Rangers manager Giovanni van Bronckhorst has remained coy on the future of Manchester United loanee Amad, insisting he is unsure if he will return to the club next season.
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Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThe trade organization representing American movie theater owners isn’t gloating about Netflix’s recent stock misfortunes — they’re opening their arms, they say.At CinemaCon, the annual Las Vegas convention of theatrical exhibitors, leadership from the National Association of Theatre Owners touched on Netflix’s recent subscriber losses and subsequent jaw-dropping $54 billion loss in market cap.Netflix’s sign of softening brought a screeching halt to the prevailing industry logic that going all-in on streaming investment was the way to please shareholders. While some speculated this would benefit traditional theatrical releases, Warner Bros.
Discovery CEO David Zaslav sweetened the pot on Tuesday morning by saying he was less inclined “to really collapse the entire motion picture business on streaming.” NATO president and CEO John Fithian smiled at a Tuesday press conference following his State of the Industry address, and admitted to his bias.“I represent the movie theater owners,” Fithian said in praise of Zaslav’s comments, “but Netflix? We love those guys. Ted Sarandos knows movies and TV better than anyone else in Hollywood.
He’s crazed about his content.”Less than a decade ago, the movie theater owners revolted at the idea of concurrent streaming and theatrical releases. Slowly but surely, they’ve warmed to limited theatrical runs of Netflix content (largely for Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” and other awards qualifying runs).
Fithian said the exhibitors would be open to playing some of Netflix’s movies on a broader scale.“Our door is open for bigger, broader play of Netflix movies if that is a path they want to go down,” Fithian concluded. “They’re movie fans like we’re movie
.Rangers manager Giovanni van Bronckhorst has remained coy on the future of Manchester United loanee Amad, insisting he is unsure if he will return to the club next season.
Jason Oppenheim doesn't mince words about what the future holds for Christine Quinn at the Oppenheim Group, revealing «there's not a place for her» at the brokerage firm following her alleged bribery stunt.Jason makes the comments during 's first-ever reunion show (streaming now on Netflix) while offering an update about Christine's future, after Emma Hernan claimed during the tail end of season 5 that Christine (through an «associate») presented a longtime client of Emma's a $5,000 bribe to work with the Boston native. Christine denied the accusation, but Jason says it, in fact, happened.
The first trailer for Selling the O.C. is here!
Cinemark CEO Sean Gamble says a relative shortfall of new films will likely be the biggest headwind his company faces this year.
reorganized its marketing department once again, axing writers on its fledgling Tudum fan site five months after launch. And the fallout from the Warner Bros.
The Cannes Film Festival has set its lineup for this year’s Cannes Classics program, which shines a spotlight on restorations of classic movies and features contemporary documentaries about film. Kicking off the sidebar is Jean Eustache’s controversial film The Mother and the Whore, the 1973 Cannes Grand Prize winner which incited riots at the time. Also included in the program are films by Vittorio de Sica (Sciuscià), Satyajit Ray (The Adversary), Orson Welles (The Trial) and Martin Scorsese (The Last Waltz), as well as a new 4K master of Singin’ in the Rain to mark the movie’s 70th anniversary.
If you’ve already binged Selling Sunset’s season five then you’ll know about Christine Quinn's ongoing drama with the rest of the Selling Sunset cast, Heather and Tarek’s wedding, a new British-Nigerian cast member Chelsea Lazkani and Jason Oppenheim and Chrishell Stause’s relationship. There is a lot more to get excited about because The Oppenheim Group will reunite to discuss all that’s happened in this season.
“Don’t get excited,” said Despicable Me franchise star Steve Carell to the filled Colosseum at Caesars Palace before his presentation of Minions: The Rise of Gru.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaNetflix has acquired “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,” the new film from Oscar-winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu.The highly-anticipated film is currently in post-production, and is expected to wrap by fall.
