Exhibition Features

PRESENTED BY 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 asking them to share their first-person accounts of...

Hitting theaters exclusively this weekend, Paramount release Snake Eyes brings a favored ’80s property back to the big screen. Absent from cinemas since 2013’s G.I. Joe: Retaliation, with Snake Eyes the G.I. Joe franchise shifts gears to focus on a...

Roadside popcorn sales. Pop-up drive-ins. Virtual cinema. The Covid era has been one of experimentation for the exhibition industry, as cinemas worldwide struggle to compensate for shutdowns, capacity limits, and a lack of content. One of the most successful methods...

Horror movies might be designed for scares, but quite often—in between the shrieks—they’re just plain fun. Such is the case with Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, the latest in a handful of horror films (A Quiet Place Part 2, Spiral,...

By John Fithian, President & CEO, National Association of Theatre Owners During a NATO Executive Board of Directors meeting in early March of 2020, Cineworld’s Mooky Greidinger said to his fellow NATO leaders something like, “We’ve seen what this virus...

On this episode of the Boxoffice Podcast, we break down new release changes (Hotel Transylvania: Transformania moving to October and The Beatles: Get Back abandoning theatrical entirely) and Pacific/Arclight bankruptcy news before co-host Daniel Loria dives into the week’s main...

To escape a villain in Furious 7, Vin Diesel revs his Lykan HyperSport out the window of one gleaming Abu Dhabi skyscraper, then crashes through the window of another, but not before flying through the air for several moments. Yet...

Yesterday marked the official anointment of Juneteenth—June 19, a day celebrating the emancipation of enslaved peoples in the U.S.—as a national holiday. Long celebrated in Black communities, the holiday—and its lack of official federal recognition—has grown as a topic of...

Last week marked the return of in-person moviegoing to Belgium, which—like many of its European counterparts—has been subject to two different waves of lockdown since the arrival of the Coronavirus in March 2020. It’s a long stretch of time to...

PRESENTED BY 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 asking them to share their first-person...

With narrowing theatrical windows and the increasing prevalence of streaming platforms, exhibitors are pushing ever deeper into the event cinema space, and distributors like Fathom Events, CineLife Entertainment and Trafalgar Releasing have been offering a steady pipeline of alternative content...

Of all the theatrical release-date changes caused by the pandemic, Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway may take the cake — or, should we say, the carrot cake. The June 11 release for Sony Pictures’ animated sequel counts as its staggering...