Until then, the Force will remain strong in the multiplexes.
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Also, this has been an unusually competitive March at multiplexes.
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The Lobster is a very strange film to find in multiplexes.
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Unlike corporate multiplexes, these boutique theaters offer a sense of community.
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There was enough holiday cheer at multiplexes to spread the wealth.
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"The Great Wall" arrives in North American multiplexes on Feb. 17.
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Multiplexes, many of which are overbuilt, could convert auditoriums into stages.
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This November has been a rough one at the nation's multiplexes.
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Moviegoers elsewhere will have to make do with whatever local multiplexes can provide.
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Now, when even distant suburbs boast malls and multiplexes, our disdain seems quaint.
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Over the past 10 years, thousands of movies have hit the world's multiplexes.
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With "Get Out" galvanizing multiplexes, two other new releases, "Collide" and "Rock Dog," collapsed.
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Tickets are a little more expensive at this theater than at other, comparable multiplexes.
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Kids and families are going to power the multiplexes for a second straight weekend.
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Ahmedabad Police Commissioner A.K.Singh said the violence occurred around four shopping malls that house multiplexes.
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The values of multiplexes are up 21 percent — also slightly more than single-family homes.
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Part of it is just the fact that you have multiplexes all over the place.
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Mr. Lee and other black directors made inroads into the multiplexes and the art houses.
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Other times, movies are screened in local multiplexes, but even then the experience is noticeably different.
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Today, most of these "mid-tier" movies, to use the industry term, have vanished from multiplexes.
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Multiplexes at the moment are filled with titles from the studio that can satisfy all audiences.
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The drive-ins soon gave way to movie theaters with multiple screens — Mr. Redstone named them multiplexes.
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It also helps that it's been a while since a family film has hit multiplexes, she added.
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The conventional wisdom is that many are out and about, leaving the holdovers to rule the multiplexes.
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Will it become a part of Alamo Drafthouse or one of the multiplexes operated by AMC or Regal?
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We wouldn't have skyscrapers, clean rooms for building advanced computer chips, shopping malls, or multiplexes without air conditioning.
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Part of their new strategy involves teaming with theater owners to help fill multiplexes during off-peak times.
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On summer nights, she sneaked down to the midnight showings of Bette's flicks in the Village and Chelsea multiplexes.
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Now, the timelines are much more pressurized, by as he says, the churn of franchises taking over the multiplexes.
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Elsewhere at multiplexes, Universal's re-release of "Schindler's List" made just $551,000 when it played in over 1,100 venues.
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The beginning of the year is the unheralded sweet spot of moviegoing, where oddities can infiltrate unsuspecting neighborhood multiplexes.
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Within a few years new multiplexes sprung up in all major cities to meet the high demand for films.
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The newly available Indian films drew hundreds of thousands of viewers, and multiplexes were built to meet the demand.
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And with Fences, that story is in multiplexes, where anyone can see it for the price of a ticket.
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Rather than grow more thoughtful and cinematic, television was colonized by the sophomoric trends that have dominated multiplexes for years.
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Sales of owner-occupied "multiplexes" — properties with two, three or four independent units — were up 2500 percent in 220 over 2014.
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The representation that DuVernay rightly champions has gotten a toehold, now that this kind of world-building is coming to multiplexes.
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On one hand, movie multiplexes, concert halls, Broadway theaters, and other venues are rapidly closing, impacting the revenues of those industries.
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If The Last Jedi does that kind of business, it will change a lot of bottom lines for a lot of multiplexes.
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It gave rise to multiplexes of cable channels, where one programmer could operate a collection of networks geared toward different audience segments.
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"When I went into the more modern multiplexes in these cities, I could not find anything to hold on to," she said.
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"The Lego Batman Movie" bested "Fifty Shades Darker" at the multiplexes over the weekend, earning a robust $55.6 million to capture first place.
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"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" sold out multiplexes around the country and brought fanboys and fangirls out in force over the weekend.
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This week: Pottermania takes over multiplexes, an Avengers-like squad of movie directors assembles to save a streamer, and an elephant can fly.
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But no matter whom you make your movie with, the fact is that the screens in most multiplexes are crowded with franchise pictures.
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In 2008, the Imax Corporation sought to expand, putting proprietary digital projectors in conventional multiplexes and installing screens only slightly larger than normal.
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But once they're on the list, independent and arthouse theaters, and even multiplexes, may screen them, and their digital releases may be hastened.
