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☆ MoviePass CEO Stacy Spikes on his plans to relaunch the service (for real) and bring back an unlimited option
  + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +20 min
Stacy Spikes told Insider he plans to put MoviePass out of beta and make it available for all by the summer. You would think Spikes would want to run as far away as possible from the movie-ticket-subscription startup. Before Stacy Spikes created MoviePass he created the Urbanworld Film Festival. I wanted to put that down because I see so many times people approach me and think MoviePass was my first business. MoviePassThe MoviePass beta version is focused on the credits system, e-ticketing, and fixing bugsWhat have been the biggest challenges in getting this beta version of MoviePass off the ground?
☆ 'It's A Wonderful Life': See the classic Christmas film on the big screen this month
  + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Jeanne Bonner | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +11 min
Karolyn Grimes and James Stewart in "It's A Wonderful Life." Fathom has long wanted to revive showings of “It’s A Wonderful Life,” Carey said, noting that fans have been asking for it. No film is a failure if it has fansWhat’s long delighted film historians is the fact that when “It’s a Wonderful Life” debuted, it was largely deemed a wash. As film historian Jeanine Basinger writes in her compendium, “The It’s A Wonderful Life Book,” the original idea for the film languished for years before the studio RKO sold it to Capra in 1945 for a mere $10,000. William Edmunds and James Stewart in 1946's "It's A Wonderful Life."
☆ Bob Chapek's Disney angered Scarlett Johansson, Florida's governor, and more in his two-plus years as CEO
  + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Travis Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Disney announced Sunday that Bob Iger would return as CEO, replacing his successor Bob Chapek. Less than three years later, Chapek is out, and Iger, who led Disney through unprecedented success, is back in. By 2021, with theatrical attendance still rocky, Disney aimed to release some movies in theaters and, for a fee, onto Disney+ simultaneously. Star Scarlett Johansson sued Disney, claiming the move breached her contract, as her salary was based on a portion of box-office earnings. It also led to creatives speaking out on the lack of LGBTQ+ representation in Disney movies.
☆ 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' arrives when movie theaters need it most, after a months-long drought of blockbusters
  + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Travis Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
"Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" opened in theaters Thursday night. That leaves "Wakanda Forever" to pick up the slack and give theaters a much-needed win after a drought of blockbusters. The first "Black Panther" opened with $202 million in the US and some projections put the sequel in that range. "Wakanda Forever" opened on Thursday night with $28 million, more than the first movie's opening Thursday of $25 million. But after "Wakanda Forever," it's back to a drought.
☆ AMC CEO Adam Aron asks if he should lead the movement to urge a four-day workweek in the US
  + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Sarah Belle Lin | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
AMC CEO Adam Aron recently floated the idea of a four-day workweek on his Twitter. "Should I be out front urging a 4-day U.S. work week?," AMC Theatres CEO Adam Aron asked in one of two polls recently posted on Twitter. In his first poll, posted on Sept. 22, Aron asked Twitter users for their thoughts on four-day workweeks. In another post the same day, Aron's polled Twitter users on whether he should be a leading voice advocating for shorter workweeks. More than 70 companies in the UK recently started four-day workweek trials in June, Insider reported.
☆ Former Disney CEO says the pandemic left a 'permanent scar' on movie theaters, and that business will never return to pre-pandemic levels
  + stars: | 2022-09-08 | by ( Travis Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Bob Iger, the former CEO of Disney, said that the pandemic left a "permanent scar" on the movie business. Bob Iger, who retired from Disney at the end of 2021, said that the pandemic left a "permanent scar" on movie theaters. "I don't think movies ever return, in terms of moviegoing, to the level that they were at pre-pandemic," Iger said during Vox's annual Code Conference on Wednesday. Before he stepped aside as CEO and into an executive chairman role in early 2020, Iger led the launch of the Disney+ streaming service in November 2019. The head of the National Association of Theatre Owners, John Fithian, doesn't think movie supply will be back to pre-pandemic levels for another 12 to 18 months.
☆ The biggest blockbusters aren't in movie theaters right now — they're on TV: from 'The Rings of Power' to 'House of the Dragon'
  + stars: | 2022-09-07 | by ( Travis Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
The blockbusterization of TV has reached a peak with "The Rings of Power" and "House of the Dragon." Meanwhile, movie theaters are experiencing a dire lack of new releases. In fact, the future of "Star Wars" is largely streaming TV — a big loss for movie theaters. "The Rings of Power" is the most expensive TV series ever made, with a production budget of $465 million for the first season. Some examples: Apple is making a TV series set in the same universe as "Godzilla vs. Kong," and Disney is readying its own King Kong series.
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