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Passion Over Profit: The Formula That Kept South African Horrorfest Alive

Twenty-one years. In the volatile world of film exhibition, particularly for independent, niche-focused festivals, this level of longevity is not just an achievement: it’s an operational anomaly. The South African Horrorfest, hosted annually in Cape Town, South Africa and co-founded by Paul B…

Row House is Rep Cinema in a League of Its Own

The state of Pennsylvania is not necessarily the first place one conjures when thinking of repertory cinema, but for over a decade the Row House Cinema on Butler Street in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood has thrived. This is mostly due to the care and curation of the theatre’s owner /…

Arts Alliance Media enters administration

Arts Alliance Media Enters Administration — But Don’t Write Its Obituary Yet

Arts Alliance Media (AAM), one of the cinema industry’s most widely deployed and quietly indispensable software providers, entered administration in the United Kingdom on 12 November 2025. This move begins a restructuring process, similar to Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States, that could res…

Pope Leo XIV - Encounter with World Cinema

CJ Analysis: The Wild Weekend the Pope Joined Tom Cruise in Championing Cinemas

The cinema business has had so many “crisis moments” lately that even seasoned industry insiders are starting to develop emotional shin splints. But late October was something special — a kind of doom-loop crescendo that left exhibitors, distributors, and analysts staring into the theatrical abyss.…

CJ Interviews: Paul Farnsworth – Inside the Mind of B&B’s Storyteller-in-Chief

Toma Foster is B&B Theatres’ Director of Guest / Employee Relations. It was in the B&B Theatres corporate conference room, four years ago, that I officially met Paul Farnsworth, Executive Director of Communications and Content. I was attending one of my first meetings after joining the compa…

Luis Vargas - Comscore

Latin American Theatrical Market Defies Predictions, Emerging as Global Recovery Leader

When Luis Vargas took the stage at CineLATAM 2025 in Miami this past September, he didn’t begin with a data slide. Instead, the Vice President for Latin America at Comscore Movies opened with a story — or rather, with a movie title: “Ainda Estou Aqui,” (“I’m Still Here.”) The Oscar winning Brazilian…

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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…