formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
Even if “Avatar” grossed nearly $600 million in two weeks (like “Spider-Man” last December), it could not fulfill 2022 box-office hopes. Source: Avatar: The Way of Water Box Office Expectations Are Not Miraculous | IndieWire
Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick roared back to the top of the domestic box office charts, almost ending the summer at #1 for the Labor Day weekend behind Sony’s reissue of Spider-Man: No Way Home. Of course, it and all … Continued
A popular narrative emerged during the first phase of cinema reopenings in the summer of 2020: drive-ins—purportedly unaffected by most Covid-19 restrictions—were enjoying a land-office business. The reality was significantly bleaker than the rosy picture painted in those reports. Boxoffice … Continued
As the cinema industry begins to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, Boxoffice Pro and Spotlight Cinema Networks are partnering to profile movie theaters and influential industry figures from across the country and asking them to share their first-person accounts of … Continued
Niels Swinkels, executive vice president and managing director at Universal Pictures International (UPI), has been named the 2021 recipient of CineEurope’s International Distributor of the Year award. Source: Universal Pictures International’s Niels Swinkels Named CineEurope Distributor of the Year – … Continued
It was a rare box office bright spot in 2020: Demon Slayer broke Spirited Away’s 19-year-old record to become the highest-grossing film in Japan, despite a pandemic that caused headlines about the exhibition industry to be near-uniformly dour. Based on … Continued