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A Little Teaser For “Ant-Man” Is A Big Win For Marvel

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQjhJf1R4k4[/youtube] Marvel Entertainment did not wait long before placing their mark on 2015. The Disney owned company is widely expected to have a banner year thanks to the release of both “The Avenger…

Game of Thrones IMAX

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 7 January 2015

The two last episodes of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” plus a new trailer for the upcoming season will screen in Imax. The show previously screened pre-release episodes theatrically, but that was ‘only’ George R.R. Martin’s own Cocteau Cinema in Arizona. HBO and Imax ha…

Daily Cinema Digest – post-Christmas/New Year roundup

Happy New Year to all our CJ reader and may 2015 be a good year for cinema everywhere. Other then the circus surrounding the release of “The Interview”, here are some of the other cinema-related news you may have missed over the holidays. South Korea: A not-so-Merry Christmas for South K…

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

From all of us here at Celluloid Junkie, we wish you all the best for holiday and the year ahead. Here is a reminder of why we all do what we do. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV9MCLS1Ji8#t=46[/youtube] Movies are the most powerful empathy machine in all the arts. When I go to a great mov…

MoviePass and AMC

How MoviePass Converted AMC From Foe to Friend

Last week MoviePass, the unlimited moviegoing subscription service, reached a major milestone in the development of their company and possibly the decades old theatrical exhibition business model. AMC Theatres announced an agreement with MoviePass for a pilot partnership that will let its patrons in…

Was CineAsia Right to Honour Indonesia’s Cinema 21?

Should success at any price be celebrated? Because when it comes to cinema in Indonesia it is hard to escape accusations that ‘success’ is linked to unsavory business practices, tax evasion, rent seeking, crony capitalism and corporations tainted by links to the world’s most corrup…

Turist Force Majeure

Swedish Subtitling of Swedish Films Causes Controversy

From today all Swedish films screened by Sweden’s largest cinema chain SF Bio will be subtitled in Swedish. Yes, all. While foreign films have always been subtitled rather than dubbed in Sweden (except animation for children), the decision to introduce same-language subtitling for ALL screenin…

Popcorn calorie count

Cinema Concessions Calorie Count Coming in 2015 – NAC Responds

When you go to see “Star Wars VII: the Force Awakens” at a Regal Cinema next year you will have the choice of watching it with a 960 calorie large tub of popcorn (with optional 260 calories “buttery” topping), a 500 calories 54 ounces soda, a 650 calories hot dog or perhaps a…

Kim Jong Il puppet

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 18 December 2014

“The Interview” may have been pulled from cinemas, but that won’t stop this freedom-loving Texan cinema chain from showing a Hollywood film making fun of North Korea’s leaders. The Alamo Drafthouse in Texas was one independent cinema willing to brave the threat and show the f…

China box office fraud

Number of New Cinemas in China is Up – But so is Box-office Fraud

Last week saw the publication of two reports, both of which pointed to upward trends in the Chinese exhibition industry. But while the first pointed to a growth in the number of new screens, the second pointed to an increase in the instances of box office fraud. A report by Yi En Consulting has show…