Take Advantage of Special Movie Deals for National Cinema Day

 by Beth Keating

News

DisneyBizJournal.com

September 2, 2022

 

It surely has been a long road back from the days of COVID closures for local movie theatres, and many of them are still struggling to find their audiences. To entice viewers to join them in person, AMC Theatres will be hosting National Cinema Day on September 3, 2022. All tickets, including IMAX and Dolby Cinema, are only $3 (plus tax).  Concession stand specials include a fountain drink & Cameo-sized popcorn combo for $5 (plus tax). Kick off your holiday weekend with a trip to the movies!  

In addition, from September 8-19, 2022, you can take advantage of $5 (plus tax) Disney movies to celebrate Disney+ Day on September 8.  Disney+ subscribers will receive a free Disney+ poster with eligible ticket purchase (while supplies last), and can also treat themselves to a fountain drink & Cameo-sized popcorn combo for an additional $5 (plus tax). Movie-goers need to show their ticket and an active Disney+ account at concessions to get the deal.  

Only available for select screenings, at select locations across the United States, the special Disney+ Day showings include Encanto, Thor: Ragnarok, Rogue One, Cars, and Newsies.  This is a great chance to see some of your favorites on the big screen again, or to catch them in their original format if you missed them the first time around.  If you happen to be at Disney World in Florida, the AMC Dine-In at Disney Springs is a participating theatre.  Check the AMC list here for other locations near you.

  

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Beth Keating is a theme parks, restaurant and entertainment reporter for DisneyBizJournal.

 

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Still More Star Wars on Disney+?

by Ray Keating

News

DisneyBizJournal.com

April 22, 2020

Could it be that another Star Wars series is in the works for Disney+? Well, that’s the case according to another exclusive report courtesy of Variety.

Variety is reporting that a new, female-centric series “from Leslye Headland, the co-creator, showrunner, and executive producer of the critically-acclaimed Netflix series ‘Russian Doll,’” is ramping up, and that it “takes place in a different part of the ‘Star Wars’ timeline than other projects.”

That would put Disney+ with four, live-action Star Wars series at various stages of production – “The Mandalorian” heading into its second season in October with a third coming, and three more shows on the way, i.e., an Obi-Wan Kenobi series starring Ewan McGregor, a Rogue One prequel starring Diego Luna, and now this Headland vehicle.

For the ultimate Star Wars fan, this should satisfy, with another eye looking ahead to the next Star Wars movie scheduled, at this point, for December 2022.

Ray Keating is the editor, publisher and economist for DisneyBizJournal.com, and author of The Disney Planner 2020: The TO DO List Solution (now available at a deep discount) and the Pastor Stephen Grant novels. He can be contacted at  raykeating@keatingreports.com.

“Game of Thrones” Duo Out at “Star Wars”: Let the Wild Speculation Begin

by Ray Keating

Analysis

DisneyBizJournal.com

October 29, 2019

The big news this morning is that the creators of Game of Thrones, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, have quit their planned Star Wars movie trilogy. 

Toss in the mix that Rian Johnson was vague in a recent interview about his continued Star Wars work, and we have the perfect storm for Star Wars fans to speculate wildly – including pointing fingers – about what’s going on and where things might be headed on the big screen in a galaxy far, far away.

Benioff and Weiss were expected to write and produce three Star Wars movies slated for released in each December of 2022, 2024 and 2026. But the duo also signed a big Netflix deal in August. So, perhaps the exit fromStar Warsshouldn’t be all that surprising.

As for Star Wars, Disney has a pretty robust slate coming, including “The Mandalorian” Disney+ series from Jon Favreau coming with the launch of the streaming service on November 12, with another two more live-action series slated – a Rogue One prequel and an Obi-Wan Kenobi series starring Ewan McGregor – and of course, the arrival of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in theaters on December 20.

And what about the recent news that Marvel Chief Creative Officer Kevin Feige also was developing a Star Wars movie?

Here’s my speculation that only comes from the hope of a fan: Kathleen Kennedy, who has not exactly thrived at the helm of Star Wars, steps back along with the various players she brought in – i.e., Johnson and the Thrones’ duo – and storytellers like Feige and Favreau step forward more prominently.

Ray Keating is the editor, publisher and economist for DisneyBizJournal.com, and author of the Pastor Stephen Grant novels. He can be contacted at  raykeating@keatingreports.com.