Our magazine is publishing five print issues in 2021. Could we pivot back to monthly publication in 2022? Frankly, we probably could have and should have done that even for the second half of 2021...

New Start - Stephanie Moffat on 1st June 2021. New website launch for Look Cinemas - www.lookcinemas.com

Our magazine used to publish movie reviews, but stopped in 2012. You can read more about that here: https://www.indiewire.com/2013/01/boxoffice-magazine-stops-publishing-film-reviews-128559/ Could we bring reviews back? Not only would it be super fun for readers, but it would really give our writers more of a "voice" outside of their personal social media, in a way that they largely haven't had until the introduction of our podcast last year actually. And as Howard Stern demonstrated when he switched from terrestrial radio to SiriusXM and millions of his listeners followers, people love following *individuals*, as much (if not more) than following institutions.

There used to be four stories or articles "featured" at the topThe Boxoffice.com / BoxofficePro.com homepage. Since the redesign, which was in 2019 I believe, there are now only two featured articles. Why was this halved? And could it please be brought back to four?

Hey @Claire! Totally agree! Don't worry, we haven't abandoned it, and on the contrary have put it at the top of the list since it crashed! The replacement CMS is ready, and will be demoed to the Boxoffice Pro team next week. Once that's live, we will be reconnecting the home page top right corner space as well as the Pulse pages. It's coming very very soon :)

Thank you @Claire Dearing for your thoughtful comment and feedback. Your comment makes me think that we need a proper idea-box to host great feedback like yours. I have forwarded your comment to management and I'll make sure they come back here and read it.

Observatory's welcome message reads: "If this were your company, your money, your employees, what would YOU do?" Here's one thing I would do, posted anonymously if I may. I love The Boxoffice Company, my colleagues here, and the products and services we offer! But I fear that we're forgetting why we are called The *Boxoffice* Company, after all. Our internal data entry system for theatrical box office numbers went offline in early March and has not yet come back. Those resulting numbers were always live-updated in the upper-right corner on our BoxOfficePro.com home page, and now that's gone too. And our feature where anybody could search a movie, past or present, and see its box office broken down by day, weekend, and total? That's gone too. I worry that we're doing enormous and perhaps irreversible damage to our hard-earned reputation, cultivated over many years, as one of the internet's top repositories of box office statistics. Now, I understand that our box office data entry system was run on an outdated decade-old version of Amazon Web Serivce's cloud, which Bezos & Co. discontinued last month. While we surely should have updated to a newer version of AWS at any point in the preceding many years and avoided this catastrophe entirely, the past is in the past. No use crying over spilled milk. What I'm more concerned about is the present. I understand that getting a new box office data entry system up and running is something of a priority #137 for our company right now. If I ran the company, I would make it one of our absolute top priorities. As in, top five. I say we set a goal of getting it up and running by Memorial Day. If we miss entering some earnings for a few movies in March and April, that's one thing. If we're offline for the entirety of the summer blockbuster season, though, that may be a death sentence for the internet's legions of box office obsessives utilizing us as a resource ever again. Your starting quarterback can miss a bit of the regular season, that's okay. But you can't miss the Super Bowl.

@Stan, yes they can!

Love the initiative and looking forward to seeing your comments and ideas to help us grow and find the best path to the stars! Can comments and ideas be anonymous?

Great idea!

Hi everyone and welcome to Observatory. The goal here is really to give everyone an opportunity to express their opinion and share their ideas and insights. Everyone in the company is listening so don't be shy. You might very well change the future of movie-going.