U.S. summer box office $4.6 billion, second-highest ever; Korea's first-half revenue at 94% of pre-pandemic — in both markets the window did not move, the films did… what turned the chains was Paramount's "30 films a year for three years"; Korea's pact offers only a 150-day holdback
Won conversions use KRW 1,370 per U.S. dollar. Text in quotation marks is a remark as reported by the named outlet; unquoted text summarizes reporting.
Tom Cruise publicly backed Paramount's pledge of 30 theatrical releases a year. He did so on ESPN's "The Pat McAfee Show" on September 1. The pledge is a condition Paramount attached to its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.