CinemaCon 2024: Boosting Mid-Budget Films Panel
AMC Theatres Gets Serious About Music with New Hire and Listening Events for Billie Eilish Album
Cannes Film Festival Set for Glitzy Filmmaker-Focused 2024 Edition
Cannes Film Festival Faces Potential Labor Strike and #MeToo Revelations
Cinema Industry Shows Mixed Results in Early 2024 Amid Strike Fallout and Strong Premium Offerings
In case you haven’t been listening to motion picture exhibition senior executives and industry pundits for the past six months, the first quarter of 2024 was forecast to be a complete wash. With the 2023 Hollywood writers and actors strikes resulting in a dearth of blockbusters in a thin relea…
B&B Theatres Opens Red Oak Entertainment Center in Grand Fashion
When it comes to the tens of millions of dollars it must have cost B&B Theatres to build and open their latest multiplex, the company can legitimately claim what so many Hollywood studios say about their latest blockbusters; the money is on the screen. Of course, in the case of the Red Oak 12, B…
Industry Execs Express Cautious Optimism for 2024 at UKCA Conference
One of the more informative sessions at the UK Cinema Association’s annual conference held in London at the BFI Southbank, March 5-6th, was an executive roundtable moderated by Sharon Reid of Cinema First, an industry body that promotes cinema going in the United Kingdom. It left everyone pres…
Berlinale 2024 Highlights the Divide Between Art and Commerce at International Film Festivals
The 74th Berlinale ended last month, and what remains is to look back and ruminate about what the future might bring. It is the first significant European festival of 2024, but this edition was the last one led by its Artistic Director, Carlo Chatrian, and Executive Director, Mariëtte Rissenbeek, th…
CJ’s Top Women In Global Distribution – 2023
Upon publishing our first Top Women In Distribution list last year, we were pleased to see how receptive the industry was to the initiative. In fact, it was so popular that we were hardly prepared for the overwhelming number of responses that would flood in upon putting out a call for nominations fo…