Sometimes it can be feast or famine when covering the cinema industry.  Last week there seemed to be little news to include in the Marquee.  This week so much is going on we couldn’t possibly include it all in one newsletter. Box office during China’s National Day week, histori…

The headline from Reuters was as stark as it was misleading: “Struggling Cineworld paints bleak picture for cinemas” It is true that the world’s second largest cinema chain is facing major challenges as it navigates the choppy Chapter 11 waters, while waiting for the return of the…

Cinema is Experience; a USD $100 million experience judging by the deal that sees London-based Secret Cinema sold to Broadway ticketing major TodayTix. While large cinema chains are facing debt, restructuring and rollercoaster rides on the stock market (pace Cineworld, Vue, AMC and Dadi), it is enco…

Welcome to our weekly newsletter, The Marquee. We’d like to take a moment not only to thank our sponsor, Dolby, for making this newsletter possible, but also to invite you to the CJ Cinema Summit on Thursday, 15 September. We will be joined by two of the top distribution executives at Warner B…

There is no other way to view this past week than as a mixed bag for the cinema industry. It began with the news that the first-ever National Cinema Day was a success in the United Kingdom, North America and Ireland. Admissions and box office were up significantly in each territory accounting for a…