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Taylor Swift | The Era's Tour in Movie Theatres

Taylor Swift is Filling A Blank Space for Movie Theatres

The CJ Cinema Summit is returning from summer hiatus on 7 September 2003 at 6:00 pm (CET) / 9:00 am (PDT). Andrew Cripps, President International Distribution, Jeff Goldstein, President Domestic Distribution at Warner Bros and Dimitrios Mitsinikos, Co-Founder & CEO at Gower Street Analytics will…

The Cinema Foundation's Jackie Brenneman Discusses 2023 National Cinema Day

Cinema Foundation’s Jackie Brenneman Discusses 2023 National Cinema Day

Even after the first ever National Cinema Day attracted over 8.1 million moviegoers throughout North America on 3 September of last year, it was not a foregone conclusion that the initiative would become an annual event. However, the lingering question about the future of National Cinema Day was ans…

No More Bets

Social Media Influencers Take Over the Movie Business

As I write this in Los Angeles, Tropical Storm Hilary (née Hurricane Hilary) is dumping more rain on Southern California in a single day than we usually see all year. Los Angeles hasn’t seen a tropical storm since 1939, 84-years ago, so everyone has lost their collective minds. I’ll try…

Barbie in the Middle East

Cinema Operators Report Impressive Second Quarter Profits

I’ll try to keep the discussion this week to some positive industry indicators that will take (according to Google) around four minutes to read. That’s the least I can do after two weeks of lengthy dissertations on the current Writers Guild of American and SAG-AFTRA strikes against the A…

Global Box Office - July 2023 - Gower Street Chart

Movie Theatres Celebrate a July for the Record Books

Whenever one of our CJ Marquee editorials causes a stir with our readers it’s usually pretty easy to tell based on how many email responses arrive in the days that follow. What’s unprecedented however is to have a reader address a writer in real life to provide their thoughts on the late…

Barbenheimer On Strike

Barbenheimer Heats Up Hollywood’s Hot Strike Summer

We’re going to deviate a little bit from our usual format this week wherein we follow our editorial with several timely industry news items. Not because there aren’t plenty of relevant updates for our usual digest posts, but rather because most of the inquiries and correspondence we…

Sightline at AMC Theatres

Barbenheimer Confirms Why Movie Theatres Are Relevant

I wanted to dedicate this weekly editorial space to something other than today’s highly anticipated global release of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer.” My intention was to write about another fierce duo riling up the entertainment business, the Writers Guild of America and SA…

Sound of Freedom

The Movie Industry’s Long Hot Summer

It is supposed to be summer, at least here in the northern hemisphere. It’s a time that historically is meant to be filled with relaxing, laid back sunny days, family vacations, blockbuster movies that earn beaucoup box office and most importantly, at least for those of us here at Celluloid Ju…

CineEurope 2023 Accentuates the Positives

Our 85th CJ Cinema Summit will be held July 6th and we’ll be joined by Nick Gault, European Away From Home Director at the Coca-Cola Company. He’ll tell us all about the company’s sustainability efforts in the cinema space and during CineEurope. If you can’t attend or missed…

CineEurope Will Host an Industry That Finally Feels Normal Again

Next week the cinema industry heads to Barcelona, Spain for CineEurope, coming in the middle of the busiest film release summer in the last four years. Much like CinemaCon eight weeks earlier, the normalcy of it is so, well, normal, that it hardly feels worth remarking upon. Concerns such as the wri…