Tag: Trolls
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‘Scoob!’ an Instant #1 on Premium VOD Charts; ‘Capone’ #2 on iTunes
Warner Bros. home release of the animated “Scoob!” began today, and it’s already #1 on the iTunes and Amazon Prime charts ranking transactions. (Rental price $19.99; digital download $24.99.)With so little in the way of new releases, it might be more surprising if it didn’t reach #1. What’s impressive here is how quickly it happened.…
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‘The Assistant,’ Featuring ‘Ozark’ Star Julia Garner, Overperforms on VOD
A handful of indoor theaters opened up to customers this weekend, mostly in Texas. But under these unusual pandemic conditions, the box-office numbers don’t shed much light on what will happen when more theaters reopen with brand new titles.With stringent safety controls including social distancing, the indoor theaters are grossing far less than the drive-ins…
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Charlton Heston Makes a Comeback in This Week’s Catalog VOD Rentals
Until someone decides to follow in the footsteps of Universal’s “
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Trolls World Tour review – eyeball-frazzling sequel offers same again
The second dose of the kids animation follows the same bland template as the first – with chilling efficiencyThe Trolls sequel is here: another eyeball-frazzlingly multicoloured screensaver movie for little kids, with all the aspartame hyperactivity of the first film – but less of the fun, and less (or even less) of the reason to…
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‘Trolls World Tour’: Film Review
As the first major Hollywood movie — and, in fact, the only one — since the outbreak of the coronavirus to bow out of its scheduled theatrical release and reposition itself on a home-viewing platform, “
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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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Nent Group and NBCUniversal Sign Content Partnership for Kids, Family Programming
Following Nent Group and NBCUniversal’s long-term content partnership signed earlier this year, the two companies have inked a first-window deal for kids and family programming.Under the agreement, Nent Group will distribute NBCUniversal’s kids series and family content and DreamWorks Animation film catalogue on Viaplay streaming service and Viasat pay-tv channels.As part of the deal, Nent…
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Exclusive: First Trailer for ‘Lucky’ Reveals Nickelodeon’s CG-Animated Leprechaun Tale
Not to be too superstitious, but you’re in luck today because we have an exclusive trailer reveal to share with you for Nickelodeon’s all-new original CG-animated TV film, Lucky. Premiering Friday, March 8, at 7:00 p.m. (Et/Pt), the movie follows an unlucky leprechaun on the adventure of a lifetime when he and his friends set…
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New ‘The Lego Movie 2’ Trailer Is Here to Fend Off Duplo Invaders
Warner Bros. has released a new The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part trailer. The upcoming sequel takes place five years after the events of the first movie and the citizens of Bricksburg are now in a Mad Max-esque dystopia after fighting off invaders from Lego Duplo. Mike Mitchell (Trolls) directs alongside co-director Trisha Gum,…
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Paramount Animation’s Mireille Soria, Disney’s ‘Solo’ VFX Supervisor Rob Bredow to Keynote at View Conference
Mireille Soria, president of Paramount Pictures Animation, and Rob Bredow, visual effects supervisor and co-producer for Disney’s “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” will deliver keynote addresses at the View Conference 2018 in Turin, Italy. The conference takes place from Oct. 22-26.Animation veteran Soria was tapped to run Paramount’s animation division last year after serving as…