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Future Cinema: How to Get 100,000 People to Pay £35 ($50) to Watch an Old Film

You wouldn’t expect UK’s most successful cinema innovator to have a tag-line of ‘Tell no-one’, keep audiences in the dark about which film they will get to see and then charge them double what a ticket costs in Leicester square to show them an old film readily available on DVD. Appropria…

Tampa Cinema Shooting – Sign of More Cinema Smartphone Rage to Come?

A retired police officer in Tampa, Florida has been arrested after an argument over cell phone use in a multiplex escalated into a shooting, leaving a man dead and his wife injured. The incident happened Monday 1:30pm at the Cobb Cinema Grove 16 and CineBistro in Wesley Chapel near Tampa, Florida du…

For Your iConsideration

For Your iConsideration (UPDATE): the Nominees

With the nominations announced for the BAFTA awards, it is worth re-visiting the issue of DVD and on-line screeners to analyse what if any impact they had on the films that made the shortlist. The usual caveat applies that BAFTA members watch and vote on films, documentaries, foreign language films…

Oscar Recognition For Film Lab Technicians – Every Single One of Them

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences or AMPAS (Oscar academy) has just announced this year’s 19 scientific and technical achievement awards, who unlike the Best Film, Best Actor, etc are named and honoured prior to Oscar night, mainly to allow for more telecast time for the Angelina…

In Memoriam, Sir Run Run Shaw, 1907-2014

Film Critic Leonard Maltin On The Sad State Of The Modern Multiplex Experience

[youtube width=”580″ height=”326″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1N5MB8aD84[/youtube] Leonard Maltin is a well known American film critic and historian who rose to prominence as the movie reviewer for “Entertainment Tonight”, a daily television news program. He h…

Kodak 35mm Motion Picture Film

Kodak Claims ‘Film Is Not Dead’

With nearly 99,000 cinema screens (out of roughly 120,000 worldwide) having already converted to digital, combined with the number of film and television productions now shooting with high-end digital cameras, the need for 35mm film stock is dissolving rapidly. Agfa stopped manufacturing all of thei…

Dassault demonstrates VR Paris in 3D for cinemas

In the car from Paris’ Gare de Nord station to Dassault Systèmes’ campus at the outskirts of town I got chatting to a British journalist for an education supplement. He confessed that he had never been to Paris before, but that he recognised the streets we were driving down from a video…

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Third Time May Be The Ticket For MoviePass Unlimited Moviegoing Subscription

Over a year after MoviePass failed to launch its all-you-can-view subscription movie service, the company is back with a retooled offering that has a much better shot at surviving the inevitable pushback by cinema chains and studios. You might recall last June MoviePass announced a private beta with…

Come In We're Open

Where Were We?

If the emails that have been coming in from some of our loyal readers are any indication, some of you may be wondering where we’ve been or why the posts on Celluloid Junkie have decreased over the past six months. The explanation is quite simple really. Like all of those who blog about the ind…