Interviews

One of the most tragic news stories of this turbulent year has been the plight of thousands of Afghans, now that the United States has withdrawn its forces after a 20-year presence in the quagmire known as Afghanistan. Those headlines...

In a November LIVE session webinar, Boxoffice Pro partnered with cinema advertising company Spotlight Cinema Networks to launch a discussion on the current state of the art house market. A panel of experts from the art house and specialty space...

The 60th feature film from Walt Disney Animation Studios opens with crickets chirping quietly and the sound of someone whispering, “Abre tus ojos” (open your eyes). Right from the opening moment of Encanto, the audience is immersed in the sights...

Talk about false advertising. The franchise’s previous installment was literally titled Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, but the sixth film in the zombie sci-fi action series proved to be anything but. New prequel/reboot Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City takes...

Exploring the weight of its themes—sex and art, infidelity, grief—across a three-hour runtime, Ryusukue Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car is nothing less than a cinematic epic, adapted from a Haruki Murakami short story that encompasses a single conversation between two characters....

Ghostbusters: Afterlife is a family affair. Unlike the previous three Ghostbusters films, it’s about a family: single mother Callie (Carrie Coon) and children Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) and Phoebe (Mckenna Grace), daughter and grandkids of the late, great ghostbuster Dr. Spengler...

Warner Bros.’ King Richard is the true story of royalty—tennis royalty. Will Smith brings his ample charisma to the role of Richard Williams, a man with a plan to transport his family from the shabby Los neighborhood of Compton by grooming his daughters...

In theaters on November 10, Paramount release Clifford the Big Red Dog updates a classic character, beloved by generations of children worldwide, for a 2021 audience—and for movie theaters. What better place than a big screen, after all, for a...

It’s ironic that a movie called Mass, Fran Kranz’s directorial debut, opened at Sundance in the first year that crowds couldn’t gather en masse in Park City. Regardless, critics watching from their laptops heaped praise upon the film, which was...

Regardless of your age or generation, you can probably sing “The Addams Family” theme song, finger snaps included. But many years before the iconic TV show, the macabre title family first appeared, in 1938, in a series of single-panel cartoons...

Tony Soprano is one of the most influential characters in television history, clearing the way for such memorable antiheroes as Don Draper in “Mad Men,” Walter White in “Breaking Bad,” and Vic Mackey in “The Shield.” The saga of the...

On this week’s episode of the Boxoffice Podcast, sponsored by Spotlight Cinema Networks, co-hosts Rebecca Pahle and Daniel Loria speak to COO Matthew Baizer of Flix Brewhouse, a nine-location dine-in chain (and microbrewery) celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2021. In...