‘Tenet’ Fever Grips U.K., Claiming Over Half of Ticket Sales for Vue Cinema Chain (EXCLUSIVE)

Naman Ramachandran As expected, Christopher Nolan’s keenly awaited “Tenet” topped the U.K. and Ireland box office over the past week, collecting £5,335,654 ($7.16 million), according to final numbers from Comscore.Warner Bros.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Here’s the first good sign we’ve gotten on advance tickets sales for Warner Bros.’ Tenet, particularly here in the U.S.Movio cinema analytics corp tells Deadline that pre-sales for Christopher Nolan’s latest is outpacing his previous movies Interstellar and Dunkirk at the same point in their advance sales cycle for the U.S., United Kingdom and Australia.In the UK and Australia, Movio measured two days before the pic’s opening

Eduardo Leal, head of screen content at Vue Entertainment, said: “It feels great to be welcoming customers through our doors again, and with such a fantastic and diverse array of classic content, we really want them to know that cinema is back.“Now more than ever, great stories need a big screen, and I think the programme we have coming up in the coming weeks features some of the best ever examples of why film really is best enjoyed in the top quality screen and sound that we offer.”Vue is also

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefNext week’s virtual FilMart will mark the market debut for newly-launched Blossoms Entertainment, a film sales agency based in mainland China. Among its available titles, the new outfit will be representing partial rights to Chinese blockbuster “The Eight Hundred.”Blossoms is owned and headed by Vicky Ding, an executive with sales and distribution experience at Beijing Culture and the now-defunct Hollywood sales and finance group IM Global.

Naman Ramachandran Warner Bros.’ 10th anniversary rerelease of Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” topped the U.K. and Ireland box office with £207,675 ($273,733), according to final numbers released by Comscore.“Inception” released midweek on Aug.

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.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterChinese entertainment giant Maoyan, the country’s leading online ticketing provider, has posted its interim financials for the first half of a pandemic-disrupted 2020, with the company swinging to a loss of RMB 430.7M ($62M), compared with a profit of RMB 257.4M ($37M) in the same period last year.Revenue took a drastic tumble from RMB 1,984.6M ($285.9M) in the first half of 2019 to RMB203.1M ($29.3M) January-June this year, largely due to the closure of

Naman Ramachandran The Vue cinema chain is on the verge of securing an additional £100 million ($131.2 million) in debt financing, in order to stave off the impact of the coronavirus crisis, according to a report by Sky News.Variety reached out to Vue for confirmation, but the company declined to comment.In June 2019, Vue successfully refinanced its debt worth £813 million ($1.06 billion) that will now mature in 2026.

In a world filled with subpar cinema chains, where watching a film can be more of an annoyance than the enjoyable experience it is meant to be, the Alamo Drafthouse is supposed to be different. The chain has more than 40 locations in the US and is supposed to be focused on making the theatrical experience much more enjoyable than other places, with better food and stricter movie-watching policies.

"We can’t believe what has happened, and we are struggling to come to terms with this terrible tragedy."As a family, we would appreciate some privacy at this devastating time.” Police have released images of a group of men they think 'may hold significant information' about his death.The men are believed to have travelled to Wigan from the Merseyside area.CCTV footage released over the weekend shows a group of men walking past a Chinese takeaway on Wallgate just moments before Steven was

Rebecca Davis editorCinemas in some parts of China have been told that they may now sell up to 50% of their available tickets for each screening and play films over two hours in length without restrictions starting from Aug.

Robert Pattinson opened up in a brand new interview about how he juggled his screen tests for The Batman, while filming Tenet at the exact same time.

Nothing was going to get in Robert Pattinson’s way of auditioning for “Batman”, including filming “Tenet”.

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