), “BARDO” will enjoy a theatrical release on a global scale later this year including in Mexico, its country of origin, as well as the US, Canada, UK, Italy, Spain, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Japan and Korea, among many more before debuting on Netflix.Iñàrritu previously worked with cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki on his last two films to Oscar-winning effect.“BARDO” stars Daniel Giménez Cacho and Griselda Siciliani. In addition to Khondji, the film features a below-the-line team that includes production design by the Oscar-winning Mexican designer Eugenio Caballero (“Pan’s Labyrinth”) and costume design by Anna Terrazas (“ROMA”).Netflix previously released noteworthy titles like Alfonso Cuaron’s “ROMA,” Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” and Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up” in theaters before the films were available to stream on Netflix, and for Iñárritu’s first Netflix feature it appears he’s being given a similar rollout strategy – although it’s unclear if “BARDO” will have an exclusive theatrical window or if the film will release on streaming and in theaters on the same day.This is Iñárritu’s first film since 2015’s “The Revenant,” which earned him a Best Director Oscar on the heels of 2014’s “Birdman” which won Best Director, Picture and Original Screenplay.
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAfter years of companies spending like drunken sailors on streaming video, some are now suffering hangovers.Netflix, in the first quarter of 2022, lost customers for the first time in more than a decade. It could shed 2 million more in Q2. The streaming giant is scrambling to find new sources of revenue growth, with execs hoping to monetize password-sharing freeloaders and — previously unthinkable at the Big Red N — planning to introduce advertising-supported plans.CNN+, hailed as a bridge to the news cabler’s future, is DOA: It’s getting axed 32 days after launch under new management at Warner Bros.
“You’re seeing the newest CEO in the business, after having studied the market for a year, describe the business model perfectly as far as we’re concerned,” Fithian told reporters at a Tuesday press conference. “If you get a movie that works well theatrically and pops, it has a window, it also means it helps that movie do better when it hits the home on streaming.”Last year, Warner Bros. was one of the studios leading experiments with day-and-date releasing, putting all 2021 films on HBO Max and in theaters simultaneously as a way to handle the uncertainty of theaters reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaThe movie theater industry’s top lobbyist said that the persistent experimentation that saw studios release movies in cinemas at the same time they landed on streaming or on video-on-demand is over. “I am pleased to announce that simultaneous release is dead as a serious business model, and piracy is what killed it,” John Fithian, head of the National Association of Theatre Owners, told a packed auditorium of exhibitors on Tuesday at CinemaCon. Fithian didn’t claim that release windows, industry parlance for the length of time that movies are available exclusively in theaters, is going to get longer.
National Association of Theater Owners President/CEO John Fithian declared that “simultaneous release is dead” during his opening speech at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. “Robust theatrical windows protect against piracy.
the Q1 earnings were released. “As you’ve heard me say, we are not trying to win the direct-to-consumer spending war,” the WBD chief said, instead promising that the newly combined WarnerMedia-Discovery company would “invest in scale smartly.”He already made the first difficult choice within the first week after Discovery closed its $43 billion acquisitor of the larger WarnerMedia: Zaslav, notorious in the industry for being a no-nonsense cost-cutter, decided to close down the much-hyped CNN+.
millions of paying customers may cancel in the months ahead.In the first earnings report since Discovery’s $43 billion acquisition of the iconic Warner Bros. studios, the entertainment giant reported the former Discover business reported that profit increased to $456 million, compared with $140 million, in the year-ago period , while revenue jumped 13% to nearly $3.2 billion.
Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterIn the wake of big spender Netflix’s Q1 shocking subscriber loss news, David Zaslav made a point to say Warner Bros. Discovery “will not overspend to drive subscriber growth” during Discovery’s first-quarter earnings call Tuesday.“As you’ve heard me say, we are not trying to win the direct-to-consumer spending war,” the WBD CEO said, instead promising that the newly combined WarnerMedia-Discovery company would “invest in scale smartly.”Warner Bros.