If you listen to film purists, the switch to digital cinema led to the death of the projectionist craft, VPF-enforced superhero multiplex programming and bad 3D. So what good has digital actually done for cinema? A new research paper by Anne-Britt Gran from the Oslo Business School called “Dig…

“Generals are always prepared to fight the last war,” is a saying by Winston Churchill that applies to more than just conventional battlefields. As cinema emerges from the COVID pandemic, there is a risk that the industry will be prepared for battles past, rather than new enemies and dan…

Perhaps you’ve noticed this is the second week in a row that you’ve been forced to hear from me at the top of the CJ Marquee rather than our editor, Patrick von Sychowski. Have no fear, Patrick hasn’t gone anywhere. We’re just in the midst of launching our new newsletter plat…

The new year may have begun earlier this week, though many exhibitors, if not the entire world, may be feeling as if they are frozen in time. We are entering the third calendar year of the pandemic and much like this time last year, 2022 has begun with COVID infection rates throughout the world skyr…