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CineLATAM 2025 - Executive Roundtable - Luis Vargas (Comscore), Andrew Cripps (Walt Disney Studios), Valmir Fernandes (Cinemark International), Miguel Mier (Cinepolis), Don Savant (CJ 4DPlex)

Content Is King, Experience Is Queen: Latin America’s Cinema Leaders Signal a Confident Comeback

At CineLATAM 2025, global and regional executives from Paramount, Disney, Cinépolis, Cinemark, and CJ 4DPlex chart a path forward for Latin America’s exhibition market, anchored in content, collaboration, and a renewed focus on the moviegoing experience. By the time Paramount Pictures unveiled its 2…

(From Left) Dylan Leiner of Sony Pictures Classics, Jakob Abrahamsson of NonStop Entertainment, Frank L. Stavik of Fidalgo, and Antonella Canturi of Rai Cinema's 01 Distribution and moderator Davide Abbatescianni during a Buyers In Focus session on 6 September 2025 at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival

Distribution Around the World: Buyers at TIFF Share Lessons for Theatrical’s Next Chapter

At the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival’s Buyers In Focus sessions, industry leaders from six territories revealed how they’re navigating streaming pressure, changing audiences, and TIFF’s rise as a market hub. This year’s Toronto International Film Festival (September 4–14) hosted sev…

2025 Toronto International Film Festival

Toronto at 50: TIFF Still Delivers, Even as Its Clout Wanes

At the international premiere of his long-gestating labor of love “Frankenstein,” Guillermo del Toro couldn’t stop gushing about the capital of Ontario. “This movie is the culmination of a long, long, not dating, not a casual fling, but a complete marriage to Toronto,” he said from the stage of the…

Lumma's Magnify 8

From Buenos Aires to the World: The Story Behind Lumma’s Magnify 8

How the pandemic pushed Lumma to rethink premium formats and engineer a more accessible immersive experience. When movie theatres around the globe shut their doors in 2020, among the countless companies working in the cinema technology space facing an uncertain future was one named Lumma. The Argent…

A montage of filmstars - Dwayne Johnson, Julia Robertson, George Clooney, Jim Jarmusch - sit against the Venice Film Festival sign

Venice Film Festival 2025: Streamers and Stars Own the Lido While Jarmusch Sneaks Off with the Golden Lion

Forget easing into the Lido with gondolas and red-carpet glitz — Venice 2025 (27th August to 6th September) came out swinging. Between George Clooney and Dwayne Johnson lighting up the premieres, MUBI and Netflix muscling into awards-season territory, and a record-breaking ovation for “The Voice of…

Andrew Sunshine - CineLATAM

CineLATAM 2025: Why Film Expo Group Is Rebranding ShowEast to Focus on Latin America

For nearly four decades, ShowEast was a fixture on the North American cinema industry calendar—first held in Atlantic City, before heading south to Orlando and then Miami—drawing United States’ exhibitors and studios together every October. This year, that chapter officially closes. In its place, th…

A projectionist holds up a spool of film as he sits between two reels of film.

CJ Tech: What a Modern Cinema Projection Toolkit Looks Like

Reels, Rods and Rewinds: A Toolkit From the 35mm EraBefore servers, switches and signal paths became the centre of projection life, the projection booth was a mechanical world. The toolkit was physical, often oily, and hung on belt loops or lived in battered tins under the bench. There was no ethern…

Its Elemental Pixar Is Not Floundering

It’s Elemental: Pixar Is Not Floundering

In fact, Pixar remains one of the most successful studios in Hollywood. It’s official: Pixar’s “Elio” is a flop. The politely reviewed film cost more than US $200 million and grossed a dismal $152 million as of 27 August 2025. Pundits drew two lessons from this. (Yes, “drew;” I did that.) First, ori…

(From Left) La Frances Hui (MoMA), Jacques Jagou, Pip Chodorov, Leo Van Hee, Elodie Mellado, Bernardo Rondeau during the Promotional Strategies for Classic Films Today panel at the 78th Locarno Film Festival on August 11, 2025

Locarno Insights: Marketing Classics in the Age of Letterboxd

On August 11, at the Locarno Film Festival’s Heritage Monday roundtable, industry leaders debated how to market classic films to a new generation raised on TikTok and Letterboxd. The session, titled “Promotional Strategies for Classic Films Today,” was moderated by freelance programmer Bernardo Rond…

The Filmhouse in Edinburgh, Scotland sits proudly at 88 Lothian Road. The arthouse cinema was refurbished and reopened in June 2025 after being closed since 2022

The Resurrection of Filmhouse – An Edinburgh Success Story

This June, film fans in Edinburgh, Scotland, were treated to several sold-out screenings of Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1988 love letter to cinema, “Cinema Paradiso.” Nothing unusual there, you might think. Except that the venue was Filmhouse, the Scottish city’s beloved independent cinema, which had lain…