News Stories Exhibition Features The Taste of 2022: F&B Professionals Weigh In on the State of Concessions Rebecca Pahle • Oct 11th 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... Exhibition Features Geneva Convention 2022: Paul J. Rogers Leadership Award -Chris Johnson, CEO, Classic Cinemas Rebecca Pahle • Sep 29th Every year, the Geneva Convention’s Paul J. Rogers Leadership Award is given to someone who has displayed visionary leadership in adapting to a constantly changing industry. The last two years have certainly been constantly changing, and they’ve just as certainly... Exhibition Features Geneva Convention 2022: Exclusive Interview with Todd Vradenburg, President and CEO, NATO of California/Nevada Rebecca Pahle • Sep 27th Ask Todd Vradenburg about the proudest moment of his career, and the question has to come with an asterisk: What was your proudest moment before 2020? Because, if you include the Covid era, the answer is obvious: As the executive... Exhibition News Cineworld, Regal’s Parent Company and Second-Largest Exhibitor Worldwide, Files for Bankruptcy Rebecca Pahle • Sep 7th Cineworld has announced today that they have commenced filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. The filing involves only Cineworld operations in the U.K., the U.S., and the British crown... Exhibition Features MoviePass Sets September 5 Date for Relaunch Rebecca Pahle • Aug 24th MoviePass, the cinema subscription service that played a major part in introducing U.S. audiences to the subscription model before it limped to an end in the autumn of 2019, has announced that it will relaunch on Labor Day weekend. MoviePass’... Interviews An Invitation to the Cinema: Jessica M. Thompson Brings Horror to End-of-Summer Screens Rebecca Pahle • Aug 24th In theaters this weekend, director/producer Jessica M. Thompson’s The Invitation brings capital-G Gothic storytelling to theaters with the story of a struggling, orphaned woman (Nathalie Emmanuel) who discovers an entire branch of her family she was never aware of. They’re... Exhibition Features CinéShow 2022: Cinemark’s Don Harton is Variety of Texas’s 2022 Texan of the Year Rebecca Pahle • Aug 24th 2022 marks 10 years of collaboration between Cinéshow and Variety of Texas, which since 1935 (under the name Variety Club of Dallas) has brought together Texas’s vibrant cinema industry in support of at-need children and their families. It is fitting,... Exhibition Features The Career of a Lifetime: CinéShow Honors NATO’s Belinda Judson with Lifetime Achievement Award Rebecca Pahle • Aug 23rd Over the last few years, movie theater operators have worked perhaps more closely than ever with the team at NATO, struggling through a morass of Covid-related regulations while trying to secure government assistance and keep movie theaters (responsibly) open. One... Exhibition Features Indie Focus: New York Cinema Veteran Nicolas Nicolaou Rebecca Pahle • Aug 18th 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 asking them to share their first-person accounts of bringing the... Exhibition Features Man vs. Beast: Baltasar Kormákur Pits Idris Elba Against a Rogue Lion in Universal’s Thriller Rebecca Pahle • Aug 17th Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur is no stranger to the dangers of the natural world. In 2012’s The Deep and 2018’s Adrift, characters fight for their lives against the open expanse of the sea; in 2015’s Everest, it’s the titular mountain... Exhibition Features Movies in the Marsh: Olivia Newman Brings Best-Selling Book Where the Crawdads Sing to the Big Screen Rebecca Pahle • Jul 13th Boasting 157 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list for fiction—and counting, as of press time—Delia Owens’s novel Where the Crawdads Sing has become a bona fide phenomenon since its release in mid-2018. Selected by Reese Witherspoon as... Exhibition Features Back to the Drive-In: April Wright Goes Behind the Curtain in Her Newest Drive-In Documentary Rebecca Pahle • Jul 7th April Wright has spent a good chunk of her career chronicling the history of the film industry, with feature documentaries on movie palaces and drive-ins covering the exhibition side. The writer/director/producer turns her lens (and her drones) on the 21st... MagazineOctober 2022 The Taste of 2022: F&B Professionals Weigh In on the State of Concessions October 2022 Load more stories
Exhibition Features The Taste of 2022: F&B Professionals Weigh In on the State of Concessions Rebecca Pahle • Oct 11th 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...
