Welcome to the Wide Shot, a newsletter about the business of entertainment. Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” has grossed more than $1.18 billion at the global box office, turning movie theater auditoriums into seas of pink. Wall Street Journal reporters Sarah Krouse and Anne Steele partly ascribed the boom to what they called the “women’s multiplier effect.” That’s what happens when female …
Analytics firm Movio says that the presale rate for Tenet tickets has been higher than Nolan’s previous hits - Dunkirk and Interstellar, in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. Christopher Nolan is back with another mind-bending, visually spectacular movie and if advance booking trends are to say anything, Tenet is looking forward to impressive business. According to an …
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