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Sean Baker's Red Rocket, the highest-profile specialty opening to report numbers this weekend (i.e. not distributed by a streamer) posted a solid $96,953 for a per screen average of $16,158 in six theaters in New York/Los Angeles. Critics are calling the film about a washed up porn star returning to his hostile Texas…

Netflix released a treasure trove of data on its most popular movies and series that threw new light onto just how incredibly popular some of its offerings have been. What’s more, the streamer committed to doing so on a weekly basis. The weekly data will reflect total hours viewed, rather than the company's previous…

Netflix announced this week that Squid Game had rocketed to the top of its most-watched series in a little more than a month, after the biggest launch in the streaming giant's history in terms of household views. The South Korean action drama replaced the streamer’s 2020 smash, Bridgerton: Season 1. Below is the list…

Consumer enthusiasm for the return of in-person events combined with deeper digital engagement during the pandemic will allow both to thrive, according to a new study by UTA IQ, the research arm of the giant agency. The report, Virtual + Reality: The Future of Digital & Live Entertainment in a Post-Pandemic World…

With more and more theatrical features being released via premium video on demand [PVOD], Nielsen is launching a dedicated tool to capture movie viewing. The company officially calls it Theatrical Video On-Demand, or TVOD, but the rankings will encompass PVOD titles that have had to skip or curtail theatrical runs due…

EXCLUSIVE: Sundance Selects has acquired U.S. rights to French director Jacques Audiard’s latest, currently untitled, feature film. The film, currently shooting, centers on a Sri-Lankan Tamil warrior who flees his war-torn country and seeks asylum in France as a political refugee, posing as a husband and father to two…

The force is strong in Pinewood. The eighth instalment of the Star Wars franchise will shoot at the UK’s Pinewood Studios, Pinewood Shepperton chief exec Ivan Dunleavy confirmed in a far-reaching keynote address at the annual conference of the Confederation of British Industry. The confab, which brings together…

Alex Walton’s sales and financing company Bloom has racked up strong sales for director Michael Apted’s Unlocked, starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Douglas and Orlando Bloom. The film, which also stars John Malkovich and Toni Collette, is a female Jason Bourne-style thriller produced by Lorenzo Di Bonaventura alongside…

Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp has signed a multi-year output deal with Canadian distributor VVS Films. The first project to come through the  deal, which will see VVS acquire and distribute all of EuropaCorp’s films in Canada, will be Transporter: Legacy, the franchise reboot scheduled for release June 19, 2015. EuropaCorp…

French sales agent-distributor-producer Wild Bunch has acquired international rights to sell Oliver Stone’s untitled Edward Snowden pic starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the title role. The project, currently in pre-production, starts principal photography in January in Munich. As previously reported by…

Radius-TWC co-president Tom Quinn told me Wednesday night’s Los Angeles Film Festival opener Snowpiercer is going to have a unique rollout when it launches against formidable competition, Transformers: Age Of Extinction, on June 27. Although that sounds like a suicide mission for another action-oriented picture…

Doris Day, the actress whose girl-next-door image helped her to become a  huge Hollywood box office draw in the 1950s and ’60s, has been named to receive this year’s Career Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Although Day stopped acting in the mid-1970s and became a high-profile animal…