CJ Analysis: Cinema Is Back! But With Some Major Changes.
It’s been a very long time since anyone in the cinema business has been in a rush to look at box office figures. The habitual daily check came to a bit of a grinding halt last year and for a…
CJ Green: UNIC and Europe’s Green Agenda
During the last year of existential challenges to cinemas the world over, sustainability hasn’t been a top priority for exhibitors, focused as they have been on straightforward survival. But now that cinemas are enjoying a “reopening boom”, particularly after the…
CJ Cinema Summit: Industry Leaders Share Optimism as European Cinema Reopen
There have been many recurring guest speakers during the past 37 CJ Cinema Summits. UNIC’s Laura Houlgatte, Warner Bros.’ Andrew Cripps and VUE’s Tim Richards are no strangers to the CJ stage, and on Thursday provided valuable insights into the…
CJ People: Vue’s Dee Vassili Proves Cinema Operations is All About the Team
CJ People is a new series from Celluloid Junkie, examining the issues that affect the driving force of cinema exhibition and the wider film industry: its people. We aim to cover any and all relevant “people” topics from mental health…
Cinema Reopenings in Italy Point the Way for the Rest of Europe
On 26th April 2021, Italian director Nanni Moretti had a special date: open the doors of his own cinema in Rome, the Nuovo Sacher, and greet the audience coming in after six months of darkness. Miles away through the north…
Back with a (Cultural Recovery Fund) Bang: ECA Secures Funding
For a membership-and-events-funded organisation such as the Event Cinema Association (ECA), a consequence of 2020’s cinema-shutting pandemic resulted in, like for so many others, pretty much zero income. So some truly happy news in 2021 is that the ECA has…
Filmgrail: Doubling Cinema Audience Engagement
If you’re a cinema exhibitor then depending on where you are in the world you’ve probably had a year of this COVID-19 “nonsense” (for want of a better swear word) keeping your cinema closed. But there is now light at…
AMC and Alamo Top US Cinema Online Engagement Review by Gruvi
Gruvi has recently conducted an A.U.D.I.T. of the websites of major cinema chains in the UK, Australia and the US, in terms of their effective engagement with online audiences. The following three criteria were used to determine the results: Algorithm The Algorithm…
Movie Theatres Schedule Dates For Reopening and Pandemic Recovery
There are finally some signs of hope for movie theatre owners who have been in various forms of forced hibernation for the past year due to the global coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19 infection rates are declining, vaccination rates increasing and now…
Event Cinema Tops Australia Cinema engagement Review by Gruvi
Gruvi has recently conducted an A.U.D.I.T. of the websites of major cinema chains in Australia to determine how effectively the websites interact with online audiences. The following three criteria were used to determine the results: Algorithm The Algorithm score is…