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How We Will View Hollywood Today In Twenty Years?

Hollywood today is mirroring Hollywood in the 1960s, so if you want to know how we will view Hollywood today just look at how we view Hollywood back then. By the 1960s, movie theater attendances had dropped super-low because people preferred TV, which they didn’t have to pay for. The studios combatt…

Celluloid Junkie 10 Year Anniversary

Ten Years of Celluloid Junkie

It was ten years ago today that we published the first post on the newly launched CelluloidJunkie.com. Almost 1,500 posts later, with countless interviews, profiles, trade shows, not to mention a lot of popcorn and Coke under our belts, we are happy to report that cinema is far from dead and that we…

Norway Launches Cinema Scheme for Quality Films – SF Boycotts

Norway's largest cinema chain Nordisk has launched a cinema discount scheme for quality film, but rival SF Norge is boycotting it in favour of its own promotion.

Berezin Betting on Box office

Cinema’s Bright Future: A 50-100 Year Perspective on Box Office Trends

“Betting on Box Office: Major Cycles and Market Conjuncture in Film Exhibition” by Oleg Berezin (2014) English translation: Mikhail Prokofiev Edit of English translation: Nick Holdsworth and Elisa Koshkina Amazon Kindle edition, 238 pages At a time when Hollywood box office trends are tr…