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Cannes Film Festival - 2025 Opening Ceremony - Group Photo

Cannes 2025 Opens with Political and Artistic Defiance

One day before the the 78th Cannes Film Festival commenced on 13 May 2025, its artistic director, Thierry Frémaux, insisted that the event only becomes “political when the artists are political.” Less than 24-hours later his statement was confirmed during an opening ceremony that transce…

Thierry Fre?maux - Cannes Film Festival 2025

Thierry Frémaux Is Keeping Cannes Focused on the Big Screen

Thierry Frémaux never strolls into a room. Rather, the Director of the Cannes Film Festival, seems to bound into the room, usually a packed auditorium at the Palais des Festivals, as if running behind schedule, delayed by whatever previously scheduled rendezvous he has just departed. Such was the ca…

Trump Foreign Movie Tariffs

President Trump’s 100% Tariff on Foreign Films Will Harm The Very Industry It Was Meant To Help

As a motion picture trade publication, most of the stories published by Celluloid Junkie that delve into politics focus on programs to assist the industry at large. We have, for the most part, been able to avoid covering any kind of politically polarizing subjects. However, there are times when wadi…

April 2025 Historic Weekend Box Office Milestones thanks to Sinners, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, A Minecraft Movie and The Accountant 2

CJ Analysis: Movie Theatres Outdated? A Historic Box Office Weekend Says Otherwise

Seriously, how many times does moviegoing have to stare down those endless cries that it’s doomed? Doomed! Doomed because of radio or television or the VCR or DVD or video games or TikTok or streaming! Or doomed because the industry pundits and mainstream media decides the pandemic magically changed…

CJ Top Women In Cinema - 2025 - Announcement

CJ’s 2025 Top Women in Global Cinema: Call for Nominations

For the ninth year running, CJ’s Top Women in Global Cinema is back for its 2025 edition. We’re excited and encouraged that in recent months we’ve been approached on numerous occasions about when the nominations process will begin for this year’s list – and the good news is that we can declare…

A collage of Lollipop’s superheroes in costume, designed in 2024

Lollipop Theater Network and the Seventh Annual Superhero Reveal

The experience of lining up at the movie theater on the opening weekend of a big movie, getting popcorn and candy, settling into your seat in front of a giant screen before the lights dim, all make for just some of the most memorable cinematic moments in a child’s life. But what about the chil…

CJ Indie Cinema Showcase: Is the Garden Cinema London’s Best-kept Indie Secret?

Tucked away on Parker Street, a quiet road between Holborn and Covent Garden, the Garden Cinema could easily lay claim to being London’s best kept secret when it comes to independent movie theatres. Compared to the BFI Southbank or the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square, institutions that sim…

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…