Regal Cinemas is catching the classics craze. The 2nd largest theater chain in North America, Regal Cinemas has joined AMC Theatres (the 1st) and Cinemark (the 3rd) as national multiplexes that will lean heavily on Hollywood's blockbuster catalog to woo patrons back to movie theaters in July. Regal also announced similar safety protocols, including 50% [...]
Life finds a way. And in the age of the Coronavirus, so does Steven Spielberg. Twenty-seven years after its original 1993 release, Jurassic Park was the highest-grossing movie in U.S. theaters over the third weekend of June 2020. That's more of a fluke than a legitimately impressive feat, given the pandemic circumstances, but it's still [...]
Well that was fast. Less than 24 hours after announcing their reopening safety guidelines, AMC Theatres has reversed course on their most controversial one: now, they will require all patrons to wear a face mask. Previously, AMC only mandated that their employees must wear face masks. For their moviegoers, the was choice optional unless state [...]
Awards season just shifted from winter to spring, and the Oscars will essentially kick off the summer movie season. For most of its history, the Academy Awards were held primarily between late-March and mid-April. As the culture sped up in the social media age, so did the awards calendar; in 2004, the Oscars moved to [...]
They're going to make us wait even longer. On the same day, Warner Bros. announced the delay of its biggest 2020 summer tentpoles: Christopher Nolan's Tenet, Patty Jenkins' DC sequel Wonder Woman 1984., and Lana Wachowski's Matrix 4 which reunites stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss. Originally slated for release (respectively) on July 17 and [...]
Russell Westbrook is headed back to Oklahoma. No, that's not breaking news about a surprise NBA trade. The guard for the Houston Rockets and former superstar of the Oklahoma City Thunder is producing a new docuseries about the Tulsa Race Massacre, the nation's worst act of post-slavery violence against African-American citizens in United States history. [...]
The show is about to go on. Despite facing over $2 billion dollars in debt and still navigating possible bankruptcy, AMC Theatres has officially announced plans to reopen all of its multiplexes nationwide by July. (An official date was not given, but mid-July would likely be the latest.) With competitor Cinemark already in full-swing with [...]
Being the biggest doesn't necessarily mean being the strongest. Cinemark isn't the former but they're proving to be the latter. Cinemark Theaters is the third biggest multiplex chain in the nation, trailing (in order) AMC Theatres and Regal Entertainment. Of the three, however, Cinemark is in the strongest financial position of the Top 3 by [...]
Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing isn't just relevant, it's prescient. In the 90-second short 3 Brothers that Lee tweeted out in the wake of the George Floyd killing (see below), Lee draws a striking, disturbing parallel between Floyd and Eric Garner -- two innocent African-American victims who lost their lives to police brutality -- [...]
The Snyder Cut is real. All of it. And it's about to be released. Long rumored but consistently dismissed by the studio as being true, there is indeed a complete version of director Zack Snyder's 2017 DC Universe blockbuster Justice League, the DCEU mega-tentpole follow-up to Batman V Superman. After suffering a family tragedy during [...]