Avengers: Endgame Adds $36.7M Domestic, $82.2M Overseas on Monday to Become #10 Global Earner of All-Time In Six Days

Tuesday Update: Following an historic weekend at the global box office, Disney reports this morning that Avengers: Endgame scored $36.7 million domestically and $82.2 million overseas on Monday. That brings the respective cumes to $393.3 million and $948.7 million, totaling for a staggering $1.3426 billion global haul thus far. Domestic Endgame‘s Monday gross represented the third best ever for any domestic Monday — topping Rogue One‘s $32.1 million while trailing only Black Panther‘s $40.15 million first Monday and Star Wars: The Force Awakens‘ $40.1 million first Monday. That being said, Panther had the aid of Presidents Day landing on its first Monday, while most schools were also out of session for Force‘s first Monday coming four days before Christmas in 2015. Adjusted for ticket price inflation, Endgame topped The Dark Knight‘s $31.1 million adjusted ($24.5 million...

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Regal Adds Five 4DX Screens Across the U.S. in April

PRESS RELEASE LOS ANGELES – April 29, 2019 — CJ 4DPLEX and Regal announced today that the latest round of 4DX screens in the U.S. will have opened across five cities—Knoxville, Nashville, San Diego, King of Prussia and Las Vegas—by the end of the month. The openings will bring the current count of Regal 4DX theaters to 17. The latest sites to bring the innovative multi-sensory formats include: ●       Pinnacle Stadium 18, Knoxville, Tennessee ●       Opry Mills Stadium 20, Nashville, Tennessee ●        Mira Mesa Stadium 18, San Diego, California ●       King of Prussia Stadium 16, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania ●       Red Rock Stadium 16, Las Vegas, Nevada “The openings in April mark the largest...

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Avengers: Endgame Online Ticket Sales Shatter Records Over Opening Weekend on Atom Tickets

PRESS RELEASE — Santa Monica, CA – April 29, 2019 – Atom Tickets, the social movie ticketing app, announced today that Avengers: Endgame set a new record for most tickets sold online over opening weekend on Atom. In fact, the movie sold nearly twice as many tickets as the next top seller. Top 5 biggest online ticket sales for opening weekend on Atom – Avengers: Endgame Deadpool 2 Avengers: Infinity War Star Wars: Last Jedi Aquaman As the epic movie enters its second weekend across the country, it is currently the most pre-ordered movie ticket on Atom with showtimes selling out again. The demand to reserve seats for Avengers: Endgame lifted Atom’s box office share (of Atom enabled theaters) reinforcing reports that more people bought tickets online for this movie than any other movie in recent history. “We’re thrilled to be a part...

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Single-Day Records for Attendance and Food and Beverage Set on Saturday at AMC Theatres® in the United States

PRESS RELEASE — LEAWOOD, Kan.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– AMC Theatres® (NYSE:AMC), the largest theatrical exhibitor in the world, today announced setting new records for its theatres in the United States. AMC confirmed that it set a new single-day U.S. attendance record on Saturday, as well as twice setting new single-day Food & Beverage revenue records in the U.S., doing so back-to-back on Friday and again on Saturday. With AVENGERS: ENDGAME on its way to demolishing the previous opening-weekend domestic industry box office record, it also helped fuel an all-time single day attendance record at AMC on Saturday with more than 2.6 million tickets sold. This easily outpaced the previous single-day U.S. attendance record for AMC set during the opening weekend of BLACK PANTHER, just fourteen months earlier in 2018. As fans settled into their seats this weekend, they did so with...

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Kinepolis Group to open new Landmark movie theatre in South East Edmonton

PRESS RELEASE — Landmark Cinemas Canada and Forster Harvard Development Corp. are pleased to announce that Landmark Cinemas will bring its premium recliner seating movie-going experience to the Grove on 17, in the south east Edmonton neighbourhood of Tamarack. Construction is scheduled to begin in August 2019, with completion in early summer 2020. All eight of the theatre’s auditoriums feature Landmark’s luxury recliner seating in a full-stadium configuration. This premium movie-going experience features a motorized, fully reclining seat with extended footrest to provide each guest with a significant increase in personal space and a relaxing, disruption-free movie experience. The new eight-screen theatre will also include Barco Laser Projection from Cinionic. Laser projection provides rich dynamic colours, superior contrast ratios and sharper images, to create an...

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Avengers: Endgame Delivers the Biggest 3-D Opening Of All Time

PRESS RELEASE (Beverly Hills, Calif. — April 28, 2019) – Shattering virtually every box office record in history, Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame delivered the highest-grossing 3-D opening of all-time worldwide, with approximately 45% of the film’s estimated $1.2 billion opening coming from the 3-D format. An estimated $540 million in ticket sales was generated by the 3-D format. “Congratulations to Marvel Studios and Disney for their brilliant execution of this 22 film series over the last 11 years. It has been a remarkable achievement in story-telling, production, VFX, marketing and distribution,” said Travis Reid, President, Worldwide Cinema and Chief Operating Officer for RealD. The post <em>Avengers: Endgame</eM> Delivers the Biggest 3-D Opening Of All Time appeared first on Boxoffice. from Boxoffi...

