On this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, hosts Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Romeo Duchene discuss the upcoming CinemaCon 2023 including the possible presentations of the major exhibitors and their respective upcoming movie slates. In the feature segment, Daniel talks to John Fithian, outgoing NATO president and CEO, about his long history in service of exhibition and the industry as a whole.

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Episode Resources:

• CinemaCon 2023 Schedule Of Events
• National CineMedia Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, To Undergo Debt Restructuring

What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:53 National CineMedia files for Chapter 11
• 02:47 Cineplex Q1 earnings
• 03:53 New title releases
• 06:18 Sony’s upcoming movie slate
• 10:53 The Flash to screen at CinemaCon, Warner Bros. upcoming films
• 14:11 Disney’s presentation next week
• 18:29 Universal and Focus presentation coverage
• 22:41 Paramount and the next Mission Impossible film
• 25:16 Lionsgate presentation
• 31:35 How it got started  
• 34:00 NATO executives 1992 
• 35:59 Industry-wide issues that affect everyone in the industry
• 39:47 Transition to digital cinema
• 45:09 The cyclical life of exhibition
• 49:11 NATO needed to evolve
• 54:22 Acquisition of Show West
• 59:04 Global unity
• 01:02:51 Crisis management challenges
• 01:04:58 The Sony hack
• 01:07:39 Develop positive relationships to the creative community
• 01:11:42 Misunderstood comment about 12 Years a Slave