This year’s third quarter earnings announcements for entertainment companies and exhibitors finally wrapped up last week and it was a mixed bag if ever there was one. Consumer cord-cutting of pay-television subscriptions continued to grow. As well, with fewer viewers to reach via linear TV and…

Anyone who missed last week’s CJ Cinema Summit featuring guests David Keighley and Craig Dehmel from IMAX, have no fear, you can watch the session on demand here. For those of us living in the United States, the past two months has been filled with countless political ads and endless media cov…

“We all have a good reason to go to the cinema.” That is the message of a new French advert that urges the country’s citizens to fall back in love with the “7th Art.” Cinema attendance has not recovered since the pandemic in France. While this makes it far from unique f…

Last week, for the first time in three years, the cinema industry was able to gather in Miami for ShowEast. The annual North American trade show known for its heavy Latin American presence had been preempted for the past two years due to the pandemic. Last year’s event was pushed to November b…

When I ran into John Fithian, the CEO and President of the National As When I ran into John Fithian on the third day of this year’s CineEurope he was wearing a pained expression. I figured, like me, the CEO and President of the National Association of Theatre Owners was jet-lagged and worn dow…

Sometimes it can be feast or famine when covering the cinema industry.  Last week there seemed to be little news to include in the Marquee.  This week so much is going on we couldn’t possibly include it all in one newsletter. Box office during China’s National Day week, histori…

The headline from Reuters was as stark as it was misleading: “Struggling Cineworld paints bleak picture for cinemas” It is true that the world’s second largest cinema chain is facing major challenges as it navigates the choppy Chapter 11 waters, while waiting for the return of the…

Cinema is Experience; a USD $100 million experience judging by the deal that sees London-based Secret Cinema sold to Broadway ticketing major TodayTix. While large cinema chains are facing debt, restructuring and rollercoaster rides on the stock market (pace Cineworld, Vue, AMC and Dadi), it is enco…

Welcome to our weekly newsletter, The Marquee. We’d like to take a moment not only to thank our sponsor, Dolby, for making this newsletter possible, but also to invite you to the CJ Cinema Summit on Thursday, 15 September. We will be joined by two of the top distribution executives at Warner B…

There is no other way to view this past week than as a mixed bag for the cinema industry. It began with the news that the first-ever National Cinema Day was a success in the United Kingdom, North America and Ireland. Admissions and box office were up significantly in each territory accounting for a…