‘No Time To Die’ Delayed To Easter Weekend 2021 As Pandemic Takes Grip At Box Office

Mark Schilling Japan Correspondent“Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train,” a Japanese action/adventure anime, was the best performing film in the world this weekend.Given an unusual Friday release, on 403 screens, by distributors Aniplex and Toho, the film earned $12 million on its opening day.

Just last week, after the surprise shutdown of Cineworld (and thus, Regal Cinemas locations) in the US and UK, AMC Theatres came out and told everyone that things should be just fine and the world’s largest cinema chain had no plans to shut down its theaters. Well, it appears that the CEO might have been speaking a bit too optimistically, as new statements from AMC point to a company on the verge of collapse.

Rebecca Davis editorChina’s patriotic “My People, My Homeland” has grossed $325 million as of Monday evening local time, earning more money in less than two weeks than the $323 million that Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” has grossed globally in over a month, according to data from Maoyan and Box Office Mojo.This weekend, the total China box office hit $68 million, once again far surpassing sales in North America, where cinemas earned less than $9.5 million.

We still have to wait a while before seeing if Cary Fukunaga was a worthy pick to take on the Bond franchise with “No Time to Die,” but it seems he already has some fans in the form of the franchise producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorThere has been some concern by industry insiders that the family film may have gone the way of the dinosaurs during the pandemic, particularly as Disney has taken its marquee theatrical releases Mulan and Soul to Disney+.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorThursday marked the end of the Chinese National Day holiday with the world’s second largest box office market significantly tightening the gap between its turnstiles and those of North America. Takings for the period are estimated at RMB 3.95B ($589M).

Jurassic World: Dominion is being pushed back.

Earlier today, we shared a piece about how a financial analyst predicted that the only way that theaters are going to be able to survive the uncertainty that is plaguing the theatrical business right now is if studios are willing to “take a hit” with a film. That means, even if a studio knows that a film is going to do less box office than anticipated, at least the theatrical business will be given a chance to survive.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaInvestors are worried about the fate of movie theaters after Cineworld announced that it was temporarily closing its U.K. locations and the U.S.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorHere’s something no one was really expecting at the weekend box office, especially during a depressed time when there aren’t any new major studio wide releases: Disney’s wide re-issue of 1993 cult classic witch comedy Hocus Pocus is doing rather well at 2,570 theaters on its way to what looks to be a $1.6M-$1.8M estimated weekend in the No.

The latest installment of the 007 franchise has once again been delayed from hitting theatre screens due to the ongoing pandemic.

official James Bond Twitter account wrote: “MGM, Universal and Bond producers, Michael G.

No Time to Die is no longer hitting theaters in 2020.