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Paramount Warner Bros. Merger - Antitrust Settlement

The Paramount-Warner Merger Is Permanent. The Guardrails for Movie Theatres Are Not

The state settlement puts theatrical output, windows, rental terms and catalogue access into a court order, but allows a permanent merger to close without the structural remedies California and the other state attorneys general once demanded. California Attorney General Rob Bonta had a peculiar assi…
Allan Reagan, Founder & Executive Chair of Flix Brewhouse, receiving the Frank Liberto Award at CinéShow 2026 in Dallas, Texas on August 25, 2026.

Cinergy and Cinema United’s Todd Halstead Honored at CinéShow as Flix Brewhouse’s Allan Reagan Puts Ukraine Center Stage

CinéShow’s 2026 awards luncheon, held 25 August in Dallas, handed out three honors: a first-ever Exhibitor Marketing of the Year Award to Cinergy Entertainment, an inaugural Byron Berkley Leadership Award to Cinema United‘s Todd Halstead, and the Frank Liberto Award to Flix Brewhouse fou…
(From left) Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison, California Attorney General, Rob Bonta, Cinema United President & CEO, Michael O'Leary

Cinema United Didn’t Back the Paramount-Warner Merger. It Put Its Terms on the Table.

As Paramount Skydance wins conditional support from America’s largest theatre chains, Cinema United is trying to turn months of warnings about consolidation into enforceable protections, particularly for smaller theatres that lack the leverage to negotiate their own deals. Four months ago, Michael O…
CinemaCon 2026 - Studio Presentations

CinemaCon 2026: The Studios Make Their Case for Theatrical

The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas was built for spectacle, which makes it the right room for the wrong argument. For four days in mid-April, the major studios (and several independent distributors) stood on its stage and walked theatre owners through 2026 and 2027 slates that were, on pap…
CinemaCon 2026 - David Ellison of Paramount Skydance, Michael O'Leary of Cinema United and Charles Rivkin of the Motion Picture Association

CinemaCon 2026: A Merger Splits the House

CinemaCon has always been a place where the industry gathers to reassure itself. That was true again this year inside the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, where the annual State of the Industry presentations delivered a familiar message: theatrical is resilient, culturally vital, and firmly back on trac…
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…
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