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Disney to Donate Up to $1 Million to Make-A-Wish Through Aladdin-Themed Charity Challenge

PRESS RELEASE BURBANK, Calif. (April 29, 2019) – The Walt Disney Company and Make-A-Wish® launched the #FriendLikeMe Challenge today–World Wish Day®–to celebrate the May 24, 2019 release of the studio’s Aladdin. Tickets are on sale now. The #FriendLikeMe Challenge is part of a global marketing campaign supported by two Make-A-Wish wish granters, Disney and Will Smith. The actor/recording artist, who stars in Disney’s Aladdin” as the wish-granting Genie, encourages fans and celebrities to participate in the campaign and help show the world: Where there’s a wish, there’s a way. The campaign poses the question: “If you were the Genie in Disney’s Aladdin’ and had the chance to grant three heartfelt wishes for someone, who would you share them with?” Tag a friend on Twitter and/or Instagram. For every public post with #FriendLikeMe from April 29 through May 24, 2019,...

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Kinepolis Group to Open New Landmark Movie Theater in Southeast Edmonton

PRESS RELEASE Landmark Cinemas Canada and Forster Harvard Development Corp. are pleased to announce that Landmark Cinemas will bring its premium recliner seating moviegoing experience to the Grove on 17, in the southeast Edmonton neighborhood of Tamarack. Construction is scheduled to begin in August 2019, with completion in early summer 2020. All eight of the theater’s auditoriums feature Landmark’s luxury recliner seating in a full-stadium configuration. This premium movie-going experience features a motorized, fully reclining seat with an extended footrest to provide each guest with a significant increase in personal space and a relaxing, disruption-free movie experience. The new eight-screen theater will also include Barco Laser Projection from Cinionic. Laser projection provides rich dynamic colors, superior contrast ratios and sharper images to create an unsurpassed...

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On the Rise Again: Event Cinema Celebrates a Robust Year

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Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame Shatters Box Office Records with Historic $1.2 Billion Global Debut

Disney’s official press release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MARVEL STUDIOS’ ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ SHATTERS BOX OFFICE RECORDS WITH HISTORIC $1.2 BILLION GLOBAL DEBUT Records Fall as Anthony and Joe Russo-Directed Blockbuster Posts Estimated $350 Million Domestic and $859 Million International Debuts International Gross Includes Record Estimated $330.5 Million Opening in China BURBANK, Calif. – April 28, 2019 – Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Endgame” made history this weekend with a record-shattering estimated global debut of $1,209.0 million, becoming the first film in history to surpass $1 billion in its opening weekend. It reached the billion-dollar threshold in just five days, more than twice as fast as its predecessor “Avengers: Infinity War,” which held the record at 11 days. The film also set domestic and international records. “Kevin Feige and the Marvel Studios...

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Studio Weekend Estimates: Avengers: Endgame Shatters Records On Its Way to Breathtaking $350M Domestic, $1.209B Global Debut

Avengers: Endgame exploded into multiplexes this weekend to resounding acclaim and extraordinary box office returns, smashing nearly every record in the books and stunning even the most bullish of industry pundits on its way to an unbelievable $350 million opening, far surpassing the $257.6 million record held by last year’s Avengers: Infinity War and becoming the first movie in history to surpass $300 million in its opening weekend in North America. The debut represents an enormous 36% jump over Infinity War‘s already-massive debut weekend and the highest per-theater average of all time ($75K) for a film opening in wide release, easily besting Star Wars: The Force Awakens‘ previous record of $59,982. Overseas, Endgame easily broke not only The Fate of the Furious‘s international opening-weekend record of $443.1 million but Infinity War‘s global opening weekend...

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Sinemia Ends U.S. Subscription Service “Effective Immediately”

Earlier today, Sinemia announced via a statement on its website that the their third-party subscription service in the U.S. would be coming to an end, “effective immediately.” Originally launched in 2014, Sinemia offered subscription services in Australia and several European markets before expanding to North America in 2018. Like its rival MoviePass, Sinemia offered a third-party subscription service to moviegoers, allowing them to buy tickets—a variable number, depending on the individual users’ plan—to different cinema chains. Sinemia’s real competition proved to be not the much-beleaguered MoviePass, however, but chain-specific subscription services like AMC A-List and Cinemark Movie Club, both of which have seen substantial growth over the last year. As put in Sinemia’s statement: “[W]e didn’t see a path to sustainability as an independent movie ticket subscription...

