He attributed the company’s recent success to the highly-anticipated releases of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” over the summer, as well as the concert movie of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, which is still in theatres. Jacob made the comments after Canada’s largest cinema chain reported third-quarter revenue totalling $463.6 million, up from $339.8 million in the same quarter last year. “We had an amazing summer and it was actually our best quarter ever, even pre-pandemic,” Ellis Jacob told BNN Bloomberg in a Thursday television interview. Cineplex is coming off its most successful quarter ever and its CEO predicts success at the box office will continue even if Canada’s economy goes into a recession.