As the Northern Hemisphere of planet earth burns to a crisp amid what seem to be endless record setting heat waves, I am reminded of a focus session during last month’s CineEurope. On a panel titled “A Cinema Experience for All Audiences” Dorothy Smith, the Managing Director of Zef…

Though we have highlighted our share of territories, like Italy, that are having trouble bouncing back from the COVID pandemic, this last week brought some good news about countries whose box office is rebounding more successfully along with predictions for when these markets might return and surpas…

It is no coincidence that Vue’s USD $550 million debt-for-equity deal and HG Entertainment’s USD $450 million consolidation move in the Chinese cinema market came to light the same week. The success of recent films such as “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Thor: Love and Thunder…

Four weeks ago, when my 17-year-old daughter asked me if she could borrow one of my suits to to go see “Minions: The Rise of Gru” with a group of friends, I readily agreed. I did however ask why she needed a men’s suit and tie to attend a Saturday night screening of an animatedRead…

Anyone fortunate to have attended CineEurope last week could be forgiven thinking that UNIC’s opening-night Paella was spiced with happy powder. There was a tremendous outpouring of love between colleagues who had not seen each other for years, from studios professing their love for the big screen o…

In only a few days the annual CineEurope convention kicks off in Barcelona, with over four days of showreels, previews, presentations, popcorn, awards, trade show, roundtables, seminars, networking, gossip, parties, paella, Coke & Cava (lots of the latter). We say “annual,” but of co…

Two films, which between them probably earned less in total in cinemas than “Top Gun Maverick” did in a single weekend in an IMAX screen, have nevertheless outperformed Tom Cruise’s career best film when it comes to newspaper headlines in the United Kingdom this past week. “L…

The Marquee will be a little different this week as both our editor, Patrick von Sychowski, and I are just returning from the Cannes Film Festival. Rather than our usual newsletter which features the latest news updates from around the industry, we’re going to change things up by focusing on t…

This week’s Marquee editorial comes to you from both our editor, Patrick von Sychowski, and myself. Looking at the earnings announcements made by some of the leading companies in the exhibition industry over the past two weeks one could easily grow increasingly pessimistic seeing all the red i…