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German Drive-In Cinema Growth Taps Into Car Culture

Drive-in cinemas have been experiencing a renaissance in Germany ever since the epidemic lockdown forced movie theaters to close their doors on March 16. Over the course of the past few weeks, the number of drive-in cinemas increased from a mere handful to more than hundred. The Federal Network Agen…

EVO Entertainment Group - Shertz, Texas

EVO Shares A Phased Approach for Reopening Their Texas Cinemas After Coronavirus Shutdown

From the very moment in mid-March when the COVID-19 pandemic forced most cinemas around the world to shut their doors, they began to contemplate not only when they could reopen, but how they could do so in a way that made their patrons feel safe. As quarantine and stay-at-home orders in various regi…

Tech Will Save Us: How Tech is Supporting Small Businesses (and Cinemas)

While there is no doubt that the coronavirus pandemic has been devastating to small businesses, one of the more interesting aspects has been the technological response to support the businesses most affected by coronavirus. Whether it’s a local coffee shop, a retail outlet or a cinema, there are a h…

CMX Cinemas

What Is Behind CMX’s Eleventh Hour Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing?

If you had switched off the news over the weekend (we don’t blame you), you probably missed the fact that the CMX, the eighth largest cinema chain in the United States, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this past Friday. Given the perilous state of the global economy, and the U.S. exhibition sec…

Kathryn Jacobs, Katy Loria, Cliff Marks, Stefan Kuhlow

Cinema Advertising Companies Step in to Help Re-Boot Cinema

The past few days have seen many countries taking their first (baby) steps into a post-lockdown world. The nature of which vary drastically from nation to nation – for some it’s schools, others it’s bookshops. In certain US states it appears to be everything. Global spectators watch anxiously, curio…

CJ Interviews: Peter Fornstam, Svenska Bio – Europe’s Biggest* Exhibitor

When Peter Fornstam was awarded the UNIC Achievement Award in the summer of 2019 he probably didn’t expect that less than a year later his would be the last major cinema chain in Europe keeping the projectors lights burning. But the man who is not only Director of Svenska Bio, but also Chairma…

Lumiere Cinema at the Music Hall in Beverly Hills, California

CJ Opinion: A Theater Re-Opening Manifesto

“Everybody talks as if they know what’s going to happen, and nobody knows what’s going to happen.” – Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman, The Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2020 The economic damage inflicted by COVID-19 is only beginning, but it may be so monumental th…

“Don’t Give Up Hope”: Kim Ludolf Koch on the Current Cinema Situation

This interview with Kim Ludolf Koch, CEO of Cineplex (Germany), was first published in Blickpunkt: Film on 15 April and conducted by Marc Mensch. It is re-published here with their kind permission. The English version is a Google Translation with manual corrections. Any errors are entirely ours. Ci…

What Cinemas Do To Stay in Touch With Patrons While Dark

If you were to run a poll amongst cinema-goers worldwide asking them why they go to the movies, the result would overwhelmingly be a combination of escapism from the real world and the social experience. As a sector that can temporarily no longer meet either of those objectives, it has never been mo…

“So, What Happens Now?” How UK Cinemas Keep Going

It’s been a long old year, this week. It’s a sobering thought that our industry, like many others, temporarily doesn’t exist. In a little more than a week we at Celluloid Junkie have gone from tracking and reporting on the measures that cinemas were taking to keep customers safe, to monitoring parti…