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Troubleshooting IT & Network Dilemmas in Today’s Cinema Projection Booths

CJ Tech: Troubleshooting IT & Network Dilemmas in Today’s Cinema Projection Booths

Why IT Skills Are Essential for ProjectionistsBack in the days of 35mm film prints, cinema projectionists would patrol projection booths during a showing to monitor the rollers guiding the film to the projector like track wheels on a train. They would pay attention to abnormal sounds; were they sque…

Bart Layton, Chris Hemsworth, Timur Bekmambetov, Chris Pratt, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Jon Bernthal, Daniella Pineda, Gavin O'Connor, Ben Affleck, Vivica A. Fox, Kara Young, Chris Miller, Ayo Edebiri, Mallori Johnson, Ryan Gosling and Luca Guadagnino pose on stage during CinemaCon 2025 – Amazon MGM Studios Invites you to an Exclusive Presentation of its Upcoming Slate at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace during CinemaCon, the official convention of Cinema United, on April 2, 2025, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

CinemaCon 2025: Amazon MGM Studios Remains A Question Mark

A week or so prior to CinemaCon the presence of Amazon MGM Studios on the schedule was being hailed as the first time the studio was appearing at the conference to present its slate on the big Colosseum stage. Technically speaking that’s a bit of a stretch since, (1) Amazon MGM Studios is only…

What We Learned at CinemaCon 2025

What We Learned at CinemaCon 2025

With CinemaCon 2025 in the rearview mirror, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on some of the major takeaways from this year’s conference. Amid all the sprinting to trade show meetings and escalator surfing inside Caesars Palace, did we actually learn anything about the current state of the…

The organ stands centre stage in the Odeon Luxe, Leicester Square

DCM Upfronts: Cinema Offers Economic Edge to Advertisers

Cinema advertising company, Digital Cinema Media (DCM), held its annual Upfronts showcase at the flagship Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, London, playing to a full house of agencies and brand representatives. Brought forward from its usual July slot to 27th March, the event was hosted as usual by CEO K…

A photo collage of all CJ Cinema Summit participants has a banner across the middle saying ‘CJ Cinema Summit - Thank You for 5 Years!'

Celebrating the 2024 North American Cinema Awards and the CJ Cinema Summit’s Fifth Anniversary

Five years ago on Thursday 19th March 2020, shortly after unprecedented global COVID lockdowns started to take effect in response to the pandemic, a group of people based between Los Angeles, London and Oslo hastily pulled together a live online broadcast to talk to their industry colleagues about w…

The Stat of the Industry panel at the EDCF Convention 2025 held in Milan, Italy February 26 and 27, 2025.

EDCF Showcases Latest Cinema Industry Innovations During Annual Conference in Milan, Italy

For the first time in the history of the European Digital Cinema Forum (EDCF), the organisation held its annual conference in Italy. The two-day event, held 26-27 February, saw over 125 participants from more than 15 countries, from the United States to India and from throughout Europe. It took plac…

European Film Market 2025 - Eyes on the Audience - Smart Thinking in Distribution & Exhibition

Berlinale’s European Film Market Panel Dissects State of Exhibition Sector in Greece, Denmark, Austria and UK

The Berlinale’s European Film Market (EFM) hosted a panel discussion in February titled “Eyes on the Audience: Smart Thinking in Distribution & Exhibition,” which brought together key European industry professionals from across the region to address one of the most pressing concerns in independe…

Tricia Tuttle - Berlin International Film Festival - Berlinale

A New Direction for the Berlinale at 75th Edition

This was a significant year for the Berlinale, the nickname for the Berlin International Film Festival. Not only is 2025 the 75th anniversary of the event, but it was also the first edition with Tricia Tuttle as festival director. The festival returned to its former organisational structure, with a…

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy - Theatrical Release Strategy

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Theatrical Release Strategy

The fourth and latest installment in the Bridget Jones Universe (BJU) has surpassed a global box office gross of USD $110 million in just over three weeks across 78 countries, save for the United States, where the film is skipping movie theatres in lieu of a direct-to-streaming release. With a repor…

A cinema projector surrounded by logos of companies offering exhibition training courses

CJ Tech: A Brief Overview of Cinema Technology Training Courses

In the past, comprehensive training courses in the cinema exhibition industry have been few and far between. Over time, especially as experienced cinema technicians retire, this topic has often been raised as something that needs urgent correction in relation to upcoming generations and a fundamenta…