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Cell Phones In Cinemas

Suggestions For Preventing Mobile Phone Distractions At Film Festivals

If reader reaction to Celluloid Junkie posts is any indication of broad public sentiment, then a majority of moviegoers are infuriated by fellow audience members using their mobile phones in the middle of screenings. Raising the topic in conversation or in posts like the ones we’ve published o…

Sundance Provides A Perfect Environment For Industrial Eavesdropping

One unique aspect of the Sundance Film Festival is the broad spectrum of industry professionals that attend each year’s event. Producers, directors, editors, screenwriters, craft people, acquisitions executives, journalists, distributor reps, sales agents, talent agents, and exhibitors are jus…

NEC laser projector

Laser, the Next Big Digital Transition as the Xenon Lamp Fades Away

This year (2015) is definitively the year the world became completely digital as Sundance Film Festival announced that not one film shown was on celluloid-film. Most of the major markets are now completely digital. If you listen carefully, you can hear tens of thousands of cinema owners letting out…

Imax Carnival Vista

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 26 January 2015

USA – Given how large cruise ships have become it was inevitable that sooner or later one of them would get an Imax cinema. Carnival is partnering with entertainment innovator IMAX® to bring the world’s most immersive cinematic experience to sea with the first-ever IMAX® Theatre on a ship. Gue…

Art House Convergence

Daily Cinema Digest – Saturday 24 January 2015

Since 2008, just before the Sundance Film Festival begins in mid-January, art house cinema operators from around North America (and beyond) have been gathering for Art House Convergence. The conference is held over four days in Midway, Utah, not far from Park City where Sundance takes place. A recor…

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 22 January 2015

Sina Finance highlights three pertinent questions about Wanda Cinemas raised during the ‘road show’ ahead of the company’s IPO. Concerned about the point two: how to face the the new media shocks? In the conference, another concern is that the new media development, Wanda Cinema tr…

Movie Tickets In Popcorn

Why North American Movie Ticket Prices Rose In 2014

A week after the investment firm PricewaterhouseCooper released a survey in which found 53% of its 1,000 respondents felt movie tickets cost too much, the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) reports that the average cost of a movie ticket in 2014 rose to USD $8.17. That figure is a 0.50% i…

Taking of Tiger Mountain

Cinema in China Is Still Headed for Crash – Five Trends Show Why

With Wanda Cinema’s IPO imminent we thought it would be a good to revisit the article ‘China’s Multiplexes Are Headed For a Crash – Statistics Show Why‘ that we published last April. With another year of strong box office growth in China and no large scale cinemas going bust in the…

Ted Hope

Amazon Enters Movie Business With Two Wise First Steps

In a twist of the old adage “give them an inch and they’ll take a mile”, just a week after winning a Golden Globe for television series, musical or comedy for their show “Transparent”, web giant Amazon has announced its intentions to enter the movie business by producin…

Diffusion of Netflix

Movie Theatres Face An Inevitable Netflix Effect

As we begin the new year, I strongly believe we are entering a period of great danger and even greater uncertainty. Events are unfolding within and without the movie industry that are extremely threatening to our studio. This is how Jeffrey Katzenberg began his now infamous 1991 memo which criticize…