K.J. Yossman SkyShowtime, the joint streaming venture between Comcast and ViacomCBS, has received full regulatory approval.It will launch in Europe later this year.
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Powered by a slate of major tentpoles including Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home and MGM/Eon/Universal’s No Time To Die, Cineworld Group reports it generated positive cash flow for Q4 2021. The world’s second largest exhibitor, which owns Regal in the U.S., did not disclose dollar amounts, but released a trading update this morning for the six-month period ending December 31, 2021. The company will announce its full-year results on March 17.
Box office and concession revenues saw significant growth across the second half of 2021. Notably, group performance was at 50% of 2019 levels in July, increasing to 90% in October and with December reaching 88%. (November was at 56%, impacted by the release date shift of Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick which moved to May 2022.) In the U.S., Regal grew from 45% in July to 91% in December. In the UK, boosted by No Time To Die, October exceeded 2019 levels at 127% of that same month’s revenues two years prior.
Cineworld also confirmed that it served its notice of appeal of the decision by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in the case of Cineplex Inc against Cineworld on January 12. In December, the court had ruled that Cineworld “repudiated the transaction to acquire Cineplex” and awarded the Canadian company damages for breach of contract in the amount of $1.24B Canadian ($965M).
Along with No Time To Die and Spider-Man: No Way Home, recovery in 2021 was driven by a slate that included Disney/Marvel’s Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings, Black Widow and Eternals; Sony’s Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Warner Bros/Legendary’s Dune and Disney/20th Century Studios’ Free Guy.
Cineworld operates in 10 countries with 751 sites and 9,188 screens globally. In markets outside
K.J. Yossman SkyShowtime, the joint streaming venture between Comcast and ViacomCBS, has received full regulatory approval.It will launch in Europe later this year.
One Chicago franchise too. But with ten seasons under its belt already, has Chicago Fire got what it takes to go even further?MORE: Taylor Kinney sparks mixed reaction with new Chicago Fire set photo and season ten update As fans of the popular firefighting drama hit the internet to search for news of its renewal, we can in fact reveal that Firehouse 51 is safe for at least another season.
R Kelly has been granted a two week extension on the deadline to file an appeal against his conviction in the New York courts last year.The extension was required after he contracted COVID-19 in prison. His new lawyer Jennifer Bonjean says her client is “doing well” but that his illness is making it hard from him to discuss the case over the phone.At trial last September, Kelly was found guilty of building and running a criminal enterprise that allowed him to prolifically groom and abuse young people, often teenagers.
Jimmy Johnson was a legendary Chicago blues and soul guitarist who played with B.B. King, Magic Sam, and Otis Clay. Jimmy Johnson was an acclaimed Chicago blues guitarist and vocalist. He was born in Mississippi and moved to Chicago after an invitation from an uncle who lived there.
Sam Lay was a legendary Chicago blues drummer who played with Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Sam Lay started drumming for the Original Thunderbirds and then became the drummer for blues harmonica legend Little Walter. He was the regular drummer for Chicago Blues icon Muddy Waters band in the early 1960s.
Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul have shared another new track from their forthcoming joint album – listen to ‘Ceci n’est pas un cliché’ (‘This is not a cliché’) below.The pair’s debut album as a duo, ‘Topical Dancer’, will be released on March 4, 2022 via Deewee – the label owned by Soulwax, who co-wrote and co-produced the album.Speaking of the new track, the duo said: “This song is an accumulation of all the cliché lyrics so often used in pop music. It came about when we were touring and heard a song on the radio opening with ‘I was walking down the street’ which made us strongly cringe.
Nearly a quarter of a million current account switches took place during the last three months of 2021, as the number of customers ditching their bank to move elsewhere accelerated.
Jussie Smollett will be sentenced on March 10 after he was convicted of five of six counts in his hate crime hoax case, Fox News Digital can confirm. There will also be a status hearing on Thursday, Jan 27. In December, a jury found Smollett guilty on the first five counts, and he was acquitted on a sixth count of lying to a detective weeks after Smollett said he was attacked.
romance with Uncut Gems alum Julie Fox. The rapper seems to be quite consumed in the whirlwind of a relationship, but that’s far from the only way he’s been drawing attention to himself. Amid the relationship, he’s used social media to call out his soon-to-be-ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, over her alleged co-parenting methods.
Two women suffered spinal injuries after falling from a beauty spot above Dovestone Reservoir.
Weekly Covid infection rates are dropping in the UK, but a World Health Organisation (WHO) expert has said that the pandemic isn't over yet.
In the film, Banks plays Joy, a smart wife and assistant to her lawyer-husband who discovers that she has been diagnosed with a rare condition that could kill her if she carries her unborn baby to term. But when her abortion is denied by an all-male medical board, she finds refuge with a group of women involved in The Jane Collective, an underground group secretly providing abortions in Chicago.The Jane Collective was a service that ran from 1969 until 1973 when the Roe v.
Refresh for latest…: With an amazing $1.69B worldwide cume through Sunday, Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home has become the No. 6 film ever globally, passing Jurassic World ($1.67B) and The Lion King ($1.662B) to get there. This includes a running $970.1M from the international box office, which should portend an eventual $1B overseas gross — and without a China bump. Domestic is at $721M+.
Instagram post, the 79-year-old rock legend strongly condemned his song’s inclusion in the ad and alluded to retaliating with legal action:“The use of my song ‘Chicago’ by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s Children’s Health Defense movement in a video to promote his organization’s rally in Washington, D.C.
Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticThere are a whole lot of cigarettes in “Call Jane,” a detail — along with flip bob hairstyles and polyester pantsuits — that demonstrates director Phyllis Nagy’s commitment to the late-’60s period, even as it shows that the movie isn’t trying to tell women what to do with their bodies. Inspired by true events, this Sundance-blessed abortion drama takes place more than 50 years ago, but it could hardly be more timely today, as the Supreme Court considers several cases with the potential to roll back the freedoms granted by Roe v.
“The King’s Man”, Matthew Vaughn’s World War I-era prequel to the popular spy franchise, in theaters then you’re about to get your second chance. The film will debut on Hulu on Feb. 18, the streaming service announced on Tuesday.