Exhibition Features News Stories Interviews Friends Til the End: Lars Klevberg Gives a Classic Horror Franchise a New Twist with Child’s Play Rebecca Pahle • Jun 19th Playtime is over when Orion Pictures’ Child’s Play comes to theaters on June 21. Directed by Lars Klevberg (Polaroid) and written by Tyler Burton Smith (the upcoming Kung Fury 2), the film is a reboot of the classic ’80s flick... Exhibition Features A Champion for Swedish Cinemas: UNIC to Honor Exhibitors’ Association Chair Peter Fornstam Kevin Lally • Jun 19th Peter Fornstam is a leading force in Swedish theatrical exhibition, as founder and managing director of the country’s second-largest circuit, Svenska Bio, and chairman of the Swedish Exhibitors’ Association. But he’s disarmingly humble about being honored with the 2019 UNIC... Exhibition Features CineEurope 2019: International Distributor of the Year Kevin Lally • Jun 18th Paramount Pictures was revitalized in 2018 with the success of Mission: Impossible—Fallout (the biggest film in that long-running franchise), Bumblebee, and the sleeper horror hit A Quiet Place. In all, the studio generated $1.1 billion at the box office last... Exhibition Features New Products of CineEurope 2019 Boxoffice Staff • Jun 17th ARTS ALLIANCE MEDIA PRODUCER CIRCUIT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Arts Alliance Media’s Producer Circuit Management System (CMS) empowers exhibitor head offices with visibility and control over every screen in their circuit. Connect your theater management system to AAM’s innovative cloud-based CMS to... Exhibition Features Top Women in Global Exhibition 2019: Grainne Peat, Event Cinema Association Rebecca Pahle • Jun 16th Earlier this year, Boxoffice partnered with Celluloid Junkie to present the fourth annual list of Top Women in Global Cinema, published in our CinemaCon issue. Throughout 2019, Boxoffice will continue to honor the women who have an immeasurable impact on... Exhibition Features Paying It Forward: Laura Houlgatte Abbott Inspires as UNIC’s CEO Rebecca Pahle • Jun 15th As the CEO of UNIC, the largest international trade body in cinema, Laura Houlgatte Abbott has a lot to juggle. Representing the needs of UNIC’s 37 member companies (soon to be 38—“Hopefully we manage to get Cyprus on board”) requires... Exhibition Features Beyond the Continent: CineEurope Continues to Expand Its International Profile Kevin Lally • Jun 14th “It’s not just a European event anymore.” Andrew Sunshine, president of the Film Expo Group, is talking about CineEurope, the official convention of the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC), which opens its 28th edition on June 17 at the Centre... Exhibition Features Back in Action: Kenya Barris on Keeping Shaft Relevant for Today’s Audiences Daniel Loria • Jun 12th Nearly fifty years after the release of Gordon Parks’ Shaft, executive producer and screenwriter Kenya Barris updates the black anti-hero to today’s social context. Isaac Hayes’ iconic score plays while a shot overlooking Times Square pans across a row of... Exhibition Features Go Fourth: Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and the Gang Return in Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 4 Jesse Rifkin • Jun 11th It starts with a bang—literally. After the opening Disney logo fades, the very first moment of Toy Story 4 is a lightning crash. And the rain looks like nothing you’ve seen in animation before. To create their cutting-edge graphics and... Exhibition Features Patricia Rozema’s Mouthpiece Examines The Intricacies of Modern Womanhood Rebecca Pahle • Jun 7th “I love the theater experience. I love the darkness. I love the collectivity. I love hearing other people laugh or cry. I love that experience. I love the size of it. I love the sound of it.” Writer/director Patricia Rozema... Exhibition Features A Merry Time in Maryland: Mid-Atlantic NATO’s Cinema Show & Tell Changes Its Location, Keeps Its Quality Rebecca Pahle • Jun 4th This year marked a change for Cinema Show & Tell, the annual convention of the Mid-Atlantic NATO. For the first time, the show skipped a bit north from its usual venue in Virginia to the Live! Casino and Hotel in... Exhibition Features Talk of the Town: Nisha Ganatra and Mindy Kaling Take Aim at the World of Late Night TV Kevin Lally • Jun 4th Twenty years after her feature directing debut, Chutney Popcorn, found a warm reception on the festival circuit, Nisha Ganatra is back in the theatrical arena with one of the hottest titles from Sundance 2019: Late Night, written by and starring... googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1553617519041-2'); }); Load more stories
Interviews Friends Til the End: Lars Klevberg Gives a Classic Horror Franchise a New Twist with Child’s Play Rebecca Pahle • Jun 19th Playtime is over when Orion Pictures’ Child’s Play comes to theaters on June 21. Directed by Lars Klevberg (Polaroid) and written by Tyler Burton Smith (the upcoming Kung Fury 2), the film is a reboot of the classic ’80s flick...
