EXCLUSIVE: Mooky Greidinger, CEO of Cineworld, the world’s second-biggest exhibition circuit and owner of Regal Cinemas, says he’s satisfied with this past weekend’s $80M domestic theatrical box office opening for Disney/Marvel’s Black Widow.
But he also tells Deadline he remains “convinced” that with an exclusive theatrical window, “we could have brought in maybe $110M, maybe $120M” in the U.S.
The film landed day-and-date on Disney+ Premier Access, at a $30 surcharge for subscribers, and that day-and-date decision has set off another round of debate about release patterns, given that Disney announced it had pulled in $60M from global streaming.Greidinger believes piracy, perhaps more so than PVOD, had an impact on the origins’ story’s
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