CinemaCon

The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) will honor Chris Johnson, the chief executive officer of Classic Cinemas, with the 2024 NATO Marquee Award during next year’s CinemaCon. The announcement came today from Mitch Neuhauser, the managing director of CinemaCon. ...

The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) announced today that Amanda Martin will join the NATO team as Chief of Staff. Martin, who will report directly to President & CEO Michael O’Leary, will work across all NATO organizations, including the...

Lionsgate is planning a major return to movie theaters in 2023 with a slate of 14 theatrical titles that Adam Fogelson, the Vice Chair of the Motion Picture Group, believes caters to a segment of “important and frequently underserved customers.”...

Universal and Focus Features opened their CinemaCon 2023 presentation by showing off their deep ties with Hollywood’s creative community, prefacing studio Chairman Donna Langley’s introductory remarks with a video featuring its stable of filmmakers share personal messages in support of...

The last three years have hammered home the fact that the cinema industry is a global one, with shutdowns, delays, or recoveries in one market impacting the theatrical slate for the rest of the world. In the spirit of cross-cultural...

Since its founding in 2019, the Independent Cinema Alliance (ICA) has dedicated its efforts to empowering independent filmmakers and movie theater owners and operators in the North American market. Its membership reaches from coast to coast, with hundreds of screens...

As always, CinemaCon this year kicks off with International Day, providing a solid half day of programming dedicated to the realities of theatrical exhibition in a variety of overseas markets. This year, the Global Achievement in Exhibition Award goes to...

Memphis, Tennessee-based Malco Theatres is the latest North American circuit to partner with cinema technology company Cinionic for a large-scale conversion to laser projection. Malco’s fleet of Barco Series 2 projectors will be upgraded with Cinionic’s Laser Light solution, whereby...

Where is the entertainment industry today? And what is your assessment of the theatrical sector’s recovery in context of the entertainment ecosystem as a whole? The film, TV and streaming industry today is proving once again that we are among...

The movie theater business is made up of a surprising number of veteran executives who began their careers as teenage ushers, ticket takers, or concessionaires. That is the case for Rolando Rodriguez, whose hourly job as a 15-year-old at a...

Cinema technology company Cinionic has crossed a new milestone in laser cinema with commitments for over 3,000 Laser Light Upgrade solutions from theaters around the world. With Cinionic’s Laser Light Upgrade, a Barco Series 2 xenon projector’s light source engine...

With CinemaCon kicking off today and running through Thursday, April 27, Boxoffice Pro takes a look at some of the issues that look to be key discussion points among cinema executives at this year’s show. 1) Mergers, Acquisitions, and Consolidation...