Interviews

To escape a villain in Furious 7, Vin Diesel revs his Lykan HyperSport out the window of one gleaming Abu Dhabi skyscraper, then crashes through the window of another, but not before flying through the air for several moments. Yet...

Of all the theatrical release-date changes caused by the pandemic, Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway may take the cake — or, should we say, the carrot cake. The June 11 release for Sony Pictures’ animated sequel counts as its staggering...

Behind Simon and Garfunkel, the second-most famous duo associated with “the sound of silence” may be Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn. The sound editors sculpted the auditory environment of 2018’s breakout horror-drama A Quiet Place, about a family...

It’s not the easiest film to pitch: a romantic comedy without the romance, a couple having a baby together when they have no interest of being a couple. That’s not to say Nikole Beckwith’s Together Together is particularly esoteric. Its...

In 2016, the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, Massachusetts hosted a screening of Contagion—the prescient Steven Soderbergh thriller about a global pandemic—as part of its long-running Science on Screen series. To highlight the science behind the film, the theater invited...

If there’s a genre that deserves the full cinematic experience, it’s “giant monsters beat the crap out of each other.” Luckily, moviegoers in North America will have just that opportunity on March 31, when director Adam Wingard’s Godzilla vs. Kong...

By Daniel Eagan The below interview was conducted for Film Journal International in the summer of 2017, tied to the release of renowned director Bertrand Tavernier’s Journey Through French Cinema. Boxoffice Pro republishes this piece now following Tavernier’s death on...

This week on The Boxoffice Podcast, we discuss the latest changes to the release calendar and why big movies may come to theaters earlier than expected. In the feature segment, the Lume Cinema’s James Anderson Brown and Anthony Hughes join...

By Daniel Eagan Largely erased from film history, Louis Valray directed two independent features in France in the early 1930s. La belle de nuit and Escale (aka Thirteen Days of Love] are works of startling originality, hinting at the momentous...

In September, U.K. exhibition veterans Kate Gerova and Mandy Kean hitched their proverbial wagons together to form Mustard Studio, a consulting business catering to independent theater owners. The venture is particularly applicable to the current moment, with many exhibitors looking...

“Jacobs” might not be in the name—but Telescopic Seating Systems counts itself among the many family-run businesses that keep the exhibition sector moving. Married for 43 years, Fred and Denise Jacobs have come up through multiple industries together, landing in...

Writer/director Emerald Fennell gives a new twist to the revenge thriller in Promising Young Woman.