Boxoffice Podcast

On this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, hosts Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Shawn Robbins cover the latest box office numbers with Minions: The Rise of Gru opening at $125M and predictions for Thor: Love and Thunder ’s weekend release. Next, Russ Fischer joins Daniel and Rebecca to talk about where MCU is heading after the Avengers: Endgame. In the feature segment, April Wright, direct...

On this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, Rebecca Pahle and Jesse Rifkin discuss a photo-finish for the top spot at the box office between Warner Bros.' Elvis and Paramount's Top Gun: Maverick . In our final dispatch from CineEurope, Daniel Loria is joined by Celluloid Junkie's Sperling Reich to cover the convention's main themes and trends.  And in the feature segment, Daniel is joined by...

On this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, hosts Daniel Loria and Rebecca Pahle discuss the weekend’s box office numbers and Lightyear’s debut gross, followed by Daniel chatting with Merrick Edwards of Apex Order Pickup Solutions about the smart food locker technology providing smart solutions to institutions providing delivery service. In the feature segment, Daniel interviews UNIC’s Laura...

On this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, hosts Daniel Loria and Romeo Duchene provide insights on Jurassic World Dominion ’s domestic and overseas box office numbers on its opening weekend. In the feature segment, Daniel speaks with Vue International’s former COO and current Group MD & Deputy CEO, Steve Knibbs, to discuss the recovery status of exhibition in the UK and the company’s ef...

On this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, hosts Daniel Loria and Shawn Robbins provide a forecast for Jurassic World Dominion ’s weekend debut and Top Gun: Maverick ’s record breaking box office numbers. In the feature segment, Russ and Daniel bring us back into memory lane as they go through Jurassic Park’s film evolution throughout the years.   Give us your feedback on our podcast by acce...

On this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, hosts Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Romeo Duchene discuss the overwhelming success at the box office of Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick . In the feature segment, Rebecca chats with filmmakers that are part of the NATO Young Filmmaker Program about NATO’s mission to continuously connect with all filmmakers in the industry.   Give us your feedback o...

On this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, hosts Russ Fischer, Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Shawn Robbins provide their final box office forecast for Top Gun: Maverick’s opening weekend. In the feature segment, we take a stroll into Tom Cruise’s box office history, looking back on his star persona and his films’ box office performance throughout the years.   Give us your feedback on our...

On this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, hosts Daniel Loria and Rebecca Pahle share insights from the quarterly earnings call of the top five cinema chains in North America before assessing the box office potential of Downton Abbey: A New Age. In the feature segment, Prospector Theatre’s Executive Director Mike Santini talks to Daniel about the company’s mission of providing stable employm...

On this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, hosts Russ Fischer and Rebecca Pahle discuss the box office success of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and what the film indicates about the future of the MCU. In the INDIE FOCUS feature, Rebecca speaks with Moisés Esparza, the Exhibitions Manager at Digital Gym Cinema, to talk about how the company is progressing in reopening their thea...

On this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, hosts Daniel Loria and Shawn Robbins look at the latest opening weekend forecast for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Can the new Marvel movie cross the $200 million mark over its domestic debut in theaters? The hosts also look ahead to the latest tracking figures for Memorial Day weekend, where Top Gun: Maverick will open alongside The...

On the final episode of The Boxoffice Podcast’s Daily CinemaCon edition, hosts Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Shawn Robbins are joined by Boxoffice CEO Julien Marcel in discussing their reactions to the last two studio presentations at this year’s event. Paramount’s world premiere screening of Top Gun: Maverick thrilled exhibitors in attendance and capped off an eventful week at the cinema indus...

On today’s episode of the Boxoffice Podcast, hosts Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Shawn Robbins cover the major titles announced at Disney and Universal’s studio presentations.  Disney kicked off the day’s festivities with extended looks at Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Pixar’s Lightyear. The presentation ended with an exclusive look at one of the year’s most anticipat...

