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CJ Tech: Phosphor vs RGB Laser Projection

CJ Tech: RGB Laser vs Phosphor Laser – Understanding the Difference

Back when xenon lamps ruled the booth, life had a certain rhythm to it. You’d climb the ladder, unscrew the lamp housing, feel the residual heat radiating through your gloves, and carefully extract a bulb that had given its last flicker somewhere during the third act. The replacement cost stung, the…

Inside one of the premium auditoriums at Georgia Theatre Company's Trilith Cinemas in Fayetville, Georgia is Samsung’s direct-view LED cinema technology — a flagship 14-meter (approximately 46-foot) Onyx screen

Can Cinema LED Scale? Samsung Bets Trilith Cinemas Can Help Prove It

There is something almost too tidy about the geography of Samsung’s latest cinema showcase. Directly across the street from Trilith Studios in Fayetteville, Georgia — one of the largest production facilities in the United States outside Hollywood — sits Trilith Cinemas, a new nine-screen luxury comp…

Qube Cinema Products - Arts Alliance Media Acquisition

A Quiet Player Makes a Big Move: Qube Cinema Acquires Arts Alliance Media

When London-based Arts Alliance Media entered administration in November 2025, it sent a quiet but genuine shockwave through the global cinema industry. Quiet, because AAM is not exactly a household name among general audiences, or even among many cinema professionals who depend on its products ever…

Everyman Cinema and Emirates' World Class Cinema campaign 2

Pearl & Dean Partner Emirates with Everyman for a First-Class Experience

Some partnerships feel like a match made in advertising heaven. Certainly, that was the feeling when Catherine Ferguson, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Pearl & Dean, took a call last June with a chance to pair up Emirates and Everyman Cinema. Contacted by Emirates’ media agency Universal McCa…

CJ Tech - Xenon vs Laser Projection

CJ Tech: Choosing the Right Projection System: Xenon vs Laser Projection

Walk into any cinema projection booth and you’ll quickly realise one thing: the machine at the centre of it all isn’t just a box of optics and fans. It’s the nerve centre of the auditorium, dictating everything from visual clarity to your monthly maintenance bill. And in a world of tightening budget…

Emily Cecil-Dennett stands in front of the inside of Trafalgar Releasing’s original broadcasting truck

A Complete Service: Trafalgar Releasing’s End-to-End Offering

For the past decade, London-based distribution company Trafalgar Releasing (Trafalgar) has been a market leader when it comes to event cinema (also known as alternative content). Bringing live experiences to a wider audience via the cinema screen, whether it’s recorded productions of pop concerts, s…

Row House is Rep Cinema in a League of Its Own

The state of Pennsylvania is not necessarily the first place one conjures when thinking of repertory cinema, but for over a decade the Row House Cinema on Butler Street in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood has thrived. This is mostly due to the care and curation of the theatre’s owner /…

Arts Alliance Media enters administration

Arts Alliance Media Enters Administration — But Don’t Write Its Obituary Yet

Arts Alliance Media (AAM), one of the cinema industry’s most widely deployed and quietly indispensable software providers, entered administration in the United Kingdom on 12 November 2025. This move begins a restructuring process, similar to Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States, that could res…

Pope Leo XIV - Encounter with World Cinema

CJ Analysis: The Wild Weekend the Pope Joined Tom Cruise in Championing Cinemas

The cinema business has had so many “crisis moments” lately that even seasoned industry insiders are starting to develop emotional shin splints. But late October was something special — a kind of doom-loop crescendo that left exhibitors, distributors, and analysts staring into the theatrical abyss.…

CJ Interviews: Paul Farnsworth – Inside the Mind of B&B’s Storyteller-in-Chief

Toma Foster is B&B Theatres’ Director of Guest / Employee Relations. It was in the B&B Theatres corporate conference room, four years ago, that I officially met Paul Farnsworth, Executive Director of Communications and Content. I was attending one of my first meetings after joining the compa…