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"Rogue One," the first "Star Wars" stand-alone movie, will begin storming multiplexes on Thursday night, and those questions will finally be answered.
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Musicals don't typically see sizable opening weekends, and Disney's live-action sequel looks to have a healthy life at multiplexes during the holiday stretch.
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That will likely suck up most of the oxygen in the multiplexes, making it difficult for other films to keep drawing in big crowds.
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Maybe we've become culturally more enlightened, or at least more puritanical, but now our multiplexes are filled with found-footage horror and superhero sagas.
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And to counter the routine of streaming something or other whenever, both multiplexes and art houses increasingly frame every screening as an exclusive occasion.
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A household name in South Korea, Lotte operates department stores, duty-free shops, shopping malls, hotels, amusement parks, multiplexes, burger joints and coffee shops.
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According to Comscore, ticket sales have seen a 26 percent drop compared to this time last year, when "Black Panther" was still dominating multiplexes.
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Sadly this new infrastructure was restricted to multiplexes as distributors focused almost entirely on attracting the middle classes who could afford higher ticket prices.
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The multiplexes are still full of new movies every week, some of which are actually good, and more importantly, moviegoers still keep flocking to them.
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It also gives STX Entertainment a much needed win after its other summer release, the Civil War drama "Free State of Jones" collapsed at multiplexes.
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IMAX reportedly plans to open six VR locations worldwide in malls and multiplexes before the end of 2016, with the first destined for Los Angeles.
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In this season of Big, Serious Movies, what a treat to find this wonderfully silly, perfectly paced hall of mirrors hanging out at the multiplexes.
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The theater, Cinker, is not a typical Beijing movie house — cavernous, packed multiplexes that offer Hollywood franchise films with earsplitting battle scenes or car chases.
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Street protests against the film turned increasingly violent late on Tuesday with reports of vandalism around a number of multiplexes in the western state of Gujarat.
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Most multiplexes that claim to offer IMAX, though, have a more traditional 1.9:1 aspect ratio and lack the expanded range of the laser projection system.
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Like Mr. Herzog, I also like to globe-trot, which Toronto makes easy, both with its far-flung offerings and its two fairly adjacent, overstuffed multiplexes.
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The biggest weekend in football traditionally slows ticket sales at multiplexes, but a dearth of new high-profile releases brought back the worst returns since 2000.
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With no other kid-focused titles in theaters (outside of "The Lion King," which has been in multiplexes since July), "Abominable" had no trouble finding its audience.
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And it might just be the way that gaming finally gets over its problem with moving from smaller, domestic screens to those of multiplexes the world over.
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Multiplexes have their own junkspace vibe, but there was also a post-war boom of art deco and modernist style buildings that survive as art house cinemas.
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While a late-summer stupor sweeps multiplexes, TIFF plays host to all kinds of movies, from Oscar hopefuls to shoestring indies to foreign favorites and experimental genre fare.
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But something unusual happened in 2018: A lot of people actually went to see documentaries in theaters… and not just at film festivals, but in arthouses and multiplexes.
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LOS ANGELES — A sassy church lady, a group of elite firefighters, an alcoholic detective, some do-gooder Texans and a renegade scientific genius walked into multiplexes on Friday.
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The animated Disney musical "Moana" was again the No. 1 draw at North American multiplexes, collecting an estimated $28.4 million, for a two-week total of $119.9 million.
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And certain multiplexes qualify for Federal Housing Administration and Veterans Affairs loans with favorable terms, said Ron Haynie, a senior vice president of the Independent Community Bankers of America.
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A movie that should have never made it to even the most base, butter-encrusted soulless multiplexes somehow grossed over $65 million worldwide (or $86 million, adjusted for inflation).
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Comic book fans are sure to flood multiplexes next week for the continuing adventures of Wade Wilson, Marvel Comics' gun-toting, sharp-tongued mercenary whose code-name is Deadpool.
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The decision could hurt multiplexes such as PVR and Inox as about 25 percent revenue is from the F&B segment with gross margins as high as 75 percent.
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Built largely during the first half of the 20th century, their popularity began to wane as home video emerged in the 1990s and multiplexes became popular a decade later.
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The rest of February will make for tough comparisons since Marvel's more inclusive take on the superhero genre generated a massive $700 million during its long run in multiplexes.
