Exhibition Features

The 60th feature film from Walt Disney Animation Studios opens with crickets chirping quietly and the sound of someone whispering, “Abre tus ojos” (open your eyes). Right from the opening moment of Encanto, the audience is immersed in the sights...

Talk about false advertising. The franchise’s previous installment was literally titled Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, but the sixth film in the zombie sci-fi action series proved to be anything but. New prequel/reboot Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City takes...

Exploring the weight of its themes—sex and art, infidelity, grief—across a three-hour runtime, Ryusukue Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car is nothing less than a cinematic epic, adapted from a Haruki Murakami short story that encompasses a single conversation between two characters....

1981, says Michael Cummings, was not the best time to be an architect. “I distinctly remember a professor telling me, ‘It’s a great time to be in school. There’s not an architecture job to be had anywhere.’” Nonetheless, 1981 was...

Boxoffice Pro’s history with Alamo Drafthouse dates back to its inception. Founder Tim League reminisced about using the magazine as a reference in guiding him through the opening of his first cinema. The publication has kept close ties covering the...

The cinema business has much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving season. This same month last year, November 2020, only one film released theatrically earned more than $10 million total — The Croods: A New Age. That amount would now...

Boxoffice Pro is reviving its iconic Boxoffice Barometer readers’ poll, a popular annual feature of our magazine for decades, in which exhibitors vote on the best achievements in the industry. In this newly revamped edition of the Barometer, representatives from...

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...

“Opening hearts and minds one story at a time” is the mantra of Studio Movie Grill. The Dallas-based chain, founded in 2000, has quite a story of its own. In 2019, Studio Movie Grill was the 13th-largest exhibitor in North...

(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...