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Coronavirus Blurs Movie Release Windows

Coronavirus Is Blurring Theatrical Release Windows, Not Breaking Them

In his 1982 collection of speeches and essays about the struggle for justice taking place in South Africa, Bishop Desmond Tutu wrote: A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry. It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well or to choose badly. When the film industry looks back onRe…

Christopher Nolan Requests You View His Latest Movie Trailer In Cinemas

As these words were being written, the trailer for filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s next movie, “Tenet,” has been available to the public for less then an hour. Like most movie trailers in these days, the trailer for “Tenet” was distributed first online to various platforms such as YouTube, where it ha…

Star Cinema Grill in Richmond, Texas

Cinema of the Month: Star Cinema Grill – Houston, Texas

Celluloid Junkie is proud to have partnered with Vista Cinema for the Cinema of the Month series. Vista is the world’s leading cinema management software solutions company. We won’t just be featuring cinemas whose operators use Vista, but we will surely mention when that is the case. CJ would like t…

The Problem With Playing Netflix Movies in Cinemas

The Problem With Playing Netflix Movies in Cinemas

In its never-ending quest to win an Oscar for Best Picture, it seems that Netflix will be releasing at least one of their original movies into cinemas each year in some form or fashion. Questions remain, however, exactly what forms and fashions Netflix has in mind when releasing their films theatric…

Introducing Regal Unlimited

Regal Makes Plans For An Unlimited Future

Earlier this week Regal Cinemas “officially” launched their all-you-can watch moviegoing subscription and we now have actual details to review (as we will below). The reason for the quotation marks around the word – officially – is because it was one of the worst kept secrets in the exhi…

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…