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Three years after brutal Covid shutdowns, spring is in the air for cinemas with the box office blossoming and the economics of streaming looking muddy. Traditional studios are re-committing to theatrical, with Apple and Amazon on board. That’s the view from the perch of John Fithian, longtime president and CEO of the National Association of Theatre Owners, taking a final bow next week in Las Vegas at CinemaCon, the industry’s biggest annual event. He will formally pass the baton to Michael O’Leary on May 1.
“John did an amazing job of leading this industry through an existential threat. It is my hope that this is the last existential threat for some time. If not, I have John’s number,” says O’Leary, who spent years lobbying and leading government affairs in D.C. including for the MPA and 21st Century Fox.
“Michael and I have known each other since 2005. We’re comrades in arms. He knows Washington really well, he knows Hollywood really well,” says Fithian, who is preparing his last CinemaCon State Of The Industry address. “I’ll handle one last round and then I will — gracefully, or not — step out.”
“In the immature style of a 61-year-old who doesn’t want to accept his age, I am having a private pool party with a couple hundred of my closest friends at Caesars.”
Before diving in, the duo spoke with Deadline on exhibition’s rebound, screen count, specialty film, windows, and not obsessing about Netflix anymore. The streamer’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos reiterated again this past week that “driving folks to a theater is just not our business.”
“We’ve made it clear that our doors are open to Netflix. Apple and Amazon are listening and watching the data and expanding their markets. If Netflix doesn’t want to follow that model,
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Optimus Prime and his loyal Autobots are facing their biggest threat to date in the upcoming “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” — the world-devouring Unicron.“How big can this guy be?” asks Anthony Ramos’ character Noah.“Uh, he eats planets,” responds Pete Davidson’s Autobot Mirage. “So way bigger than the planet.”The trailer for the action film — the seventh in the “Transformers” series and a direct sequel to “Bumblebee” — also showcases new Autobot allies called the Maximals.Ron Perlman voices Optimus Primal, their leader who transforms into a gorilla.
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Brent Lang Executive Editor During the pandemic, studios experimented with shrinking the amount of time that their films screened exclusively in cinemas, while spending oceans of money to launch streaming services. But the debt they racked up has sent their share prices plummeting and, now, studios are making more movies for theaters and cutting back on their streaming budgets. CinemaCon, the annual exhibition industry showcase that is unfolding this week in Las Vegas, couldn’t be happier about the shift in strategy. John Fithian, the head of the National Association of Theatre Owners, the trade group behind the show, touted the new state of play during his speech to the convention, while praising Apple and Amazon for embracing the big screen with movies like “Air” and the upcoming “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Napoleon.” Both of these companies will reportedly spend more than $1 billion on theatrical films.
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