Cinema of the Month: CGV Liberty City Point, HCMC, Vietnam
In our first ever Cinema of the Month we visit CGV Liberty City Point in Vietnam's second city and marvel how a 10-screen cinema can fit so neatly in a hotel.
The Force of Dolby Cinema
CJ Flynn goes behind the scenes at the AMC Dolby Cinema in Burbank to bring us his unparalleled analysis of the next generation movie-going experience.
Cuba Has 300 Cinemas – But Only Two Are Digital
With Latin America and the Carribean belatedly converting to digital cinema, Cube looks set to be the last country in the region to make the transition. Despite the recent thawing of relations between the communist island and the US, the country’s cinemas remain in the control of the state, wh…
Cinemark Expands Premium Concept With Upscale Theatre In Silicon Beach
Cinemark, the third largest cinema chain in the United States, can add nine more screens this evening to the more than 5,700 it operates throughout the country. This weekend marks the grand opening of the Cinemark Playa Vista and XD, the ninth and latest of the circuit’s NextGen multiplex venu…
How the Gates Family Foundation Saved Small Town Cinemas from Death-by-Digital
As the clock ticks down for the end of 35mm film prints, so the race is on to save the last few small town cinemas that cannot afford the switch to digital. We are now talking months, not years. In the United States funds typically come from one or a mixture of three sources, allRead More
‘World’s Largest Cinema’ Set To Be Demolished
Demolitions of old cinemas rarely makes the news beyond the local newspaper and TV station, but Studio 28 in Wyoming, West Michigan is not just any old cinema. In 1988 it became the world’s first megaplex, as well as being the world’s largest cinema, and to this day hold the highest sing…
Why Digital Alone Won’t Kill Second Run Movie Theatres
The threat that the digital conversion poses to single-screen and drive-in cinemas have been highlighted several times on CelluloidJunkie.com (here, here and here), but there is a third category of cinemas that also face an existentialist threat with the phasing out of 35mm prints. Second-run cinema…
Michigan’s Rialto Theater Calls Attention to the Endangered Future of Small Town Cinemas
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Arclight Cinemas Announces Sixth Southern California Multiplex
Last October we got wind that a new multiplex was being proposed for Santa Monica Place, a mall in Santa Monica, California. These plans were confirmed earlier today when Arclight Cinemas announced they had entered into an agreement with Macerich, the mall’s owner, to open a 14 screen cinema a…
AMC Promotes New Fallbrook 7 Through Its Rewards Program
AMC has found an interesting way to promote both the opening of a new theatre and, at the same time, its loyalty rewards program. In advance of opening the newly renovated AMC Fallbrook 7 complex, the cinema chain has invited members of its AMC Stubs program to attend an evening of free screenings a…