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Deluxe To Close Hollywood Film Lab

Well, we all knew it was coming. With the motion picture industry’s transition away from 35mm film to digital production and distribution it was only a matter of time before the need for film laboratories would disappear entirely. The industry took a step closer toward that end when on Tuesday…

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MoviePass Adjusts Pricing For Beta Subscribers

Just last week we wrote about how the unlimited moviegoing subscription service MoviePass benefited from being agile and developing their business in an iterative fashion. This week the company is proving just how willing they are to roll out changes to their service in an effort to build a lasting…

Son of God and Veronica Mars

Multiplexes Set to Feast on Television Leftovers

Two movies hitting North American cinemas over the next three weeks are primed to do blockbuster business. Unlike most blockbusters however, they aren’t being released with the support of multi-million dollar marketing campaigns. Both are derived from properties that originated from a source cinema…

Anchorman 2 Super-Sized

Paramount Shows Some Alternative Thinking With Super-Sized “Anchorman 2” Release

By now you’ve probably heard that Paramount Pictures is rereleasing “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues” on 1,000 North American screens this weekend. More accurately, the studio is putting an alternate cut of the film into theatres – one with the weighty title of “Ancho…

CinemaCon 2014 Mobile App

CinemaCon Refreshes Its Mobile App

This year’s CinemaCon is just around the corner (March 24 – 27) and organizers of the world’s largest convention for movie theatre owners are once again providing show attendees with an informative smartphone mobile app. Canadian based Soma Media developed the app for the National…

Dolby Acquisition of Doremi Makes Perfect Sense – Here’s Why

The motion picture industry jump started their week with the surprising news that Dolby Laboratories, Inc. had reached an agreement to acquire Doremi Labs, a leading manufacturer of professional audio visual equipment, for USD $92.5 million in cash. The deal also includes a four-year earn out of USD…

Arclight Presents... Roadtrip Movies

Los Angeles Magazine and ArcLight Cinemas Hit The Road With March Screening Series

It has always been our goal here at Celluloid Junkie to bring our readers any of the interesting or noteworthy ideas we run across in the worldwide motion picture distribution and exhibition industries. The hope is that spreading the word about such items will help spur your own innovative efforts.…

Michigan’s Rialto Theater Calls Attention to the Endangered Future of Small Town Cinemas

[advanced_iframe securitykey=”da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709″ src=”https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/205072480/restore-the-rialto-theater/widget/video.html” width=”590″ height=”443″ marginheight=”500″] On Wednesday the Los Ange…

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If At First They Don’t Succeed, MoviePass Tries, Tries Again

Say what you want about MoviePass, the unlimited moviegoing subscription service, but one can not fault the startup for yielding to overwhelming market obstacles or folding at the first sign of serious industry pushback. Instead, when encountering hurdles to their business, the company, which operat…

Monkey King and Dad Posters

New Chinese Box Office Records Come As No Surprise

Thanks to a quota on foreign films limiting the number of imported titles to 34, movie studios have often struggled to get their movies released in China. Apparently there is no quota on box office bragadocio and Hollywood has been able to easily export its affinity for trumpeting their latest movie…