Behind the Screens

Behind the Screens

Each week, Matthew Liebmann, Vista Group’s Chief Product, Innovation, & Marketing Officer, and Simon Burton, Vista Group's Chief Film Officer draw from their extensive industry experience to deliver box office and audience insights for major movie releases. Now in its sixth season, Behind the Screens focuses on global and domestic weekend box office, audience insights, and pre-sales analysis for all the biggest movie releases throughout the year. Happy listening!

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August off to a hot start! Plus Dracula on a boat?

August off to a hot start! Plus Dracula on a boat?

August is off to a hot start, sitting at 149.4M, outpacing every single year domestically in aggregate since 2016! We take a look at the titles making it such a success, from Barbie and Oppenheimer bo...

16 Elo 202315min

Meg 2 opens wide, Barbie passes $1B

Meg 2 opens wide, Barbie passes $1B

Meg 2: The Trench and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem debuted this past week, and we bring you all the box office and insights into the audiences. Barbie passes $1B, we compare June 2023’s...

8 Elo 202316min

Haunted Mansion, Talk To Me, and July’s month-in-review

Haunted Mansion, Talk To Me, and July’s month-in-review

New releases Haunted Mansion and Talk To Me hit the big screen this weekend, while Barbie and Oppenheimer continued with fantastic holds. We pause to look back at July’s month in review, and to see ho...

2 Elo 202328min

Barbenheimer sets the 4th-highest domestic opening of all time!

Barbenheimer sets the 4th-highest domestic opening of all time!

Barbie and Oppenheimer were battling for the box office—or in many cases bringing moviegoers in together with Barbenheimer double-features! So how many moviegoers went to see both the bomb and the bom...

25 Heinä 202314min

Mission: Impossible, production costs, and actors join the strike

Mission: Impossible, production costs, and actors join the strike

Tom Cruise sprinted onto the big screen again this past weekend with Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, which had the biggest global opening of the Mission: Impossible franchise to date. Ta...

18 Heinä 202315min

Diving into the industry with Vista Group CEO Stuart Dickinson

Diving into the industry with Vista Group CEO Stuart Dickinson

This week we are joined by Vista Group’s new CEO, Stuart Dickinson, to discuss his experiences and impressions across the businesses and the cinema industry at CinemaCon and CineEurope. In box office ...

11 Heinä 202326min

The CineEurope Round Table: AI, Content, and Forward Thinking

The CineEurope Round Table: AI, Content, and Forward Thinking

Sarah Lewthwaite and Leon Newnham join us for the CineEurope Round Table, discussing all the highlights and insights from the latest industry event in Barcelona. Comedy takes centre stage with box off...

27 Kesä 202341min

Episode 100! The Flash, Elemental, and The Blackening (+ bonus content)

Episode 100! The Flash, Elemental, and The Blackening (+ bonus content)

Thank you to all our listeners for helping us to reach our 100th episode! While Simon parties in Barcelona at CineEurope this week, Matthew and Ryan discuss The Flash’s disappointing box office perfor...

21 Kesä 202326min