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Free Guy racked up some not-so-free movie ticket sales over the weekend for theaters and for Walt Disney (DIS -1.1%). The film easily led the box office and outperformed expectations with $28.4 million in grosses. That's significantly better than expectations for $15 million-$18 million, and ...

AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC) is jumping to a session high, up 6.5% and bucking a down sector just ahead of its highly anticipated earnings coming after the closing bell. It's a report where the company is widely expected to lose nearly a dollar per share while actually recording some substant...

Jungle Cruise (DIS +0.2%) led at the domestic box office over the weekend, as expected, with a better-than-expected $34.2M in receipts. That's no Black Widow ($80M opening) or F9 (CMCSA -0.9%; $70M). But the Disney ride-based film has opened during a nationwide surge in the COVID-19 Delta var...

What's on deck for the box office this weekend, following signs of a new and counterintuitive summer cooling-off? This weekend it may be all about the content. The leader is certain to be Disney's (NYSE:DIS) Jungle Cruise, which is arriving in a pandemic-record 4,310 North American venues. An...

After a large bull run over the last year, Cineworld's share price has started to pull back. Cineworld's enormous debt pile continues to weigh down on prospects. The market has gotten ahead of itself over the last year, not taking into account the unsustainability of Cineworld's c...

JHVEPhoto/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Movie theater stocks today are selling the news that Black Widow (DIS +2.3%) lit up the box office with a $80M domestic opening, a record for the pandemic era. After the industry's first $100M weekend since March 2020 closings, AMC Entertainment (AM...

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images News It's the annual Sun Valley Conference from Allen & Co. - meaning the aggregate income of Sun Valley, Idaho, has been temporarily boosted by several billionaires there to talk deals - and the quotable Barry Diller is on hand to weigh in on the state of media...

There's an audible sigh of relief coming from Hollywood and the cinema industry after F9, the latest film in the lucrative Fast and the Furious franchise, debuted with an expected splash. The film opened to $70M in grosses; not only is that easily the best performance of the pandemic era, it'...

Any hopes for a resurrection of the MoviePass service that disrupted the movie theater sector a few year ago appear to have faded even further. The operators of the MoviePass subscription service have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations they took steps to block subscribers f...

With the movie mood getting more upbeat into a holiday weekend, major cinema chains are dropping months-long COVID-19 requirements for all patrons to wear masks. Chains including [[AMC]], Regal (owned by Cineworld (CNNWF)) and Cinemark (CNK) will no longer require fully vaccinated customers t...