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AMC Theatres Has 10 Million Seats and 58,000 Screenings of Avengers: Endgame This Weekend

PRESS RELEASE — LEAWOOD, Kan.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– AMC Theatres® (NYSE:AMC), the largest theatrical exhibitor in the United States and the world, today announced that in response to eye-popping advance sales for AVENGERS: ENDGAME and having just set an all-time record for Thursday night box office sales, the Company has shattered its previous record for single-movie screenings over a weekend. The approximately 58,000 AVENGERS: ENDGAME showtimes that AMC is programming from Thursday night through Sunday ensures that millions of tickets remain available for movie fans this weekend. The 58,000 show starts this weekend is 10,000 more than the previous record weekend, held by the opening weekend of AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR in 2018. This gives moviegoers approximately 10 million possible AMC seats in which to watch AVENGERS: ENDGAME on its opening weekend. This represents another...

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Long Range Tracking: Toy Story 4 & Child’s Play

This week’s report takes a first look at the anticipated Pixar sequel, as well as another remake of a classic ’80s/’90s horror franchise. Toy Story 4 Opening Weekend Range: $105 – 125 million PROS: The Toy Story franchise remains beloved by families and Pixar fans after 24 years in action, and the nine-year gap between sequels could serve to aid anticipation — as well as introduce the series to a new generation of kids. Reactions to early teaser trailers for this sequel have been largely very positive, with new characters like Forky and the stuffed animals voiced by Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key standing out so far. This will represent the last tentpole, computer-animated comedy of the summer, which should bode well if reviews and word of mouth are strong as they have been for each of the first three films. CONS: Following up Toy Story 3 could be a bigger challenge...

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Avengers: Endgame Surpasses Force Awakens Domestic Preview Record w/ $60M, Reaches $305M Overseas In Two Days

Friday Report: Disney reports this morning that Avengers: Endgame took in a record $60 million in Thursday night earnings domestically, overtaking the previous record of $57 million held by Star Wars: The Force Awakens. This also bests the $39 million of last year’s Avengers: Infinity War by a 54 percent, providing an early signal that this weekend is not only in store for a record performance, but one of perhaps monumental significance. Check our our full analysis here. Overseas, the Marvel Cinematic Universe epic has opened in 46 markets now and earned a staggering $305 million in its first two days. We’ll be updating this post as more reports come in. Key notes and territory earnings breakdowns from Disney: The film has so far registered the highest all-time industry single day  in China (incl. midnights), Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand,...

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Weekend Forecast: Avengers: Endgame Poised to Shatter Domestic & Global Box Office Records

Without embracing too much hyperbole, it’s safe to say that one of the most anticipated films of all time is set to debut this weekend as Avengers: Endgame prepares to take the global box office by storm. The film represents a finale to the unprecedented 22-chapter Infinity Saga began by 2008’s Iron Man, and while the Marvel Cinematic Universe will continue for years to come, Endgame represents the end of the line for its first major over-arching story — and, perhaps, a few leading characters. Be sure to check out our interview with co-director Joe Russo for his thoughts on what the film and the franchise mean to fans and moviegoers around the world. Recent tracking has suggested that the film is on course for an historic domestic launch, but pinpointing its exact trajectory has become one of the most daunting box office subjects on record. Since this film clearly has...

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Trailer Impact: Avengers: Endgame Highest Recall at 28.1% and Most Interest in a Cinema View at 77.0%

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Samsung Showcases New Display Solutions at Latest Executive Briefing Center in Irvine

PRESS RELEASE IRVINE, CA – April 25, 2019 – Today, Samsung Electronics America, Inc. announced the opening of the latest Executive Briefing Center (EBC) in Irvine, California. The 7,500 sq. ft. state-of-the-art facility features the full Samsung digital display, commercial TV and monitor portfolio. The new location is the third briefing center for Samsung in the United States behind New Jersey and New York, and the first in California. The EBC will be open five days a week from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. PDT and is in the center of Orange County. “Samsung has a rich history of innovative display solutions and we are thrilled at the opportunity to showcase our technology, built for business at the new EBC,” says Mario DiAntonio, Team Leader – B2B Technical Account Management at Samsung Electronics America. “This world-class center will be a space where...

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Avengers: Endgame Brings in $169M from Opening Day Overseas

Avengers: Endgame is off to a $169 million start from 25 material markets overseas. Disney is reporting higher opening day grosses for Endgame than its predecessor, Avengers: Infinity War, in each major market already in release. China is currently leading the pack with a $107.5 million opening day haul (including midnight screenings), the highest industry debut of all time in the world’s second-biggest movie market.   The roll-out continues today with releases in Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Israel, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Panama, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad, Bolivia, Chile, and Colombia. The domestic release is scheduled for tomorrow, when it will open in a record 4,662+ screens, including over 3,900 3D locations, 410 IMAX screens, 785 Premium Large Format screens and 250 immersive seating...

