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As expected, The Batman (NYSE:T) easily held on to the North American box office over the weekend, grossing $66 million in its second pass in theaters. With no wide-release competition, the film dropped off only 50% from its $134 million opening, bringing its cumulative domestic gross to $239...

The Batman (T -0.4%) swooped into theaters with a splash as expected - opening to $128.5 million domestically, and showing that (at least for now) superheroes are the way back for the box office. The opening was the second-best of the pandemic era, yielding only to Spider-Man: No Way Home (SO...

Death on the Nile (NYSE:DIS), Kenneth Branagh's latest spin at an Agatha Christie classic mystery, took over the top spot at the U.S. box office on a usually slow Super Bowl weekend. The film opened to $12.8 million, roughly as expected. It follows up Branagh's 2017 stab at the genre, Murder ...

Jackass Forever (VIAC, VIACA) was the easy winner when it came to which film would displace Spider-Man: No Way Home (NYSE:SONY) from box-office leadership. The new film, the fifth in a franchise based off a bruising, irreverent 20-year-old MTV stunt series, grossed $23.2 million over the week...

Stock in AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC) has risen 5.1% today (though well off session highs) after its premarket release of preliminary figures for the fourth quarter, including revenues that topped expectations. AMC's junk bonds rose Tuesday as well to sit among the high-yield market's biggest...

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Omicron, whomicron? Moviegoers seemed unconcerned with a cascading wave of COVID-19 shutdowns across sports and other entertainment, as Spider-Man: No Way Home (NYSE:SONY) didn't settle just for pandemic records - but swung its way to the third-best opening weekend of all time. The film drew ...

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Movie-theater companies are dreaming of a webbed Christmas - with Spider-Man: No Way Home (SONY -0.7%) barreling toward setting a new pandemic high-water mark for film attendance. Cinemark (CNK +0.1%) says the film has delivered its best opening night of all time, and top U.S. chain AMC (AMC ...

UK-based cinema giant Cineworld is sliding in U.S. trading (OTCPK:CNNWF -38.7%, OTCPK:CNWGY -44.1%) after an Ontario court found the company repudiated its transaction to acquire Canada's Cineplex (CPXGF +9.9%) - a takeover attempt that broke down. That results in a damages award of C$1.24 bi...