CinemaCon Takeaways: Fights Over Theatrical Window, Fizzling Star Power and Amazon MGM’s Big Promise
variety.comCinemaCon is supposed to celebrate the magic of the big screen and the power of the cinematic experience. Instead, this year’s Las Vegas gathering was a tense, testy affair that threatened to resurface old tensions between studios and exhibitors.
All the frustrations of the past five years, during which a pandemic and two labor strikes left the movie theater business a pale shadow of itself, nearly boiled over.
2025 has been positioned as the movie theater industry’s grand return to the glory days as cinema operators and Hollywood promising that a wave of superhero adventures, star-driven vehicles and fantasy adventures would reinvigorate ticket sales.
Instead, revenues are down 10% from 2024, as the likes of “Snow White” and “Mickey 17” flopped at the box office. Whose fault is it?
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