Exhibition Features

On this week’s episode of the Boxoffice Podcast, director Oliver Laxe talks balancing clarity and shadow with his new film Sirât, nominated for two awards (Best Foreign Film, Best Sound) at this year’s Oscars. Sirât is currently screening in domestic...

Ocean Waves By Daniel Loria One Battle After Another | AMC Sunset Place, Miami, FL There are two parts to One Battle After Another: a prologue about the exploits of the French 75, a ragtag group of radical far-left revolutionaries,...

Story of the Year  That’s All, Folks: Warner Bros. Is for Sale Theatrical exhibition ended 2025 on a cliffhanger amid news that Netflix had won the bidding war to acquire Warner Bros. The deal promises to have far-reaching, if not...

Full Analysis of What a Warner Bros. Acquisition Could Mean for the Movie Theater Industry  By Daniel Loria, Chad Kennerk, and Rebecca Pahle What We Know Netflix beat out bids from Paramount and Comcast to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio...

The first half of autumn 2023 was not a good time for the domestic box office. The WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes slowed Hollywood’s publicity machine to a crawl, and if certain summer tentpoles—most prominently Barbie and Oppenheimer—managed to capture audience...

In the long lineage of Oz on screen, makeup and hair have carried as much mythology as the characters themselves—from actress Gale Sondergaard refusing to wear Wicked Witch makeup to the Horse of a Different Color made possible by powdered...

In For Good, the language of costume charts an arc of identity, power, and vulnerability through fabric. Academy Award-winning costume designer Paul Tazewell approaches costumes as the architecture of character, with every fabric and silhouette designed to reveal how Elphaba,...

A title card in the opening seconds of Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent welcomes the audience into a setting steeped somewhere between fact-and-falsehoods: 1977 Brazil, during the country’s military’s dictatorship. “A time of mischief,” as described by the title...

In crafting the visual language of Wicked, cinematographer Alice Brooks and director Jon M. Chu began with words. From that emotional foundation, the pair spent two years trading thousands of images and dreaming bigger than ever before. The vision for...

The philosophy of Oscar-winning production designer Nathan Crowley is simple: If something can be built, it should be built. His experience growing 500 acres of corn in Canada for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar gave him the confidence to plant nine million...

For virtuoso casting director Bernie Telsey, the long-awaited film adaptation of Wicked offered the chance to revisit a world he helped shape decades earlier when he shepherded the show through its Broadway debut, casting Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel in...

Listen to our full discussion and analysis of the Holiday 2025 box office on The Boxoffice Podcast Week 48 | Thanksgiving 2025 | November 26–30 Disney’s Zootopia 2 will be the only new wide release during a Thanksgiving weekend that...