The biggest movie in the world last weekend came out seven years ago. “Avengers: Endgame Encore,” a re-release of Marvel Studios’ 2019 blockbuster, earned USD $86 million globally, including USD $26 million in North America. That was enough to make it the No. 1 movie worldwide and give it the second…

If this week’s settlement over Paramount’s USD $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery has made one thing clear, it is how difficult it has become to know what we’re supposed to believe. That is hardly a problem confined to Hollywood. Across politics and business, institutions ask us to a…

I spent a good part of last week wading through press releases telling me what an extraordinary summer the movie business just had. Record summer box office. Record August. Record premium-format revenue. Record concession sales. Best attendance since 2019. Highest-grossing summer in company history.…

There are worse places to spend the last week of August than inside an air-conditioned convention center in Allen, Texas. Outside, temperatures topped 100°F (38°C) well into the evening. Inside, more than 60 cinema operators and 120 vendors and manufacturers gathered for this year’s CinéShow. North…

Last week’s Marquee was a bit of an editorial experiment. For the first time in 19 years, we used what could fairly be called a clickbait headline. Playing off a joke made by Regal CEO Eduardo Acuña while being honored at the Variety Boys & Girls Club of Boyle Heights sponsorship gala, we put hi…

Before anyone interprets this week’s headline as my editorial assessment of Regal Global Entertainment CEO Eduardo Acuña publicly backing the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger, let me be clear: those are Acuña’s words, not mine. Acuña came out in support of the deal just one week befo…

We have finally finished publishing Celluloid Junkie’s coverage from CineEurope and the ICTA sessions in Barcelona, along with Andreas Fuchs’ report from IND/EX. One might therefore assume that the global cinema industry would take a short break from airports, hotel ballrooms, convention centers and…

Moviegoing Is The New Black First, thank you to everyone who reached out after last week’s Marquee to say how much you enjoyed it. I never would have guessed that so many people would appreciate a story about my daughters researching the optimal bathroom-break moment during Christopher Nolan’s nearl…

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…