Cinema owners, studios and indie distributors gathering in Las Vegas this week for exhibition’s biggest confab seek visibility into a theatrical landscape gut-punched by Hollywood strikes last year just as a post-Covid recovery was revving up. Production halted for months led to fewer releases on the schedule. But there’s reason …
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Ed Mintz, the founder of the motion picture industry’s tried-and-true audience polling service CinemaScore, died February 6. He was 83. Known for its mathematical “Coca-Cola” algorithm developed by Mintz, CinemaScore has been prized by studios and exhibitors since its inception in the early 1980s as a domestic box office barometer …
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Best of 2022 is ComingSoon’s weeklong celebration of the leisure that made this previous yr so memorable. People who find themselves chronically on-line (myself included) prefer to assume that the web has far more of an impression on the true world than it truly does. They spend a lot of their time …
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