News Stories Exhibition Features ‘Making Waves’ at the Tribeca Film Festival Salutes the Art of Cinema Sound Kevin Lally • May 1st First there was Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography (1992), a documentary overview of the great DPs in movie history. Then came The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (2004), and Score: A Film Music Documentary (2016). Now,... CinemaCon Arnold Schwarzenegger Steals the Show at Paramount’s CinemaCon Product Preview Kevin Lally • Apr 4th With one less major studio generating feature projects for theaters, the need is stronger than ever for the remaining majors to pick up the slack. After a rocky couple of years, Paramount Pictures under its new chairman, Jim Gianopulos (a... CinemaCon Universal and the Newly Merged Disney Offer Exclusive Previews at CinemaCon Kevin Lally • Apr 4th Universal Pictures was out to prove its blockbuster bona fides with an opening movie montage titled “The Universal Hero” during its product presentation at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. In a not-so-subtle dig at Disney’s Marvel and Warner Bros.’ DC Comics,... CinemaCon CinemaCon Focuses on the Changing Landscape for Documentaries Kevin Lally • Apr 4th Documentary features had an exceptional year at the box office in 2018, with five earning more than $12 million domestically: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, about TV’s Fred Rogers, the most successful biodoc of all time at $22.8 million; Peter... CinemaCon Warner Bros. and STX Bring Out the Stars at CinemaCon 2019 Kevin Lally • Apr 3rd As the movie industry laments the historic demise of a major studio—20th Century Fox, swallowed by Disney—smaller players are eager to step up and attempt to partially fill the void. One of them is STXfilms, which again claimed the very... Exhibition Features Say the Magic Word: David F. Sandberg Brings Shazam to Life Kevin Lally • Apr 2nd DC Comics’ superhero Shazam debuted in 1940 and was one of the most popular comic book characters of the 1940s. CinemaCon Embracing Diversity: CinemaCon Panel Looks at Expanded Cinema Programming Kevin Lally • Apr 2nd “Diversity” and “inclusion”—words we hear often today—should be the aspirations of any business with a sound and sensible plan for the future. CinemaCon Reason to Celebrate: NATO Honors Michigan’s John D. Loeks with 2019 Marquee Award Kevin Lally • Apr 2nd With 154 screens in 11 locations, Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Celebration! Cinema may be modest in size, but its leader, John D. Loeks, has had a huge influence on today’s movie exhibition arena. CinemaCon The International Market Takes the Stage on Opening Day of CinemaCon 2019 Kevin Lally • Apr 2nd During the opening International Day Breakfast at CinemaCon 2019 in Las Vegas, Niels Swinkels, executive VP of international distribution at Universal Pictures International, wondered why the annual convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners devotes only one day out... CinemaCon Vegas Showman: CinemaCon’s Mitch Neuhauser Promises Another Lively Convention Kevin Lally • Mar 28th CinemaCon is celebrating its ninth year, and from the beginning, the man at the helm has been Mitch Neuhauser. Exhibition Features In Search of LAIKA’s ‘Missing Link’: A Talk with Writer-Director Chris Butler Kevin Lally • Mar 19th Chris Butler is a veteran of acclaimed Oregon-based stop-motion animation studio LAIKA. The Liverpool native was a storyboard supervisor on Coraline (2009), writer and co-director of ParaNorman (2012), and co-writer of Kubo and the Two Strings (2016). His latest effort... Exhibition Features No Stopping LAIKA: A Tour of the Pioneering Stop-Motion Animation Studio Behind ‘Missing Link’ Kevin Lally • Mar 18th There is magic happening behind the bland exterior of a 120,000-square-foot warehouse in Hillsboro, Oregon, 17 miles west of Portland. Inside is the headquarters of LAIKA, one of the most artistically adventurous animation studios of our time. It’s there that... MagazineMay 2019 ‘Making Waves’ at the Tribeca Film Festival Salutes the Art of Cinema Sound May 2019 Load more stories
Exhibition Features ‘Making Waves’ at the Tribeca Film Festival Salutes the Art of Cinema Sound Kevin Lally • May 1st First there was Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography (1992), a documentary overview of the great DPs in movie history. Then came The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (2004), and Score: A Film Music Documentary (2016). Now,...