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What’s Hot This Summer: The Lion King Leads the Pack on Social Platforms

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Metrocinemas in Honduras to Outfit First All-RBG Multiplex in Central America with Christie Projectors and Audio

PRESS RELEASE CYPRESS, Calif. – (April 24, 2019) – Honduran cinema chain Metrocinemas has chosen ChristieÒ RGB pure laser projectors and Christie Vive Audio™ for its new Metrocinemas Megamall multiplex. The multiplex is set to be the first in Central America equipped entirely with RGB laser projectors. Located in the largest shopping center in San Pedro Sula, the industrial capital of Honduras, it will be the country’s most modern and attractive multiplex. With a total seating capacity of 1,007, its eight theaters will be outfitted with Christie CP2315-RGB and Christie CP2320-RGB projectors – featuring Christie RealLaser™ lighting technology – which ensure unprecedented levels of brightness, color and contrast. Audiences will now enjoy clear, detailed images and crisp sound from every seat in the house. A...

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Avengers: Endgame Sets Opening Day Record In China with $107.2M

Wednesday Report: Disney announced this morning that Avengers: Endgame posted a massive $107.2 million (RMB719M) opening day in China, representing a combination of $28.2 million (RMB189M) from midnight shows and Wednesday’s estimate of $79.0 million (RMB530M). Additional notes from the studio: This represents the highest industry opening day of all-time in China (both local and foreign), surpassing the previous opening day record held by Monster Hunt 2 (RMB547M) which did not have midnights but did open on the first day of Chinese New Year, as well as Fast 8’s RMB480M (including RMB62M midnights) and Avengers: Infinity War’s RMB447M (including RMB60M midnights).  Social reaction has been strong with Maoyan currently scoring 9.3 and Douban currently scoring 9.1.  A 9.3 Maoyan score would represent the highest Maoyan score ever posted by a MCU title. More...

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Why Superheroes and the Big Screen Experience Still Matter: An Interview with Avengers: Endgame Co-Director Joe Russo

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Avengers: Endgame Selling Out More than 4,000 Showtimes on Fandango

The company’s press release: LOS ANGELES (April 23, 2019) – With just a few days left before the year’s most anticipated film hits theaters, Fandango is reporting that more than 4,000 “Avengers: Endgame” showtimes have already sold out at theaters across the country – from big cities to small towns, from Hilo, Hawaii to Newington, New Hampshire. The nation’s theater chains are constantly posting new showtimes and adding new screens for “Endgame” on Fandango to meet the fan demand.   “Endgame” is leading this week’s presales and earning a rare and perfect 100 out of 100 points on Fandango’s Fanticipation movie buzz index. “Endgame” is pacing to be Fandango’s biggest preseller of all time.   In preparation for “Endgame,” fans are also rushing out to catch “Captain Marvel,” which debuted to huge numbers in March. “Captain Marvel” is #4 on Fandango’s Fanticipation...

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B&B Theatres Opens New MX4D Theater in Overland Park, Kansas

PRESS RELEASE Los Angeles, California April 23 – B&B Theatres has opened another MX4D theatre system, bringing the theatre chain’s total to six. “Our continued partnership with MediaMation (MMI) proves our belief in MX4D.” says Brock Bagby, Executive Vice President of B&B Theatres. Situated on the Kansas/Missouri state line, the Overland Park is the second largest city in Kansas with nearly 200,000 residents. The theatre also has the ability to draw from the nearby Kansas City metropolitan area, which boasts almost 500,000. The state-of-the-art seats for all locations feature a full range of motion and effects to enhance Hollywood’s latest releases. Moving beyond standard 3D, they utilize MMI’s newly patented EFX armrest which allows for every customer to have a better communal experience across an entire theater. Additional atmospheric effects include wind,...

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Harkins Theatres Announces Expansion to Arizona and Colorado

PRESS RELEASE Scottsdale, AZ, April 23, 2019 – Harkins Theatres is proud to announce the company’s expansion plans in Arizona and Colorado with two new 12-screen multiplexes coming to Laveen, AZ and Northglenn, CO. Both new theatres will showcase the newest innovations in state-of-the-art digital projection and sound, the highest quality luxury amenities and elevated concessions offerings. With the addition of the new theatres, Harkins will operate 36 locations and 539 screens across five states. Founded in 1933, Harkins is the largest independently owned movie exhibitor in the country. “There is nothing we love more than entertaining our guests,” says Dan Harkins, Owner and Executive Chairman of Harkins Theatres. “We are overjoyed when we have the opportunity to share our programs and amenities with new friends and look forward to becoming part of the Laveen and...

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