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It has collected $119 million internationally and over $250 million globally, though it will need to keep chugging a long at multiplexes to justify its $130 million price tag.
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In the two weeks around Thanksgiving, in movie theaters and multiplexes across the continent, the same strange event occurred: Moviegoers and families bought tickets to see a movie together.
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EIT believes the timeline for spectrum reallocation in Italy may get pushed back, with around one-seventh of existing Mediaset (broadcasting on five of Italy's multiplexes) revenues potentially at risk.
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Last August he returned to multiplexes with the heist comedy Logan Lucky, an unabashedly rednecked cousin to the Ocean's trilogy, that has h the filmmaker's unmistakable fingerprints all over it.
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Still, it's worth a try — especially with companies like NBCUniversal announcing new models of releasing films that would normally play in larger multiplexes, like Trolls World Tour, during the pandemic.
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Monstrous motherhood has never gone out of fashion, including in movies — recent examples include "The Babadook" and "Goodnight Mommy" — that are more obvious fodder for art houses than for multiplexes.
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All three of these films show how much can be done without dialogue, and offer a respite from the usual celebrity-voice-driven cartoon fare that fills up the multiplexes.
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Already, companies like The VOID and Star VR are running bespoke experiences where you can roam imaginary worlds untethered, and Imax has installed virtual reality centers in three of its multiplexes.
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Ready Player One-style virtual worlds may never take the place of multiplexes, but immersive entertainment can change the landscape—if its creators can get people to pony up for it.
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When it comes to kids flicks, there's a safe rule of thumb: Bet on the movie that has the most time to itself in theaters, before additional children's movies enter multiplexes.
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Lambros, who is 36, said he was inspired by the fact that his generation grew up going to multiplexes, having no clue that people used to watch movies in veritable palaces.
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Armed with replica automatic weapons firing blanks, gallons of stage blood and mangled Mexican accents, the cartels are streaming across our undefended border, and into our multiplexes and our video streams.
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But don't tell that to the intrepid programmers of New York, who somehow keep the city's multiplexes, art houses, archives, film societies and cultural centers awash in festivals and specialty series.
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The Marvel universe has dominated multiplexes with 22 films (and counting), but DC has been less successful with its own cinematic combo platters — the rumored "Snyder cut" of "Justice League" notwithstanding.
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Of course, the big difference between The Incredibles and Incredibles 2 is that in the intervening 23 years, the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe has successfully colonized multiplexes and the summer blockbuster season.
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As a matter of timing, there's also perhaps something to be said for an alternative to the mix of blockbusters and Oscar bait hitting multiplexes as the year comes to a close.
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Movie studios are not known for their fast footwork, but Sony succeeded with "The Shallows" in part by moving its release earlier to take advantage of a shortage of originality at multiplexes.
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The animated comedy bottled up a leading $49 million from 3,3.33 locations, edging out Disney's "Beauty and the Beast," a box office juggernaut that's dominated the multiplexes since debuting three weeks ago.
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I dreamed about movie theaters that weren't giant multiplexes, museums that had more than a handful of rooms or a city with more places to spend time in other than a mall.
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Ms. Raman sees these photographs as a window into the inner lives of theater owners, too, who often helped to design their own buildings, in contrast to today's cookie-cutter corporate multiplexes.
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Add up those empties over the course of a year, according to Atom Tickets, a start-up based here, and more than 5 billion seats go unsold annually at North American multiplexes.
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Twenty-six years since Arnold Schwarzenegger launched his motorcycle off a culvert wall and into our hearts, the ultimate action flick is back in multiplexes, now promising three dimensions of taut Terminator flesh.
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Other photographs focus on awkward juxtapositions of the old and the new: modern multiplexes looming over cobblestone streets; a Soviet commemorative monument to a fallen World War II solder standing in patchy grass.
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Spectrum Reallocation Medium-Term Impact: Reallocation of 0003MHz TV spectrum, a requirement of EU regulation and necessary to support anticipated 5G mobile, will probably result in a number of TV multiplexes being handed back.
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Lee's quixotic efforts to drag multiplexes into the next dimension have forged an off-putting visual artifice that makes it nearly impossible to get lost in a film — or even just get into it.
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If the five test sites prove successful, the company says it will roll out VR cinema spaces in select multiplexes throughout the globe, posing a worrisome problem for these littler companies with fewer resources.
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"The Jungle Book," directed by Jon Favreau and costing a hefty $230 million to make, took in about $25.9 million at North American multiplexes, or roughly 40 percent more than analysts had predicted before release.
