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Alejandro Ramírez Magaña, CEO of Cinépolis and Cameron Mitchell, Executive Director of the Cinema Association Australasia, Mojisola Oladapo, Chief Marketing Officer of Filmhouse Group and Zsófia Varga from Everyman Cinemas during the "Best in Class: Lessons From Around the World" panel at CineEurope 2026 in Barcelona Spain on June 22, 2026.

There Is No Global Formula for Cinema Success, but the Best Ideas Travel

From affordable premium experiences in Australia to eventized local films in Nigeria and social listening across Cinépolis markets, exhibitors are finding growth by staying closer to their audiences. In Australia, a family could watch “Toy Story 5” in a premium-format auditorium during the day witho…

What We Learned at CinemaCon 2025

What We Learned at CinemaCon 2025

With CinemaCon 2025 in the rearview mirror, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on some of the major takeaways from this year’s conference. Amid all the sprinting to trade show meetings and escalator surfing inside Caesars Palace, did we actually learn anything about the current state of the…

CinemaCon 2021 - Globally Speaking Panel - Mooky Greidinger, Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, Nancy Tartaglione, Alejandro Ramirez Magana, Mark Viane

CinemaCon 2021: International Market Panel Features Optimistic Studio and Exhibition Executives

Traditionally, the first day of any CinemaCon (and ShoWest before it) has been reserved for International Day; a full program of seminars geared towards international attendees who usually arrive in Las Vegas a day before the conference begins. With COVID-19 travel restrictions preventing most inter…

Alejandro Ramirez Magaña, CEO of Cinepolis and GCF

CJ Interview: Alejandro Ramírez Talks Global Cinema Federation – EXCLUSIVE

The launch of the Global Cinema Federation (GCF) at this year’s CineEurope and Shanghai Film Festival caused ripples across the worldwide exhibition and distribution communities. There were, naturally, lots of questions and rumours swirled about what the nature of the GCF was and what its agen…

Tom Molter of Warner Bros at Cinemacon 2016

CJ @ CinemaCon: International Keynotes Highlight Growing Global Industry

Each year before CinemaCon officially gets underway, the show’s organizers hold a day of seminars and panels focused on the international marketplace. Appropriately dubbed International Day, in the five years since the annual convention first started being held, the international keynote addre…

ShowEast 2007: Digital Cinema Goes International

Possibly in an attempt to wait for attendees to wake up and join the conference, it was the second panel discussion at the international day of ShowEast 2007 that was the most relevant to the what was on the minds of world wide exhibitors. Moderated by Bill Mead, the publisher of DCinema Today, the…