On this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, hosts Russ Fischer, Rebecca Pahle, and Shawn Robbins share updates on the latest batch of release date changes affecting the MCU and discuss the box office potential of new releases Black Adam and Ticket to Paradise. Later in the episode, host Daniel Loria provides an update on the conversations taking place at ShowEast; in our feature segment, Loria interviews NATO Chairman Rolando Rodriguez, being honored with the show's Dan Fellman Show “E” Award.

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Episode Resources:

• Weekend Box Office Forecast: Will the Finale Factor Help Halloween Ends Best Predecessor’s Hybrid Opening One Year Ago?
• Weekend Box Office Forecast: Black Adam and Ticket to Paradise Look to Rejuvenate Fall Box Office

What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:09 MCU’s release date shake ups
• 04:21 Prediction for Halloween Ends’ second week
• 06:36 Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam
• 09:52 Ticket to Paradise performance
• 13:05 Industry revenue drops this year
• 15:18 Sufficient and uninterrupted theatrical releases
• 17:35 Cinema’s working with streamers
• 20:11 Theatrical release of Wakanda Forever in France
• 20:59 Viral marketing 
• 23:44 TikTok to integrate showtime and digital ticketing in stories
• 24:44 The success of National Cinema Day
• 29:15 The most iconic visit to a movie theater
• 31:18 Working at a theater in a new country
• 34:12 Years of experience as an executive
• 40:20 Making exhibition more inclusive in the executive ranks
• 44:47 Calls to action within the team
• 46:54 Never lost trust in the industry even with the pandemic