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ShowEast celebrates holiday movies

After a lackluster summer season at the nation’s movie theatres. with attendance figures at a ten-year low, the box office is rebounding nicely—and as we go into ShowEast, gross revenues for the year are up 3.8% and attendance has risen by 2.6%. Someone must be appealing to the Movie Angels,...

A compassionate industry

The best way to recover from a mass shooting or any disaster is to move on and not continue to dwell on it. Unfortunately, the media has not followed suit with regard to the tragic movie theatre massacre in Aurora, Colorado. There has been so much written and so much speculation about the much...

An Experience Like No Other

The ironies of the movie business! When box office is off, everyone starts to question the viability of the industry in today’s market. When business is good and setting records, they call it an aberration....

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...