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Last Year’s Sundance Boasted Record Film Sales – But Did They Pay Off?
The performance of films like “CODA” and “Passing” shows how the metrics of success are changing as the indie film market moves away from theaters
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Why Sundance Film Buyers Are Bracing for Red-Hot Sales After Last Year’s Record Deals
“There’s only more aggressive worldwide buyers and studios than there were last year,” Bleecker Street’s Kent Sanderson says of the 2022 market
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How ‘Scream’ Reboot Scored as the Year’s First Box Office Hit
Young horror buffs pushed the slasher film to a $34 million four-day opening
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Will ‘Scream’ Scare ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Off the Box Office Throne?
Paramount’s horror revival seeks to stop Sony’s runaway hit from earning its fifth No. 1 weekend spot
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This Year’s Box Office Faces a Brutal Start, Made Worse by Omicron
While a winter slate light on big-budget tentpoles, theaters might be stuck waiting for “The Batman” to arrive
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Why Nobody in the Industry Uses the Word ‘TV’ Anymore
The term is complicated and anachronistic, industry execs like Warner Studios CEO Ann Sarnoff tell TheWrap: “We’re consuming omnimedia”
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Inside Disney’s Wild 2021 Box Office: Hybrid Releases, New Marvel Heroes and ScarJo Feud
2021 Box Office Report Card: Disney used its status as Hollywood’s top dog to experiment with releasing strategies — but not without some major pushback
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Sony Struck Box Office Gold With Spider-Man in 2021 – But Not Much Else
2021 Box Office Report Card: Sequels to “Spider-Man,” “Venom” and “Ghostbusters” made up nearly all of the studio’s $1.1 billion year
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Streaming Is a ‘3-Horse Race’ Among Netflix, Disney+ and HBO Max, WarnerMedia Boss Says
“2021 has been a year that HBO Max broke through,” Jason Kilar says to trumpet company hitting 73.8 million global subscribers
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Inside Paramount’s Quiet Place at the Box Office, Sidelined in Hopes of a 2022 Rebound
2021 Box Office Report Card: Aside from “A Quiet Place — Part II,” Paramount chose not to release any major films as theaters reopened
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How Universal Mined Sequels and Flexibility on Streaming to Survive at 2021 Box Office
2021 Box Office Report Card: Universal scored hits with theatrical exclusives like “F9” while experimenting with streaming with “Halloween Kills” and “Boss Baby 2”
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Will Streaming Peak and 10 More Questions for Hollywood in 2022
Expect another busy year
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How Warner Bros.’ HBO Max Experiment Led to Mixed Box Office Results
2021 Box Office Report Card: Warner’s top execs stand by their day-and-date experiment that saw a surge in streaming subscribers but little success in theaters
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5 Predictions for Hollywood in 2022: Roku Will Buy a Studio and More
“We’re seeing that greater rise in time spent on gaming,” Jana Arbanas, of Deliotte, says about another trend to watch in 2022
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Can ‘Matrix Resurrections’ (or Any Movie) Compete With ‘Spider-Man’ at Christmas Box Office?
Lana Wachowski’s fourth “Matrix” film leads a handful of wide and limited releases competing against both “No Way Home” and the COVID surge
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