Top-three domestic exhibitor Cinemark has announced newly signed agreements with five major studios that will allow Cinemark to exhibit those studios’ films theatrically. These agreements—with Universal, Warner Bros., Disney, Paramount, and Sony—will provide Cinemark with a steady stream of theatrical...

It was a rare box office bright spot in 2020: Demon Slayer broke Spirited Away’s 19-year-old record to become the highest-grossing film in Japan, despite a pandemic that caused headlines about the exhibition industry to be near-uniformly dour. Based on...

Kinepolis reported a sharp decline in attendance in Q1 2021 compared to the same period last year, due to ongoing closures affecting key markets in which the multi-national chain operates.  Total Q1 2021 attendance across the nine countries in which...

Imax CEO Richard Gelfond, in the company’s Q1 2021 investor call, highlighted the continued success of the PLF format in key Asian markets—success that contributed to Imax having its first quarter of year-on-year increase in global box office since the...

As reported by Boxoffice Pro sister publication Boxoffice France, movie theaters in France will be allowed to open on Wednesday, May 19—a long-awaited return to moviegoing for a country whose cinemas have been shuttered since last October. Per an announcement...

In an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio stated that he plans for New York City to be “fully open” by the first of July. “Our plan is to fully open New York City...

Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic—and, for that matter, for 80-plus years prior—the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation has made a priority of assisting theater employees in need. That need has never been greater than over the past...

Texas-based dine-in chain Studio Movie Grill, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October of last year, has officially emerged from bankruptcy and named company CFO/COO Ted Croft as its new CEO. Studio Movie Grill entered 2020 with plans for...

Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that starting Monday, April 26, movie theaters in the state of New York will be allowed to increase their capacity to 33 percent, up from its current limit of 25 percent. This announcement applies to...

“We were called crazy!,” recalls CEO Oleg Tronik, reflecting on the 2014 birth of Silver Screen Cinemas. What is now, in 2021, four theaters—with one opened in March 2021, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic—was then just one, but...

It’s difficult, if not impossible, to do an apples-to-apples comparison of a pandemic release to its pre-pandemic comparable titles—especially in the case of Warner Bros., whose move to a day-and-date strategy for their 2021 slate makes estimating what something would...

In an earnings call webcast held this week, Reading International confirmed a 72 percent drop in year-on-year revenue in 2020, with the bulk of the drop coming from the cinema portion of the company’s business. Still, with the bulk of...