If this week’s settlement over Paramount’s USD $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery has made one thing clear, it is how difficult it has become to know what we’re supposed to believe. That is hardly a problem confined to Hollywood. Across politics and business, institutions ask us to a…

I spent a good part of last week wading through press releases telling me what an extraordinary summer the movie business just had. Record summer box office. Record August. Record premium-format revenue. Record concession sales. Best attendance since 2019. Highest-grossing summer in company history.…

There are worse places to spend the last week of August than inside an air-conditioned convention center in Allen, Texas. Outside, temperatures topped 100°F (38°C) well into the evening. Inside, more than 60 cinema operators and 120 vendors and manufacturers gathered for this year’s CinéShow. North…

Last week’s Marquee was a bit of an editorial experiment. For the first time in 19 years, we used what could fairly be called a clickbait headline. Playing off a joke made by Regal CEO Eduardo Acuña while being honored at the Variety Boys & Girls Club of Boyle Heights sponsorship gala, we put hi…

Before anyone interprets this week’s headline as my editorial assessment of Regal Global Entertainment CEO Eduardo Acuña publicly backing the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger, let me be clear: those are Acuña’s words, not mine. Acuña came out in support of the deal just one week befo…