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Carmike Cinemas For Sale

Why Is Carmike Cinemas Suddenly For Sale?

Cinema operators seem to be putting themselves up for sale at such a rapid pace these days that anyone following the cinema exhibition space might believe the industry is in dire straits. It’s been nearly three years since Wanda purchased AMC Cinemas. Regal Entertainment put themselves on the…

Cinemark Playa Vista at The Runway

Cinemark Expands Premium Concept With Upscale Theatre In Silicon Beach

Cinemark, the third largest cinema chain in the United States, can add nine more screens this evening to the more than 5,700 it operates throughout the country. This weekend marks the grand opening of the Cinemark Playa Vista and XD, the ninth and latest of the circuit’s NextGen multiplex venu…

Beasts of No Nation

Though Major Exhibitors Still Boycott Simultaneous VOD Releases From Netflix, the Oscars Willingly Accept Them

On Monday of last week, Deadline broke the news that Netflix was making another move into feature films by acquiring “Beasts Of No Nation” for a reported USD $12 million. This was followed the trade publication Variety which published three stories on the same subject in quick succession…

Dragon Blade

Exageratting China’s February Box Office Victory Over the U.S.

There is an idiom in the English language that states, “Don’t take any wooden nickels”. The phrase sprang up in the United States during the early 20th-century when, during the Great Depression, banks would hand out wooden nickels which could be traded in for prizes. This was pract…

Ana Cláudia Medina of DECO

Breaking News: Police Find More Stolen Digital Cinema Equipment Belonging To Quanta DGT

It may be proving easier to steal 121 auditoriums worth of digital cinema equipment than it is to actually hide or fence the stolen devices. Early Monday morning Brazilian law enforcement discovered a warehouse in Campo Grande, Brazil filled with some of the digital cinema equipment stolen from Qua…

Met Live In HD Otello 2015-16

Metropolitan Opera Announces “Live in HD” Series For 2015-16 Season

The annual announcement of The Metropolitan Opera’s upcoming season is always certain to spur a bit of highbrow cultural reportage among media outlets that go for that sort of thing. Such was the case today when The Met revealed the list of productions being planned for their 2015-16 season. W…

A truck seized in Belo Horizonte, Brazil was filled with digital cinema equipment stolen from Quanta DGT

Breaking News: Quanta DGT Recovers Part of Their Stolen Digital Cinema Equipment

The thieves who made off with more than 120 screens worth of digital cinema equipment from Quanta DGT could run, but they couldn’t hide. Actually scratch that. Apparently they could run, but they couldn’t hide all of the digital cinema devices they stole from the Latin American integrato…

Kodak Finalizes Deal With Studios To Save Film

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyBw–M4OMY[/youtube] In news that is sure to make the likes of Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino rather happy, Kodak announced earlier today that they have finalized a deal to continue supplying fil…

Quanta DGT

Quanta DGT Suffers Major Digital Cinema Equipment Heist

More than 120 screens worth of digital cinema equipment was stolen from at least one, possibly two, warehouses in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil over the weekend, delivering a setback to the country’s ongoing digital conversion. The incident highlights the precautions taken by the motion picture indus…

Cell Phones In Cinemas

Suggestions For Preventing Mobile Phone Distractions At Film Festivals

If reader reaction to Celluloid Junkie posts is any indication of broad public sentiment, then a majority of moviegoers are infuriated by fellow audience members using their mobile phones in the middle of screenings. Raising the topic in conversation or in posts like the ones we’ve published o…