Exhibition Features

By Daniel Eagan Running now through February 6, the Museum of Modern Art’s To Save and Project opens a unique window into world cinema. Now in its 18th season, the series focuses on newly preserved films that in some cases...

The story of Boxoffice Pro isn’t complete without mentioning Film Journal International, the cinema exhibition trade publication that was in print for 84 years before merging with Boxoffice Pro in 2019. And the story of Film Journal International isn’t complete...

2022 marks a year of new beginnings for Cinemark, the third-largest movie chain in North America. Last summer the circuit announced that Mark Zoradi, CEO since 2015, would officially retire from his position at the end of 2021, leaving the...

Could 2022 be the year the box office finally returns to “normal”—not for a single weekend here and there, as in the second half of 2021, but for the entire year? That quest begins with these new releases. 2019’s box...

The global box office recovery in 2021 was once again led by China. Local Chinese blockbusters represent three of the year’s top six highest-grossing films, reflecting its status as the world’s top cinema market. As the year came to a...

2021 was a tumultuous year for the domestic box office that began with serious doubts over the cinema sector’s commercial viability and ended with the second biggest opening weekend of all-time. Studios took the reset provided by the Covid-19 pandemic...

As the cinema industry begins to emerge 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 ask them to share their first-person accounts of...

There was an anxious anticipation leading up to CinemaCon 2021, held in August at its usual site, Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. For one, Covid-19 cases were surging due to the Delta variant. Other large-scale conventions had rescheduled or canceled...

Peter Parker is back. Ahead of the December 17 theatrical exclusive release of Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man: No Way Home, how have the franchise’s prior installments performed at the global box office? The character has proven one of the most popular in 21st...

Red Rocket opens inside a cramped cross-country bus, as Mikey Sable (Simon Rex), a down-and-out adult-film actor, awakens upon reaching his destination. After years of middling success in the porn industry’s production capital of L.A.’s San Fernando Valley, Mikey is...

“[Those in the] entertainment industry, as a whole, are not great historians,” says Todd Vradenburg, executive director of the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation. “Everyone looks forward, and no one looks back a little bit and says, ‘Hey, what...

Could December become the highest grossing month since domestic theaters reopened from the pandemic? The pandemic’s top figures at the box office come from October 2021 ($622.2M) but new installments from popular franchises like Spider-Man and The Matrix could make this holiday season...