2007 was quite the year for Annie Wang start her first job in the cinema industry as GDC Technology’s newest senior sales executive. The next two years would see theaters in North America adopt digital projection technology en masse, and...

If Disney (and its subsidiary 20th Century Studios) had a major success story this year in the long-awaited Avatar: The Way of Water, it also had some high-profile stumbles, with animated family titles Lightyear and Strange World failing to even...

Founded in 2018 by Caryn Coleman, formerly the director of programming at Brooklyn’s Nitehawk Cinema, The Future of Film Is Female (FOIF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to amplify the voices of female and non-binary filmmakers, with a particular emphasis...

Damien Chazelle reunites with composer (and former college roommate) Justin Hurwitz for Babylon, out this weekend from Paramount Pictures. The film marks the fifth collaboration between the pair, with one of those films—2016’s La La Land—netting Hurwitz Oscars for Original...

In theaters tomorrow, December 23, from Paramount Pictures, Babylon sees La La Land director Damien Chazelle offer a new take on the mythological appeal of Hollywood—this time, turning the lens on a wide-ranging group of filmmakers, criminals, and degenerate partiers...

On February 27, 2000, Michigan-based Goodrich Quality Theaters Inc. filed for bankruptcy. Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the chain ran 281 screens across 30 locations as of the end of December 2019, making it the 16th-largest chain (judging by screen...

In theaters November 4 from XYZ Films, in advance of a VOD roll-out on the 22nd, Something in the Dirt is the fifth feature from the filmmaking duo of Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson, who have made a name for...

In existence since 1972, the Downtown Community Television Center—or DCTV—has been providing resources, education, and community support to documentary filmmakers in New York City for 50 years. In 2022 comes a new chapter for the group: their headquarters, located in...

Luxury theater chain Emagine Entertainment is feeling the spirit of the season at their Birmingham 8 location, turning the historic theater into a full haunted house experience during the month of October. In this week’s episode of the Boxoffice Podcast,...

Running a charity with two full-time staff is never an easy task—but, amid a pandemic, with need higher and resources lower than ever before, the challenge was exponentially bigger. It’s well deserved, then, that one half of that two-person team—Elizabeth...

For nearly 15 years, Australian-born Cameron Mitchell has been in the thick of one of the most dynamic markets in the global cinema industry: the Middle East. As CEO of Majid Al Futtaim’s Vox Cinemas, Mitchell had a front-row seat...

The most important part of any patron’s movie theater experience is obvious: the movie. 2022 has shown us that, with the right product, customers will and do flock back to the movies in record-breaking numbers, hopefully to be met by...