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The King and I. (image: Trafalgar Releasing)

The Year of Trafalgar

2018 was a rollercoaster ride of a year, and as 2019 dawns, there’s still plenty of uncertainty around the future of the UK. But in the Event Cinema industry for one company in particular, 2018 has been a certified smash hit. Enter Trafalgar Releasing. Join us as we look at how 2018 really was their…

Landmark Theatres

Why Cohen Media Group Is The Right Buyer For Landmark Theatres

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 and Mark Cuban, are selling the artho…

Karo cinemas high end seating. (photo: Karo)

Karo Partners IKEA’s Russian Property Arm Mega For Expansion

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 Mega’s shopping centre…

Everyman Cruystal Palace night exterior (photo: Patrick von Sychowski / Celluloid Junkie)

Crystal Palace Opening Is Everyman’s Triumphant 25th

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 the glitzy event, with Celluloid Junkie’s…

Dertje Meijer and Edwin Slutter of Pathé Netherlands

Details of Pathé Nederland’s €19.2M Loss to “CEO-fraud” Revealed

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, but ended up costing the jobs…

Swiss Hotel Istanbul

CJ Interviews: Rob Arthur – DCS Events / Emerging Cinema Markets Conference

While cinemas in the Gulf region have been growing for several years, the announcement that Saudi Arabia is opening up its market to multiplexes has led to a surge in interest, with everyone from AMC and Cinepolis to Carnival and Vue clamouring for a piece of the local cinema action. This month…

Luna Cinema at Crystal Palace in London, UK

Cinema of the Month: Luna Cinema – London, UK

Celluloid Junkie is proud to have partnered with Vista Cinema for the Cinema of the Month series. Vista is the world’s leading cinema management software solutions company. We won’t just be featuring cinemas whose operators use Vista, but we will surely mention when that is the case. CJ would like t…

'Everybody's Talking About Jamie' Musical performed at the Apollo Theatre, London, UK

A Musical You’ve (Probably) Never Heard of Just Re-wrote the Rules of Event Cinema

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – or are they? Whether you’ve heard of it or not, this West End, London musical re-wrote the rules of event cinema this summer. It transferred from its opening run at the Sheffield Crucible to the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in November 2017 where it ha…

Vue CineStar CinemaxX Germany Tim Richards (Celluloid Junkie)

Vue Catches Falling CineStar in €200m+ Deal

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 good j…

How Bernadette McCabe Became A Part of the MoviePass Family

In the ebb and flow of buzz-worthy or even controversial subjects that become a part of our industry’s news cycle there have been few in recent years that have attracted more heated debate than release windows and subscription moviegoing. It’s often easy to forget while we’re prognosticating at trad…