China’s SMI Cinemas Launches Amazon-Style Delivery Service
SMI cinemas, known as Stellar International Cineplex in China, has launched an Amazon Prime-style delivery service with 2,000 vehicles servicing 2km area around each cinema.
CJ Cinema Property Update – Tuesday 10 January 2017
USA: Cinépolis goes VIP in NE, Carmike in Anderson Towne, Morehead Foundry down with hipsters, CinéBistro hiring in Baltimore; India: Cinépolis in Hyderabad; Gulf: Nov's laser Imax in Qater, Reel and City Walk become Roxy in Dubai; France: Paris' Etoile Cinémas is arthouse of tomorrow, quality three…
CJ Cinema News Digest – Monday 9 January 2017
Qatar-Novo 7-star partnership, UK/IE BO up 1.45%, SRS Cinema for sale, Richard's Vue keynote, Tim says not to iPhone "Theater Mode", Saudia Arabia's cinema "enemies", Regal-Imax 11-screen deal, India crackdown on F&B cinema overcharging, drunk cop drops gun in cinemas and triggers evacuation, Hagene…
CJ Cinema News Digest – Friday 5 January 2017
Korea cinema quality certification, Vue price cut, 6 Ways Film Biz is Changing, lessons from Houston cinemas, TV on big screen, France BO but German down, PVR partners comScore, Nueplex raided, Bollywood bother, good theatre projection guide, CGV's Tempur mattress cinema, iPhone Theatre Mode, Imax V…
China’s Box Office ‘Slump’ Is Worse Than You Realise
CJ looks at what caused the box office in China to crash in 2016, what the actual business climate is and the future prospect of the Chinese cinema market.
CJ Cinema Property Update – Wednesday 4 January 2017
USA: Universal CityWalk AMC refurbished, Clark Cinema 10 work underway, UK: Glasgow BHS to become cinema, Omniplex Omagh green-lit, Galeri Caernarfon work to start, Bosnia-Herzegovina: CineStar opens third multiplex, Korea (South): Lotte Cinema Incheon Asiad is 112th, Trinidad: MovieTowne 4th cinema…
CJ Cinema News Digest – Tuesday 3 January 2017
Polish films big in UK, Pathé seating backlash, Mexican cinema up, PVR goes UPI, mandatory Punjabi films, Carnival in Odisha, Pakistani entertainment tax, Korea highlights popcorn sugar, Pepsi fined in India, Kinepolis' Malayam black list, "Rogue One" sleep in and Brit builds 34-seat ABC cinema in b…
Mizrahi and MK2 Acquire Ciné Metro Art Cinemas
The last of Galeshka Moravioff's Ciné Métro Art cinemas have been taken over by MK2 (Paris' La Bastille) and Ymagis' Jean Mizrahi (Marseille's Les Variétés).
1916-2016: 100 Years of Coca-Cola on the Big Screen
It is exactly 100 years since Coca-Cola first appeared in a movie. Celluloid Junkie looks back at the history of cinema's most important corporate partnership.
Merry Christmas and an Exciting 2017 Ahead
Celluloid Junkie wishes its readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We will be back even bigger, better and with more coverage of everything that matters to the cinema industry in 2017.