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Rajesh Ramachandran of Qube Cinema Discusses Qube Wire

CJ Interview: Qube Cinema’s Rajesh Ramachandran On The Past, Present and Future of Qube Wire

One of the products and services that made a big splash at CineEurope in 2017 was Qube Wire, which was just being launched commercially by its developer, Qube Cinema. Some of the buzz around Qube Wire surely had to do with curiosity; both over what the new offering was all about, and why a companyRe…

Golden Trailer Awards 2018

“Black Panther” Continues Its Winning Ways at an Ever Growing Golden Trailer Awards

Ironically, at a moment when the motion picture industry is suffering from an existential dilemma over the definition of a movie and the relevance of theatrical distribution, the trailers that help promote and market upcoming releases to the public have rarely been more important. The launch of any…

Christopher Nolan presents "2001: A Space Odyssey" at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival

Christopher Nolan Revisits “2001” at Cannes

It’s hard to believe that over the past two decades filmmaker Christopher Nolan has made 11 feature films yet has never once been to the Cannes Film Festival with a movie. That changes this year, as Nolan has made his first trip to the Croisette with some film reels under his arm – literally.…

2018 Cannes Film Festival Jury

Though Absent, Netflix Is Still A Big Presence In Cannes

As much as the question over whether films made by Netflix are “legitimate” movies if they aren’t released in cinemas was front and center at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, this year it seems the topic is being raised less overtly. Maybe that’s because after facing criticism for selecting two Net…

Bad Samaritan, Overboard, Tully

“Avengers: Infinity War” Has Marvel-ous Debut Blasting Past Numerous Records. This Weekend At The Box Office.

Some of you may have noticed our usual box office post wasn’t published last week as we made our way to CinemaCon in Las Vegas. For those of you who came up to us in the hallways at Caesars Palace to ask about the absence of the weekly column, we thank you for caring enoughRead More

CJ Interview: Movio’s Sarah Lewthwaite Has a Strategy for Crunching Cinematic Data

In May of last year Economist magazine proclaimed that oil was no longer the world’s most valuable resource. The black gold so instrumental to the advances of the 20th Century had given way to data, a digital commodity they predicted would help fuel future economic growth. If the recent kerfuffle ov…

Kinomax Segmented Auditorium

CJ + Smart Pricer: 5 Ways to Optimize Your Cinema Ticket Pricing

After numerous cinema industry consulting projects, Smart Pricer has created extensive benchmark analysis on worldwide cinema ticket pricing. Celluloid Junkie has partnered with Smart Pricer to share and highlight some of the insights they have gained. We will begin with a high level overview in th…

A Quiet Place, Blockers, Chappaquiddick

“Ready Player One” Scores $53.2 Million Domestic Opening While “Pacific Rim” Sinks. This Weekend at the Box Office.

Our first week without Jim Amos to handle our weekly box office column and yours truly drew the short straw in trying to fill his big shoes. We not only hope to live up to the high bar Mr. Amos managed to set, but iterate the column additional resources of value to our readers. Don’tRead More

IMCINE Anuario Estadistico de Cine Mexicano 2017

New Report Details the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Mexican Film Industry

Fresh on the heels of another Mexican filmmaker winning the Oscar for Best Director, the fourth time in the last five years, the Instituto Mexicano de la Cinematografía (Mexican Film Institute), also known as IMCINE, recently published the Mexican Film Statistical Yearbook for 2017. It conveyed year…

MoviePass Clarifies How It Tracks User-Location

MoviePass Clarifies How It Does, and Does Not, Track User Location

During a keynote Q&A at Winston | Baker’s Entertainment Finance Forum in Los Angeles on March 2nd, MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe said that the subscription movie ticket service would have “over 5 million paid subscribers by the end of the year and buying roughly 20% of all movie tickets.” Yet t…