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Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: For all the headlines today that everything is coming up roses with exhibition after Pfizer’s good news about a COVID-19 vaccine, Regal Cinemas, will shutter the 18 locations the chain left open in New York and California, effective Thursday. Those sites will stay closed now with the rest of the U.S.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films announced today that the company has picked up worldwide rights to VW Scheich’s romantic comedy Stars Fell on Alabama. The movie will hit on-demand and digital on Jan.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE:  Voltage Pictures is launching international sales on filmmaker Brian Baugh’s romance movie Finding You at AFM.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorUniversal, which already had July 22, 2022 already RSVP’ed on the theatrical release calendar, is designating that as the day to open Jordan Peele’s next horror event title.Between the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s Get Out and Us, his directed genre fare has minted a combined $510.5M WW for Universal.The news comes in the wake of Warner Bros.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorWith Disney having already erased two big movies from the holiday schedule, Free Guy and Death on the Nile, and Warner Bros.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorWe can report that Warner Bros. is releasing Fantastic Beasts 3 on July 15, 2022.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorIt’s not common for a studio specialty label to lead the weekend box office two weeks in a row, but that’s the anomaly of pandemic times and here we have Focus Features’ taking No.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorThe County of Los Angeles Public Health reports that there were five positive COVID-19 cases at Santa Clarita Studios in Santa Clarita, CA, a production facility 30 miles north of Hollywood where such noted features like Furious 7, Django Unchained and True Lies have lensed as well as series like Netflix’s Santa Clarita Diet, CBS’ S.W.A.T. and Fox’s Melrose Place among several others.It’s unclear when the cases were recorded by LA County

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorCinemaCon has set its dates for next year and is taking extra precaution by not running into the pandemic. Originally scheduled for April 26-29, the exhibition-film distribution confab at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, will now happen between Aug.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Rossif Sutherland has boarded Orphan: First Kill opposite Julia Stiles and the horror pic’s original actress Isabelle Fuhrman.As we first told you, the eOne and Dark Castle movie is directed by The Boy franchise helmer William Brent Bell, and written by David Coggeshall.The prequel to the 2009 movie centers this time around Leena Klammer who orchestrates a brilliant escape from an Estonian psychiatric facility.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorDisney has officially pulled their 20th Century Studios’ features Free Guy and Death on the Nile off the December calendar, leaving a grim immediate future in place for exhibition which was praying to make buck on a holiday moviegoing season.This leaves Warner Bros.’ Wonder Woman 1984 left standing on Dec.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Following up on the news this morning that ESPN is laying off several hundred employees, we’ve learned that there are also a handful of layoffs taking place at Disney’s studio division – including six people at Searchlight. Other areas impacted include Disney’s studio marketing group as well as its theatrical stage team in New York which has been hit particularly hard by the pandemic with all of Broadway shut down.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorThe movie that was intended to jumpstart exhibition out of the pandemic, but really only did so abroad, Tenet, will arrive on 4K, Blu Ray, DVD and digital on Dec. 15.The time thriller noir grossed a lackluster $53.8M at the domestic box office at a time when Warner Bros.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorOn the day of its earnings call, Lionsgate has made the tough decision to cut 15% of its Global Motion Picture Group workforce.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorGucci’s upcoming collection entitled Ouverture of Something That Never Ended is being presented as a seven-episode mini-series co-directed by the fashion label’s Creative Director Alessandro Michele and two-time Oscar nominee Gus Van Sant. The seven episodes will be screened during the first-ever digital fashion and film festival GucciFest from Nov.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorDeadline has confirmed that Cheryl Tiano, an agent at Gorfaine-Schwartz who repped such composers as Gravity Oscar winner Steve Price, X-Files composer Mark Snow, and Brian Tyler (Avengers: Age of Ultron, Yellowstone), has died at 59 after heart surgery complications.Tiano was a 27-year vet of Gorfaine-Schwartz, repping in addition to film and TV composers, those breaking ground in the video game sphere as well.The agency said in a

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorNEON, StudioCanal, and Blueprint Pictures are co-developing the narrative remake of lauded documentary The Painter and the Thief from Benjamin Ree.NEON held a bidding war for the project, which StudioCanal and Blueprint won.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorHighland Film Group has boarded Neil Marshall’s new horror action thriller The Lair, which the Hellboy filmmaker is writing, directing and producing, and will be repping the pic’s worldwide sales at this year’s virtual AFM.Casting is underway with a production start eyed for Spring 2021.The pic tells the story about a Royal Air Force pilot Lt.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorNot to send everyone screaming for the exits, but it wouldn’t be out of the question if Warner Bros. moves Wonder Woman 1984 off its Christmas Day global theatrical release.Facts are facts, whether former Vice President Joe Biden takes the U.S.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorSUNDAY AM w/chart: Focus Features/Amblin’s PG-13 horror movie Come Play came in better than expected, seeing a boost on Halloween night (as opposed to an expected -5% drop) with $1.3M, +18% over Friday + preview’s $1.1M. This puts the pic’s opening weekend at $3.15M in the No.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu has come aboard to direct Paramount Player’s feature adaptation of New York Times bestselling author Angie Thomas’ second novel, On The Come Up. The director behind the 2018 Cannes Film Festival premiere Rafiki is stepping in for George Tillman Jr. who was originally attached to On The Come Up.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Chaotic times call for creative measures, and in the midst of a box office that’s been greatly impacted by the pandemic, not to mention the lack of major studio tentpoles, exhibition is thinking outside of the box to restore moviegoer confidence and encourage their return to the cinema.In a few words: Private watch parties.It’s another option that exhibitors like Cinemark have been offering moviegoers: The opportunity to

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorDeadline has confirmed that the New Mexico shoot of Netflix’s Idris Elba-Regina King western The Harder They Fall has stopped after an actor tested positive for COVID-19. Production stopped Thursday, continued into Friday and it’s unclear when filming will resume.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorFinally, exhibition gets a break in the Empire State.During a press conference on Saturday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced movie theaters outside of New York City can reopen at 25 percent capacity or up to 50 people per screen on October 23rd.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Yes, there have been a number of film distributors –big ones– who’ve cut and run during the pandemic, jettisoning their movies onto PVOD or selling them outright to streamers as domestic exhibition hangs in a fractured state.And despite how prevalent it has become, from Universal/Dreamworks Animation’s Trolls World Tour to Paramount’s $125M sale of Coming 2 America to Amazon, I’ve heard often and again from studio sources that

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorOpen Road’s Liam Neeson action movie The Honest Thief posted a notable first night during the pandemic of $225K in previews.Neeson’s action movies outside of Taken typically see largely double that or more than triple that in a healthy marketplace, i.e. last year’s Cold Pursuit posted $540K on its Thursday preview, The Commuter did $700K, and Run All Night grossed $455K on its first night, however, we need to keep in mind that the No.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorUnited Talent Agency today named its largest partner class in its 30-year history with 19 agents and executives across 14 divisions promoted into the partnership.With the recent appointment of Samantha Kirby Yoh as Co-Head of UTA Music, UTA has named a total of 22 new partners this year—more than half of whom are women and people of color.Included among the new partners are agents from several divisions including motion pictures, TV

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Tony Goldwyn is taking over for Liev Schreiber in Warner Bros.’ King Richard which is set to return to production in Los Angeles next week after pausing due to the pandemic earlier this spring.Goldwyn is stepping in to play the role of Paul Cohen, a noted tennis coach whose clients included John McEnroe, Pete Sampras, and Venus and Serena Williams.