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Cineplex, AMC and Cinemark
August 11, 2022

Exhibitors Report Smaller Losses, Rising Revenue During Second Quarter of 2022

It’s that time of year when public companies throughout the world announce their second quarter earnings. If you’re a giant media company with a streaming service that means you’ll be trying to appease Wall Street big wigs with your latest subscriber figures, price increases or pla…
Aamir Khan’s much anticipated “Forrest Gump” remake “Laal Singh Chaddha”
August 4, 2022

Despite Lack of Cinemas, Movies Are Top of Mind in Kauai, Hawaii

If you missed this week’s CJ Cinema Summit, have no fear, you can still catch our session here, on demand, with cinema operators, landlords and real estate professionals. Like many who work in and around the cinema industry, I am currently in the middle of my summer holiday. More specifically,…
July 29, 2022

Why Bad Weather Could Be Good News for Movie Theatres

As the Northern Hemisphere of planet earth burns to a crisp amid what seem to be endless record setting heat waves, I am reminded of a focus session during last month’s CineEurope. On a panel titled “A Cinema Experience for All Audiences” Dorothy Smith, the Managing Director of Zef…
The Roundup
July 25, 2022

Some Countries Are Proving the Cinema Industry Is Slowly Recovering

Though we have highlighted our share of territories, like Italy, that are having trouble bouncing back from the COVID pandemic, this last week brought some good news about countries whose box office is rebounding more successfully along with predictions for when these markets might return and surpas…
Latest survey findings confirm that eagerness amongst cinema audiences to return to the big screen is at an all time high.
July 17, 2022

Investors Exhibit Confidence In Cinema Industry

It is no coincidence that Vue’s USD $550 million debt-for-equity deal and HG Entertainment’s USD $450 million consolidation move in the Chinese cinema market came to light the same week. The success of recent films such as “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Thor: Love and Thunder…
#GentleMinions
July 7, 2022

How To Behave Like A GentleMinion At The Movies

Four weeks ago, when my 17-year-old daughter asked me if she could borrow one of my suits to to go see “Minions: The Rise of Gru” with a group of friends, I readily agreed. I did however ask why she needed a men’s suit and tie to attend a Saturday night screening of an animatedRead…
CineEurope 2022 - Opening Ceremony
June 28, 2022

CineEurope Celebrates Industry’s Pandemic Recovery

Anyone fortunate to have attended CineEurope last week could be forgiven thinking that UNIC’s opening-night Paella was spiced with happy powder. There was a tremendous outpouring of love between colleagues who had not seen each other for years, from studios professing their love for the big screen o…
Pathé Beaugrunelle in Paris, France
June 17, 2022

Attention Switches to Cine(ma)Europe

In only a few days the annual CineEurope convention kicks off in Barcelona, with over four days of showreels, previews, presentations, popcorn, awards, trade show, roundtables, seminars, networking, gossip, parties, paella, Coke & Cava (lots of the latter). We say “annual,” but of co…
Protests Against Lady of Heaven at Cineworld
June 10, 2022

UK Exhibitors Weigh Cancel Culture Against Commercial Appeal

Two films, which between them probably earned less in total in cinemas than “Top Gun Maverick” did in a single weekend in an IMAX screen, have nevertheless outperformed Tom Cruise’s career best film when it comes to newspaper headlines in the United Kingdom this past week. “L…
Volodymyr Zelensky - 2022 Cannes Film Festival
June 3, 2022

Cannes 2022 Helps Cinema Raise Its Voice

The Marquee will be a little different this week as both our editor, Patrick von Sychowski, and I are just returning from the Cannes Film Festival. Rather than our usual newsletter which features the latest news updates from around the industry, we’re going to change things up by focusing on t…
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