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Trying to goad audiences into multiplexes with the tag line "Decide for yourself" seems particularly deluded at a time when coronavirus and hyperpartisan burnout are leading most viewers to decide to stay home and cocoon.
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"This is a movie made for an audience that does not exist, at least in the land of North American multiplexes: fans of a British TV puppet show that ran from 19603 to 1966," he wrote.
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Starring Ryan Reynolds, the R-rated "Deadpool" (27.3th Century Fox) collected about $25 million at North American multiplexes, for an astounding two-week domestic total of $225 million, according to comScore, which tracks box office data.
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Protests against the film turned increasingly violent late on Tuesday with vandalism around a number of multiplexes in the Western state of Gujarat and dozens of motorcycles being set on fire around malls that house theatres.
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Beating this summer's sequel curse, the well-reviewed "Conjuring 2" was the No. 1 draw at North American multiplexes between Friday and Sunday, taking in about $40.4 million, according to comScore, which compiles box office data.
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In recent years opera has grown scarcer in movies — not counting the simulcasts of real operas that companies like the Metropolitan Opera regularly screen at multiplexes around the world, which generally appeal to existing opera fans.
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It's a film so rich in period detail, and so clear-eyed about the realities of murder investigations, that it makes all the overheated serial-killer mystery-thrillers on TV and in multiplexes look like cartoons.
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Big movie theater chains like AMC and Regal have announced plans to close hundreds of multiplexes across the country, as have boutique chains like Alamo Drafthouse, with theater owners asking Congress for help to stay afloat.
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Audiences have packed multiplexes to experience the first big-budget superhero movie to feature a majority black cast, set its story in an African locale, and tackle the legacy of slavery and themes of black identity.
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Audiences have packed multiplexes to experience the first big-budget superhero movie to feature a majority black cast, set its story in an African locale and tackle the legacy of slavery and themes of black identity.
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The traditional IMAX Digital presentation, which is the IMAX variant most commonly found in multiplexes, will lack the expanded color gamut and brightness of the laser screenings, and will be at an aspect ratio of 1.9:1.
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Police had to open fire to disperse crowds on Tuesday night as protests against the film turned increasingly violent, with vandalism around multiplexes in the western state of Gujarat and dozens of motorcycles being set on fire.
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Its showbiz satire The Larry Sanders Show (1992-19033) garnered considerable Emmy attention, and its made-for-TV movies regularly became awards magnets, with even a few film critics praising them as good enough for the multiplexes.
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More troubling, cheaper and more convenient in-home entertainment options are threatening the grip that multiplexes have long had on young adults; the number of frequent moviegoers ages 12 to 24 has fallen for three consecutive years.
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And families still flocked en masse to their local multiplexes, with the year's five biggest animated films (Finding Dory, The Secret Life of Pets, Zootopia, Moana, and Sing) racking up more than $1.5 billion in box office receipts.
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By the early 1980s, multiplexes were teeming with movies about super-powerful serial killers, murdering young people in perversely creative ways, often while tying their crimes to some kind of annual celebration — birthdays, Valentine's Day, prom night, et cetera.
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Multiplex stocks were in focus after the Maharashtra government decided multiplexes in the state won't be allowed to charge more than the maximum retail price from August 1 and there will be no ban on food products from outside.
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LOS ANGELES — The horror movie "It" arrived as a cultural juggernaut over the weekend, smashing September box office records with an eye-popping $117.2 million in estimated North American ticket sales and ending an alarmingly slow period at multiplexes.
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Given how few films from the 1910s are showing in multiplexes, the intent is at least arguably noble, although you wonder how Jackson would feel about his "Lord of the Rings" being tinkered with 100 years after its making.
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Well, I think that could pretty much apply to every year, but regardless: The multiplexes are empty, there aren't any good albums out, and nothing's on TV to really binge hard on for at least a few more weeks.
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"We have decided not to play the movie in any of our properties in Gujarat and Rajasthan," Deepak Asher, director of Inox multiplexes, India's second largest theater chain, told Reuters, referring to the two states hit by the worst protests.
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And with young people flocking to the multiplexes, it's beyond tragic that the worst kind of female objectification is being uploaded into the minds of another generation -- boys AND girls -- with few alternative film characterizations to act as an antidote.
