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Nominations Now Open: CJ’s Top Women in Global Film Distribution

Celluloid Junkie is proud to announce that nominations are now officially open for the fourth edition of our Top Women in Global Distribution list — celebrating 50 exceptional women shaping the future of film distribution worldwide. The 2025 list will be published on December 16th, following the suc…

The Evil Dead In Concert

“The Evil Dead” Comes to Life in National U.S. Concert Tour

How a cult horror classic is being reborn as a live-to-film musical experience. What happens when one of horror’s most notorious cult films gets a symphonic resurrection? In 1981, Sam Raimi made his directorial debut with the supernatural indie “The Evil Dead,” a low-budget cabin-in-the-…

From Grounded to Global: How PaperAirplane is Helping Movie Marketing Reach New Heights

Born in the depths of the pandemic, PaperAirplane Media rewired the connection between studios and cinemas. Now, as nearly every cinema operator in North America depends on its digital asset management solution, the PaperAirplane team is preparing for takeoff overseas. When Mike Polydoros decided to…

WatchWord: Closed-caption Glasses Transform Cinema Experience for Deaf Community

Even with the advent of captions, a trip to the cinema for anyone who is part of the hearing-impaired community can be a very restrictive experience. Captions – which not only include all spoken dialogue, but written descriptions of sound effects, music and even emotions – can be delivered in two wa…

The panellists sit on stage with a screen behind them, from left to right: Michele Casula; Alessandro Usai; Davide Novelli; Federica Lucisano; Simone Gialdini; Sonia Dichter; Valentina Torlaschi

Moviegoers Return But Italian Cinema is Running Out of Stories, Say MIA Panellists

Italy’s audiovisual sector benefits from sophisticated tools to track audience behavior and box office performance. Through box office tracking company, Cinetel, attendance data is collected in near real-time, while CinExpert – the weekly monitoring service that tracks the sociodemographic character…

The opening ceremony at Expocine 2025 in São Paulo, Brazil on 30 September 2025

Expocine 2025 Charts the Next Act on the World Stage for Brazil’s Growing Film Industry

Theme “Brazil: Window to the World” sets the tone for debates on the country’s expanding role in the global audiovisual landscape. Brazil’s audiovisual industry is living through one of its most promising moments in decades, and the challenge now is clear: turning prestige into market structure. Sin…

Cult Classics and Community: Fantastic Fest Marks 20th Anniversary Milestone

Autumn is upon us and so too is movie awards season. The unofficial opening of this window for accolades is typically marked by the launch of two major film festivals in early September, the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), both of which concluded within the p…

(From Left) Elizabeth Frank of RealD, Serge Plasch from Barco, Robert Carrady of Caribbean Cinemas, Rolando Rodriguez from Lumma, Gonzalo Lopez of Multicines Ecuador, Daniel Loria of Boxoffice Pro participate in the Industry Investment panel at CineLATAM in Coral Gables, Florida on September 16, 2025

Premium Formats and Smart CapEx Dominate the Conversation at CineLATAM 2025

At CineLATAM 2025, exhibitors, manufacturers, and technology leaders from Caribbean Cinemas, RealD, Multicines, Barco, and Lumma 4D E-Motion shared how Latin America’s cinema market is investing wisely in premium formats and immersive experiences to drive attendance. If CineLATAM 2025’s overall them…

CineLATAM 2025 - Executive Roundtable - Luis Vargas (Comscore), Andrew Cripps (Walt Disney Studios), Valmir Fernandes (Cinemark International), Miguel Mier (Cinepolis), Don Savant (CJ 4DPlex)

Content Is King, Experience Is Queen: Latin America’s Cinema Leaders Signal a Confident Comeback

At CineLATAM 2025, global and regional executives from Paramount, Disney, Cinépolis, Cinemark, and CJ 4DPlex chart a path forward for Latin America’s exhibition market, anchored in content, collaboration, and a renewed focus on the moviegoing experience. By the time Paramount Pictures unveiled its 2…

(From Left) Dylan Leiner of Sony Pictures Classics, Jakob Abrahamsson of NonStop Entertainment, Frank L. Stavik of Fidalgo, and Antonella Canturi of Rai Cinema's 01 Distribution and moderator Davide Abbatescianni during a Buyers In Focus session on 6 September 2025 at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival

Distribution Around the World: Buyers at TIFF Share Lessons for Theatrical’s Next Chapter

At the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival’s Buyers In Focus sessions, industry leaders from six territories revealed how they’re navigating streaming pressure, changing audiences, and TIFF’s rise as a market hub. This year’s Toronto International Film Festival (September 4–14) hosted sev…