Of the many things I learned during last month’s CinemaCon, I was hardly expecting to discover at least two bits of information. The first was about the CJ Marquee, the email newsletter you’re currently reading. The number of industry professionals that approached me asking about the abs…

Given the amount of complaining I’ve done about Taylor Swift recently in this newsletter, many of you may wonder why I would focus my attention on the pop-star for yet another week. But bear with me and you’ll see that I’m using her, or more specifically her concert film, to highli…

I’m kind of relieved this week is finally coming to an end because as much as I may appreciate a good Taylor Swift song, and as grateful as I am that she is releasing her concert film theatrically to bolster an anemic release schedule, the pervasive promotion this movie has gotten has been ove…

I couldn’t tell you whether Adam Aron, the CEO of AMC Theatres, personally convinced the musical sensation Beyoncé to release a film version of her Renaissance concert tour directly through the world’s largest cinema chain turned indie distributor. What I can tell you is that no sooner h…

When I first graduated from college and was trying to earn enough money to move to Los Angeles I wound up putting my business school degree to use and worked for Philip Morris International in their New York City headquarters. Probably best known as a cigarette manufacturer, they actually owned a lo…

The CJ Cinema Summit is returning from summer hiatus on 7 September 2003 at 6:00 pm (CET) / 9:00 am (PDT). Andrew Cripps, President International Distribution, Jeff Goldstein, President Domestic Distribution at Warner Bros and Dimitrios Mitsinikos, Co-Founder & CEO at Gower Street Analytics will…

As I write this in Los Angeles, Tropical Storm Hilary (née Hurricane Hilary) is dumping more rain on Southern California in a single day than we usually see all year. Los Angeles hasn’t seen a tropical storm since 1939, 84-years ago, so everyone has lost their collective minds. I’ll try…

I’ll try to keep the discussion this week to some positive industry indicators that will take (according to Google) around four minutes to read. That’s the least I can do after two weeks of lengthy dissertations on the current Writers Guild of American and SAG-AFTRA strikes against the A…

Whenever one of our CJ Marquee editorials causes a stir with our readers it’s usually pretty easy to tell based on how many email responses arrive in the days that follow. What’s unprecedented however is to have a reader address a writer in real life to provide their thoughts on the late…

We’re going to deviate a little bit from our usual format this week wherein we follow our editorial with several timely industry news items. Not because there aren’t plenty of relevant updates for our usual digest posts, but rather because most of the inquiries and correspondence we…