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We all knew this day was coming. With the film world hungry for failed tech fodder on the heels of titles like The Drop Out and WeCrashed, some producer was bound to hit upon BlackBerry on the way to the inevitable 20-part Juicero…

Cinemark, for example, lost $ 208 million in the first quarter of 2021. "However, I am pleased to announce that we are now actively on the recovery path," said the company's CEO, Mark Zoradi, during a call for earnings.In business…

Dr. Aaron Stern, a psychiatrist who established himself as the director of Hollywood's film ratings agency in the early 1970s as a sentry to moviegoers against carnal imagery and violence, died in Manhattan on April 13th. He was 96 years…

ArcLight Cinemas, a popular chain of Los Angeles-based cinemas, including the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, will permanently close all locations, Pacific Theaters said on Monday after the pandemic decimated cinema business.ArcLight's…

(L to R) Ava Duvernay, Spike Lee, Jordan PeeleGetty ImagesThe films that launched the entertainment industry around the turn of the 20th century were created for white audiences by white filmmakers.It took decades for Black directors to…

Still from "Raya and the Last Dragon".DisneyThe checkout calendar shifts again. On the final day, more than a dozen Hollywood titles were removed from the list due to the Covid pandemic and postponed later in the year or until 2022.Cinema…

Most of the time, the 116-year-old movie theater business is rather humdrum.Tickets get sold. Images get projected onto screens, sometimes in 3-D. Every now and then, change-phobic cinema operators get excited about an innovation. The…

Hershey saw a strange pattern emerge in early spring. Sales of Hershey's milk chocolate six-packs soared online and in stores well before Memorial Day, the typical prelude to summer camping trips and backyard gatherings.The S'more season…

Despite the number of productions delayed this year by the coronavirus pandemic, Imax CEO Richard Gelfond said on CNBC Monday the New Year could prove to be a lucrative one for his company.While studios paused recording, film releases were…

LOS ANGELES - When Jason Kilar took office as CEO of Hulu in July 2007, some competitors thought the streaming service was so likely they called it the Clown Co. Yet Mr. Kilar, armed with the belief that there was a better way to watch TV,…