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Justine Triet won the Palme d'Or at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival for "Anatomy of a Fall"

The Cannes Film Festival Gets in Touch With Its Feminine Side

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…

Justine Triet won the Palme d'Or at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival for "Anatomy of a Fall"

Cannes Announces Awards for 76th Annual Festival

The 2023 Festival de Cannes came to a conclusion on Saturday, 27 May, when the jury for this year’s main competition selections announced the winners for several categories, awarding the Palme d’Or, the event’s top prize, to “Anatomy of a Fall” from director Justine Tri…

European Audiovisual Observatory - 2023 EU and UK Box Office

Can A Summer Blockbuster Season Have Too Many New Releases?

Programming Note: Last week’s CJ Marquee is coming to you a little late as members of the Celluloid Junkie team make their way to this year’s Cannes Film Festival, starting 16 May. As well, don’t forget we’ll be talking to studios and distributors from around the world on thi…

AMC & Cinemark Report First Quarter 2023 Earnings

Movie Theatres Were Disrupted… And They Survived

One of the most well received presentations at this year’s CinemaCon in Las Vegas was not a studio slate (sorry, I mean “portfolio”) but a university professor talking – without video or even PowerPoint slides – about market economy dynamics and introducing himself by s…

AMC & Cinemark Report First Quarter 2023 Earnings

AMC and Cinemark Reflect Industry-Wide Post-Pandemic Financial Recovery With Strong First Quarter Earnings

Just one week after CinemaCon 2023 gave the exhibition business a much needed jolt of optimism, the good news keeps on rolling in for the industry thanks to a number of corporate earnings reports. As cinema operators returned from the annual conference in Las Vegas, premium large format (PLF) leader…

Adam Aron - CEO, AMC Theatres

The CJ & Boxoffice Interview: AMC Theatres CEO Adam Aron

Few of the C-suite executives running movie theaters these days have been as omnipresent as Adam Aron, the CEO of AMC Theatres. While navigating the world’s largest cinema chain through the Covid pandemic, Aron’s public profile only managed to grow, even at a time when most of his company’s theater…

CinemaCon Energizes a Revived and Upbeat Industry

If, like me, you stuck around Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Friday of last week it would have been hard to tell that the world’s largest convention of movie theatre owners had taken place over the previous four days. Gone were the trade show booths, movie posters, elevator decals and any rema…

Ted Sarandos, Co-CEO of Netfllix

Raising the Curtain on CinemaCon 2023

On the eve of this year’s CinemaCon, and at the risk of not heading the wisdom of the Prussian political leader Otto von Bismarck, I thought it might be helpful to invite you into our own little sausage making factory to give you a peek at what it’s like around here in the run upRead Mor…

Caesars Colosseum Hosts CinemaCon

Converting the Colosseum at Caesars Palace for CinemaCon

In 2010, when the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) decided to rebrand and move its annual convention (then called ShoWest) from its previous home at Paris and Ballys Hotel in Las Vegas across the street to Caesars Palace they had to come up with solutions for a number of tricky logistic…

Wanda Seeks Sale of Hoyts

Cinema Industry Recovery Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint

Although they are not (yet) celebrating, cinema operators can be heard exhaling a collective sigh of relief at the moment. “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” outperformed everyone’s expectations, the success of “Air” has demonstrated that there is not just an appetite…