Favourites return to the big screen Vue Cinema opens its doors again

Moviegoing audiences in North America are not rushing back to the theater just yet. In the second major weekend for U.S.

Nancy Tartaglione, Anthony D'Alessandro Christopher Nolan’s Tenet launched in the Middle Kingdom on Friday grossing RMB 62.3M, which included previews, translating into a $9.2M take. Pic’s day, at $8.6M, bested local epic The Eight Hundred which is estimated to have grossed $8.2M for a running total of $323.9M.It’s not certain yet if Tenet will best Eight Hundred for the top spot at China’s weekend box office.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefTwo apartments in Beijing that are home to movie star Jackie Chan are being forcibly put up for auction. The reason appears to be an ownership dispute.The adjacent apartments in a residential compound in the capital city’s Dongzhimen district are where Chan and his family have lived since 2007.

Glitzy film premieres could return to Leicester Square by next year and cinema-goers will return to socially-distanced screenings at pre-Covid levels in six months, according to the boss of the Vue cinema chain.

Emiliano Granada Over the last five years, presented by industry icons such as Guillermo del Toro, Ron Perlman and Vincenzo Natali, the Sitges Pitchbox has been built up by its organizers, Filmarket Hub and the Sitges Festival, into the industry centerpiece of Sitges itself, a pilgrimage destination for fantastic film creators and fans worldwide.A movie project showcase, the Sitges Pitchbox Online 2020 will for the first time also feature genre series drawn from Europe, as the Sitges Pitchbox

Superhero genre pic The New Mutants opened to $7 million from 2,412 theaters in North America as struggling cinemas reopen amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. From 20th Century and Disney, the long-delayed horror movie is one of the first titles to launch nationwide after a five-month theater shutdown across the U.S.

Dave McNary Film ReporterWith North American moviegoing slowly resuming, the X-Men spinoff “The New Mutants” opened with a solid $3.1 million at 2,412 locations on Friday.That first-day figure portends a weekend opening in line with Disney’s forecast of $7 million to $10 million.

Dave McNary Film ReporterWith North American moviegoing slowly coming back, Disney’s “The New Mutants” delivered a respectable $750,000 in Thursday night previews domestically.The “X-Men” spinoff has been tracking for an opening weekend of $7 million to $10 million at 2,412 locations. The preview number matches “Stuber,” which went on to open with a $8.2 million weekend in July 2019.

Bill & Ted Face the Music are in.The long-awaited third film in the Keanu Reeves-led franchise premiered at Fantasia Film Festival this week, with initial reactions now rating the film as 79% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of writing.Bill & Ted Face the Music finds Reeves’ Ted and Alex Winter’s Bill now middle-aged, tasked with saving the world by creating a song in 78 minutes with their families – they’re both fathers now – and friends old and new.IGN called the film “no mere exercise in

Visitors will be asked to wear face coverings when entering any internal enclosed spaces, in line with Scottish Government guidance.Capacity will be reduced on site and tickets must be booked online in advance.

I have yet to see “Tenet,” but I’m pretty sure Tom Cruise isn’t in it. And unless Christopher Nolan is really Tom Cruise in a “Mission: Impossible”-style mask, then the actor didn’t direct it, either.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefChinese war film, “The Eight Hundred” achieved a cumulative box office score of more than $40 million by late afternoon on its opening day, Friday.By 5pm local time, the film had notched up RMB62.7 million or $9.04 million, according to data from China Box Office and Ent Group. That added to $31.8 million of previews earned on Friday last week and the days between Monday and Wednesday this week.The film enjoyed an 86% market share.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorTracee Ellis Ross certainly welcomes the Television Academy nominating a record number of Black actors for 2020 Emmys, but she also recognizes that it’s long overdue. “It’s about time,” Ross, who goes into the big night as a four-time nominee for her work as Dr.

Rebecca Davis editorPeter Chan’s hotly anticipated biographical sports drama “Leap” is set to hit China on Sept. 30, becoming the first of the Chinese New Year blockbusters canceled due to COVID-19 to set a theatrical outing.Local animation “Jiang Ziya: Legend of Deification,” which was also originally scheduled to premiere over the lunar new year, will premiere the day after.