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As IMAX becomes one of the biggest draws for moviegoers, there appears to be a whisper campaign for major theater chains to band together to put more marketing muscle behind their own premium-large format (PLF) offerings. The Big Picture: IMAX has been on a tear this year, posting a record-best quarter for ticket sales, lifting the box-office grosses […]
Amazon has invested an undisclosed amount in Fable Studio’s AI-powered streaming service, Showrunner, which allows people to generate their own shows or remix licensed content to make their own episodes. The Big Picture: There’s a heated debate over how AI-generated movies and shows will (or should be allowed to) revolutionize the entertainment industry, with issues […]
A24 is opening the doors of the newly renovated Cherry Lane Theatre — an Off-Broadway theater that the indie studio has transformed into a cultural epicenter for movies, theater, music, food, stand-up, and much more. The Big Picture: Entertainment companies building their own physical spaces is nothing new (ever been to Disneyland or Universal Studios?), but it has […]
Mattel is pulling out all the stops for its UNO brand, launching a new experiential concept dubbed the UNO Social Club across the country. The Big Play: Mattel wants UNO to be more than just a card game… it wants it to be a lifestyle brand that connects young people IRL. While that’s a tough […]
Roblox wants to make it easier to create experiences based on big IP by rolling out a dedicated hub that connects blue-chip entertainment companies with game developers. Why It Plays: Roblox has proved that it can make a serious impact on demand for entertainment properties, whether it’s driving ticket sales for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, launching a gamified trailer for the […]
Tickets to see Christopher Nolan’s next epic, The Odyssey, in IMAX will go on sale July 17th — a full year before the movie releases. The Big Picture: Releasing tickets for a movie a year in advance has never been done in Hollywood history (as far as we can tell), with even the biggest blockbusters typically making showtimes available […]
Alamo Drafthouse founder Tim League is launching his latest cinema concept — a complex of upscale private screening rooms called Metro Private Cinema. The Big Picture: The debate over the quality of movie theaters nationwide has reached a fever pitch over the past decade, as home-theater systems have improved in quality, while most big-screen chains have struggled […]
Legendary Entertainment is exploring an acquisition of the newly-free-of-Starz studio Lionsgate. The Big Picture: Legendary and Lionsgate have been on parallel M&A paths over the past couple of years — Legendary finally shed controlling shareholder Dalian Wanda Group through a deal with PE firm Apollo, while Lionsgate recently completed the separation of its studio business from streaming service […]
Netflix is ramping up unscripted programming in music, game shows, and competition series in order to become the true cable replacement that so many of its users already view it as. The Big Picture: For many audiences, especially younger ones, Netflix is synonymous with television as cord-cutting reaches a fever pitch. But there are still […]
Apple is pulling out all the stops to make sure this weekend’s release of its biggest blockbuster yet, F1, is a thundering success. The Big Picture: How F1 performs at the box office could be the make-or-break moment for the tech giant’s theatrical ambitions, which have been set back by a series of costly flops. […]