Exhibition Features

The industry enters October desperately needing a rebound after the lows of August and September.  The doldrums were preceded by a strong summer, with June coming in only -16% behind the same month in the last pre-pandemic year of 2019;...

This year’s Larry D. Hanson Award of Excellence goes to a fitting honoree: Joel Davis of Premiere Cinema Corporation and the Independent Cinema Alliance (ICA; cinemaalliance.org). At the ICA, Davis plays a key role in the group’s Cinema Buying Alliance...

A California-based manufacturer, integrator, and distributor of technology and equipment, Moving iMage Technologies (MiT) offers a wide range of products and services to the motion picture exhibition industry, including custom engineering, systems design, integration and installation, enterprise software solution, digital...

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...

Packing auditoriums with sports fans for a live game on-screen has been a long-standing wish for exhibitors in the United States. Untangling the broadcasting rights, however, has remained an obstacle to untapping the potential of sports programming at the movies....

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...

In a September LIVE session webinar, Boxoffice Pro partnered with cinema advertising company Spotlight Cinema Networks—a leader in the dine-in, art house, and luxury cinema spaces—to launch a discussion on the current state of the dine-in market. Supporting sponsor of...

The opening scene features a beheading, while the final 10 minutes features someone’s eyeball getting plucked out of their socket. Minions: The Rise of Gru, this is not. The dark and twisted horror-thriller The Retaliators stars Michael Lombardi—most famous as...

Returning for its second year, Cinema Week is scheduled to take place at over 1,200 cinemas in the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean from October 7 to 13. Launched in 2021 as an initiative for cinemas to reconnect with moviegoers,...

From the Alamo Drafthouse to the Violet Crown, a Cinephile’s Complete Guide to One of the World’s Most Vibrant Exhibition Venues At once a college town and state capital, Austin, Texas, is known for a diverse and eclectic community that...

June and July were the two highest-grossing months yet for the post-pandemic box office. Compared to the equivalent month in the last pre-pandemic year, June finished only 16 percent behind June 2019—the best such showing up to that point. Until...

On the strength of tentpole titles and the variety of films returning to theaters across the board, publicly owned exhibition circuits reported favorable results in their Q2 2022 earnings calls, boasting significant increases over Q2 of 2021. Cineplex’s Ellis Jacob...