The numbers are in — domestic revenue for the 2024 summer box office hit an estimated $3.67 billion, down 10.4 percent over 2023, Comscore said Monday. As counterintuitive as it may seem, Hollywood studio executives and theater owners aren’t panicking. They were experiencing far different emotions at the end of May, the official start of …
Chinese filmmaker Guan Hu has been on the move relentlessly in 2024. In May, his tenth feature as a director, Black Dog, won the Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious Un Certain Regard competition, giving him the highest international honor of his career to date. A few weeks later he premiered another finished film, the pandemic-set character …
Greta Gerwig has been tapped to receive this year’s Pioneer of the Year Award. She’s only the second female director to receive the prestigious honor after Elizabeth Banks. She’ll be feted at the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation’s annual dinner on Sept. 25 at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. All three of the …