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First Look: 'Alvin 2' Beats 'Avatar'
23 December 2009 10:59 PM, PST
Wednesday Pm: First look at tonight's box office... Analysis coming... Top 10 1. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (Fox) Wed $19M [3,656 runs] New 2. Avatar (Fox) Wed $16M [3,456 runs] Week 1 3. The Princess And The Frog (Disney) Wed $2.4M [3,475 runs] Week 5 4. The Blind Side (Alcon/Warner Bros) Wed $2.3M [2,760 runs] Week 6 5. Up In The Air (Paramount) Wed $1.8M [1,895] Week 4 6. Did You Hear About The Morgans? (Sony) Wed $1.M [2,718] Week 1 7. A Christmas Carol (Disney) Wed $1.M [1,245] Week 8 8. New Moon (Summit) Wed $950K [1,593] Week 6 9. Invictus (Warner Bros) Wed $777K [2,160] Week 3 10. Brothers (Relativity/Lionsgate) Wed $500K [...] »
- Nikki Finke
'Alvin 2' Beating 'Avatar' in Online Tickets
23 December 2009 12:31 PM, PST
It's 20th Century Fox vs 20th Century Fox. So reports big online ticketseller Fandango as of 11 Am Pt. James Cameron’s Avatar continues to be a strong seller on Fandango (and 32% of Avatar filmgoers surveyed on the site say they’ll see it more than once). But Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel is actually outselling the sci-fi epic in ticket sales today when it opens. Avatar is going into its 2nd weekend Friday. Also today Paramount's Up In The Air is opening wide. Fandango says The Squeakquel has turned out to be Fandango’s top family pre-seller of 2009. Its [...] »
- Nikki Finke
Toldja! Official: Chris Albrecht To Starz
22 December 2009 1:24 AM, PST
Updates Exclusive: Ex-hbo Chief Chris Albrecht To Be Named New CEO Of Starz This announcement will be going out Tuesday: Englewood, Colo, Dec. 22 - Liberty Media Corporation announced today that Chris Albrecht, former Chairman and CEO of HBO, will join Starz, LLC as its President and CEO. He will oversee all of the Starz entities, including Starz Entertainment, Overture Films, Anchor Bay Entertainment and Film Roman and will assume his new role beginning January 1, 2010. “We are excited to have an industry leader with an exceptional track record join the Starz team,” said Greg Maffei, Liberty Media President and CEO. “With [...] »
- Nikki Finke
Exclusive: Ex-hbo Chief Chris Albrecht To Be Named New CEO Of Starz
21 December 2009 10:40 PM, PST
Update: Toldja! It's Official: Chris Albrecht To Head Starz Monday Pm Exclusive: I've learned that Liberty Media chairman John Malone and CEO Greg Maffei are installing former HBO chairman/CEO Chris Albrecht as head of Starz. Sources tell me Albrecht's title will be CEO (and maybe also president), and the announcement could come as soon as this week. Starz previous CEO Robert Clasen is retiring. Albrecht's appointment is further proof that Starz is fast-tracking its move into more original programming, which was Albrecht's specialty at HBO ffor 22 years beginning in 1985. In 2007, Albrecht was asked to resign before the Time Warner shareholders meeting after his arrest for allegedly assaulting a woman in [...] »
- Nikki Finke
Toldja! Rave Buys Up To 35 of Redstone's National Amusements Theater Complexes
21 December 2009 12:35 PM, PST
Updates Exclusive: Rave To Acquire 35 National Amusements Complexes I had this scoop back on December 7th. (Shame on the Los Angeles Times for trying to grab credit.) Today there's an official announcement: Dallas, TX – December 21, 2009 – Rave Cinemas, LLC (“Rave”), a newly formed company, announced that earlier this month it reached a definitive agreement with National Amusements, Inc. (“Nai”) to purchase the business operations and selected real estate assets of up to 35 Nai theaters and that it closed on the acquisition of an initial group of 29 of those theaters. Concurrently, the company acquired the business operations [...] »
- Nikki Finke
News Corp Negotiations To Buy MGM "Screeched To A Standstill"
21 December 2009 11:25 AM, PST
News Corp insiders tell me: "Our negotiations screeched to a standstill Friday night. We’re at an impasse over a highly restrictive (and unusual) provision in their 'must sign Nda [Non-Disclosure Agreement]'. So who knows what will happen next? But for now it’s 'Pens Down'." This isn't good news for the embattled film studio MGM which has been teetering on the brink of bankruptcy because of its crushing $4 billion debt. So it's on the block and sent confidentiality agreements to about 20 interested parties last month including News Corp, Time Warner, Lionsgate, Sony, etc. (Also, see my previous Exclusive: Carl [...] »
- Nikki Finke
Fox Revises Figures: 'Avatar' No. 2 December Record With $77.025M Domestic; Opens To $242.5M Worldwide
21 December 2009 10:30 AM, PST
Breaking News! (check for constantly updated and inserted info) Monday Am 4th Update: 20th Century Fox keeps refining its figures to show James Cameron's Avatar actuals were better than expected -- Friday: $26,752,099, Saturday: $25,529,036, Sunday: $24,744,346. Grosses dropped only -3% from Saturday to Sunday and finished the weekend with an opening number of $77.025481 million (not $77.3M or $76.8M or $73M as the studio previously reported). That placed second to 2D I Am Legend's $77.2M record for best December debut ever at the domestic box office. Internationally, the epic surisingly shot up +3% from Saturday to Sunday for $165.5M (not $159.2M) in 106 countries. That's a [...] »
- Nikki Finke
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