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Volodymyr Zelensky - 2022 Cannes Film Festival

Cannes 2022 Helps Cinema Raise Its Voice

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…

Landmark Theatres Pico Boulevard Location

Landmark Theatres to Close Its Flagship Los Angeles Location

Los Angeles is losing another prominent movie theatre at the end of May as Landmark Theatres announced the closure of its Pico Boulevard location. The exhibitor opened its 12-screen flagship cinema 15 years ago on the westside of Los Angeles and it has been a cinephile favorite ever since. The venue…

AMC Theatres - New York City

Negative Cinema Industry Numbers Never Looked So Good

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…

Top Gun: Maverick

One Blockbuster Does Not A Box Office Recovery Make

Can one film save cinema? The obvious answer is no. Yet this does not stop excessive expectations from being attached to specific titles on the post-COVID release schedule. The potential and/or actual performance of said title then triggers an outpouring of column-inches predicting that the cinema p…

SNPTC Study on Movie Advertising on Television

France Discovers Benefits of Advertising Movies on TV

It may come as a shock to some, but for decades advertising theatrical film releases on television was prohibited in France. The French government believed that allowing movies to air commercials and trailers on television would only benefit American studios, i.e. Hollywood, at the expense of local…

CinemaCon Confirms Movie Theatres Ain’t Dead Yet

We’re sending out this week’s newsletter later than our usual Wednesday publication schedule because we were attending CinemaCon in Las Vegas since last Sunday and wanted to bring you all the highlights. Trying to capture all the ceremonies, industry panels, studio presentations and over…

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New Study Suggests Exhibitors Can Profit From Latent Demand

On the even of every major cinema industry trade show it is quite common for our inboxes to overflow with meeting requests, sales pitches, product updates, market research and other event related info. These missives come in from companies far and wide, of all shapes and sizes from manufacturers to…

Post Truth

Cinemas Are Killing Netflix (And We’re Only Half-Joking)

The news that Netflix lost subscribers in the first quarter of this year for the first time in a decade no doubt caused some Schadenfreude amongst cinema operators, scarred as they were by pandemic-induced headlines proclaiming the demise of cinema at the altar of streaming. The news that Netflix lo…

Filmstaden Concessions

Movie Theatres Should Resist Urge to Raise Prices

What do “The Exorcist,” “American Graffiti” and “Live and Let Die” have in common? Film history buffs will know that they were the films that American cinema audiences flocked to in 1973. This was the last time we saw an energy shock and price inflation comparable…

Warner Bros. Discovery Management Team

Putting Warner Bros. Discovery Merger Into Perspective

As I type these words, executives at Discovery Inc. are putting the finishing touches on their USD $43 billion acquisition of WarnerMedia. The deal was announced last May and came as a shock, since AT&T had just purchased Time Warner three years earlier after a lengthy court battle with the Unit…