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Anne Fitzgerald and Thomas Santram of Cineplex Entertainment

Anne Fitzgerald Announces Retirement From Cineplex; Thomas Santram To Take Over As General Counsel

Anne Fitzgerald, the Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at Cineplex, Canada’s largest movie theatre chain, has announced she will be retiring at the end of February. Thomas Santram will become the company’s General Counsel. The news came from Fitzgerald herself, who informed the…

COVID Closes European Cinemas

Movie Theatres Face Staffing Issues, Supply Shortages and COVID Closures

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…

2022 Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Cancels In-Person Festival for 2022

In the midst of a nationwide wave of COVID-19 infections the Sundance Film Festival announced today that its in-person programming had been called off. One of the most prominent film festivals in the United States, it was slated to commence on 20 January in Park City, Utah. The event will now be hel…

AMC Theatres - 2022 Rose Parade Float

AMC Theatres Floats Into 2022 Rose Parade

There are any number of New Years traditions practiced around the world. Some have to do with round foods, as in Spain, where 12 grapes are eaten at the strike of midnight, or in the Philippines where 12 round fruits are consumed. Many Japanese will prepare toshikoshi soba noodles for New Years. Oth…

ShowEast 2021 Canceled

ShowEast 2021 Canceled Amid Pandemic Complications

It is safe to say calling off this year’s ShowEast event was an outcome nobody wanted; not cinema operators, not studios, nor industry vendors and least of all the Film Expo Group, which organizes the conference. However, with changing travel restrictions, tightened budgets and ongoing COVID concern…

Debbie Stanford-Kristiansen

TWIC 2021: Debbie Stanford-Kristiansen – General Manager, ASM Global

This post is part of CJ’s Top Women In Global Cinema 2021 – Redux. What industry are you working in now and what is your position? Up until January I was the CEO of Novo Cinemas in the Middle East. I have relocated to the Kingdom of Bahrain and am thrilled to have recently beenRead More

Funmilayo Onuma of Silverbird Cinemas

TWIC 2021: Funmilayo Onuma – Country Manager, Silverbird Cinemas

This post is part of CJ’s Top Women In Global Cinema 2021 – Redux. How has your role, position and responsibilities changed since you were first nominated for Top Women in Cinema? Professionally among my peers this nomination has boosted my profile and given additional recognition to my…

Christine Fenby

TWIC 2021: Christine Fenby – Former Marketing Director, Vista Group

This post is part of CJ’s Top Women In Global Cinema 2021 – Redux. Are you still working in the cinema industry? Sadly, I am no longer in paid work in the cinema industry. I resigned from Vista Group early in 2020 after close to eight years of supporting Vista’s growth. A month later New…

CinemaCon 2021 - Industry Think Tank - Ryan Faughnder, Rolando Rodriguez, Patty Jenkins, Mark Zoradi, Chris Aronson - Featured - David Becker - CinemaCon

CinemaCon 2021: Industry Think Tank Debates How To Bring The Big Screen Back

For the most part, the filmmaker lunch at each year’s CinemaCon is a fairly straightforward affair. Don’t get us wrong; show organizers always manage to get big names to turn out for an hour long conversation. In 2012 directors Martin Scorsese and Ang Lee took the stage to banter about filmmaking,…

CinemaCon 2021 - Globally Speaking Panel - Mooky Greidinger, Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, Nancy Tartaglione, Alejandro Ramirez Magana, Mark Viane

CinemaCon 2021: International Market Panel Features Optimistic Studio and Exhibition Executives

Traditionally, the first day of any CinemaCon (and ShoWest before it) has been reserved for International Day; a full program of seminars geared towards international attendees who usually arrive in Las Vegas a day before the conference begins. With COVID-19 travel restrictions preventing most inter…