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18th Annual Golden Trailer Awards

“Wonder Woman” Lassoes Top Prize at 18th Annual Golden Trailer Awards

Fresh off earning USD $223 million during its opening weekend in movie theatres around the globe, “Wonder Woman” walked off with the Best Of Show trophy at the 18th Annual Golden Trailer Awards. The preview for the Warner Bros. superhero release, titled “What She Is,” also won the Best Fantasy/Adven…

Ayame Misaki and Masatoshi Nagase in Naomi Kawase's Radiance

Moviegoing Accessibility Takes A Dramatic Turn at Cannes In Naomi Kawase’s “Radiance”

In bright daylight, a man, in his thirties or early forties, pushes into a crowd. He wears a lanyard around his neck; a badge that reads “Cannes – 70 – Presse” dangles from the end. Others wear them too. The journalist hands his shoulder bag to a security guard and steps through a metal…

Projection Issue Spoils Netflix Cannes Debut

No doubt the Cannes Film Festival wishes to put the discussion surrounding their programming two Netflix titles at this year’s festival behind them. Yet in an ironic moment that underscored the ongoing debate of selecting films that will never be released in cinemas, and depending on how far you wan…

Wonderstruck Director Todd Haynes at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival

“Wonderstruck” Director Todd Haynes Defends Amazon Studios at the Cannes Film Festival

Just one day after filmmaker Pedro Almodovar and actor Will Smith debated whether Netflix should be permitted to have films premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival if they the movies will never been seen in cinemas, director Todd Haynes came to the defense of Amazon’s subscription stream…

Will Smith, Jessica Chastain, Pedro Almodovar at Cannes 2017

Cannes Film Festival Jury Answers The Netflix Question

Hanging over the start of the Cannes Film Festival today was the incessant discussion over the selection of two films produced by Netflix to appear in competition. It was all anyone attending Cannes, and especially those that aren’t, could talk about. So it was inevitable that this year’s Cannes jur…

CinemaCon 2017 Stage

Conversation: The Tech Potential and Promise of CinemaCon 2017

This is an online conversation about what a group of us saw and thought about CinemaCon 2017 and also a visit to leading facilities, studios and cinemas in Los Angeles the week before. Joining the virtual chat are myself, J. Sperling Reich, the Executive Editor of Celluloid Junkie, one of our regula…

CinemaCon 2017

Tech Potential and Promise of CinemaCon 2017 – Part 1.5

CinemaCon is a NATO construct built on the pillars of The Exhibitor’s movie palaces, The Studio’s mix of movies, and The Techniques and Technology that brings them to life. The pillars sit on a wild and nuanced history which reflects forward to a constantly changing future… ……

CinemaCon

Tech Potential and Promise of CinemaCon 2017

HDR (high dynamic range) seemed very vivid and a lot more certain when it was theoretical. What the term HDR implied for cinemas – Higher and lower luminance, giving both more light and more dark slices of the CIE horseshoe (more volume) and Wider Gamut (or color space if you prefer …either wa…

#ECACON2017 ECA Melissa Cogavin

#ECACON2017 Preview – Interview With Melissa Cogavin

CJ interviews ECA's Melissa Cogavin ahead of the #ECACON2017 conference in London on Friday 3 February 2017

Moonlight - 2016 Golden Globes

The Box Office Value of Winning a Golden Globe Award

Does winning a Golden Globe boost the box office of a film? "Moonlight" gets a push onto more screens after winning this year's Best Drama award.