Johnny Depp recently confirmed that Tonto will take the lead role in Disney’s adaptation of The Lone Ranger.

CAA is shopping around a deal for a fifth Terminator installment with Arnold Schwarzenegger to star and Justin Lin to direct.

Without a Spring 2011 release, Dreamworks earnings report was not so pretty.

Call me crazy but the producers of the film are brilliant for not signing any deal prior to the festival.

Catherine Zeta-Jones is the most recent cast member to join Adam Shankman’s Rock of Ages.

TRIBECA FILM AND MIRAMAX ANNOUNCE DISTRIBUTION DEAL FOR LAST NIGHT STARRING KEIRA KNIGHTLEY, SAM WORTHINGTON,

The Super Bowl is offering a hefty amount of trailers this year.

A surge in subscribers boosted Netflix stock by 10% in after hours trading.

SundanceNow gives you a way to see older films on your computer!

Fret no more Sundance Film Festival goers. You are now receiving…Wi-FI! Ruckus Wireless will be providing the internet, so thank them. The question now is why does this matter? For one, it’s one less thing you need to worry about while attending the festival. (No, they are not doing anything about the tons and tons [...]

Friday’s earnings report beat analysts estimates again. Cinemark continues to grow and sit on the cusp of innovation in the theater market.

This week, the Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, and Marvel Studios announced that Disney will now have the distribution rights for Iron Man 3 and The Avengers—not Paramount. Disney agreed to pay Paramount $115 million to ease the transition, though. No offense, but that’s like agreeing to give a child a Reeses Peanut Butter Cup [...]

For those who were not paying attention to the stock market this week, well it was a fairly big week. Even more suprising, Netflix (NFLX) has been able to weather the 2-3 year economic storm that plagued Wall Street and has seen its stock price soar while others died. In this week alone, Netflix stock price [...]

Someone tell me why it is a good idea to re-release Avatar. ‘Cause I want to believe it’s not money. So people who didn’t see it in theaters can have the “thrill” and “experience” of beauty that is Pandora? Please. I don’t think anyone believes it is anything more than a ploy to squeeze out [...]

Cinemark, the third biggest theater chain in the US, announced earnings today and they were quite good. According to WSJ.com“Cinemark Holdings, Inc.’s revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2010 increased 4.2% to $539.4 million from $517.5 million for the three months ended June 30, 2009. For the three months ended June 30, 2010, [...]

A decade ago, the international box office barely even registered on the radar of studio executives. Total box office performance came almost entirely from the US box office. To obtain some form of international sales, studios tried to veer audiences toward film plots. Essentially, customers were being lured to products instead of products being tweaked [...]

Syfy will be sponsoring the Brooklyn Bridge Park, Movies With A View series, for the third consecutive year.   In addition to making it possible for the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy to bring the beloved annual series to New Yorkers, this year Syfy will take it one step further by hosting America’s first ever outdoor Real [...]

According to Box Office Mojo, “with an estimated 110 million tickets sold, last month was the least-attended May since 2001, and ticket sales were off 19 percent from May 2009 and nearly as much from May 2008 and 2007.” If we look at the big May 2010 film releases we see Iron Man 2, Sex [...]

You did not read that incorrectly. Can you imagine (legally) watching Iron Man 2 in the comfort of your own home just 4 weeks after it hits theaters?  Lets say you miss a movie while it is in theaters, and just accept that fact that you will eventually Netflix it.  Or, you want to see a certain [...]

I’ve spoken a lot about my favorite movie rental service Netflix recently, and that’s because I am a huge groupie of it, and right before I wrote this post I picked up my newest blu-ray title from my mailbox.  I like them more than 13 year old girls like Justin Beiber right now, and that’s [...]

It’s not the Cantor Exchange, but a film futures exchange has been approved by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”).  The Wall Street Journal has reported that the  CFTC granted approval for Media Derivatives Inc. to launch its  Trend Exchange, which seeks to launch futures and options on box-office receipts in the third quarter. This [...]

As I wrote last week, Cantor Fitzgerald is awaiting CFTC confirmation about it film futures exchange called “The Cantor Exchange.” It will be a way for people to make investments based on box office performance through futures issued on film performance.  Click here for complete details behind the exchange. According to the Dow Jones, “The [...]

Credit Default Swaps destroyed the economy in 2008 and put the world in a global recession. Derivative trading came under a huge microscope and new standards were adopted by both financial and accounting regulators for companies to more conservatively value these risky investments.  As I am in this  industry for my day job, I am [...]