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Cinema News Digest – Friday 25 May 2018

Dear Junkies, Happy GDPR day! In 2015 Odeon UK & Ireland abolished the online ticket booking fee. Not penalising customers for booking tickets in advance, instead of paying cash on the day at the box office, was trumpeted as a win for customers. At the UKCA ‘Data Day’ conference last…

Vue tickets London £6.99. (image: Vue)

Cinema News Digest – Tuesday 22 May 2018

Dear Junkies, Hold the front page: Netflix is NOT killing cinema! This is one of the conclusion of two independent pieces of research that have just been released in German and Ireland. Both studies found that heavy users of subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) services (so-called ‘streamers…

Women Find Their Voice at Cannes Film Festival

Had it not been for Harvey Weinstein the biggest controversy at this year’s Cannes Film Festival might have been the red carpet selfie ban. “Thank you Harvey [Weinstein] and Kevin [Spacey]; you helped women find their voice,” declared director Kate Rees Davies at the opening of the…

Life of the Party Breaking In Terminal posters

“Avengers: Infinity War” Pushes Past $1 Billion Globally As “Deadpool” and “Solo” Loom. This Weekend at the Box Office.

WEEKEND RECAP The death of cinema has officially been postponed, with “Avengers: Infinity War” pushing past USD $1 billion globally in a record 11 days, one day faster than Disney stable mate “Star Wars: the Force Awakens”. This is all the more amazing because it was achieved…

Russia cinema fire Kemerovo. (photo: Russia Crime)

Cinema News Digest – Monday 16 April 2018

Dear Junkies, No time for introductory words of wisdom as we prepare for CinemaCon. Hope to see you in Las Vegas next week. Drop us a line (tips[at]celluloidjunkie.com) to arrange a meeting or just have a chat over coffee (or something stronger). Regards – Patrick Russia cinema fire investigat…

I feel pretty Sooper Troopers 2 Duck Duck Go posters

Stuff To Be Got Out of The Way Before “Avengers: Infinity War” Descends. This Weekend At The Box Office

WEEKEND RECAP Hold your horsies, it’s not time for “Avengers: Infinite Box Office” just yet. Yes, the Marvel marvel is tracking off the charts in terms of ticket pre-sales, but we have another week’s wort of new openings as well solid results from current releases first. Reme…

Box Office - Beirut, Rampage, Truth or Dare

“A Quiet Place” Roars With $50 Million Take, But There’s “Rampage” Ahead. This Weekend at the Box Office

WEEKEND RECAP It was a rare weekend of both quantifiable quality and muchos mullah at the box office. Of the new films, four out of five scored 80% or higher on Rotten Tomatoes, with “A Quiet Place” posting an astonishing 97% and a B+ Cinemascore. It was even 100%, at least until half a…

Cinema News Digest – Thursday 5 April 2018

Dear Junkies, Seriously – did someone decree that 5 April should officially be “Everything Newsworthy in Cinema Happening At Once Day?” Because if so, then we didn’t get the memo. But we got the press releases – all of them! Smartpricer launching dynamic pricing in Russ…

Cinecittà in Nuremberg, Germany

Cinema of the Month: Cinecittà – Nuremberg, Germany

Celluloid Junkie is proud to have partnered with Vista Cinema for the Cinema of the Month series. Vista is the world’s leading cinema management software solutions company. We won’t just be featuring cinemas whose operators use Vista, but we will surely mention when that is the case. CJ would like t…

Dertje Meijer and Edwin Slutter of Pathé Netherlands

Pathé Netherlands Suspends Two Top Executives

Dutch exhibition major Pathé Netherlands has suspended Managing Director Dertje Meijer and Finance Director Edwin Slutter effective immediately. Both the nature and the timing of the announcement came as a surprise to the industry. No specific reason was given for the action, only that the two senio…