Tag: The Meg
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‘Contagion’ Still Tops Classic Streaming Titles, Along With ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Fifty Shades’
Not everyone is watching “Tiger King.” As audiences embrace premium VOD, increased interest in the lower-cost library titles follows. FandangoNOW, the streaming portal connected to the leading theater ticket-sales service, has provided its most recent seven-day ranking of pre-2019 features as well as digital sales on franchise packages.Here’s the top 10 of $3.99 catalogue titles.More…
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Summer Box Office: Five Weekends to Watch
Popcorn season is upon us, and it’ll be up to comic-book heroes, a wise-cracking genie, and a lion who would be king to ensure movie theaters are still the hottest place to spend the summer.Last summer, blockbusters like “Avengers: Infinity War,” “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,” Ocean’s 8,” and “The Meg” drove moviegoers to their local…
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Warner Bros.’ Kevin Tsujihara Says ‘Diversity is Good for Business’
Kevin Tsujihara Warner Bros. chairman and chief executive used his Visionary Leadership award at the U.S.-China Entertainment Gala Dinner to make an impassioned statement in favor of diversity in the workplace.He received the award Tuesday night in Los Angeles on the sidelines of the 2018 U.S.-China Entertainment Summit.The first Asian-American to head a major Hollywood…
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‘The Meg 2’ In Very Early Stages: U.S.-China Entertainment Summit
This afternoon at the U.S.-China Entertainment Summit in Los Angeles at the Skirball Center, The Meg executive producer Catherine Xujun Ying acknowledged that that a sequel to summer’s shark movie is in the works.“That is definitely the plan,” said Ying when asked by Variety’s Patrick Frater about building out the franchise during a panel for…
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‘Mission: Impossible,’ ‘The Meg’ Goose Imax Earnings
Summer blockbusters such as “The Meg” and “Mission: Impossible – Fallout” helped Imax beat third quarter earnings expectations. The giant screen exhibitor reported earnings of $5.02 million and revenue of $82.1 million. The compared favorably to a loss of $850,000 in the year-ago period, but was down slightly from the $98.8 million in revenues that…
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Michelle Yeoh, Kevin Tsujihara to be Honored At Asia Society U.S.-China Summit
Iconic actress, Michelle Yeoh is to be honored alongside Warner Bros chairman and CEO Kevin Tsujihara at the U .S.-China Entertainment Summit in Los Angeles later this month. Elizabeth Daley, dean and Steven J. Ross/Time Warner Professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, will also be honored.To be held at the Skirball Cultural Center…
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Summer 2018 Delivers $4.38 Billion in Domestic Grosses, Keeping Year on Record Pace
Summer 2018 has come to an end, along with the month of August. To Hollywood’s delight, August finished up +29% compared to 2017’s disastrous performance and the summer movie season was up nearly +15% compared to last year’s similarly dismal showing. Disney led the way over the summer months serving as the only studio to…
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‘The Nun’ Looks to Scare Up a ‘Conjuring’ Universe Opening Weekend Record
Through the end of July, Warner Bros. was approximately 30% behind where they were in 2017, a year in which the studio topped $2 billion domestically for only the second time in its history. Thanks to the August releases of The Meg and Crazy Rich Asians, that difference was cut down to -21% by the…
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Triumph for Alibaba as ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ Enjoys $77 Million China Opening
“Mission: Impossible – Fallout” dominated the weekend box office in China with an excellent $77 million opening three days. It was helped by massive support from Alibaba, the e-commerce giant which has plowed billions of dollars into cinema.Few other titles offered much resistance. “Fallout” earned a 75% share of the total box office. The total…
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Fomo and Fear: Why Weekend Movie Previews Keep Getting Earlier
On the night of Aug. 9, Warner Bros. executives made an unexpectedly pleasant discovery: “The Meg,” their prehistoric shark movie that cost $150 million and took over two decades to get to the big screen, wasn’t going to bomb.Initial domestic numbers for “The Meg” showed that $4 million worth of tickets had been sold on…