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🏆 That’s a wrap on the biggest summer ever
Labor Day marks the unofficial end of Hollywood's summer, and this one closed the books at $4.76B domestic, an all-time record (not adjusted for inflation). That tops 2013's $4.75B, which stood for 13 years, and blows past the $4B milestone everyone was praying for this time last year (summer 2025 came in at $3.67B). It's…
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🎟️ The kids are alright (and in the theater)…
For years, Hollywood's big fear was that the generation raised on phones and streaming would never become moviegoers. A new YouGov poll joins a growing pile of evidence that says relax. They're the ones showing up. Some numbers: 20% of adults under 30 went to a theater in the past week. Only 5% of the 65+ crowd did.…
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🎟️ Local indie theaters are filling seats again
The Aero Theatre, one of LA's longtime art house staples, in Santa Monica With the summer box office off to a promising start and a little optimism creeping back into theaters, the Art House Convergence 2026 National Audience Survey says the good vibes go deeper than the tentpoles. They polled more than 27,000…
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🍿 CinemaCon kicked off in Vegas
CinemaCon kicked off Monday morning at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and runs through Thursday. For those unfamiliar: it's the convention where studios pitch their upcoming slates to theater owners, execs debate industry policy, and vendors sell everything from laser projectors to fancy popcorn buckets. It's part trade show,…
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🎬 Netflix, BBC, and microdramas…
🍿 Netflix wants to win the box office now. Somewhere, a theater owner just did a spit take. Co-CEO Ted Sarandos told the New York Times that if Netflix closes its $83B Warner Bros. acquisition, WB films will keep a 45-day theatrical window. Theater owners had feared Netflix would slash that to 17 days. Sarandos also tried…
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🍿 Gen Z is actually going to the movies
The whole "Gen Z killed movie theaters" narrative might have been premature. Cinema United, the exhibition industry's largest trade group, just dropped its annual "Strength of Theatrical Exhibition" report, and the headline number is a doozy: Gen Z moviegoing frequency jumped 25% year-over-year. That’s the biggest increase…
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🍿 Theaters may have a bright future with Gen Alpha…
Surprising finding: Gen Alpha (kids 12 and under who've never known life without iPads) actually prefer movie theaters to streaming. A new NRG study (defining Gen Alpha as those born 2013 and later) shows 59% prefer the big screen experience over their couch, compared to just 45% of Millennials. This goes against years of…
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Think Tank Topic - How do we save independent film? (Filmmaker Magazine Article att.)
Thought a little brainstorming from Producers here might yield some interesting ideas on the light topic of "saving independent film". https://filmmakermagazine.com/125284-anthony-kaufman-sundance-2024-wrap/ As producer Jamie Patricof notes in this article, “If you don’t support this ecosystem, there is no Nolan,…