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Curzon Cinemas

Curzon Cinemas Improves Email Marketing with Movio’s Dynamic Content

During the first week of June we received a lead on a story that, though initially skeptical, we couldn’t ignore. Apparently Movio had helped one of their clients improve their marketing emails, growing their click rate by 18% and, maybe more importantly, seeing an uplift in revenue of 28%. If true,…

Peter Fornstam

CineEurope 2019: For Peter Fornstam of Svenska Bio, Cinema Runs In The Family

As delegates make there way to Barcelona, Spain for CineEurope 2019, one of the highlights at this year’s conference will undoubtedly be when Peter Fornstam of Svenska Bio will pick up the UNIC Achievement Award. Fornstam is not only the Director of Svenska Bio, but also the Chairman of the Swedish…

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

“John Wick: Chapter 3” Tops 20th Annual Golden Trailer Awards

The boisterous response “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum” received from the audience after winning the Best Action Trailer award early on during the 20th Annual Golden Awards on Wednesday evening should have been enough to predict that the movie would eventually go on to win four other categ…

2019 Cannes Film Festival Opening

Cannes Film Festival Opening Broadens Cinema Footprint to Nearly 600 Screens

When movie stars like Julianne Moore, Gong Li, Adam Driver and Tilda Swinton strutted up the red carpet to attend the opening ceremony of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, those who had journeyed to the French Riviera beach town weren’t the only ones to get a glimpse. Sure, there were throng…

Landmark Theatres

Why Cohen Media Group Is The Right Buyer For Landmark Theatres

In the end it wasn’t Netflix. Nor was it Amazon Studios. Instead, it is the independent film distributor and production company Cohen Media Group that will be acquiring Landmark Theatres from Wagner/Cuban Companies. Put another way, two billionaires, Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban, are selling the artho…

How Bernadette McCabe Became A Part of the MoviePass Family

In the ebb and flow of buzz-worthy or even controversial subjects that become a part of our industry’s news cycle there have been few in recent years that have attracted more heated debate than release windows and subscription moviegoing. It’s often easy to forget while we’re prognosticating at trad…

Will Palmer, CEO of Movio

CJ Interview: Movio’s Will Palmer Hopes Weekend Insights Will Help Connect Everyone With Their Ideal Movie

Now that we’re midway through the second week of October, summer movies are being pushed out of cinemas by a bounty of autumn releases filled with awards potential (see “A Star Is Born”). There is one sleeper hit from this past summer, however, that seems destined to stick around for a while; Movio’…

Cinemex Implements Qube Wire

New Case Study Details Cinemex Implementation of Qube Wire To Streamline Digital Cinema Operations

One of the benefits we have here at Celluloid Junkie is that smart people and innovative companies knock on our doors all the time with products and services for some of the industry’s most confounding problems. Writing about such issues and their solutions has proven to be a great way to gain an in…

CJ Interview: Ellis Jacob and Rolando Rodriguez Discuss Their Work on the NATO Board

When the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) announced in June that Ellis Jacob and Rolando B. Rodriguez had, respectively, been elected to their board as Chairman and Vice Chairman, it seemed like a fairly ordinary organizational procedure. NATO needed to fill the role because it’s…

AMC Stubs A-List

All About AMC’s New Subscription Program and What it Means for the Cinema Industry

In a move most of the cinema industry had been predicting for at least a year, AMC Theatres, the world’s largest movie theatre operator, announced a new moviegoing subscription program today named AMC Stubs A-List. It comes as no shock that the program was immediately compared to a competing subscri…