Until Marvel Studios’ “Captain Marvel” swooped in and boosted the global box office, Hollywood was struggling to kickstart 2019 and an uncertain year stretched ahead. Which is perhaps why, at least in part, two international cinema operators are actively diversifying…
Open letter from Philip Knatchbull, Curzon CEO Given Vue CEO Tim Richards’ recent letter to BAFTA, which implicates Curzon, I feel obliged to clarify our position regarding the current cinema vs. streaming debate. At Curzon, we have have been releasing…
Amanda Berry OBE BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly London, WIJ 9LN 19 February 2019 Open Letter Dear Amanda, As a long term member and former Council Member of BAFTA, I am writing to express my concern at the decision-making behind this year’s…
Last weekend the Sunday Times in the UK published an opinion piece by Jonathan Dean titles “The Tables Have Turned”, in which he looked at the 10 Oscar nominations for “Roma” and concluded that “streaming has arrived.” No disputing that,…
In the end it wasn’t Netflix. Nor was it Amazon Studios. Instead, it is the independent film distributor and production company Cohen Media Group that will be acquiring Landmark Theatres from Wagner/Cuban Companies. Put another way, two billionaires, Todd Wagner…
Russian cinema operator Karo has partnered IKEA’s Russian shopping mall division Mega to roll out new multiplexes across the country. The initial development will see the opening of ten ‘new generation cinemas’, an unspecified number of which will be in…
Yesterday saw the opening of and launch party for the Everyman Crystal Palace in south London, the 25th location in the fast growing boutique cinema chain’s network. It was a particularly poignant moment for both Everyman and the locals attending…
A ruling by the District Court of Amsterdam has revealed how Pathé Netherlands lost over EUR €19.2 million (USD $21.6 million) earlier this year to a professional gang of conmen. The so-called “CEO-fraud” type scam is well known by internet security experts,…
The announcement earlier this morning that Vue International is acquiring Germany’s CineStar chain from Australia’s Event Hospitality & Entertainment (Event or EVT) caught the European cinema industry by surprise. It shouldn’t have. Not because all parties had not done a…
One of the benefits we have here at Celluloid Junkie is that smart people and innovative companies knock on our doors all the time with products and services for some of the industry’s most confounding problems. Writing about such issues…
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