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Michael P. O’Leary - President and CEO, National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO)

A Few Thoughts About NATO’s New Leadership

This past week the cinema industry witnessed something it hasn’t seen in almost a quarter of a century; the National Association of Theatre Owners named a new president and chief executive officer. When it was announced in October 2022 that the trade organization’s current President and…

2023 Sundance Film Festival Acquisitions

The Deal With Sundance 2023 Acquisitions

Each year the annual film sales and acquisitions cycle is kicked off in January by the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, followed swiftly by the Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale) and its accompanying European Film Market in February. Sundance itself has long been used as a barometer for the…

Cinema Remains Impacted By Russia’s War on Ukraine One Year On

It’s been a year since Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine began. Today the war grinds on as Ukraine continues to bravely defend itself, while Russia shows no sign of abandoning its ambitions of subjugating its democratic neighbour. For those of us more used to seeing the horrors of…

Cineworld Proposes Bankruptcy Schedule

Cineworld Proposes Schedule For Exiting Bankruptcy Through Reorganization or Sale

Cineworld’s legal team gave the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas a status update for its Chapter 11 case on Tuesday, 21 February. In the process, the exhibitor provided Judge Marvin Isgur with a proposed schedule that would see the company either sold or exitin…

European Box Office and Admissions Recover In 2022

For those of us in the cinema industry this past week illustrated that old Aesop’s Fables idiom; “Be careful what you wish for, lest it come true!” Three years ago exhibitors were grappling with whether they needed to close their movie theatres due to a global pandemic. A year late…

Wim Buyens, CEO of Cinionic

Cinionic’s Wim Buyens Sheds Some Light on Laser Projection

Even with onerous pandemic travel restrictions preventing the cinema industry from convening at trade shows for the better part of two years, Wim Buyens, the CEO of Cinionic, always managed to attend what few gatherings actually took place. He was one of the very few European executives to attend Ci…

Sightline at AMC

Dine-In Cinema Summit, AMC Tiered Ticket Prices and a Cineworld Bankruptcy Update

The Celluloid Junkie team has been quite busy over the past week or two. Helen Budge attended the Event Cinema Association’s Slate Day in London at the very end of January. Last week, Patrick von Sychowski headed off to Neurenberg, Germany for the 2023 EDCF conference last week, while at the s…

Sightline at AMC

CJ Analysis: AMC Sets Sights On Higher Movie Ticket Prices

I have a brother-in-law who spent 25 years working at Starbucks. He is forever complaining to me that, though he left the coffee company more than a decade ago, he still receives a flood of phone calls every time Starbucks makes some change that upsets a majority of its customer base. Whether it…

Cineworld Negotiating Bankruptcy Reorganization With Lenders While Also Pursing Sale

Cineworld was back in United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas on 8 February to update Judge Marvin Isgur on the status of their ongoing bankruptcy case. Lawyers for the United Kingdom-based company provided an overview of current operations, a potential reorganization plan,…

80 For Brady

Why Moviegoers Are Less Likely to Cancel Cinema Visits Than Netflix

With many western economies teetering on the brink of recession due to inflation and high energy costs, the worry is that belt tightening is going to impact cinema attendance in 2023. People looking to save money can forgo a trip to the restaurant or the latest Marvel film, but not milk, bread or he…