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French playwright Florian Zeller won critical praise for the feature-film adaptation of his own play, The Father, in 2020. It was a dream cinematic debut for the writer-director, who won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The Father also...

The New Yorker Theater opened to the public on March 9, 1960. The 900-seat cultural outpost, situated on the corner of Broadway and 89th Street on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, opened at a time when the neighborhood was significantly less...

On February 27, 2000, Michigan-based Goodrich Quality Theaters Inc. filed for bankruptcy. Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the chain ran 281 screens across 30 locations as of the end of December 2019, making it the 16th-largest chain (judging by screen...

In 1994, a 24-year-old Tim League, then an engineer at Shell Oil in Bakersfield, California, was driving to work when he noticed the words “For Lease” on the marquee of the Tejon Theatre, a cinema dating back to the 1940s...

Rolando Rodriguez, the outgoing chief executive officer of Marcus Theatres, is this year’s recipient of the Dan Fellman Show “E” award, a lifetime achievement prize, at ShowEast. The award, renamed in 2015 to honor longtime Warner Bros. distribution executive Dan...

Lisa Bunnell, president of distribution at Focus Features, will receive this year’s Bingham Ray Spirit Award at ShowEast. The award was established in 2012 in honor of the late Bingham Ray and bestowed annually to an individual who has shown...

Running a charity with two full-time staff is never an easy task—but, amid a pandemic, with need higher and resources lower than ever before, the challenge was exponentially bigger. It’s well deserved, then, that one half of that two-person team—Elizabeth...

Miguel Mier began his career at Cinépolis straight out of college, in 1994, joining the circuit at a time when it was still a family-owned company in Mexico. The timing was fortuitous. The start of Mier’s tenure coincided with the...

For nearly 15 years, Australian-born Cameron Mitchell has been in the thick of one of the most dynamic markets in the global cinema industry: the Middle East. As CEO of Majid Al Futtaim’s Vox Cinemas, Mitchell had a front-row seat...

The most important part of any patron’s movie theater experience is obvious: the movie. 2022 has shown us that, with the right product, customers will and do flock back to the movies in record-breaking numbers, hopefully to be met by...

This year’s Larry D. Hanson Award of Excellence goes to a fitting honoree: Joel Davis of Premiere Cinema Corporation and the Independent Cinema Alliance (ICA; cinemaalliance.org). At the ICA, Davis plays a key role in the group’s Cinema Buying Alliance...

Every year, the Geneva Convention’s Paul J. Rogers Leadership Award is given to someone who has displayed visionary leadership in adapting to a constantly changing industry. The last two years have certainly been constantly changing, and they’ve just as certainly...