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Worried About Face Masks in Cinemas? Ask About HVAC Instead

As cinemas re-open, people have been understandably concerned about the issue of wearing masks within cinema interiors. But are we missing a bigger factor in potential transmission of the Coronavirus, that is the HVAC or heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems that pump and often re-circul…

Webinar: Helping Independent Cinemas Make the Most of Their Digital Marketing – Optimising Twitter

To help independent cinemas make the most of their social media and digital activity, Celluloid Junkie has teamed with movie marketing company Screen Moguls on a digital initiative designed to educate and support cinemas with their digital activity during the coronavirus shutdown. Twitter is differe…

Webinar: Helping Independent Cinemas Optimise Their Digital Marketing – Social Media Content Creation

To help independent cinemas make the most of their social media and digital activity, Celluloid Junkie has teamed with movie marketing company Screen Moguls on a digital initiative designed to educate and support cinemas with their digital activity during the coronavirus shutdown. Facebook and Insta…

Post Pandemic Technologies: How to Keep Moviegoers (and Staff) Safe

This is a 15 minute presentation I gave on the 18th of June at the virtual CineEurope conference, discussing how cinema operator can use technologies to keep audiences and their staff safe form the Coronavirus, which we are sharing here for the benefit of everybody. There are a lot of different tech…

The Problems Facing North American Movie Theatres After They Reopen

The Problems Facing North American Movie Theatres After They Reopen

Exhibitors are dying to reopen movie theatres. Studios are dying to release blockbuster films. But will fans be ready to risk dying to see them? That’s the dilemma facing our industry in what could be a cruel summer of dashed hopes and unrealistic expectations. We’ll discuss the new normal and the c…

Distributors Open Up Film Archives for Re-Opening UK Cinemas

In a sign of support and solidarity across both UK and US distributors, the Film Distributors’ Association (FDA) today announced “Relaunching Cinema: Content For Recovery”, designed to provide UK exhibitors an easily accessible and navigable list of films (PDF link) to play on their screens in the c…

7 Reasons Why Moving “Tenet” Was The Right Call For The Industry

Most movie industry observers figured that Warner Brothers would have to make a decision on whether to fire the starter’s gun on the “summer” movie season by launching Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” on July 17th by the middle of June. The word came down late last week that while “Tenet” would indeed be…

CJ Interviews: Steve Knibbs, COO for Vue International

The global COVID-19 pandemic, and resulting government-enforced lockdowns, has pushed the international cinema industry to its limits. But throughout this time, innovation and a strong sense of community has surfaced, with exhibitors around the world using the downtime to plan thoroughly for when th…

Investment in Vietnam’s Beta Cineplex Show Confidence in Cinema Post-Covid

Vietnam is the country in Asia that has probably seen the best handling of the Coronavirus outbreak, with the country that neighbours China not recording a single Covid-19 fatality. Now the country’s cinemas sector, which was growing rapidly before the pandemic, has seen a vote of confidence w…

Celluloid Junkie's Top Women In Cinema 2020

CJ’s Top 50 Women In Global Cinema – 2020

So far, 2020 has been an eventful year for the international cinema exhibition industry, and not in the way we all hoped. That said, before the global COVID-19 pandemic struck, the previous twelve months were marked by some incredible achievements by the women in our industry. And so, Celluloid Junk…