UKCA 2026 Conference: Box Office Optimism, Engaging Gen Z, and Leveraging the Power of Community
The Box Office Is Back. At a Renovated Regal Theatre, the Industry Asks What Comes Next
Theatrical Windows Are Stretching Again — and Hollywood’s C-Suite Wants Them Longer Still
Can Direct-to-Audience Distribution Give Indie Films a New Path to Theatres?
The Long Game: How Sony Pictures Classics Still Wins at Cannes
There are easier ways to make a living than selling independent and international cinema in 2026. There are safer businesses than theatrical distribution, quieter ones than acquisitions, and certainly more predictable ones than building a release strategy around festival discovery, Oscar momentum, r…
Cannes 2026: Strong Films, Thin Buzz and a Market Finding New Footing
A strong competition without a consensus breakout, a Marché reshaped by private capital, and a Hollywood no-show that raised uncomfortable questions about the festival’s global reach. The 79th Cannes Film Festival closed on May 23 the way it opened — with defiance. No major Hollywood studio tentpole…
Cristian Mungiu’s “Fjord” Wins Palme d’Or at 2026 Cannes Film Festival
Cristian Mungiu’s “Fjord” was awarded the Palme d’Or at the 79th Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, May 23, giving the Romanian filmmaker his second win of the festival’s top prize, nearly two decades after “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” took the Palme in 2007. The Norway-set drama, starring Sebastia…
At Cannes, Red Sea’s Women in Cinema Spotlight Makes the Case for a Wider Film Map
The Red Sea Film Foundation’s annual Women in Cinema spotlight brought together filmmakers and performers from Nigeria, Rwanda, India, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Morocco — and made clear that some of the industry’s most urgent voices are still waiting for the infrastructure to match their ambition.…
As Hollywood Pulls Back, Cannes Doubles Down
There is a quality to the light along the Croisette in May that no other film festival can replicate or claim. It falls at a particular angle across the Palais des Festivals — that concrete monolith critics have spent decades mocking and cinephiles have spent decades loving — and transforms even the…
Vue & Barco Cinema Celebrate EPIC Milestones
Unique X and CinemaNext Announce Partnership at CineEurope to Deliver Seamless Cinema Power Management
Lumma and Omniplex to Launch the first 4D E-Motion Theater in Scotland
