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Stan Ruszkowski, CEO of The Boxoffice Company, Carla Boyd of Cineworld, Adrien Chabel, the CEO of AlloCine) and Mariano Otero of Fever during the Turning Social Buzz Into Box Office Sales panel at CineEurope on 15 June 2025 in Barcelona, Spain

CineEurope 2025: Turning Social Buzz into Box Office Success

“We’re here to talk about something that never sleeps,” proclaimed Stan Ruszkowski, CEO of The Boxoffice Company, at the outset of a panel discussion at this year’s CineEurope. Titled “From Scroll to Screen: Turning Social Buzz into Box Office Sales”, the session came on the first day of the confere…

Cannes Film Festival - Marche du Film 2025 - Defining and Designing European Film Success - Panel - Maja Cappello, Huub Roelvink, Peter Fornstam, Valeska Neu, Mati?ss Kaz?a, Agnieszka Moody, Gilles Fontaine

Cannes 2025: Defining the Success of European Films

The European Audiovisual Observatory’s traditional Saturday panel at Cannes’ Marché du Film, held this year on 17 May, returned to a timely and contentious question: what makes a European film successful—and how can we create more success stories? Moderated by Maja Cappello and Gilles Fontaine of th…

Headshots of the panelists from the Marché du Film Japanese cinema session (left to right): Eve Gabereau, Amel Lacombe, Nousha Saint-Martin, moderator Atsuko Ohno

Cannes 2025: Why Bet on Japanese Cinema

This year’s Cannes Film Festival proved to be a remarkable moment for Japanese cinema. Across the official selection, films from Japan dominated the festival’s various strands, including main competition effort “Renoir”, video game adaptation “Exit 8” which played in Midnight Screenings, and “A Pale…

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panhi won the Palme d'Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on May 24, 2025 in Cannes, France

Jafar Panahi Goes From Prison to Palme d’Or at 2025 Cannes Film Festival

Jafar Panahi collapsed into his seat at the Grand Théâtre Lumière on Saturday evening during the closing ceremony of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. The Iranian filmmaker had just heard actress Juliette Binoche inform the world that he had won the Palme d’Or, the festival’s top prize, for…

Cannes Film Festival - 2025 Opening Ceremony - Group Photo

Cannes 2025 Opens with Political and Artistic Defiance

One day before the the 78th Cannes Film Festival commenced on 13 May 2025, its artistic director, Thierry Frémaux, insisted that the event only becomes “political when the artists are political.” Less than 24-hours later his statement was confirmed during an opening ceremony that transce…

Thierry Fre?maux - Cannes Film Festival 2025

Thierry Frémaux Is Keeping Cannes Focused on the Big Screen

Thierry Frémaux never strolls into a room. Rather, the Director of the Cannes Film Festival, seems to bound into the room, usually a packed auditorium at the Palais des Festivals, as if running behind schedule, delayed by whatever previously scheduled rendezvous he has just departed. Such was the ca…

Bart Layton, Chris Hemsworth, Timur Bekmambetov, Chris Pratt, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Jon Bernthal, Daniella Pineda, Gavin O'Connor, Ben Affleck, Vivica A. Fox, Kara Young, Chris Miller, Ayo Edebiri, Mallori Johnson, Ryan Gosling and Luca Guadagnino pose on stage during CinemaCon 2025 – Amazon MGM Studios Invites you to an Exclusive Presentation of its Upcoming Slate at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace during CinemaCon, the official convention of Cinema United, on April 2, 2025, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

CinemaCon 2025: Amazon MGM Studios Remains A Question Mark

A week or so prior to CinemaCon the presence of Amazon MGM Studios on the schedule was being hailed as the first time the studio was appearing at the conference to present its slate on the big Colosseum stage. Technically speaking that’s a bit of a stretch since, (1) Amazon MGM Studios is only…

What We Learned at CinemaCon 2025

What We Learned at CinemaCon 2025

With CinemaCon 2025 in the rearview mirror, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on some of the major takeaways from this year’s conference. Amid all the sprinting to trade show meetings and escalator surfing inside Caesars Palace, did we actually learn anything about the current state of the…

The organ stands centre stage in the Odeon Luxe, Leicester Square

DCM Upfronts: Cinema Offers Economic Edge to Advertisers

Cinema advertising company, Digital Cinema Media (DCM), held its annual Upfronts showcase at the flagship Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, London, playing to a full house of agencies and brand representatives. Brought forward from its usual July slot to 27th March, the event was hosted as usual by CEO K…

A photo collage of all CJ Cinema Summit participants has a banner across the middle saying ‘CJ Cinema Summit - Thank You for 5 Years!'

Celebrating the 2024 North American Cinema Awards and the CJ Cinema Summit’s Fifth Anniversary

Five years ago on Thursday 19th March 2020, shortly after unprecedented global COVID lockdowns started to take effect in response to the pandemic, a group of people based between Los Angeles, London and Oslo hastily pulled together a live online broadcast to talk to their industry colleagues about w…