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Executive Roundtable panel at the 2024 UK Cinema Association Annual conference

Industry Execs Express Cautious Optimism for 2024 at UKCA Conference

One of the more informative sessions at the UK Cinema Association’s annual conference held in London at the BFI Southbank, March 5-6th, was an executive roundtable moderated by Sharon Reid of Cinema First, an industry body that promotes cinema going in the United Kingdom. It left everyone pres…

Top Women In Global Distribution 2023

CJ’s Top Women In Global Distribution – 2023

Upon publishing our first Top Women In Distribution list last year, we were pleased to see how receptive the industry was to the initiative. In fact, it was so popular that we were hardly prepared for the overwhelming number of responses that would flood in upon putting out a call for nominations fo…

2023 Red Sea International Film Festival

Add These 2023 Red Sea International Film Festival Selections To Your Watchlist

If you were forced to pick one reason that the Red Sea International Film Festival has risen so quickly among the list of top global film festivals after only three years it wouldn’t necessarily be due to the Red Sea Film Festival Foundation which organizes the event and awards millions of dol…

Red Sea International Film Festival - 2023 RSIFF Yusr Award Winners

RSIFF 2023 Awards Ceremony Highlights Filmmaking Over Politics

There may have been no better example of the high-wire act organizers of the third annual Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF) were forced to undertake before and during its 9 day run than the closing night awards ceremony. During its nine day run in Jedda, Saudi Arabia RSIFF strove to highli…

Red Sea Souk - 2023 Awards

Red Sea Souk Helps Boost Regional Films With 2023 Project Awards

One of the programs that makes Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF) so unique amidst a long list of similar international events is its Red Sea Souk and its Project Market. Much like the American Film Market, European Film Market or the Marché du Film, the Souk has been s…

Independent Cinema Office ICO - 2023 Survey Chart

Taylor Swift’s Concert Film Exploits the Advantages of Digital Cinema

Given the amount of complaining I’ve done about Taylor Swift recently in this newsletter, many of you may wonder why I would focus my attention on the pop-star for yet another week. But bear with me and you’ll see that I’m using her, or more specifically her concert film, to highli…

Pearl & Dean - XIX Vodka and Sumotherhood Partnership

Look What Taylor Made Me Do

I’m kind of relieved this week is finally coming to an end because as much as I may appreciate a good Taylor Swift song, and as grateful as I am that she is releasing her concert film theatrically to bolster an anemic release schedule, the pervasive promotion this movie has gotten has been ove…

Beyonce - Renaissance World Tour

Beyoncé Joins the Concert Film Renaissance

I couldn’t tell you whether Adam Aron, the CEO of AMC Theatres, personally convinced the musical sensation Beyoncé to release a film version of her Renaissance concert tour directly through the world’s largest cinema chain turned indie distributor. What I can tell you is that no sooner h…

Flix Brewhouse in Mansfield, Texas

What the Writers’ Strike Really Cost Studios

When I first graduated from college and was trying to earn enough money to move to Los Angeles I wound up putting my business school degree to use and worked for Philip Morris International in their New York City headquarters. Probably best known as a cigarette manufacturer, they actually owned a lo…

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…