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CineEurope heads to Barcelona

The annual edition of CineEurope is being held in Barcelona this month after a 16-year stint in Amsterdam. CineEurope management anticipates seeing 20-percent growth in attendance with this switch of venues. And the convention could not come at a better time, as the industry globally is setting...

Judging high-frame-rate technology

Technology is changing so rapidly in the motion picture arena that keeping up with it is nearly a full-time job. It certainly stood front and center at the recent CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas, where there were demonstrations of high frame rates, laser illumination and immersive 3D sound...

The kids are back

Just months ago, everyone was questioning the viability of younger audiences showing up at the cinema. Box office was down, fewer people were coming to the movies, and the doomsayers were writing off these young adults. Was it because the studios were no longer aiming at that age range? Was it...

Why wait for summer?

A plethora of films has made Hollywood rethink their release strategies and move some potential blockbusters to March, and to this point the strategy has definitely paid off. Universal’s Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax posted the biggest opening of the year and after the second weekend had scored with $120...

The promise of new technologies

In an exclusive interview in the March 2012 edition of FJI, Peter Ludé, president of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, talks with exhibition editor Andreas Fuchs about developments in motion picture technology that promise to make the cinema experience even more vivid and...

NATO meets an array of challenges

With the New Year now in full swing and January box office off to a terrific start, we wanted to reflect and focus on the National Association of Theatre Owners and their tremendous success in meeting the many challenges facing exhibition head-on....

A tangled Web: Debating the Stop Online Piracy Act

As this edition of FJI went to press, a House of Representatives committee was poised to debate a bill of great significance to the motion picture industry and many other businesses. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) would give the U.S. Attorney General more power to take action against rogue...

How do we win back younger moviegoers?

Perhaps the greatest threat to the movie business today is that younger audiences aren’t showing up in force at the cinema. Is this just an aberration, or is this truly a trend that requires the motion picture industry to come together and focus on ways to attract the under-25 crowd back to the...

If it ain't broke, why fix it?

2009 and 2010 were record years at the motion picture box office. Relationships between the exhibition and distribution communities had been nearly without incident since March 2011, other than the ongoing concern with piracy or theft of content. But suddenly, these harmonious times are evolving...

Thinking about the future of theatre design

This is a very exciting time in the motion picture industry. Summer box office has hit an all-time record and the nation’s theatres are undergoing the most sweeping technological change in their history. By the end of this year, the industry is predicting that nearly half of North American...