Bon Jovi Is About to Rock Their First Drive-In Concert Billboard 2 hrs ago Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi have announced a brand new drive-in experience slated for May 22. The band has teamed up with Encore Live for the production company’s Encore Drive-In Nights 2021 concert series. The never-before-seen concert will be broadcast at venues around the world including approximately 300 drive-in and outdoor theaters across the United States, Canada and Ireland, and select indoor cinemas around the globe.
Bon Jovi’s show follows the Encore Drive-In Nights 2020 series, which hosted global superstars Metallica, Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani and Kane Brown and safely entertained nearly a million fans across North America.
Warner Bros’ blockbuster
Wonder Woman 1984 opened top of the UK-Ireland box office this weekend, grossing £545,000 from Friday to Sunday – a decent total given the limited number of available cinemas and reduced screen capacities.
The film was released on Wednesday 16, the day London and much of the south-east of England moved into ‘tier three’, requiring all cinemas in those regions to close (the regions have subsequently moved to a new tier four). It took £846,000 including the Wednesday and Thursday screenings, from 252 sites – an impressive average of £2,163 at the weekend.
This boosted the overall UK-Ireland box office, which was up 37.8% on the previous weekend with £1.39m, despite the aforementioned screen deficit.
Re-releases of festive favourites
Elf and
Home Alone led another quiet weekend at the UK-Ireland box office, which also included an event release about the UK girl group Little Mix and Melissa McCarthy comedy
Superintelligence.
Warner Bros’ re-release of Jon Favreau’s Christmas comedy
Elf held the top spot for a second week, taking £96,986 from 204 locations for a cume of £177,353. This was up on the £48,244 taken by the film the previous weekend, showing some growth, albeit small.
But with around two-thirds of all cinemas remaining closed in the territory, due to ongoing Covid-19 restrictions and a lack of major new releases, these figures are a fraction of the box office generated over the equivalent weekend last year when
By Dan Atkinson
December 11, 2020 14:54 GMT
On hearing that plans are advancing for a new theatre in London s West End, some may be tempted to echo the fictional civil servant Humphrey Appleby and declare it a courageous move . In this context, of course, courageous means foolhardy .
Co-Founders of Trafalgar Entertainment, Dame Rosemary Squire and Sir Howard Panter.
Trafalgar Entertainment
Sir Howard Panter, who, with his wife and business partner Dame Rosemary Squire, is the moving force behind the project, does not agree. The coronavirus and its accompanying restrictions, he says, have not changed the elemental need that has always drawn people to the performing arts.