With quarterly earnings call season underway, the leadership or North America’s top five theater chains—AMC, Regal, Cinemark, Cineplex, and Marcus—are elaborating on their plans to strengthen their respective companies as the industry looks forward to summer 2022 and beyond. With...

Receiving NATO’s Marquee Award at this year’s CinemaCon is Ellis Jacob, a man who—as CEO and president of Cineplex, Canada’s largest exhibitor—was instrumental in leading the Canadian corner of the exhibition industry through the Covid-19 pandemic. The last year has...

By the time he hit his early-20s, Martin Moszkowicz knew that he loved film–he was a regular at a theater in his hometown of Munich, where he would go multiple times a week to see old movie classics. But in...

Leading cinema chains PVR Limited and Inox Leisure have announced a merger which—subject to stakeholder approval—will see the creation of a new giant in the Indian exhibition space. Boasting 871 screens in 181 cinemas (PVR) and 675 screens in 160...

In a Q4 earnings call with investors, AMC CEO Adam Aron and CFO Sean Goodman laid out how the recovery of the largest global cinema chain proceeded across the final quarter of last year—as well as offering details on a...

Call him the modern-day master of the period drama. Director Joe Wright, whose award-winning films have taken audiences through Britain of the 1940s (The Darkest Hour, Atonement), 19th-century Russia (Anna Karenina), and Georgian-era England (Pride & Prejudice) turns to 17th-century...

AMC Theatres has announced their acquisition of former ArcLight locations in the San Diego and Washington D.C. DMAs, with plans to open both cinemas early this year. AMC’s lease agreements with developer Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) will see the new AMC UTC...

In the grand tradition of off-the-wall cinematic meet-cutes comes Marry Me, in theaters this weekend with a day-and-date release from Universal. Jennifer Lopez (who also produced) stars as pop superstar Kat Valdez, whose plan to get married before a crowd...

In 2000, a show called “Jackass” premiered on MTV—and American culture was never quite the same. Created by Jeff Tremaine, Spike Jonze, and Johnny Knoxville, the short-lived show featured Knoxville and a band of daredevil ne’er-do-wells (or, as Tremaine calls...

The recovery of the cinema sector—the ebbs and flows, the changes from market to market, and its eventual return to prepandemic levels—is mirrored by the community of companies that work with cinemas to make their operation possible. Included in this,...

In advance of the announcement of their full-year 2021 results, to be made in March, Cineworld has released financial data about the final six months of the year, indicating steady growth driven by blockbuster titles as the world’s second-largest chain...

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