Exhibition Features

Jude Law and Carrie Coon give towering performances in The Nest, in theaters today. A silver-tongued financier with a “fake it til you make” it attitude towards household finances, Rory (Law) moves his family—son, stepdaughter, and Allison (Coon), bristling at...

As cinemas gradually reopen across Europe, UNIC is asking its members to share their stories about welcoming audiences back to their cinemas and adapting to the ongoing crisis in a new interview series. The series began with a discussion between...

Director Armando Iannucci returns to the big screen, following 2017’s The Death of Stalin and 2009’s Oscar-nominated In the Loop, with The Personal History of David Copperfield. The Charles Dickens adaptation—which tells the tale of a young man (Dev Patel)...

Want to forget the 2020s and return to the 1920s? Earlier this month, the Wilton Town Hall Theatre in New Hampshire held five consecutive days of silent film screenings with live musical accompaniment. The two-screen location, with about 200 seats...

Loveland, Colorado’s MetroLux Dine-In Theatres had only been open for a few months—since August 2019—when the onset of Covid-19 disrupted its first year in business. Part of the 16-theater, family-owned Metropolitan Theatres chain, the MetroLux’s companion restaurant, Scripted, continued to...

By Daniel Loria, Kevin Lally, and Rebecca Pahle The reopening effort in the United States started in Texas, as cinema entertainment centers—known for having larger sites that can more easily accommodate social distancing measures—were among the first circuits to resume operations....

New York City has no shortage of independent and art house theaters—but Harlem’s Maysles Documentary Center is something different. The Maysles was established by late documentary pioneer Albert Maysles in 2008 as a place to explore and discuss documentary films....

2020 marks 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, then called Boxoffice in...

On April 7, the Japanese government declared a state of emergency in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Theaters, big and small, closed their doors—and would remain closed until the following month, when the exhibition industry was allowed to restart in...

It was during her job interview that Shelly Olesen knew she belonged at C. Cretors & Company. “I looked at the guy who was interviewing me and I said, ‘Okay, no, you have to hire me. This is the job...

BY NATO STAFF The below column was originally published in the August 2020 issue of Boxoffice Pro. It is great to be back in the pages of Boxoffice Pro after a brief hiatus. We thought it would be best to...

By Jesse Rifkin & Chris Eggertsen With indoor cinemas largely closed nationwide, drive-ins have attracted attendance numbers unseen in decades. Curated film series, with select titles playing over the course of multiple weekends, are attracting audiences itching to leave the...