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,…

This was hardly what we planned for our first Marquee newsletter of the year. As we closed out 2024 with a global theatrical box that wasn’t nearly as bad as originally forecast, with full-year results estimated to be USD $30.5 billion, and industry analysts predicting an 8% uptick in 2025, we…

Last week on the CJ Cinema Summit we were joined by Tony Chambers, Executive Vice President and Head of Theatrical Distribution at The Walt Disney Studios Company as well as Dimitrios Mitsinikos, CEO of Gower Street Analytics. The conversation was incredibly informative. You can watch it on-demand h…

Before we jump into this week’s editorial, I’d like to take a moment for a little self promotion. First, our managing editor Helen Budge will be attending the 2024 Norwegian Cinema Conference being organized by Film & Kino in Lillehammer, Norway from 4-7 November to give a presentati…

In last week’s Marquee newsletter I stepped right into a trap that has snagged many a rookie award winner throughout the years. Nominees for entertainment industry awards are often warned against thanking colleagues, associates, companies, etc. by name in acceptance speeches. Not only can ratt…

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Or so the saying goes. While one might debate the principle behind the aphorism, it truly is nice to be missed during an extended absence. That was certainly the case for us here at CJ when, upon missing the last few weeks of the newsletter, a fair number ofRead…