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It's also unabashedly a movie that lets its young heroine be the most compelling, most important character onscreen — not an accessory in the stories of men, as happens in a certain other comic book movie now playing multiplexes around America.
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A sequel to a sequel, "Maze Runner: The Death Cure," with its zombie plague and revenge-determined teenagers, arrived to about $23.5 million in ticket sales domestically, dethroning Sony's "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" as the No. 1 attraction at multiplexes.
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And Lucas, who was struggling to find financing for his projects in the mid-1970s, believed a slam-bang retro space opera with quasi-philosophical undertones was just as cheeky a dare as anything else his peers were putting in the multiplexes.
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NBC eventually picked up his own sitcom, ''The Carmichael Show,'' and the same week that he shot ''Love at the Store,'' the hit feature comedy ''Neighbors'' — which starred Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne — arrived in multiplexes, with Carmichael in a scene-stealing role.
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Such films lack the stigma of an NC-17 rating, and are unlikely to screen in multiplexes, but they still play in art-house cinemas, and can be rented and watched at home (in the case of Nymphomaniac, several versions are available).
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"Fifty Shades of Grey" kicked off the trilogy in 2015 with X-rated toy tie-ins and $85 million in opening-weekend ticket sales, an astounding total for an erotic drama, a genre that had long been out of favor at multiplexes.
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The revised offer announced on Tuesday is by Rai Way alone and excludes Persidera's five multiplexes — bundles of digitised TV services — because it already has five of its own and antitrust regulations prevent it from owning more, a source close to the matter said.
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Less than two months away from the release of Captain America: Civil War, the kickoff to Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there's now another full-length trailer that reveals even more about the schism that will play out in multiplexes for the next few years.
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The top administrative officer in the district of Gurgaon, 30 km (19 miles) from capital New Delhi, imposed a ban on carrying firearms or other articles capable of causing injury, raising slogans and exhibiting placards within 200 meters of cinema halls and multiplexes from Jan. 23-28.
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Back in 1989, Walt Disney's animation division had been in the creative doldrums for decades until "The Little Mermaid," with its Hans Christian Andersen-inspired story of a mermaid named Ariel who sacrifices her voice to a sea witch, brought families back to multiplexes in droves.
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Let's talk instead about all the wonderful women — brawlers, bawlers, schemers, dreamers — on the small screen, a nickname that we have to retire because television is proving infinitely bigger in spirit and more in tune with the moment than most of the loud schlock shoveled into multiplexes.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads When the summer months drive city dwellers toward beaches, lakes, and mountains, multiplexes attempt to keep them indoors by providing a different kind of escape: transporting viewers to distant worlds populated by wondrous creatures in Hollywood's loudest, most expensive blockbusters.
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LOS ANGELES — Three movies aimed at starkly different audiences made North American multiplexes hum over the weekend, as "The Lego Batman Movie" brought out families, "John Wick: Chapter Two" reeled in young men and the kinky sex thriller "Fifty Shades Darker" appealed to … well, you know who you are.
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"An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power," a follow-up to "An Inconvenient Truth," Davis Guggenheim's Oscar-winning documentary from 2006, is a reboot that justifies its existence — and not just because Mr. Gore has fresh news to report on climate change since his previous multimedia presentation played in multiplexes.
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And just this month, for another, the strongest performing feature at America's multiplexes, in terms of box-office appeal, has arguably been "Hidden Figures," a movie celebrating the accomplishments of three black women mathematicians (Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe) who broke ground during the early 1960s in both the space race and civil rights.
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The paper adds Discovery may decide not to bid and keep renting frequencies from Persidera instead, while Rai Way and EI Towers have yet to find a partner in the bid that would hold a majority stake and would thus allow either company to surpass a limit imposed by the EU and regulator AGCOM of having five multiplexes.
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New York City's movie scene is arguably the most vibrant in the world, with major multiplexes and independent venues like the Quad Cinema, Film Forum, IFC Center, Film at Lincoln Center, Nitehawk, BAM, Metrograph, and many more serving up a diverse array of repertory programming, festivals, and new international and independent releases to the city's enthusiastic cinephiles.
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For Mr. Trumbull, who demonstrated high-frame rates for Mr. Lee but did not take part in the production of "Billy Lynn," the increased film speed of his Showscan process was a natural outgrowth of the move toward bigger screens and bigger spectacles in the 1950s and 1960s, but a faster rate was never taken up as the industry moved toward multiplexes and tiny auditoriums.
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