of Marvel Studios and Chief Creative Officer Kevin Feige gave a brief rundown of the studio’s plans. March 5 marks the end of Season 1 of WandaVi…

The third new Spider-Man movie between Sony and Disney’s Marvel starring Tom Holland will be titled Spider-Man: No Way Home as revealed today on Tom Holland’s Instagram. See below. Pic’s anticipated release is Dec. 17. In recent days Holland has teased the title for fans, and dropped a first look image from the product…

Shares of the nation's largest theater chain bucked a down market Tuesday, fortifying their advance of the day before after news that cinemas in New York City will open soon after a year-long lockdown as Covid infection rates fall in the city and state. AMC Ent. stock is up 16% in late morning trades after surging 15%…

Universal Pictures action movie Nobody starring Bob Odenkirk will get ahead of Warner Bros.’ long-Easter-weekend release of Godzilla vs. Kong by going on March 26 instead. The movie directed by Ilya Naishuller had been scheduled for Good Friday, April 2. Recently, Warner Bros moved its HBO Max day-and-date release of G…

UPDATE AFTER EXCLUSIVE: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday said movie theaters in New York City will be brought into line with the rest of New York state as of March 5, when they will be allowed to reopen at 25% capacity with no more than 50 people per screen, masks, social distancing and other protocols. The…

Chinese New Year movies continued to drive the global and international box office this weekend, after their astonishing Covid-era debuts last frame. Leaders last session, Detective Chinatown 3 and Hi Mom, both crossed the RMB 4B mark locally, with each at an estimated RMB 4.02B ($621M) cume through Sunday. This is…

As the weeks go by and the pandemic begins to lift at a very, very glacial pace we are hearing some more coins drop into the bank of the specialty box office space. Edward Hall’s adaptation of Noel Coward’s play Blithe Spirit is one of a handful of films that made its way to theaters and digital this weekend. The IFC…

EXCLUSIVE: In its first 24 hours after dropping on Feb. 17, the trailer for Disney’s edgy live-action feature Cruella about the famed 101 Dalmatians villainess drew a very notable 71M views per sources. That’s a very exceptional number for a trailer dropping during the pandemic, even beating the 24 hour trailer…

Zack Snyder’s second feature this year after his recut of Justice League is the zombie Netflix title Army of the Dead, and it will drop on May 21. Back in September, the streamer announced that it already greenlit a prequel and spin off anime series, The Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas; they are that excited about this…