Exhibition Features A Champion for Swedish Cinemas: UNIC to Honor Exhibitors’ Association Chair Peter Fornstam Kevin Lally • Jun 19th Peter Fornstam is a leading force in Swedish theatrical exhibition, as founder and managing director of the country’s second-largest circuit, Svenska Bio, and chairman of the Swedish Exhibitors’ Association. But he’s disarmingly humble about being honored with the 2019 UNIC...
Exhibition Features CineEurope 2019: International Distributor of the Year Kevin Lally • Jun 18th Paramount Pictures was revitalized in 2018 with the success of Mission: Impossible—Fallout (the biggest film in that long-running franchise), Bumblebee, and the sleeper horror hit A Quiet Place. In all, the studio generated $1.1 billion at the box office last...
Exhibition Features New Products of CineEurope 2019 Boxoffice Staff • Jun 17th ARTS ALLIANCE MEDIA PRODUCER CIRCUIT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Arts Alliance Media’s Producer Circuit Management System (CMS) empowers exhibitor head offices with visibility and control over every screen in their circuit. Connect your theater management system to AAM’s innovative cloud-based CMS to...
Exhibition Features Top Women in Global Exhibition 2019: Grainne Peat, Event Cinema Association Rebecca Pahle • Jun 16th Earlier this year, Boxoffice partnered with Celluloid Junkie to present the fourth annual list of Top Women in Global Cinema, published in our CinemaCon issue. Throughout 2019, Boxoffice will continue to honor the women who have an immeasurable impact on...
Exhibition Features Paying It Forward: Laura Houlgatte Abbott Inspires as UNIC’s CEO Rebecca Pahle • Jun 15th As the CEO of UNIC, the largest international trade body in cinema, Laura Houlgatte Abbott has a lot to juggle. Representing the needs of UNIC’s 37 member companies (soon to be 38—“Hopefully we manage to get Cyprus on board”) requires...
Exhibition Features Beyond the Continent: CineEurope Continues to Expand Its International Profile Kevin Lally • Jun 14th “It’s not just a European event anymore.” Andrew Sunshine, president of the Film Expo Group, is talking about CineEurope, the official convention of the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC), which opens its 28th edition on June 17 at the Centre...
Exhibition Features Back in Action: Kenya Barris on Keeping Shaft Relevant for Today’s Audiences Daniel Loria • Jun 12th Nearly fifty years after the release of Gordon Parks’ Shaft, executive producer and screenwriter Kenya Barris updates the black anti-hero to today’s social context. Isaac Hayes’ iconic score plays while a shot overlooking Times Square pans across a row of...
Exhibition Features Go Fourth: Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and the Gang Return in Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 4 Jesse Rifkin • Jun 11th It starts with a bang—literally. After the opening Disney logo fades, the very first moment of Toy Story 4 is a lightning crash. And the rain looks like nothing you’ve seen in animation before. To create their cutting-edge graphics and...
Exhibition Features Patricia Rozema’s Mouthpiece Examines The Intricacies of Modern Womanhood Rebecca Pahle • Jun 7th “I love the theater experience. I love the darkness. I love the collectivity. I love hearing other people laugh or cry. I love that experience. I love the size of it. I love the sound of it.” Writer/director Patricia Rozema...
Exhibition Features A Merry Time in Maryland: Mid-Atlantic NATO’s Cinema Show & Tell Changes Its Location, Keeps Its Quality Rebecca Pahle • Jun 4th This year marked a change for Cinema Show & Tell, the annual convention of the Mid-Atlantic NATO. For the first time, the show skipped a bit north from its usual venue in Virginia to the Live! Casino and Hotel in...
Exhibition Features Talk of the Town: Nisha Ganatra and Mindy Kaling Take Aim at the World of Late Night TV Kevin Lally • Jun 4th Twenty years after her feature directing debut, Chutney Popcorn, found a warm reception on the festival circuit, Nisha Ganatra is back in the theatrical arena with one of the hottest titles from Sundance 2019: Late Night, written by and starring...
