Weekend Edition: Who's Making All The Money; Apple & The Studio Buzz; The Most Innovative Film Companies
Hey, it's Saturday, March 29th. Welcome to the Weekend Edition of Movie News Pro.
Grab your favorite beverage and settle into a comfy chair. We've gathered all the news you need.
Weekend Headlines
The Hollywood Reporter's detailed breakdown of Which Studios Are Making The Most Money is pretty revealing. Disney's Inside Out 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine helped the mouse house raise revenue 6% in 2024. Meanwhile Netflix is crushing the competition, with a year over year profit growth of 49%.
Apple's series The Studio is hitting on all cylinders. The New York Times has a great article on the Partnership between Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.
Fast Company has an interesting piece on The Most Innovative Film and TV Companies for 2025. Companies like Zinc, Metaphysic, Film First and Sony's CrunchyRoll made the list.
If you haven't gotten enough about Jen Salke's departure as head of Amazon MGM, CNBC has a nice breakdown on Why Salke is stepping down.
An article on Collider claims that Theatrical Movie Releases Are Done For and the writing is on the wall.
Box Office Rankings: Friday, March 28th
1) A Working Man
2) The Chosen: Last Supper
3) Snow White
4) The Woman In The Yard
5) Death of a Unicorn
Movers: A slight upset win for A Working Man. It's not good for Snow White to drop this quickly.
Film Festivals
Gasparilla International Film Festival, US - March 25-30
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, UK - March 27-30
Cleveland International Film Festival, March 27-April 5
Diagonale, Austria - March 27-April 1
Garden State Film Festival, US - March 27-30
Upcoming: CinemaCon starts Monday in Las Vegas
What To Watch Tonight
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Directed by Michel Gondry
Miss Severance already? This ought to do the trick.
Disclaimer/Transparency
MovieNewsPro is a film industry news monitoring service. All stories have been previously reported elsewhere and are not exclusive stories to MNP. All information is believed to be accurate at the time of reporting. MovieNewsPro uses a full array of technology to gather information, including machine learning, automation and artificial intelligence throughout its business monitoring, editing and reporting process. MovieNewsPro sector indexes (Streaming, Studio and Theater) are virtual indexes - there are no actual funds invested. Sector index total value dollar amounts are based on an initial hypothetical investment of $100,000 on March 17th, 2025. We are not licensed investment advisors and our information should not be used as investment advice.
