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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Even with Hollywood tentpole movies pushing the box office up 28% this year, somehow the subject of theatrical release windows has once again managed to find its way into both mainstream and industry news, though not in the way you might think. Earlier this week Matt Belloni of Puck reported that To…

The Cannes Film Festival wrapped up its 76th edition earlier this week in the south of France by awarding its top prize, the Palme d’Or, to Justine Triet for her film “Anatomy of a Fall.” The psychological thriller stars the German actress Sandra Hüller who plays a best selling aut…