Michael B. Jordan will be honored with the Male Star of the Year Award at CinemaCon in the spring. The Just Mercy star has Without Remorse, a Navy SEAL thriller written by Taylor Sheridan from Tom Clancy’s novel, releasing in September.
"From the moment Michael B. Jordan appeared onscreen in Fruitvale Station, he put…
As exhibitors nervously ponder the impact of the growing army of streaming services now unleashed on would-be moviegoers, results of a new study commissioned by The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) are heartening. Theatrical release and streaming seem to complement each other in a few different…
Saturday Night Live re-imagined this week’s hot mic scandal at the NATO conference in London as a bunch of mean kids — instead of world leaders — gossiping in a high school cafeteria.
With Alec Baldwin reprising his portrayal of President Trump, the NBC sketch series brought in Jimmy Fallon, Paul Rudd and James Corden…
On the day House Democrats released their massive impeachment report, President Trump was in a land far, far away from Washington.
The Daily Show host Trevor Noah noted that Trump was nowhere near D.C. today, when the House dropped its report saying "the President placed his own personal and political interests above…
Richard "Dick" Allen Fox, the founder of the Fox Theatres chain and a former president of the National Assn. of Theatre Owners , died on July 24 in Boca Raton, Fla. at age 90.
Fox founded Reading, Pa-based Fox Theatres in 1957 with the Sinking Spring Drive-In, the "World's Largest Cinemascope Screen," and over the…
NATO President and CEO John Fithian was greeted with applause at CinemaCon in Las Vegas this morning when he said that movies “should reach their full potential in theaters before heading to the home.”
“There’s no doubt that home entertainment consumption moves toward streaming more with each passing day. As large…
Back in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump Monday morning tweeted in defense of his weekend trip to Paris to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.
In a few short days, Trump wimped out of honoring fallen U.S. troops on Saturday because it was raining, showed up late to other events…
“Our President – the orange guy Trump- is in Belgium right now – at the NATO Summit, fighting over how many ways they will split the check,” Jimmy Kimmel told his late night viewers about POTUS’s latest.
“Things got off to a rocky start at a breakfast meeting with the NATO Secretary General, where Trump complained…
The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) has elected Ellis Jacob, President and CEO of Cineplex, Toronto, as its Chairman and Rolando B. Rodriguez, Chairman, President and CEO of Marcus Theatres in Milwaukee, as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Jacob, elected as Executive Board vice chairman in…
The National Association of Theater Owners reports that the average movie ticket price during the first four months of this year is +4% at $9.16 versus the same quarter a year ago at $8.84.
Versus the final quarter of 2017, Q1 2018’s average price is down two cents, but it’s running ahead of the 2017 average of $8.97…
NATO President and CEO John Fithian has heard too often from the press that theatrical moviegoing is on the wane in the face of streaming. He took to the podium at CinemaCon today to remind exhibition and the studios that “the industry is more dynamic than ever.”
“The word disruption is thrown around way too much,”…
The National Association of Theatre Owners has released 2017’s official average ticket price: $8.97, up close to 4% over 2016’s $8.65 and a new record high.
NATO’s ticket price is an average of all theater price points including senior citizen and primetime weekend evening shows.
NATO is calling the annual box office…