On today’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast hosts Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Shawn Robbins go over Tuesday’s events at CinemaCon 2022. The day began with NATO’s John Fithian pronouncing the end of simultaneous releases as a serious business model during his State of the Industry address. Fithian cited overwhelming piracy concerns as the reason for its demise—at least when it comes to major t...

CinemaCon 2022 is underway as hosts Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Shawn Robbins recap a full day of panels and presentations from Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Daniel and Rebecca go over the morning’s panel sessions from international day, including insights from leading global executives and Dune director Denis Villeneuve. Programming was a major topic during the opening day of CinemaCon, with...

On today’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast’s Daily CinemaCon Edition Presented by ICE Theaters, hosts Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Shawn Robbins go over their expectations for this year’s event. The trio discusses the movies they hope to see previewed at the studio presentations and the trends they’ll be looking out for at the trade show floor. Today’s vendor profile segment brings The Boxoff...

In this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, Daniel Loria and Rebecca Pahle cover the latest box office numbers with Sonic 2 still exceeding industry expectations while Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is off to a so-so start. In the feature segment, Daniel and Rebecca talk to Guillaume Thomine Desmazures, ICE Theaters SVP for Sales and Strategy about how the immersive technology ha...

In this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Shawn Robbins talk about the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 ’s box office numbers on its opening weekend, the performance of the the Fantastic Beasts series as part of the Harry Potter franchise, and the wide release of Everything Everywhere All at Once . In the feature segment, Daniel talks to CEO Luis Olloqui and Sr. Nationa...

In this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, Russ Fischer, Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Shawn Robbins discuss the performance of Morbius in its limited screening debut and the expectations for Sonic the Hedgehog 2.   In the feature segment, Russ, Daniel, and Rebecca bring us to memory as they go back to the first film adaptation of a video game, Super Mario Brothers . They discuss how thes...

In this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Shawn Robbins talk about the latest box office numbers, the 3-hour literary adaptation, Drive My Car ’s performance, and predictions for the upcoming release of Morbius . In the feature segment, we get to listen to Emagine Entertainment CEO Anthony Laverde, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema founder Tim League, and CEO Bob Bagb...

In this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and SHawn Robbins talk about Cineworld’s 2021 financial report, AMC’s investment in gold and silver mining, and the latest movie release calendar for 2022. In the Indie Focus feature this month, Rebecca talks to Esquire’s Gary Goldman and Julianne Reisenfeld about the reeling university students into the theater and how...

In this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, Daniel Loria and Rebecca Pahle talk about the overperformance of the K-Pop group BTS’s live cinema broadcast as well as a quick view of the 2021 global box office numbers and the need for exhibitors to convert occasional moviegoers into regular customers. Give us your feedback on our podcast by accessing this survey: https://forms.gle/CcuvaXCEpgPLQ6...

In this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Shawn Robbins talk about AMC’s 2021 Q4 earnings call, namely their newest experiments with variable pricing—and whether or not that contributed to the $134M opening weekend of The Batman, which had only the second $100M+ debut of the pandemic.  Give us your feedback on our podcast by accessing this survey: https://fo...

In this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, Daniel Loria, Russ Fischer, and Shawn Robbins dedicate an hour to covering the upcoming release of  The Batman . The title is expected to become only the second film of the pandemic to enjoy a $100 million opening weekend, and the hosts discuss the film’s overall box office potential in an otherwise slow month of March. In the feature segment, the h...

In this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Shawn Robbins discuss the recent shift in release dates of big titles, a recap on Kinepolis and Cineplex's Q4 earnings report, predictions for the summer slate, and the overperformance of Uncharted and Dog in theaters. Give us your feedback on our podcast by accessing this survey: https://forms.gle/CcuvaXCEpgPLQ6d18 ...

In this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, Russ Fischer and Daniel Loria talk about the Super Bowl new movie trailers, surprising and not so surprising Oscar nominations, and some of the latest news in the exhibition industry. Shawn Robbins also shares forecast numbers for Uncharted and Dog which will debut this weekend. Give us your feedback on our podcast by accessing this survey: https://...