Exhibition Features

Chris Butler is a veteran of acclaimed Oregon-based stop-motion animation studio LAIKA. The Liverpool native was a storyboard supervisor on Coraline (2009), writer and co-director of ParaNorman (2012), and co-writer of Kubo and the Two Strings (2016). His latest effort...

There is magic happening behind the bland exterior of a 120,000-square-foot warehouse in Hillsboro, Oregon, 17 miles west of Portland. Inside is the headquarters of LAIKA, one of the most artistically adventurous animation studios of our time. It’s there that...

An interview with the director of the new movie coming out this Friday, March 15.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe, often abbreviated as the MCU, needs little explanation by now: It’s an audacious series of 20 interconnected movies, spanning more than a decade to date, featuring overlapping characters and story lines. Marvel’s track record speaks for...

An interview with the director of the new romantic drama coming out this Friday, March 15.

The Hummingbird Project is all about a race against time, but it’s not an action thriller. Rather, writer-director Kim Nguyen’s film delves into the very arcane world of high-frequency trading, and a scheme by two cousins to construct a fiber-optic...

The Art House Convergence hosts a four-day conference taking place in Midway, Utah, each January just before the Sundance Film Festival.

by Alex Edghill Super Bowl LIII proved to be a defensive slog where the ever-competitive New England Patriots defeated the Los Angeles Rams 13-3. Low scoring games tend to draw less interest from average viewers, resulting in an overall average...

The movies love New York, and New York loves the movies. In the nearly 100 years since the exhibition industry first came to the Big Apple, the theatrical landscape has blossomed, resulting in a diverse mix of cinemas, from multiplexes...

by Ayşegül Algan Mariam El Bacha’s career may have started in her native Argentina, where she opened multiplexes for Village Cines, but her story since has been a globe-trotting journey. The executive’s career has taken her to multiple international markets,...

by Alex Edghill Marketing budgets for summer blockbusters can exceed $100 million. On average, the figure tops $40 million. And the largest single line item for marketing on any balance sheet is almost always TV advertising. Social media budgets have...