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Cinema News Digest – Tuesday 7 November 2017

Dear Junkies, Tomorrow Wednesday we will attempt a LIVE streaming on Celluloid Junkie’s Facebook page: ‘Like’ Celluloid Junkie on Facebook to watch me give a presentation at 10:15 AM CET on ‘Global Cinema 2017 – from AMC to Zuckerberg‘ at the Film & Kino confe…

Box Office - Murder on the Orient Express, Daddys Home 2, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

It’s Hammer Time as Thor Smashes November Records While Moms’ Moms Party It Up. This Weekend at the Box Office.

This week Jim Amos is taking a well-deserved brake, having been proven right to be very bullish about “Thor: Ragnarok” and predicting the “A Bad Moms Christmas” box office haul to within a rounding error. Instead it falls to conductors and porters J. Sperling Reich and Patric…

Cathay Cineplex Parkway Parade. (photo: Patrick von Sychowski / Celluloid Junkie)

mm2 Buys Singapore’s Cathay Cineplex for $169 Million

Media company mm2 has agreed to buy Singapore cinema chain Cathay Cineplex for S$ 230 million (USD $169 million). The move come less than a month after it failed to buy half of rival Golden Village. Cathay operates eight cinemas with 64 screens and 11,569 seats, including the recently opened Parkway…

Striking UCI staff. (photo: Ute Gabriel / Der Westen)

Cinema News Digest – Thursday 2 November 2017

Dear Junkies, Strikes at UCI and Picturehouse makes us wonder what employees think of working at cinemas. Rather than putting that awkward question to the teen serving you popcorn before the next showing of “Thor Ragnarok”, you can find out through websites like Glassdoor.com or Indeed.c…

Emperor Group's Lan Kwai Fong cinema. (photo: The Standard)

Asia Cinema Property Update – October 2017

China/HK: luxury Central cinema; India: L&T’s Hyderabad Next multiplexes, Mukta Arts in TN, PVR Chanakya, Cinépolis Guwahati; Japan: Tokyo Midtown Hibiya Toho, Aeon Chofu; Kazakhstan: Astana; Malaysia: GSC Megawati Mall; Pakistan: Cinepax in Silakot; Singapore: Golden Village Paya Lebar; U…

Sydeny's Mov'in Bed cinema. (image: movinbed.com)

CJ Cinema News Digest – Friday 27 October 2017

Dear Junkies, The month before the Harvey Weinstein scandal exploded in Hollywood, the cinema industry was grappling with its own mini-Weinsteins. There was the Los Angels theatre Cinefamily sexual misconduct allegations, there was Alamo Drafthouse’s re-hiring of sexual harasser Devin Faraci a…

CJ CGV-ADG signing ceremony in Seoul. (photo: CJ CGV)

CJ CGV to Open 33 Cinema in Moscow by 2020

Korean cinema major CJ CGV will become the first major foreign exhibitor to expand into Russia, with plans to build 33 cinemas with 160 screens in Moscow by 2020. CJ CGV signed a deal with Russian real estate company ADG Group to form a 70-30 joint venture called RusCo out of Hong Kong with a regis…

delphi LUX cinema in Berlin. (photo: York Cinema Group.)

Europe Cinema Property Update – October 2017

Germany: Yorck open delphi Lux in Berlin, Cine K Korback work starts, Cineplex Meitingen delayed; France: Pathe Massey is France’s first Dolby Cinema, Cinevillage go-ahead; Poland: Oh Kino and Cinema City open in Wroclaw; Romania: first all-VIP cinema and first government since since 1990; Hol…

Alejandro Ramirez Magaña, CEO of Cinepolis and GCF

CJ Interview: Alejandro Ramírez Talks Global Cinema Federation – EXCLUSIVE

The launch of the Global Cinema Federation (GCF) at this year’s CineEurope and Shanghai Film Festival caused ripples across the worldwide exhibition and distribution communities. There were, naturally, lots of questions and rumours swirled about what the nature of the GCF was and what its agen…

Owners Brina Stinehelfer and Nikolaus Schneider at Kino Delphi. (photo: Sabine Gudath / BZ)

CJ Cinema News Digest – Friday 20 October 2017

Dear Junkies, How much does the Samsung Cinema LED screen cost? Samsung hasn’t told us, but according to Kris Hesson of Cinema Lasers LLC it is a cool USD $700,000. Yowza! At around twice the cost of a RGB laser projector, that probably doesn’t include the re-configured ‘halo…