Having slightly dreaded revisiting our cinema predictions from a year ago, we were pleasantly surprised to discover just how much we managed to get right. And this wasn’t just right in the way that even a clock that’s stopped shows…
The nominations are open for Celluloid Junkie’s annual Top Women in Global Cinema, now in its fifth year of recognizing the important work done by women who work in the business of showing films in cinemas. It is particularly significant…
The announcement that Regal Cinemas is switching from Coke to Pepsi has not gone down well with most people on social media. The announcement came after a flirty Twitter campaign between the official @RegalMovies and @Pepsi accounts, proclaiming their mutual…
Before 2019 vanishes in the rearview mirror, let’s take a last look at who was king and queen of the multiplex over the past 12 months, as well as who ended up in the bin with the popcorn sweepings. Remember,…
Yes, there were movie houses as magical as the one greeted by Jimmy Stewart in It’s A Wonderful Life. I worked in one of them, writes Karen Krizanovich in this exclusive CJ Christmas cinema column. Single-screen cinemas were all we…
Another year has passed and we look back on a rich 12 months for cinema, from the box office record of “Avengers: Endgame” to the artistic (and box office!) triumph of “Parasite.” It was a year that saw Ghost No….
Having spent more than two decades of her career in the hospitality and events industry, Debbie Stanford-Kristiansen was presented with a new challenge when she was asked to head up Gulf cinema company Novo. Despite feeling as though it may…
Celluloid Junkie is proud to have partnered with Vista Cinema for the Cinema of the Month series. Vista is the world’s leading cinema management software solutions company. We won’t just be featuring cinemas whose operators use Vista, but we will surely…
The second video in our “Women in Cinema” series, in partnership with the Cinema Technology Community (CTC), features the delectable Mariam el Bacha, CEO of Pakistan’s largest cinema company, Cinepax. I sat down with her to discuss her international career,…
In the Austin Powers films, arch-nemesis Dr Evil’s plan for his “laser” had somewhat less-than-sustainable motives, including blasting through the Ozone layer and attaching them to the heads of sharks (the curious part of me would still like to see…
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