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in CinemaCon, Clockwork, News, novid, Sean Baker, Ti Amo!, Warner Bors.Warner Bros. Confirms New Specialty Label; Sean Baker’s ‘Ti Amo!’ Is First Pic
Warner Bros. Pictures today confirmed its new specialty film label, as Deadline revealed in December. The studio’s during CinemaCon presentation revealed the division’s named — Warner Bros Clockwork — and its first film acquisition, Ti Amo!, from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Sean Baker. Warner Bros. Clockwork has acquired global distribution rights for the film, excluding France, and will be releasing it in theaters […] More
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List Of Hollywood & Media Layoffs From Paramount To Warner Bros Discovery To CNN & More
Media layoffs across the entertainment industry are hitting hard after last year’s avalanche of job cuts. The unfortunate trend can still be felt following the Covid-19 pandemic, dual Hollywood strikes and — the latest event to hit Los Angeles hard: a series of wildfires that broke out in January 2025. As the entertainment industry still […] More
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Cory Booker To Hold Hearing On Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), the top Democrat on the Senate antitrust subcommittee, will hold a “spotlight hearing” on Wednesday on Paramount‘s proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Booker also has invited Paramount CEO David Ellison to testify, follow up on previous letters asking him to appear. A “spotlight hearing” is not an official hearing on […] More
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Cinema United CEO Warns Of Concentrating Market Power In Paramount, Warner Bros. Merger – CinemaCon
President and CEO of Cinema United, Michael O’Leary put the biggest annual gathering of theater owners on alert today about the risks of “concentrating marketplace power in the hands of a smaller group of distributors that dictate the terms, windows, scheduling, screen-placement of movies, and access to historic film catalogs.” Noting “the ongoing efforts to […] More
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Paramount-Warner Bros: UK Competition Watchdog Seeks Views On Deal
The UK’s antitrust authority has taken its first step towards launching a formal investigation into the $110 billion merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery. The Competition and Markets Authority said it was seeking comments from interested parties ahead of commencing a deeper examination of a deal that will reshape the global media landscape. Related […] More
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CinemaCon 2026: Paramount And Warner Bros Merger Plan Has Exhibitors’ Attention
What a difference a year makes. Last year at the start of CinemaCon, we were questioning the existence of theatrical after a dead first quarter, that had the domestic box office dragging -11% behind 2024 (this is all before A Minecraft Movie turned the entire marketplace around, literally spiking its advance tickets as the industry […] More
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Theater Owners Urge State Attorneys General To Oppose Paramount-Warner Bros Deal
EXCLUSIVE: Nine days before Cinema United looks Paramount executives eye to eye at their Las Vegas confab, CinemaCon, the movie theater lobbyist org’s boss Michael O’Leary has fired off some letters this week. He wrote to the National Association of Attorneys General, the Democratic Attorneys General Association and the Republican Attorneys General Association about the […] More
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Box Office: ‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ $122M WW Ahead of ‘Super Mario Bros’
FRIDAY UPDATE: No mushrooms needed to enlarge these plumbers, but for the most part, they’re staying at the same girth from when they pounced around the world three years ago. Essentially, the global running box office of Super Mario Galaxy Movie has as much rocket fuel as the first movie, Super Mario Bros, and that’s […] More
