Exhibition Features

Hitting cinemas—both live and via the virtual theatrical model (list of participating theaters here)—Friday, July 10, Oscilloscope release We Are Little Zombies tells the story of four friends with an unusual meet-cute: the parents of newly orphaned teenagers Hikari, Takemura,...

Comedy legend Carl Reiner died on Monday night at the age of 98, after a career spanning seven decades. He first achieved stardom in the earliest days of television, as writer and performer on the landmark “Your Show of Shows”...

JANUARY 23 Cinemas in China are ordered to close on the eve of the country’s Lunar New Year holiday, one of the busiest moviegoing periods of the year.  FEBRUARY 12 Mobile World Conference, the world’s largest mobile phone convention, cancels...

June would have—in a different world—seen the theatrical release of director Jon M. Chu’s In the Heights, based on the Tony-winning Broadway musical from future Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda. But we live in the times of Covid-19, when In the...

Since 2002, it’s been the mission of the Lollipop Theater Network to bring a light to the lives of hospitalized children. Aided by a board of directors packed with film industry executives—including Carolyn Blackwood, COO at Warner Bros.; Chris Aronson,...

On May 30, Showcase Cinemas opened a “pop-up” drive-in theater at their Patriot Place location in Foxborough, Massachusetts with a screening of Steven Spielberg’s 1981 classic Raiders of the Lost Ark. The sold-out event— which doubled as a fundraiser for...

In an unprecedented spring season that saw the shuttering of hard top theaters, a release slate emptied of major studio films and an improbable resurgence of drive-ins, an unlikely hit emerged: IFC Films’ The Wretched, a low-budget horror film about...

CineEurope is going digital. The annual convention of UNIC, the trade association representing European cinemas, was forced to shift its event online after Covid-19 made it infeasible to hold its usual yearly event in Barcelona. “Two afternoons online can’t replace...

With cinemas beginning to open up worldwide—in North America, top-three chains AMC and Cinemark have both confirmed that they plan to open the majority of their cinemas by early-mid July—a key issue on everyone’s mind is content. Whether they’re screening...

Boxoffice LIVE Sessions have brought you information on social media, sanitation, movie theater tech… and, last week, experts from Universal Pictures in France, Sony Pictures in Spain, and our own Boxoffice PRO gathered to break down the how’s and why’s...

Open lines of communication between the members of the global film exhibition industry have never been more important. To that end, Boxoffice Pro will be maintaining an updated list of webinars (including our own LIVE Sessions). The list below will...

Last week, The Boxoffice Company hosted its latest LIVE Session on the topic of sanitation and how exhibitors can plan to operate upon reopening post-COVID 19 lockdowns.