Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorWe hear there’s no there there in regard to this news, but Universal had originally booked The King of Staten Island in around 100 theaters (there’s close to 988 open this weekend), and then changed their mind at the last minute and pulled back the release, keeping it strictly relegated to its PVOD drop today.A studio source says about the booking of the Judd Apatow-directed Pete Davidson movie, “It was a misunderstanding, and we asked for those theaters that had booked it, not to play it.”Meanwhile, Universal/Dreamworks Animation’s Trolls World Tour remains in release on both PVOD and played about 200 theaters last weekend.
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