There are certain unavoidable realities one faces as the editor of a cinema industry trade publication. One is that multibillion-dollar studio mergers never stop generating news long enough for you to finish the newsletter. Another is that every potential sponsor will eventually explain that the mar…

There are weeks when putting together the CJ Marquee is mostly a matter of deciding which stories deserve space. This week became an exercise in waiting for the Paramount Skydance–Warner Bros. Discovery merger to stop producing news long enough for me to press Send. It did not cooperate. Every time…

The bad news about publishing a weekly industry newsletter is that inevitably you’re going to get a few things wrong. The good news is that, in the cinema business, you rarely have to wait long for the opportunity to apologize in person. Such was the case when, in last week’s Marquee, I identified U…

After a longer-than-planned absence, the CJ Marquee is back in your inbox. The cinema business, inconveniently, did not pause while we rebuilt our newsletter machinery behind the scenes. Exhibition and distribution kept consolidating, premium formats kept multiplying, release windows kept shifting,…