In today’s film news roundup, Peter Jackson’s “They Shall Not Grow Old” has boosted its box office, Jillian Clare’s “Pretty Broken” is getting a release, Foley artist MaryJo Lang is honored and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is trying to expand opportunities in the entertainment industry.War DocumentaryFathom Events and Warner Bros.
are reporting that the Martin Luther King Jr.
Day screening of Peter Jackson’s World War I documentary, “They Shall Not Grow Old,” brought in $2.6 million at 1,335 North American sites.The cumulative domestic box office for “They Shall Not Grow Old” has reached $8.3 million in three days, which included Dec.
17 and Dec.
27.
That’s well above the prior event-cinema record of $4.6 million for 2015’s “Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F.” On Jan.
21, “They Shall Not Grow Old” was the No.
4 film at the domestic box office, with the highest per-screen average of any film in release.
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