Exhibition Features

February is poised to diversify the box office, after January was in large part dominated by mid-December holdover Avatar: The Way of Water. This month will include a new Marvel Studios title, a 3D re-release of one of the highest-grossing...

2007 was quite the year for Annie Wang start her first job in the cinema industry as GDC Technology’s newest senior sales executive. The next two years would see theaters in North America adopt digital projection technology en masse, and...

Phishing and ransomware attacks proliferated during the pandemic. Wynn Salisch, principal of Casablanca Payments, a payment-processing and cybersecurity firm specializing in the hospitality and entertainment industries, tells Boxoffice Pro how to prevent cybersecurity headaches before it’s too late. What is...

Paramount is heading into 2023 with a lot of goodwill from the exhibition community, following a 2022 with marquee titles (Top Gun: Maverick) and strong mid-range performers (Scream, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, The Lost City). The current year will see...

Founded in 2018 by Caryn Coleman, formerly the director of programming at Brooklyn’s Nitehawk Cinema, The Future of Film Is Female (FOIF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to amplify the voices of female and non-binary filmmakers, with a particular emphasis...

In a year defined by a lack of titles being made available to cinemas, Universal bucked the trend by bringing 19 titles to theaters in 2022. Its specialty division, Focus Features, distributed an additional 12 titles to theaters. All in...

The domestic cinema market continued its recovery in 2022, with the top ten releases of the year grossing a substantially higher combined figure ($3.83B) than the top ten of 2020 ($829.1M) and 2021 ($1.52B) combined. Landing at number two is...

New year, new films. Fortunately, the public health situation this January appears far better than during January of last year, when the surging Omicron variant prompted many cities and states to reimpose mask mandates, Covid vaccine mandates, or capacity requirements...

Listen to the full conversation on The Boxoffice Podcast The Biggest Stories of the Year The Domestic Box Office Falls Short of Expectations in 2022 Shawn Robbins: 2022 came in below where we were expecting to be at this time...

Premium large-format (PLF) auditoriums once again emerged as a top choice for global movie audiences in 2022, catapulting titles like Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick and Universal’s Jurassic World: Dominion to blockbuster levels. In a webinar recorded in early December, weeks...

Damien Chazelle reunites with composer (and former college roommate) Justin Hurwitz for Babylon, out this weekend from Paramount Pictures. The film marks the fifth collaboration between the pair, with one of those films—2016’s La La Land—netting Hurwitz Oscars for Original...

In theaters tomorrow, December 23, from Paramount Pictures, Babylon sees La La Land director Damien Chazelle offer a new take on the mythological appeal of Hollywood—this time, turning the lens on a wide-ranging group of filmmakers, criminals, and degenerate partiers...