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Cannes Film Festival - 2025 Opening Ceremony - Group Photo

Cannes 2025 Opens with Political and Artistic Defiance

One day before the the 78th Cannes Film Festival commenced on 13 May 2025, its artistic director, Thierry Frémaux, insisted that the event only becomes “political when the artists are political.” Less than 24-hours later his statement was confirmed during an opening ceremony that transce…

Thierry Fre?maux - Cannes Film Festival 2025

Thierry Frémaux Is Keeping Cannes Focused on the Big Screen

Thierry Frémaux never strolls into a room. Rather, the Director of the Cannes Film Festival, seems to bound into the room, usually a packed auditorium at the Palais des Festivals, as if running behind schedule, delayed by whatever previously scheduled rendezvous he has just departed. Such was the ca…

Trump Foreign Movie Tariffs

President Trump’s 100% Tariff on Foreign Films Will Harm The Very Industry It Was Meant To Help

As a motion picture trade publication, most of the stories published by Celluloid Junkie that delve into politics focus on programs to assist the industry at large. We have, for the most part, been able to avoid covering any kind of politically polarizing subjects. However, there are times when wadi…

Bart Layton, Chris Hemsworth, Timur Bekmambetov, Chris Pratt, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Jon Bernthal, Daniella Pineda, Gavin O'Connor, Ben Affleck, Vivica A. Fox, Kara Young, Chris Miller, Ayo Edebiri, Mallori Johnson, Ryan Gosling and Luca Guadagnino pose on stage during CinemaCon 2025 – Amazon MGM Studios Invites you to an Exclusive Presentation of its Upcoming Slate at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace during CinemaCon, the official convention of Cinema United, on April 2, 2025, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

CinemaCon 2025: Amazon MGM Studios Remains A Question Mark

A week or so prior to CinemaCon the presence of Amazon MGM Studios on the schedule was being hailed as the first time the studio was appearing at the conference to present its slate on the big Colosseum stage. Technically speaking that’s a bit of a stretch since, (1) Amazon MGM Studios is only…

What We Learned at CinemaCon 2025

What We Learned at CinemaCon 2025

With CinemaCon 2025 in the rearview mirror, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on some of the major takeaways from this year’s conference. Amid all the sprinting to trade show meetings and escalator surfing inside Caesars Palace, did we actually learn anything about the current state of the…

Jane Hastings - CEO of EVT

EVT’s Jane Hastings Is Always Curious, Always Evolving and Always Listening

After spending even a short time with Jane Hastings, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Australia-based EVT, one might walk away describing her with adjectives that could easily be viewed as sycophantic. Intelligent, attentive, inspiring, brave, optimistic, ambitious, impressive and th…

Palisades Fire

Dispatch From Los Angeles

This was hardly what we planned for our first Marquee newsletter of the year. As we closed out 2024 with a global theatrical box that wasn’t nearly as bad as originally forecast, with full-year results estimated to be USD $30.5 billion, and industry analysts predicting an 8% uptick in 2025, we…

Tim Richards of Vue

Tim Richards On Venturing Into Film Distribution with Vue Lumière

As 2024 wound down, Tim Richards, CEO of Vue, used the final few weeks to formalize an initiative he’d been openly discussing all year; Europe’s largest privately held cinema operator is launching a film distribution company titled Vue Lumière. The new entity will be wholly owned and fun…

Spike Lee with Lotfi Achour at the Yusr Award Ceremony during the 2024 Red Sea International Film Festival

Lotfi Achour’s “Red Path” Wins Golden Yusr at 2024 Red Sea Film Festival

The 2024 Red Sea International Film Festival wrapped on Thursday, 12 December, in Jeddah’s historic Al-Balad district with an awards ceremony honoring selections from the official competition. Tunisian filmmaker Lotfi Achour won the night’s biggest honor, the Golden Yusr for Best Feature Film, for h…

Red Sea Souk - 2024 Award Winners - Red Sea International Film Festival

New Voices Shine at the 2024 Red Sea Souk with Awards and Cash Prizes

In its fourth year the Red Sea International Film Festival maintained its industry platform, the Red Sea Souk, running alongside the main event. This year’s market concluded with an awards ceremony that handed out over USD $900,000 in prizes to emerging talent from the Arab world, Africa, and…