Crowd Pleaser
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A24 Hit Big With ‘Backrooms.’ Then It Picked a Fight With Theaters
‘They have a string of good movies and think they can push people around,’ says a manager at a small chain
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Paramount Is Sitting on a $100 Million Reparations Musical. Why?
Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Kendrick Lamar made it. Now, ‘South Park and life’s circumstances have gotten in the way but we still believe in the project’
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MoviePass Is Back (Really). This Time, The Bet Isn’t On Tickets
For the first time, co-founder and CEO Stacy Spikes details the company’s collapse and comeback attempt through its own predictions market
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Merch is on fire even as movies and box office struggle
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Small-Town Theaters vs. Studios: ‘It Doesn’t Feel Like the Industry Wants Us to Survive’
Cinema owners tell me the two-week mandatory run for movies is crushing them. And that’s even before Warner Bros. falls into new hands
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How Paul Thomas Anderson Landed in Fortnite, as the Movies-as-Games Era Arrives
SCOOP: I get the story behind the director’s ‘One Battle’ crossover as studios also flood Roblox — and Disney’s Epic Games investment starts to deliver
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Ghosts in the Balcony: A Cross-Country Trip to 58 Theaters Fighting to Survive
In the worst October for moviegoing since the ’90s, I crossed 20 states to hear the primal screen from people keeping film alive — even when Hollywood won’t
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Crowd Pleaser tracks what’s connecting with audiences — and isn’t — offering insight into what’s breaking through, Gen Z’s influence on the market, and which way fans are moving.