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Also Read: 2. Tentpoles like “Jungle Cruise” are still finding it tough going in theaters. Subscription and paid streaming revenue from Disney+ may change the metrics of profitability for “Jungle Cruise,” but it is still a $200 million blockbuster with a high bar to clear to break out of the red. Were it not for the opaque nature of the hybrid release and the fact that the studio pockets more of premium streaming revenue than of ticket sales, the numbers for “Jungle Cruise” would ha...

Tech giant's acquisition of a legacy studio marks a "watershed moment" in Hollywood history, one analyst says

The Season 5 premiere on Jan. 20, 2021 had a 0.39 rating among adults 18-49, according to Nielsen, and 1.175 million total viewers. Those numbers, like all in this story, include one week of delayed (mostly DVR) viewing. The next “Riverdale” episode got a 0.34 rating and 985,000 total viewers. The one after that received a 0.36 rating and 1.017 million total viewers. The Feb. 10 time-jump episode scored a 0.40 rating and 1.029 million total viewers. That evening, “Riverdale” flashed sev...

The $48.5 million 5-day opening of Warner Bros/Legendary’s “Godzilla vs. Kong” was fueled by the widest release for a film since the start of the pandemic at 3,064 theaters, compared to 2,860 for Warner Bros.’ “Tenet” back in September. But by comparison, the film’s 2019 predecessor, “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” opened in 4,108 locations. That approximately 1,000-theater difference isn’t entirely attributable to Canada. All of the top U.S. markets are still in the proce...

Answering common questions on NFTs, the popular digital assets that are, in some cases, selling for millions

Oprah Winfrey's Sunday CBS interview of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry drew a heck of a TV audience -- just not as large as Princess Di in '95

This year feels like some kind of balance has been achieved. There is no mistaking these films for tokens or placeholders

It should be a good night for Fox, ratings-wise. Last week, the dramas — created by showrunner Minear along with executive producers Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk — drove Fox to its most-watched Monday night in five years. (Fox, like The CW, only nationally programs a two-hour primetime window on weeknights, typically leaving 10 p.m. for local news. CBS, NBC, ABC and others nationally program 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.) The Season 4 premiere for the original “9-1-1” averaged 10.7 million total vi...

With linear-TV ratings (and live-event attendance, even when there were live events) dwindling and a general trend toward media consolidation, it has been within the realm of possibility that WWE could be acquired by an existing partner — like an NBCU, which prior to the five-year Peacock streaming deal already aired several WWE productions, or Fox, the home of “SmackDown.” The deal for WWE’s streaming content indisputably makes NBCUniversal the pro-wrestling company’s closest partner...

As Hollywood awards season begins lurching into action, movie business insiders say one key element is missing: the buzz.