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…

It is the last week of August. The last week of summer. It is supposed to be one of those weeks where we struggle to find even a single story to include in the Marquee. The kind of week some might refer to as “a slow news week.” It was anything but. If it wasn’tRead More

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…