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CinemaCon Auditorium at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas

CinemaCon Secures Major Studio Participation for 2021 Conference

As the cinema industry in various parts of the world slowly stirs to life after more than year of COVID closures, one persistent question has been asked over the past few months at every virtual event; will a postponed CinemaCon actually take place in Las Vegas in August, or like last year, will its…

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Drive-In Screening Raises Funds to Restore Paramount Ranch

On the evening of April 24th, as crews prepared Union Station in downtown Los Angeles to host the Academy Awards, a line of cars snaked out of the gravel entrance of Paramount Ranch 38 miles (61 kilometers) to the west in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains. Rather than arriving to attend on…

2020's Top Event Cinema Titles in UK

Movio Tallies the Numbers for 2020’s Top UK Event Cinema Releases

In normal years event cinema titles are programmed amidst a stream of blockbuster releases, often during low occupancy times such as early matinees or weeknights. But in a year which saw a global pandemic force studios to delay all of their big releases into 2021 or later, event cinema titles turned…

The AMC Empire 25 in New York City

Movie Theatres Schedule Dates For Reopening and Pandemic Recovery

There are finally some signs of hope for movie theatre owners who have been in various forms of forced hibernation for the past year due to the global coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19 infection rates are declining, vaccination rates increasing and now cinemas in England, Quebec and New York City are s…

Why Warner Bros. Is Max-imizing Its 2021 Movie Slate

Editor’s Note: This post is longer than those we ordinarily publish, however we can assure you that it will give you a thorough understanding of the seismic upheaval currently affecting the motion picture industry, why it is occurring and what to expect moving forward. When 2020 began everyone…

Vista Cinema In The Time of COVID-19

On the morning of March 12th of this year, Leon Newnham, the Chief Executive Officer of Vista Cinema, woke up to discover much of his hard work over the past several weeks would be for naught. The growing coronavirus pandemic had caused President Trump to restrict travel from Europe for the next 30…

Film Expo Group Rallies Around ShowEast

Film Expo Group Rallies Around ShowEast During Challenging Year

To say that 2020 has been a bad year for cinema operators and theatrical film distributors would be quite the understatement. With COVID-19 shuttering most of the world’s movie theaters, global box office is down well over 70% from last year and as cinemas reopen, it is uncertain whether audie…

EVO Entertainment Group - Shertz, Texas

EVO Shares A Phased Approach for Reopening Their Texas Cinemas After Coronavirus Shutdown

From the very moment in mid-March when the COVID-19 pandemic forced most cinemas around the world to shut their doors, they began to contemplate not only when they could reopen, but how they could do so in a way that made their patrons feel safe. As quarantine and stay-at-home orders in various regi…

Coronavirus Blurs Movie Release Windows

Coronavirus Is Blurring Theatrical Release Windows, Not Breaking Them

In his 1982 collection of speeches and essays about the struggle for justice taking place in South Africa, Bishop Desmond Tutu wrote: A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry. It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well or to choose badly. When the film industry looks back onRe…

Christopher Nolan Requests You View His Latest Movie Trailer In Cinemas

As these words were being written, the trailer for filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s next movie, “Tenet,” has been available to the public for less then an hour. Like most movie trailers in these days, the trailer for “Tenet” was distributed first online to various platforms such as YouTube, where it ha…