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Imax Corporation Share Price

Will China Spoil the Party for IMAX in 2014?

Who doesn’t wish that they had bought IMAX stocks in 2001? Back then the once-great large format film company had been reduced to a penny stock on the back of US cinemas filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to get out of expenses leases and also costly contracts with IMAX. Digital was j…

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday-Saturday 21/22 February 2014 (bit late, sorry, but good one)

The alleged mastermind of the Peshawar adult cinema bombing that left at least 15 people dead has been arrested – in hospital, where he was being treated for grenade wounds. “The alleged perpetrators of the Shama Cinema blasts had taped hand-grenades to their thighs before entering the c…

Arclight Presents... Roadtrip Movies

Los Angeles Magazine and ArcLight Cinemas Hit The Road With March Screening Series

It has always been our goal here at Celluloid Junkie to bring our readers any of the interesting or noteworthy ideas we run across in the worldwide motion picture distribution and exhibition industries. The hope is that spreading the word about such items will help spur your own innovative efforts.…

Michigan’s Rialto Theater Calls Attention to the Endangered Future of Small Town Cinemas

[advanced_iframe securitykey=”da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709″ src=”https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/205072480/restore-the-rialto-theater/widget/video.html” width=”590″ height=”443″ marginheight=”500″] On Wednesday the Los Ange…

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 20 February 2014

Econsultancy has done a good job of comparing and reviewing the ticket booking customer interfaces of UK’s three leading cinema chains: Cineworld, Odeon and Vue. This review has relevance for ticket booking experience over the web for every country, even though restricted to just three in one…

Cinema’s Dangerous Addiction to Sodas

The past couple of months have not only seen the 50th anniversary of the Beatles appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show and the premier of Stanley Kubrick’s nuclear satire Dr Strangelove: or, How I stopped Worrying And Learned to Love the Bomb. It is also 50 years since the landmark report Smoking…

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 19 February 2014

Vertical Cinema – it is such a crazy and brilliant idea that we wish we had thought of it first. But some clever Austrians beat us to it. Now you can finally have a place to project all those movies you shot on your iPhone holding it upright. Best of all, this pop-up cinema showsRead More

How MoviePass Works

If At First They Don’t Succeed, MoviePass Tries, Tries Again

Say what you want about MoviePass, the unlimited moviegoing subscription service, but one can not fault the startup for yielding to overwhelming market obstacles or folding at the first sign of serious industry pushback. Instead, when encountering hurdles to their business, the company, which operat…

Popcorn In Slow Motion

[youtube width=”420″ height=”315″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv7DZ7tY-bM[/youtube]

Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 18 February 2014

Event Cinema UK: Secret Cinema has announced its new film and it is Berlin award-winner The Grand Budapest Hotel, showing a full week early, thus demonstrating the power the brand has built with audiences and distributors. “Today, Secret Cinema announces its live cinema experience of Wes Ander…