Exhibition Features Geneva Convention 2022: Paul J. Rogers Leadership Award -Chris Johnson, CEO, Classic Cinemas Rebecca Pahle • Sep 29th Every year, the Geneva Convention’s Paul J. Rogers Leadership Award is given to someone who has displayed visionary leadership in adapting to a constantly changing industry. The last two years have certainly been constantly changing, and they’ve just as certainly...
Exhibition Features Geneva Convention 2022: Exclusive Interview with Todd Vradenburg, President and CEO, NATO of California/Nevada Rebecca Pahle • Sep 27th Ask Todd Vradenburg about the proudest moment of his career, and the question has to come with an asterisk: What was your proudest moment before 2020? Because, if you include the Covid era, the answer is obvious: As the executive...
Exhibition News Cineworld, Regal’s Parent Company and Second-Largest Exhibitor Worldwide, Files for Bankruptcy Rebecca Pahle • Sep 7th Cineworld has announced today that they have commenced filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. The filing involves only Cineworld operations in the U.K., the U.S., and the British crown...
Exhibition Features MoviePass Sets September 5 Date for Relaunch Rebecca Pahle • Aug 24th MoviePass, the cinema subscription service that played a major part in introducing U.S. audiences to the subscription model before it limped to an end in the autumn of 2019, has announced that it will relaunch on Labor Day weekend. MoviePass’...
Interviews An Invitation to the Cinema: Jessica M. Thompson Brings Horror to End-of-Summer Screens Rebecca Pahle • Aug 24th In theaters this weekend, director/producer Jessica M. Thompson’s The Invitation brings capital-G Gothic storytelling to theaters with the story of a struggling, orphaned woman (Nathalie Emmanuel) who discovers an entire branch of her family she was never aware of. They’re...
Exhibition Features CinéShow 2022: Cinemark’s Don Harton is Variety of Texas’s 2022 Texan of the Year Rebecca Pahle • Aug 24th 2022 marks 10 years of collaboration between Cinéshow and Variety of Texas, which since 1935 (under the name Variety Club of Dallas) has brought together Texas’s vibrant cinema industry in support of at-need children and their families. It is fitting,...
Exhibition Features The Career of a Lifetime: CinéShow Honors NATO’s Belinda Judson with Lifetime Achievement Award Rebecca Pahle • Aug 23rd Over the last few years, movie theater operators have worked perhaps more closely than ever with the team at NATO, struggling through a morass of Covid-related regulations while trying to secure government assistance and keep movie theaters (responsibly) open. One...
Exhibition Features Indie Focus: New York Cinema Veteran Nicolas Nicolaou Rebecca Pahle • Aug 18th 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 asking them to share their first-person accounts of bringing the...
Exhibition Features Man vs. Beast: Baltasar Kormákur Pits Idris Elba Against a Rogue Lion in Universal’s Thriller Rebecca Pahle • Aug 17th Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur is no stranger to the dangers of the natural world. In 2012’s The Deep and 2018’s Adrift, characters fight for their lives against the open expanse of the sea; in 2015’s Everest, it’s the titular mountain...
Exhibition Features Movies in the Marsh: Olivia Newman Brings Best-Selling Book Where the Crawdads Sing to the Big Screen Rebecca Pahle • Jul 13th Boasting 157 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list for fiction—and counting, as of press time—Delia Owens’s novel Where the Crawdads Sing has become a bona fide phenomenon since its release in mid-2018. Selected by Reese Witherspoon as...
Exhibition Features Back to the Drive-In: April Wright Goes Behind the Curtain in Her Newest Drive-In Documentary Rebecca Pahle • Jul 7th April Wright has spent a good chunk of her career chronicling the history of the film industry, with feature documentaries on movie palaces and drive-ins covering the exhibition side. The writer/director/producer turns her lens (and her drones) on the 21st...