Vaccine Passports at the Movies

In this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, co-hosts Daniel Loria and Rebecca Pahle discuss Scarlett Johansson’s against Disney over the day-and-date release of Black Widow. Rebecca also recaps the latest edition of the WIE webinar series with insights from future leaders of exhibition. In the feature segment, Daniel and Rebecca discuss the newly announced proof of vaccine requirement for New York City movie theaters. The Boxoffice Company’s Romeo Duchene joins the podcast to talk about France’s experience in implementing proof of vaccination at cinemas, and how audiences and exhibitors have reacted to the new requirement.

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Episode Resources:

• NYC Follows France in Requiring Proof of Vaccination for Moviegoers

What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:05 Jungle Cruise opened at $35M in 4310 locations  
• 04:36 Women in Exhibition - the necessity of diversity in programming
• 09:12 Vaccine Passports, select areas will require vaccination pass
• 12:24 What does the Vaccine Passport mean for French audience?
• 15:18 Camelot’s nationwide premiere in France
• 16:26 Currently, the vaccine pass is creating confusion
• 18:19 The confusion continues and people are finding answers online
• 20:34 Implementation of vaccine passport caused a huge drop in moviegoing
• 21:26 Possible detrimental effects of unclear policies