Exhibition Features

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...

(Updated October 18, 2021, to reflect release date changes for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Thor: Love and Thunder, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the untitled Indiana Jones 5, The Marvels, and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.) Despite Disney’s...

It’s been a long two-plus years since the exhibition executives of Europe were able to meet at CineEurope, last held in person in June 2019 in Barcelona, Spain. The Film Expo Group hosted a digital version of the event in...

The final night of CineEurope’s 2021 trade show will see this year’s eight Gold Award recipients receive their honors at an awards ceremony at Barcelona’s Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona (CCIB). “The Gold Awards were started by UNIC [International...

Niels Swinkels, the recently promoted executive vice president and managing director of Universal Pictures International, is this year’s recipient of CineEurope’s International Distributor of the Year award. Prior to taking on his current role in January 2021, Swinkels served as...

September had one huge movie: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which singlehandedly earned more than half the month’s box office. October seems poised to be much more diversified, with a mixture of several potential hits and awards...

On this week’s episode of the Boxoffice Podcast, sponsored by Spotlight Cinema Networks, co-hosts Rebecca Pahle and Daniel Loria speak to COO Matthew Baizer of Flix Brewhouse, a nine-location dine-in chain (and microbrewery) celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2021. In...

To commemorate the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month, running September 15-October 15, Boxoffice Pro is republishing our 2020 interview with Marcus Theatres’ and NATO’s Rolando Rodriguez, one of the industry’s premier advocates of diversity in hiring and programming. A veteran...

The independent and art house theater communities were true pioneers in establishing virtual screenings at the very start of the pandemic shutdown. One driving force was the respected independent distributor Kino Lorber, which had just opened its Cannes award-winning dark...

In recent weeks, Sony Pictures moved sci-fi sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage from September 24 to October 15, while Paramount pulled the live-action Clifford the Big Red Dog from September 17 to a to-be-determined date. So while the upcoming...

2020 marked the 100th anniversary of the founding of Boxoffice Pro. Though the publication you hold in your hands has had different owners, headquarters, and even names—it was founded in Kansas City by 18-year-old Ben Shlyen as The Reel Journal,...

At this year’s ECA Slate Day, held virtually on June 9, the focus was on the future: How can the world of event cinema, in its content, marketing, and operations, better serve the global exhibition community as it emerges from...