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Theatrical Releases Profit As Streaming Losses Mount

Theatrical Distribution Gets A Second Look Amid Growing Streaming Losses

This year’s third quarter earnings announcements for entertainment companies and exhibitors finally wrapped up last week and it was a mixed bag if ever there was one. Consumer cord-cutting of pay-television subscriptions continued to grow. As well, with fewer viewers to reach via linear TV and…

Theatrical Releases Profit As Streaming Losses Mount

CJ Analysis: Theatrical Releases Profit As Streaming Losses Mount

Long before COVID sparked a global pandemic in 2020, leaving millions dead and upending the world economy, another virus began spreading across the planet. Though not as deadly as COVID, this virus spreads just as easily, is often not immediately detected and has proven to be just as disruptive to t…

Los Angeles Movie Theatres Provide Insight Into City’s Mayoral Race

Anyone who missed last week’s CJ Cinema Summit featuring guests David Keighley and Craig Dehmel from IMAX, have no fear, you can watch the session on demand here. For those of us living in the United States, the past two months has been filled with countless political ads and endless media cov…

Strange Bedfellows Help Promote Cinema in France

“We all have a good reason to go to the cinema.” That is the message of a new French advert that urges the country’s citizens to fall back in love with the “7th Art.” Cinema attendance has not recovered since the pandemic in France. While this makes it far from unique f…

Box Office Review at ShowEast 2022

ShowEast Sessions Shine Spotlight on Industry Trends

Last week, for the first time in three years, the cinema industry was able to gather in Miami for ShowEast. The annual North American trade show known for its heavy Latin American presence had been preempted for the past two years due to the pandemic. Last year’s event was pushed to November b…

John Fithian - National Association of Theatre Owners

After 30 Years at NATO, John Fithian Is Done

When I ran into John Fithian, the CEO and President of the National As When I ran into John Fithian on the third day of this year’s CineEurope he was wearing a pained expression. I figured, like me, the CEO and President of the National Association of Theatre Owners was jet-lagged and worn dow…

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Netflix Cuts A New Deal With Movie Theatres for “Knives Out” Sequel

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…

22nd Annual Golden Trailer Awards

“Top Gun: Maverick” Flies High at Golden Trailer Awards

Having already dominated the summer box office on its way to being one of the highest grossing movies of 2022, “Top Gun: Maverick” landed a few more accolades by winning three Golden Trailer Awards during a ceremony held in Los Angeles on 6 October. The Paramount Pictures sequel to the h…

Cineworld on the Road To Recovery

Cineworld On Its Road To Recovery – Part 3

This is the third of a three part series examining some of the finer points and details of Cineworld’s ongoing bankruptcy in an attempt to provide some analysis for what it all means for the company and the industry-at-large. On 7 September the world’s second largest movie theatre operat…

Cineworld's Bankruptcy Journey

Cineworld’s Bankruptcy Journey – Part 2

This is the second of a three part series examining some of the finer points and details of Cineworld’s ongoing bankruptcy in an attempt to provide some analysis for what it all means for the company and the industry-at-large. On 7 September the world’s second largest movie theatre…