Christopher Nolan Says “Magical Thinking, Nostalgia, Daydreaming” Is “The Only Sound Business Plan” – CinemaCon
deadline.comCinemaCon 2023 officially drew to a close this evening in Las Vegas, with NATO handing out its Big Screen Achievement Awards to such recipients as Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas, Zendaya, Chris Meledandri and Melissa McCarthy.
The evening’s sentiment continued the running theme of the four-day conference: celebrating and preserving the theatrical experience.
Nolan and Thomas were honored with the Spirit of the Industry Award. The Oppenheimer director recounted that he’d recently been walking by a Regal cinema in New York and a young man passing him said, “You make the world a better place” and kept on going. “The first thing I thought is, my agents never said anything that nice to me,” Nolan quipped.
But then, “I started to reflect on all of us who work in the movies — from the studios, distributors, theater owners, marketers, the people serving popcorn — we’re all engaged in a process that in some small way does make the world a better place.
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