Interviews

Set in France in the year 1963, Happening tells the story of Anne (Anamaria Vartolomei), a young student from a working class family balancing her job, social life, and ambitions with the day-to-day responsibilities of her studies. Upon discovering of...

In advance of the 2022 edition of CinemaCon, NATO CEO and President John Fithian and MPA CEO and Chairman Charlie Rivkin spoke to Boxoffice Pro about the industry’s continued recovery and the priorities of exhibitors and distributors moving forward. This...

2020’s Sonic the Hedgehog proved one of the most successful video game film adaptations ever, earning $146 million domestically. That would have been impressive enough on its own, but that number actually reflects a theatrical release cut short by the...

Since the character’s 1971 introduction (in comic The Amazing Spider-Man #101), the vampire Morbius has been a Spider-Man universe staple, appearing in numerous comics, animated television series, and video games. Yet he’s never made the leap to film, until now....

Call him the modern-day master of the period drama. Director Joe Wright, whose award-winning films have taken audiences through Britain of the 1940s (The Darkest Hour, Atonement), 19th-century Russia (Anna Karenina), and Georgian-era England (Pride & Prejudice) turns to 17th-century...

Back in 2010, Mark Wahlberg was attached to play the young protagonist Nathan Drake in the film adaptation of the video game franchise Uncharted. Yet the project remained trapped in development hell for so long, that when the film actually...

Directing your first feature film is always a challenge. Doing so alongside a co-director as famous as Channing Tatum, also making his directorial debut, adds an additional layer. As does shooting in 2020 during a pandemic. Not to mention almost...

In the grand tradition of off-the-wall cinematic meet-cutes comes Marry Me, in theaters this weekend with a day-and-date release from Universal. Jennifer Lopez (who also produced) stars as pop superstar Kat Valdez, whose plan to get married before a crowd...

In 2000, a show called “Jackass” premiered on MTV—and American culture was never quite the same. Created by Jeff Tremaine, Spike Jonze, and Johnny Knoxville, the short-lived show featured Knoxville and a band of daredevil ne’er-do-wells (or, as Tremaine calls...

Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier rose to fame on the international film-festival scene following his 2006 debut feature, Reprise. The film established many of the themes the writer-director would return to in the ensuing years: identity, ambition, and love among a...

One of the most iconic horror franchises in recent history, Scream rang into movie theaters during the Christmas corridor in 1996 and revived the slasher picture for a new generation of moviegoers. The film brought a playful, new energy into...

2022 marks a year of new beginnings for Cinemark, the third-largest movie chain in North America. Last summer the circuit announced that Mark Zoradi, CEO since 2015, would officially retire from his position at the end of 2021, leaving the...