As the cinema industry emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, Boxoffice Pro and Spotlight Cinema Networks are partnering to profile movie theaters and influential industry figures from across the country and ask them to share their first-person accounts of bringing the movies back...

Event cinema distributor Iconic Events will be bringing UFC’s monthly mixed martial arts (MMA) par-per-view series live to movie theaters across the United States through the end of 2022.  Iconic has previously served as the event cinema distribution partner of...

The global box office rebounded to $21.3 billion in 2021, an 81 percent increase from 2020’s disastrous figures, according to the Motion Picture Association’s (MPA) annual Theatrical and Home Entertainment Market Environment (THEME) report. The year-over-year improvement was sorely needed...

Warner Bros.’ The Batman opened across 75 global markets over the weekend, bringing in $248.5 million worldwide. North America represented more than half of the global debut, with $128.5 million, while overseas grosses came in at $120 million following a...

MoviePass, the cinema subscription service that helped establish the concept in the United States, is making a comeback in 2022. The company was acquired from bankruptcy by its co-founder and former CEO Stacy Spikes, who first launched MoviePass in 2011. Spikes’...

UNIC, the trade body representing European cinema trade associations and operators, has announced preliminary data revealing the European theaters’ recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021. The figures show a 38 percent increase in cinema admissions across the region, with 590...

Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier rose to fame on the international film-festival scene following his 2006 debut feature, Reprise. The film established many of the themes the writer-director would return to in the ensuing years: identity, ambition, and love among a...

Interview with United Drive-In Theatre Owners Association President John Vincent Jr. A popular narrative emerged during the first phase of cinema reopenings in the summer of 2020: drive-ins—purportedly unaffected by most Covid-19 restrictions—were enjoying a land-office business. The reality was...

Dallas-based Cinergy Entertainment Group will be launching its luxury entertainment center concept this spring at its new Charlotte, North Carolina location. The new site will be the eighth among Cinergy’s fleet of cinema entertainment centers, complexes that combine the amenities...

One of the most iconic horror franchises in recent history, Scream rang into movie theaters during the Christmas corridor in 1996 and revived the slasher picture for a new generation of moviegoers. The film brought a playful, new energy into...

2022 Preview Warner Bros. is poised to bring the first big blockbuster of 2022 to theaters on March 4 with the release of The Batman. The film is expected to be among the biggest releases of the year and is...

2022 Preview Sony will begin to build off the success of Spider-Man: No Way Home in February with another Tom Holland vehicle targeting young male audiences: the video game adaptation Uncharted. After spending years in development, the action-adventure franchise will...