The Paramount-Warner Merger Is Permanent. The Guardrails for Movie Theatres Are Not
Venice 2026: Defiant Documentaries, Female Filmmakers and a Scaled-Back Studio Offering
Nordic Cinema Doesn’t Have an Export Problem. It Has a Conversion Problem
Cinemas Aren’t Just Marketing Movies Anymore. They’re Marketing Auditoriums
The Cinema Concession Stand Is Becoming a Marketplace
For most of the modern multiplex era, the cinema concession stand has operated according to a familiar routine. Customers line up, study a menu board, place an order, wait while an employee assembles it and then pay before moving toward their auditorium. At CinéShow 2026 in Dallas, two consecutive s…
Cinergy and Cinema United’s Todd Halstead Honored at CinéShow as Flix Brewhouse’s Allan Reagan Puts Ukraine Center Stage
CinéShow’s 2026 awards luncheon, held 25 August in Dallas, handed out three honors: a first-ever Exhibitor Marketing of the Year Award to Cinergy Entertainment, an inaugural Byron Berkley Leadership Award to Cinema United‘s Todd Halstead, and the Frank Liberto Award to Flix Brewhouse fou…
Young Audiences Already Like Cinema. The Hard Part Is Giving Them a Reason to Go
The film industry may be asking the wrong question about younger audiences. Rather than wondering how to persuade teenagers to care about cinema, new Nordic research suggests the more immediate challenge is turning an already positive attitude towards theatrical viewing into an actual trip to the mo…
Cinema United Didn’t Back the Paramount-Warner Merger. It Put Its Terms on the Table.
As Paramount Skydance wins conditional support from America’s largest theatre chains, Cinema United is trying to turn months of warnings about consolidation into enforceable protections, particularly for smaller theatres that lack the leverage to negotiate their own deals. Four months ago, Michael O…
At Locarno, Restored Films Face Their Next Challenge: Finding an Audience
At Locarno Pro 2026, archivists, exhibitors, distributors and filmmakers explored why restoring a classic film is only the first step in putting it back in front of audiences. Locarno Pro (August 5-11) – the Swiss film festival’s industry platform – closed its biggest edition yet this August with 2,…
CJ 4DPLEX and Cinemark Announce Expansion of 20 New SCREENX Locations Across the U.S. and Latin America
CinemaWest and Lumma Partner to Introduce an Innovative 4D E-Motion Concept in Idaho, Bringing the Action to the Lobby
Mitch Neuhauser to Step Down as Managing Director of CinemaCon Following 2028 Show
