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Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy - Theatrical Release Strategy

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Theatrical Release Strategy

The fourth and latest installment in the Bridget Jones Universe (BJU) has surpassed a global box office gross of USD $110 million in just over three weeks across 78 countries, save for the United States, where the film is skipping movie theatres in lieu of a direct-to-streaming release. With a repor…

Donna Langley - Chief Content Officer, NBCUniversal at 2024 Cannes Film Festival

NBCUniversal’s Donna Langley Addresses Depressed State of Theatrical Distribution During Cannes Film Festival

While Hollywood studio executives of various ilk are known to turn up at the Cannes Film Festival, it is historically rare for members of the C-suite to be spotted on the Croissette. Perhaps that’s changing. Last year, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav made a splash by throwing a 100th anniver…

Caesars Colosseum Hosts CinemaCon

Converting the Colosseum at Caesars Palace for CinemaCon

In 2010, when the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) decided to rebrand and move its annual convention (then called ShoWest) from its previous home at Paris and Ballys Hotel in Las Vegas across the street to Caesars Palace they had to come up with solutions for a number of tricky logistic…

Viral TikTok Trend Leads to Disruptions of “Minions” Screenings

The record-breaking run of “Minions: the Rise of Gru” over the July 4th weekend has been marred by a viral TikTok trend that has led to the disruption of some cinema screenings. The #GentleMinions trend has seen youths turning up in screenings wearing suits and filming themselves clappin…

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…

CJ Analysis: Cinema Is Back! But With Some Major Changes.

It’s been a very long time since anyone in the cinema business has been in a rush to look at box office figures. The habitual daily check came to a bit of a grinding halt last year and for a long while things were very depressing indeed. Despite some key success stories for local productRead More

CinemaCon Auditorium at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas

CinemaCon Secures Major Studio Participation for 2021 Conference

As the cinema industry in various parts of the world slowly stirs to life after more than year of COVID closures, one persistent question has been asked over the past few months at every virtual event; will a postponed CinemaCon actually take place in Las Vegas in August, or like last year, will its…

Why Warner Bros. Is Max-imizing Its 2021 Movie Slate

Editor’s Note: This post is longer than those we ordinarily publish, however we can assure you that it will give you a thorough understanding of the seismic upheaval currently affecting the motion picture industry, why it is occurring and what to expect moving forward. When 2020 began everyone…

Coronavirus Blurs Movie Release Windows

Coronavirus Is Blurring Theatrical Release Windows, Not Breaking Them

In his 1982 collection of speeches and essays about the struggle for justice taking place in South Africa, Bishop Desmond Tutu wrote: A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry. It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well or to choose badly. When the film industry looks back onRe…

Why November, Mr Bond?

When James Bond moves, everyone pays attention. As arguably the best known film franchise of all time, with a combined unadjusted gross of nearly $7 billion, James Bond has set the pace for earnings, consistency and remaining an event that few long-term franchises can match. When three studios…