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From the President’s Desk
NATO president John Fithian discusses movie piracy, and what can be done to stem its pervasiveness.

Dateline: Exhibition
New plexes for Regal, Kerasotes, Pacific and Great Escape; Stone rolls to GTC; and the Cherry Bowl turns 50.

Digital Cinema
CineMedia theatrecasts pro soccer; Digital Cinema Lab gets a satellite package; cinematographers seek standards.

September Preview
Autumn brings new movies from directors Sofia Coppola, Mike Figgis, Tim McCanlies, Robert Rodriguez, John Sayles and more.
Also, Late Additions to August.

International Dateline
SBC starts a new U.K. circuit with 354 Warner Village auditoria; a Portugal chain expects to swell from 67 to 120 screens.

Next!
An update on the post-”Hulk” comic-book movies. Plus, the folks behind “2 Furious” rocket toward a slew of new projects.

Washington Report
Jonathan Yarowsky looks at “flex-time” legislation; Steven John Fellman offers advice on testimony.

Marketplace
Former exhibitor Howard Lichtman remembers when his Canadian circuit introduced rolling-stock ads in the 1980s.

Built By Association
Mid-States NATO exec Belinda Judson relates how exhibitors’ efforts helped turn the tide on important legislative proposals.

Final Cut
Specialty exhibition vet Jonathan Forman talks about Chaplin, “Schmidt” and debt-reducing djinns.

New NATO Members
Cinema owners who joined up.

Release Calendar
Coming movies ordered by date of bow. Updated weekly.

Events
A calendar of industry happenings.

How They Rate
Why films are classified as they are.

Cash Drawer
Movies ranked by gross. Updated weekly.

Index to Advertisers
A list of advertisers in this month's print edition of In Focus.

Independents Daze
A sharp increase in U.S. screens, among other things, may have precipitated a renaissance for specialty cinema.

The Sum of All Frears
The director of “Dirty Pretty Things” talks about Audrey Tautou, Julia Roberts, Jack Black, Burt Lancaster and more.