CinemaCon Arnold Schwarzenegger Steals the Show at Paramount’s CinemaCon Product Preview Kevin Lally • Apr 4th With one less major studio generating feature projects for theaters, the need is stronger than ever for the remaining majors to pick up the slack. After a rocky couple of years, Paramount Pictures under its new chairman, Jim Gianopulos (a...
CinemaCon Universal and the Newly Merged Disney Offer Exclusive Previews at CinemaCon Kevin Lally • Apr 4th Universal Pictures was out to prove its blockbuster bona fides with an opening movie montage titled “The Universal Hero” during its product presentation at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. In a not-so-subtle dig at Disney’s Marvel and Warner Bros.’ DC Comics,...
CinemaCon CinemaCon Focuses on the Changing Landscape for Documentaries Kevin Lally • Apr 4th Documentary features had an exceptional year at the box office in 2018, with five earning more than $12 million domestically: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, about TV’s Fred Rogers, the most successful biodoc of all time at $22.8 million; Peter...
CinemaCon Warner Bros. and STX Bring Out the Stars at CinemaCon 2019 Kevin Lally • Apr 3rd As the movie industry laments the historic demise of a major studio—20th Century Fox, swallowed by Disney—smaller players are eager to step up and attempt to partially fill the void. One of them is STXfilms, which again claimed the very...
Exhibition Features Say the Magic Word: David F. Sandberg Brings Shazam to Life Kevin Lally • Apr 2nd DC Comics’ superhero Shazam debuted in 1940 and was one of the most popular comic book characters of the 1940s.
CinemaCon Embracing Diversity: CinemaCon Panel Looks at Expanded Cinema Programming Kevin Lally • Apr 2nd “Diversity” and “inclusion”—words we hear often today—should be the aspirations of any business with a sound and sensible plan for the future.
CinemaCon Reason to Celebrate: NATO Honors Michigan’s John D. Loeks with 2019 Marquee Award Kevin Lally • Apr 2nd With 154 screens in 11 locations, Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Celebration! Cinema may be modest in size, but its leader, John D. Loeks, has had a huge influence on today’s movie exhibition arena.
CinemaCon The International Market Takes the Stage on Opening Day of CinemaCon 2019 Kevin Lally • Apr 2nd During the opening International Day Breakfast at CinemaCon 2019 in Las Vegas, Niels Swinkels, executive VP of international distribution at Universal Pictures International, wondered why the annual convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners devotes only one day out...
CinemaCon Vegas Showman: CinemaCon’s Mitch Neuhauser Promises Another Lively Convention Kevin Lally • Mar 28th CinemaCon is celebrating its ninth year, and from the beginning, the man at the helm has been Mitch Neuhauser.
Exhibition Features In Search of LAIKA’s ‘Missing Link’: A Talk with Writer-Director Chris Butler Kevin Lally • Mar 19th Chris Butler is a veteran of acclaimed Oregon-based stop-motion animation studio LAIKA. The Liverpool native was a storyboard supervisor on Coraline (2009), writer and co-director of ParaNorman (2012), and co-writer of Kubo and the Two Strings (2016). His latest effort...
Exhibition Features No Stopping LAIKA: A Tour of the Pioneering Stop-Motion Animation Studio Behind ‘Missing Link’ Kevin Lally • Mar 18th There is magic happening behind the bland exterior of a 120,000-square-foot warehouse in Hillsboro, Oregon, 17 miles west of Portland. Inside is the headquarters of LAIKA, one of the most artistically adventurous animation studios of our time. It’s there that...