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Record Breaking Year for European Cinema Attendance

European cinema attendance last year not only recovered from the slight slump of 2018, but went on to break records as the highest this century. Preliminary 2019 statistics from cinema trade body UNIC shows that more than 1.34 billion admissions were recorded last year, representing a 4.5% increase…

How We Will View Hollywood Today In Twenty Years?

Hollywood today is mirroring Hollywood in the 1960s, so if you want to know how we will view Hollywood today just look at how we view Hollywood back then. By the 1960s, movie theater attendances had dropped super-low because people preferred TV, which they didn’t have to pay for. The studios combatt…

What to Expect: Digital Cinema Summit at Integrated Systems Europe – 12 February, Amsterdam

Integrated Systems Europe, the World’s biggest pro audiovisual trade show with more than 1.300 exhibitors and 80.000 participants, takes place from 11-14 February in Amsterdam. It’s a must go event for many technology partners of the cinema exhibition industry, including of course many ICTA members,…

Christie's California Office

CJ Green: RBGreen Laser Focus, Part Two

After our pre-Christmas look at Barco’s efforts towards operating more sustainably we now turn our attention to fellow digital cinema projector manufacturers Christie and NEC. We also take a look into the wider issue of corporate environmental responsibility and action being undertaken by both compa…

Celluloid Junkie’s 2020 Cinema Predictions

Having slightly dreaded revisiting our cinema predictions from a year ago, we were pleasantly surprised to discover just how much we managed to get right. And this wasn’t just right in the way that even a clock that’s stopped shows the correct time twice a day. Heck, no! Sperling effecti…

Women in Exhibition Photo Call at ECM19.

Nominations Open for Celluloid Junkie’s Top Women in Global Cinema 2020

The nominations are open for Celluloid Junkie’s annual Top Women in Global Cinema, now in its fifth year of recognizing the important work done by women who work in the business of showing films in cinemas. It is particularly significant that this coincides with 50:50 by 2020 and while the film indu…

Regal Switches to Pepsi

Regal Switches to Pepsi and Sparks Social Media Backlash

The announcement that Regal Cinemas is switching from Coke to Pepsi has not gone down well with most people on social media. The announcement came after a flirty Twitter campaign between the official @RegalMovies and @Pepsi accounts, proclaiming their mutual attraction. But it was Variety’s Br…

2019 Winners and Losers

Cinema 2019 – Who Had a Good Year And Who Didn’t?

Before 2019 vanishes in the rearview mirror, let’s take a last look at who was king and queen of the multiplex over the past 12 months, as well as who ended up in the bin with the popcorn sweepings. Remember, hindsight is 2020 and as the investment warning goes, “past performance is no g…

Majestic Theater Marquee in Madison, Wisconsin

Merry Christmas, Movie House!

Yes, there were movie houses as magical as the one greeted by Jimmy Stewart in It’s A Wonderful Life. I worked in one of them, writes Karen Krizanovich in this exclusive CJ Christmas cinema column. Single-screen cinemas were all we had in the mid-80s. Most American towns had one. I grew up seeing th…

Celluloid Junkie Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and Medicinema Appeal

Another year has passed and we look back on a rich 12 months for cinema, from the box office record of “Avengers: Endgame” to the artistic (and box office!) triumph of “Parasite.” It was a year that saw Ghost No. 1 become the biggest cinema piracy ring ever smashed, Mariam el…