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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’s 2020 Cinema Predictions

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 correct time twice a day. Heck, no! Sperling effecti…

Celluloid Junkie’s 2019 Cinema Predictions

“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future,” Yogi Berra famously quipped. This did not stop the editorial team at Celluloid Junkie from bravely sticking their necks out a year ago to read the tea leaves on what 2018 would have in store. Did we get it right? As alw…

Chinese Cinemas Continue Strong Growth in First Half of 2018

The Chinese cinema industry has seen strong growth figures in the first six month of 2018 – with one critical exception. Box office growth was mainly driven by local titles, while the pace of opening new cinemas showed little sign of slowing down, based on figures released by the National Film…

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“Avengers: Infinity War” Pushes Past $1 Billion Globally As “Deadpool” and “Solo” Loom. This Weekend at the Box Office.

WEEKEND RECAP The death of cinema has officially been postponed, with “Avengers: Infinity War” pushing past USD $1 billion globally in a record 11 days, one day faster than Disney stable mate “Star Wars: the Force Awakens”. This is all the more amazing because it was achieved…

Bad Samaritan, Overboard, Tully

“Avengers: Infinity War” Has Marvel-ous Debut Blasting Past Numerous Records. This Weekend At The Box Office.

Some of you may have noticed our usual box office post wasn’t published last week as we made our way to CinemaCon in Las Vegas. For those of you who came up to us in the hallways at Caesars Palace to ask about the absence of the weekly column, we thank you for caring enoughRead More

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Stuff To Be Got Out of The Way Before “Avengers: Infinity War” Descends. This Weekend At The Box Office

WEEKEND RECAP Hold your horsies, it’s not time for “Avengers: Infinite Box Office” just yet. Yes, the Marvel marvel is tracking off the charts in terms of ticket pre-sales, but we have another week’s wort of new openings as well solid results from current releases first. Reme…

How Women Will Decide Hollywood’s Fate This Summer

As I sit here writing this column on April 15th Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire currently has 66 trails open for skiing. What in the world does this fact have to do with a summer movie boxoffice column? Excellent question. I bring this up because, despite what skiers in the Granite State or basebal…

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“A Quiet Place” Roars With $50 Million Take, But There’s “Rampage” Ahead. This Weekend at the Box Office

WEEKEND RECAP It was a rare weekend of both quantifiable quality and muchos mullah at the box office. Of the new films, four out of five scored 80% or higher on Rotten Tomatoes, with “A Quiet Place” posting an astonishing 97% and a B+ Cinemascore. It was even 100%, at least until half a…

A Quiet Place, Blockers, Chappaquiddick

“Ready Player One” Scores $53.2 Million Domestic Opening While “Pacific Rim” Sinks. This Weekend at the Box Office.

Our first week without Jim Amos to handle our weekly box office column and yours truly drew the short straw in trying to fill his big shoes. We not only hope to live up to the high bar Mr. Amos managed to set, but iterate the column additional resources of value to our readers. Don’tRead More