CinemaCon: The Three ‘S’ of the Immersive Cinema Experince: Sight, Sound and Seats
This CinemaCon panel got to grips with whatmakes for an immersive cinema experince, with the leading exhibitors from the Gulf and S.E. Asia.
CinemaCon: The True Value Proposition of a Cinema-Goer: It’s Time to Cultivate a Lifetime of Support
The first panel of CinemaCon 2015 looked at (declining) youth attendance and what could be done attract them back, with real-world examples from Kinepolis and Nordisk
CinemaCon: A True Partnership – Working Together To Drive the Cinematic Experience To New Heights
CinemaCon panel A New Partnership looks at how exhibitors and distributors could and should work together to boost cinema attendance in the digital age.
Alibaba Buys China Cinema Ticketing Company for $134m
The biggest financial cinema news of the week was not at the CinemaCon trade show in Las Vegas. Demonstrating instead the importance of China to the cinema business, e-commerce giant Alibaba paid 840 million yuan (USD $134 million) for cinema ticketing software company Yueke Software Engineering Com…
CinemaCon: Interview With Ymagis/DCNA’s Barry Rebo
In the run-up to and during CinemaCon 2015 CJ is interviewing and profiling several leading companies, trade bodies and people to capture the mood of the cinema industry as it enters its post-digital era. Today we talk to Barry Rebo, newly appointed head of Ymagis’ just-launched division Direc…
CinemaCon: Dave Hollis Delivers International Keynote Address
This is a live transcript of presentations at CinemaCon. As such it is likely to contain errors, spelling misstakes and misheard quotes. You have been warned. It is a strange dicotomy that international cinema now represents 72% of Hollywood’s box office takings, yet at CinemaCon the Internati…
CJ Weekend: The Best ‘No Smoking’ Cinema PSA. Ever.
John Water's tells you "There's no smoking in this theatre."
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
From all of us here at Celluloid Junkie, we wish you all the best for holiday and the year ahead. Here is a reminder of why we all do what we do. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV9MCLS1Ji8#t=46[/youtube] Movies are the most powerful empathy machine in all the arts. When I go to a great mov…
CJ@CineAsia CineAsia Universty – Architecture
In an effort to provide updates on the CineAsia 2014 conference and trade show presently taking place in Hong Kong SAR, this post was written live, and in the present tense, during one of the conference’s presentations. Comments attributed to speaker(s) are paraphrased unless denoted specifically by…
CJ@CineAsia CineAsia University – Lasers
In an effort to provide updates on the CineAsia 2014 conference and trade show presently taking place in Hong Kong SAR, this post was written live, and in the present tense, during one of the conference’s presentations. Comments attributed to speaker(s) are paraphrased unless denoted specifically by…