March 2009 - Celluloid Junkie

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“Kill Bill” characters The Bride, O-Ren Ishii and Bill sit vertically against a red and black background, with the film title in yellow on the left side

“Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair”: The Long Journey to the Big Screen

What fans of Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill: Vol I” (2003) and “Vol. II” (2004) know but many others may not, is that the two films weren’t supposed to be separate entities; the original vision for the blood-spattered revenge saga was intended to be a single release. And now, after a 20+ year wait a…

(Left to Right) Berlinale chief Tricia Tuttle speaks with filmmaker and festival director director Shekhar Kapur during a panel on November 22, 2025 at the 56th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa, India

Imperfect Is Beautiful: Shekhar Kapur and Tricia Tuttle on AI’s Role in Cinema’s Next Act

Under the winter sun in Panaji, Goa, where palm trees and festival banners spill out along the Mandovi River, the 56th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), which took place 20–28 November, once again felt like one of Asia’s most vital A-list gatherings. The industry-focused Waves Film Bazaar…

Emily Cecil-Dennett stands in front of the inside of Trafalgar Releasing’s original broadcasting truck

A Complete Service: Trafalgar Releasing’s End-to-End Offering

For the past decade, London-based distribution company Trafalgar Releasing (Trafalgar) has been a market leader when it comes to event cinema (also known as alternative content). Bringing live experiences to a wider audience via the cinema screen, whether it’s recorded productions of pop concerts, s…

The Opening Ceremony at the Red Sea International Film Festival 2025 on December 04, 2025 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Opening Night at the 2025 Red Sea Film Festival Showcases Saudi Arabia’s Growing Cinematic Ambition

Under the desert night sky and amid the floodlit architecture of historic Al Balad, the fifth Red Sea International Film Festival opened with a ceremony that reflected a country rapidly building a film culture from scratch and eager to share that transformation with the world. For Saudi Arabia, whic…

Passion Over Profit: The Formula That Kept South African Horrorfest Alive

Twenty-one years. In the volatile world of film exhibition, particularly for independent, niche-focused festivals, this level of longevity is not just an achievement: it’s an operational anomaly. The South African Horrorfest, hosted annually in Cape Town, South Africa and co-founded by Paul B…

(Left to Right) Torsten Frehse of Neue Visionen, Rebecca Hartung of Pluto Film, Anne Schultka of KIDSreggio and moderator Alasdair Satchel during The Shrinking Gap Between Theatrical and Streaming Releases panel on November 20, 2025 at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn, Estonia

Industry Panel at Tallinn Debates the Consequences of Europe’s Shrinking Theatrical Windows

At this year’s Just Film Industry Days, held 19–21 November as part of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, a panel of European industry professionals examined how rapidly shrinking theatrical windows are reshaping distribution models, audience expectations and the long-term health of cinema exhi…

Row House is Rep Cinema in a League of Its Own

The state of Pennsylvania is not necessarily the first place one conjures when thinking of repertory cinema, but for over a decade the Row House Cinema on Butler Street in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood has thrived. This is mostly due to the care and curation of the theatre’s owner /…

Arts Alliance Media enters administration

Arts Alliance Media Enters Administration — But Don’t Write Its Obituary Yet

Arts Alliance Media (AAM), one of the cinema industry’s most widely deployed and quietly indispensable software providers, entered administration in the United Kingdom on 12 November 2025. This move begins a restructuring process, similar to Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States, that could res…

Pope Leo XIV - Encounter with World Cinema

CJ Analysis: The Wild Weekend the Pope Joined Tom Cruise in Championing Cinemas

The cinema business has had so many “crisis moments” lately that even seasoned industry insiders are starting to develop emotional shin splints. But late October was something special — a kind of doom-loop crescendo that left exhibitors, distributors, and analysts staring into the theatrical abyss.…

CJ Interviews: Paul Farnsworth – Inside the Mind of B&B’s Storyteller-in-Chief

Toma Foster is B&B Theatres’ Director of Guest / Employee Relations. It was in the B&B Theatres corporate conference room, four years ago, that I officially met Paul Farnsworth, Executive Director of Communications and Content. I was attending one of my first meetings after joining the compa…