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Prince Badr bin Abdullah at 2024 Saudi Film Confex

Appreciating the Companies Powering Cinema Industry Events and Festivals

In last week’s Marquee newsletter I stepped right into a trap that has snagged many a rookie award winner throughout the years. Nominees for entertainment industry awards are often warned against thanking colleagues, associates, companies, etc. by name in acceptance speeches. Not only can ratt…

Prince Badr bin Abdullah at 2024 Saudi Film Confex

Growing Saudi Film Industry Is Star of Second Annual Confex

Saudi Arabia is quite vocal about wanting to become a major player in the global film industry and during the second edition of the edition of the Saudi Film Confex in Riyadh, Minister of Culture Prince Badr bin Abdullah unveiled ambitious plans to transform the kingdom into a regional and internati…

Summer 2024 Movie Releases

Cinema Industry Events Crowd The Calendar

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Or so the saying goes. While one might debate the principle behind the aphorism, it truly is nice to be missed during an extended absence. That was certainly the case for us here at CJ when, upon missing the last few weeks of the newsletter, a fair number ofRead…

CJ Top Women In Cinema - 2024

Celebrating the 2024 Top Women In Global Cinema

When we first set out to celebrate those women holding leadership positions in the exhibition industry back in 2016, we found so few that the original headline of the piece was “Why So Few Women CEOs in Cinema?” We wisely chose to change the headline to “Celluloid Junkie’s Top 25 W…

The Edinburgh Filmhouse

Edinburgh Filmhouse Secures 25-Year Lease, Announces New Patrons

Film aficionados in Edinburgh, Scotland received some good news this week. The Edinburgh Filmhouse, which abruptly closed on 6 October 2022 when its parent company Centre for the Movie Image (CMI) went into administration, has taken a significant step towards its revival with the signing of a 25-yea…

2024 Film Releases - First Half

Mixed Results for Global Box Office During First Half of 2024

With the first six months of 2024 in the books, it a natural time to take a quick look at the theatrical box office statistics of various geographic territories during the first half of the year. As expected, box office was down against 2023 in most countries during the January through June time fra…

CineEurope 2024 Helps Relieve Industry Anxiety

More than a week after the cinema industry returned home from CineEurope, hopefully everyone has recovered from this year’s event in Barcelona and has had a chance to catch up on overdue work and overflowing email inboxes. One of those emails should be telling you about the upcoming CJ Cinema…

Sony Pictures Acquires Alamo Drafthouse

Industry Set for CineEurope as Sony Becomes A Cinema Operator (Again)

On the eve of CineEurope 2024 I was hoping to use this week’s Marquee to provide a brief overview of what we have to look forward to in Barcelona, Spain during next week’s conference. Alas, I wouldn’t be the first editor in history to have their best laid editorial plans thwarted b…

George Rouman - 2022 Geneva Convention - Save Our Screens Award

George Rouman, Cinema Operator and Industry Champion, Dies at 51

George Rouman, President of the family-owned century-old movie theatre circuit Rouman Amusement Company, died on 9 June 2024 in a car accident in Skanawan, Wisconsin. He was 51-years-old. Rouman, whose cinema chain owns and operates ten screens in two locations in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, was a well…

2024 Cannes Film Festival Award Winners

Highlights From the 2024 Cannes Film Festival

While the Cannes Film Festival has always been the biggest film festival in the world, over the past decade it seems to have grown in stature and importance. Every year it seems at least four of the most acclaimed films end up premiering in Cannes. Nine films from the 2023 festival were nominated fo…