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EFM Industry Sessions - Surfing the Waves: Audience Building in a New Period of Changes (credit: Davide Abbatescianni)

EFM Panel Surveys Exhibition and Distribution in the Current Post-pandemic Phase

On 19 February, the event hall of the Berlin’s Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation hosted a panel titled “Surfing the Waves: Audience Building in a New Period of Changes,” organized by the European Film Market (EFM) in partnership with Europa Distribution and moderated b…

EDCF Convention 2023 Trials New Format in Nuremberg

The European Digital Cinema forum (EDCF) finally had a chance to hold one of its very popular in-person conventions at the start of February 2023 in Germany. There was much to catch up on, both in terms of the hot-button topics and in-person get togethers. There was also a new president and a board…

ECA Slate Day 2023 was held at London's Empire Walthamstow cinema (photo credit: Grainne Clarke)

A 10th Anniversary, Theatrical Smash Hits, and a K-Pop Takeover

A full house attended the Empire Walthamstow, London, for the Event Cinema Association’s (ECA) annual slate day, now comfortably back in its January calendar position. Organised by ECA director, Grainne Clarke, one of the most notable things was the anticipated return to content pipeline normality i…

Kurt Rieder of Warner Bros. Discovery Delivers CineAsia 2022 Keynote

The following is a transcript of a keynote speech delivered at CineAsia 2022 in Bangkok by Kurt Rieder, Warner Bros. Discovery’s Senior Vice President, Head of Theatrical Distribution – APAC. It is presented here with his permission though, naturally, the full impact, intonation, emphasi…

Mark Christiansen of Paramount Pictures, Ioan Allen of Dolby and Robert Sunshine of Film Expo Group during the 2023 ICTA Los Angeles Seminar Series

ICTA Icon Award Presented to Ioan Allen

The International Cinema Technology Association presented Ioan Allen of Dolby Laboratories with the ICTA Icon Award on 10 January during the organization’s 2023 Los Angeles Seminar Series (LASS). Allen becomes the second honoree to receive the award, which was first bestowed upon the Will Roge…

CineEurope 2022 - Trade Show Floor

CineEurope 2022: Wired for Sound

For those who attended this year, it’s safe to say that CineEurope 2022 was a great success. Attendance numbers were at least double that of the 2021 convention (itself a success in terms of ambience and getting the cinema community back together again) and there was a definite feeling that “cinema…

CineEurope Coca Cola Seminar: Emerging Stronger, Charting the Path for Growth

Bond. Venom. Dune. The audiences are back in their droves, but how have their spending habits changed? With extremely strong retail spends being reported by cinemas, CineEurope’s Coca Cola seminar 2021 examined whether this is a short-term trend or if it is here to stay. The Tuesday morning session…

ShowEast 2021 Canceled

ShowEast 2021 Canceled Amid Pandemic Complications

It is safe to say calling off this year’s ShowEast event was an outcome nobody wanted; not cinema operators, not studios, nor industry vendors and least of all the Film Expo Group, which organizes the conference. However, with changing travel restrictions, tightened budgets and ongoing COVID concern…

Phil Clapp at CineEurope 2021

UNIC Opens CineEurope 2021 With Optimistic Keynote

The first in-person CineEurope since June of 2019 opened in Barcelona, Spain on Monday, 4 October with Phil Clapp, the President of the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC), and Laura Houlgatte, the organization’s CEO, personally welcoming attendees in keynote address that recounted the toll…

How Russia Became Europe’s No. 1 Cinema Market – An Insider’s Perspective

This is a Keynote Address delivered at KinoExpo International in St. Petersburg, Russia on 15 September, 2021 by Paul Heth, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Karo Group, reflecting on the re-emergence of the Russian cinema industry. Celluloid Junkie thanks Mr. Heth for the opportunit…