While consumers like the convenience of digital streaming, all it took to get them back in movie theaters were two superheroes with attitudes. Even though PYMNTS Intelligence’s “How the World Does Digital” report, which examines the digital behaviors of more than 817 million consumers across...
Taylor Swift — whose “The Eras Tour” concert was attended by over 3 million fans during its first leg in the United States — will soon be drawing crowds to movie theaters. AMC Theatres will be screening a concert film of “The Eras Tour” in...
Whether Amazon buys AMC — or not — may be beside the point. The mere fact that the eCommerce giant has been rumored to be mulling buying multiplex real estate speaks volumes to the connected economy’s evolution, and the ways lines are blurring between online...
The old hockey aphorism rings true as Netflix shakes things up a bit: Skate to where the puck is going — not where it’s been. Netflix is clearly not afraid to try new things in ways that may engender head scratching — just ask Lindsay...
March 31, 2023
Whether Amazon buys AMC — or not — may be beside the point. The mere fact that the eCommerce giant has been rumored to be mulling buying multiplex real estate speaks volumes to the connected economy’s evolution, and the ways lines are blurring between online and offline channels. Particularly when it comes to media, entertainment […]
September 07, 2018
People don’t just go see a movie when they go out to the movies. They eat dinner in a restaurant. They snack on popcorn. They have cocktails before the coming...
August 25, 2017
Movie theaters may have been under the impression that services like Netflix and Redbox were to blame for declining attendance, especially from millennials. After all, millennial movie attendance has dropped...
September 27, 2024
Apple reportedly dialed back its plans for releasing movies in theaters, planning to instead keep many of them on its streaming service. This shift followed disappointing box office results from some big-budget films, Bloomberg reported Friday (Sept. 27), citing unnamed sources. Apple did not immediately reply to PYMNTS’ request for comment. In one example of […]
August 31, 2023
Taylor Swift — whose “The Eras Tour” concert was attended by over 3 million fans during its first leg in the United States — will soon be drawing crowds to...
December 31, 2020
The head of a Southwestern-U.S. theater chain that has closed all its locations and reduced its employee headcount to five from 1,250 due to COVID-19 told CNBC’s “Squawk on the...
November 25, 2020
Thanksgiving, usually a good time for the movie theater box office, likely won’t be doing even close to as well this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, CNBC writes. Usually, the...
