Exhibition Features

With quarterly earnings call season underway, the leadership or North America’s top five theater chains—AMC, Regal, Cinemark, Cineplex, and Marcus—are elaborating on their plans to strengthen their respective companies as the industry looks forward to summer 2022 and beyond. With...

As the cinema industry emerges 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 bringing the...

How has Hollywood exported American values, including its ideals of consumerism and luxury, to the rest of the world? Through American movies, of course, but, more surprisingly, as discussed by Ross Melnick in his new book, through global American movie...

Could May 2022 become the biggest month at the domestic box office since the pandemic hit? Currently, that high water mark is held by December 2021 with $920.8M. For context, in the pre-pandemic year of 2019, five different months exceeded...

As the MPA celebrates its 100th anniversary, Boxoffice Pro speaks to Chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin about the wider picture of international cinema recovery and key concerns of the MPA looking forward. 2020 was a crisis year for the industry,...

On our Wednesday edition of the Boxoffice Pro CinemaCon podcast, Daniel Loria talks to Cinemark CEO Sean Gamble on the chain’s innovations in programming and amenities. Read the interview below, condensed for length and clarity, or listen to it in...

Receiving NATO’s Marquee Award at this year’s CinemaCon is Ellis Jacob, a man who—as CEO and president of Cineplex, Canada’s largest exhibitor—was instrumental in leading the Canadian corner of the exhibition industry through the Covid-19 pandemic. The last year has...

The number of films released to movie theaters has declined by 60 percent or more during the pandemic, according to the latest figures from the Motion Picture Association. The sudden drop in content availability poses what could very well be...

From a vendor perspective, the 2021 edition of CinemaCon was a muted affair. The world was still in the grasp of the Covid-19 Delta variant, preventing numerous international executives from attending and leaving several vacancies on the trade show floor....

By the time he hit his early-20s, Martin Moszkowicz knew that he loved film–he was a regular at a theater in his hometown of Munich, where he would go multiple times a week to see old movie classics. But in...

Jeffrey Forman’s career could have turned out a lot differently. The veteran distribution executive was on the fast track to a legal career, having already secured an MBA from the University of Southern California before earning his Juris Doctorate degree...

In advance of the 2022 edition of CinemaCon, NATO CEO and President John Fithian and MPA CEO and Chairman Charlie Rivkin spoke to Boxoffice Pro about the industry’s continued recovery and the priorities of exhibitors and distributors moving forward. This...