National Cinema Day Brought 8.1 Million Moviegoers to Theaters, Setting Attendance Record in 2022

Saturday Night Live’s Season 48 opener was all about change.

Chinonye Chukwu was certain of two things setting out to tell the story of a loving and lovely 14-year-old boy lynched in 1955 Mississippi for whistling at a white woman. First, the story had to be told from the perspective of Mamie, the mother of Emmett Till. “We had to follow closely her emotional journey. For without Mamie, the world, we, would not have known who Emmett Till was.”

Colin Jost and Michael Che got right into poking fun at politics in Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update segment.

Manchester City players must ignore any outside noise and focus on their individual roles in Sunday's derby with Manchester United.

It's a treat to eat out as a family isn't it, especially when everyone's finances are stretched. And when it comes to a roast dinner, you can't do better than a good old Toby Carvery - or so we thought.

It seems most pundits are predicting a comfortable win for Manchester City over Manchester United in this Sunday’s derby.

For the first two years of her life, Ruby Pollard was a perfectly healthy little girl. She could crawl, use her hands and say words like ‘mama’ and ‘papa’.

Abdelhadi El Harti gave spectators more than they bargained for as he completed the gruelling race.The Moroccan was competing in the 26.2 mile race in the ambulant class back in 2017 and delivered a second-place finish with an impressive time of 2:29:38. But he hit the headlines after flashing his manhood to spectators as he made his way to the finish line.El Harti flashed his penis out of the bottom of his shorts, much to the shock of the crowd as the race continued in London.

London Marathon after being accused of cheating. Monika and Piotr Czarnecka ran the marathon together and were at the centre of controversy after spectators noticed they were both wearing the same registration number.

Refresh for latest…: There was a little more excitement at the international box office this weekend, with two local movies leading the charge and a handful of new milestones for Hollywood pics.

Top Gun: Maverick claims a second week at Number 1 on the Official Film Chart, surpassing the 500,000 sales mark in just 11 days.

Naman Ramachandran In its 15th weekend of release, Paramount’s “Top Gun: Maverick” is still flying high at the U.K. and Ireland box office. The Tom Cruise vehicle collected £600,258 ($692,670) in third place at the box office, according to numbers released by Comscore. With a total of £81.6 million ($94.1 million) it has overtaken “Titanic” (£80.3 million) to occupy the No. 9 position on the all time box office chart in the territory. Sony’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home” swung back into cinemas with an extended cut and collected £469,309 in fifth position in its 38th weekend in the territory. With a total of £96.9 million, it has swung past James Bond film “No Time to Die” (£96.7 million) and is now No. 3 among the territory’s all time box office champions. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (£123.2 million) and another Bond title “Skyfall” (£103.2 million) are the top two.

Cinema Day sent audiences to theaters across the country in droves on Saturday, as they could view films for just $3.By Sunday Spider-Man: No Way home and Top Gun: Maverick were toe-to-toe for the number one spot of the weekend, Deadline reported.The latter film is already the top-grossing feature film of the year so far, crossing the $700 million mark ahead of Labor Day. Update: Cinema Day drove audiences to theaters across the country in droves on Saturday, as they could view films for just $3 and by Sunday Spider-Man: No Way home and Top Gun: Maverick were toe-to-toe for the number one spot of the weekendMarvel's rerelease of Spider-Man raked in $7.6 million in just four days of being back on the silver screen.To that end, Sony is declaring it the top grosser of the weekend, although distribution box office analysts are torn between which of the two blockbusters reigns.  The outlet also reported that movies in the top 10 saw '100%-257% Friday-to-Saturday surges.' For Top Gun specifically, there was a 139% increase on Saturday, landing at a total of $2.6M.

National Cinema Day is underway with 3,000+ participating theaters (30,00 screens) offering $3 tickets, discounted concessions and a four and a half-minute preshow sizzle reel with peeks of upcoming titles from A24, Amazon Studios, Disney, Focus Features, Lionsgate, Neon, Paramount, Sony and Sony Pictures Classics, United Artists Releasing, Universal and Warner Bros.

J. Kim Murphy Hey, North America, today is supposed to be National Cinema Day — didn’t you get the memo? The domestic box office is looking so slow this Labor Day weekend that a re-release of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” — a superhero film that first hit theaters almost nine months ago — may make a return to the top of the charts. Though the third Tom Holland-led Spidey film debuted in theaters in December 2021, Sony is releasing the “More Fun Stuff Version” in 3,935 theaters over the holiday weekend, hoping to lure devoted fans back to the big screen with its promise of 11 minutes of unseen footage.

In what is often the case, a group of actors known perhaps more for their work on the big screen than on the small screen managed to land most of the six Emmy nomination slots in the Outstanding Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology or TV Movie category. Featuring a past Spider-Man, a past Batman and a past denizen of the Star Wars galaxy, not to mention a Best Actor Oscar winner, we have a lot of big names who also spent time in some unique television projects that called upon other acting skills. Only two of them are in Limited Series that also landed a nomination for the show itself in the main category, so voters clearly did a lot of sampling. Four of them got their first Emmy nomination ever, and none have ever won.

reports Variety.“After this summer’s record-breaking return to cinemas, we wanted to do something to celebrate moviegoing,” said Cinema Foundation President Jackie Brenneman. “We’re doing it by offering a ‘thank you’ to the moviegoers that made this summer happen and by offering an extra enticement for those who haven’t made it back yet.”The foundation said the event is scheduled for September 3rd and will include nearly 3,000 theaters across the country.

On Sept. 3, it’s all movies, all formats, all day for three bucks.

J. Kim Murphy While the excitement of the summer movie season is over, U.S. theaters are looking to reinvigorate interest in filmgoing with National Cinema Day, a one-day event that will see participating locations sell movie tickets for prices as low as three dollars. The Cinema Foundation, a non-profit branch of the National Association of Theatre Owners, announced the event on Sunday, according to the Associated Press. National Cinema Day will take place this Saturday, Sept. 3, at more than 3,000 theaters across the U.S., comprising 30,000 or so participating screens. For reference, there are about 40,700 theater screens in the country. “After this summer’s record-breaking return to cinemas, we wanted to do something to celebrate moviegoing,” Cinema Foundation president Jackie Brenneman said in a statement. “We’re doing it by offering a ‘thank you’ to the moviegoers that made this summer happen and by offering an extra enticement for those who haven’t made it back yet.”