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Finding Dory

“Finding Dory” Finds Box Office Records

These days every box office record seems to be reported with a string of qualifiers. Biggest midnight screening of an R-rated comedy starring a woman, largest opening of an American action movie in China during February, highest recorded per-screen-average of a drama opening on fewer than 1,000 scre…

Movie Release Window Timeline

Stop Arguing Over Theatrical Windows and Start Worrying About Piracy Windows

As you may be able to infer from the semi-sarcastic headline of this post, we were all set to have some fun commenting on a recent academic study with the protracted title, “Windows of Opportunity: The Impact of Piracy and Delayed International Availability on DVD Sales“. As many such pa…

Cinema Olympia in Cannes, France

Cinema of the Month: Cinéma Olympia – Cannes, France

Cinéma Olympia in Cannes is where film buyers from all over the world congregate each year to do deals. CJ looks at the anonymous but hugely important cinema.

Jarmusch Gets Poetic About Moviegoing With “Paterson”

There is a scene in “Paterson“, the latest narrative feature from filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, in which the main character and his eccentric wife head to the movies to see, naturally, a black and white adventure horror film from 1932 titled “Island of Lost Souls”. While entering t…

Woody Allen and Vittorio Storaro at 2016 Cannes Film Festival

Woody Allen Goes Digital With Vittorio Storaro In Cannes

CANNES, FRANCE – Acclaimed filmmaker Woody Allen gives off the impression that he is not one to accept change very quickly, or even willingly. Almost all of Allen’s films open with short, simple credits featuring white text on a black background. The typeface is always the same; Windsor. Up un…

17th Annual Golden Trailer Awards

“Spotlight” Shines At 17th Annual Golden Trailer Awards

Open Road’s independent biographical drama “Spotlight” has a few more prizes to place on its mantle next to the Best Picture Oscar it took home earlier this year. The Tom McCarthy film picked up two trophies at the Golden Trailer Awards on Wednesday evening, including the top prize…

CinemaCon 2016 Opening Night

Wrapping Up Our Thoughts On CinemaCon 2016

CJ editors, contributors and industry professionals share their thoughts and takes on this years CinemaCon and NAB, including Screening Room, 120fps and swag.

The Exhibition and Distribution Collaboration Panel at CinemaCon 2016

CJ @ CinemaCon: Exhibition and Distribution – Collaborating and Partnering for the Greater Cause

At this year’s CinemaCon, if the keynote addresses given on International Day were noteworthy for reporting on the health and well being of the industry as a whole, then the panel discussion on collaboration between exhibition and distribution may have been the most informative session in term…

Tom Molter of Warner Bros at Cinemacon 2016

CJ @ CinemaCon: International Keynotes Highlight Growing Global Industry

Each year before CinemaCon officially gets underway, the show’s organizers hold a day of seminars and panels focused on the international marketplace. Appropriately dubbed International Day, in the five years since the annual convention first started being held, the international keynote addre…

David Passman, President and CEO of Carmike Cinemas

CJ @ CinemaCon: Interview with Carmike Cinemas CEO David Passman

When CinemaCon officially opens on Tuesday April 12th with the “State of the Industry” presentation, the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) will bestow the 2016 NATO Marquee Award upon David Passman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Carmike Cinemas, the fourth largest cinema chain…