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Free Fire, Born in China, Unforgettable posters

Disney Pandas, Gun Totting 70s Gangsters and Lovestruck Armenians No Match For Record Breaking-ish F8

The Fate of the Furious was clearly to make box office history – though only abroad, as the F8 sequel fell short of the last high octane outing in North America, taking a drop over USD $100 million (USD $100.2 million to be precise), compared to USD $147.2 million for “Furious 7” and thus fall…

Korea cinema ticket price increases poll.

Korean Cinema Price Hike Leads to Youth Backlash

Korea’s three major cinema chain introduced variable pricing last year and a recent poll by the Film Promotion Committee has found significant resentment to increased ticket and concession prices. The “2016 Theater Consumer Survey” polled 2,089 people aged 15-59. Of these 78.1% wer…

CinemaCon 2017 Stage

Conversation: The Tech Potential and Promise of CinemaCon 2017

This is an online conversation about what a group of us saw and thought about CinemaCon 2017 and also a visit to leading facilities, studios and cinemas in Los Angeles the week before. Joining the virtual chat are myself, J. Sperling Reich, the Executive Editor of Celluloid Junkie, one of our regula…

Mori Cinema by Robert Majkut design. (photo: Eurobuild)

CJ Cinema Property Update – Wednesday 12 April 2017

Russia: Polish design in Mori South Africa: New NuMetro UK: Kingston boutique, Grimsby 9-screen, Aberdeen, Glasgow Everyman, Sheffield The Light, Scarborough cinema war, Peterborough uncertainty, Wellgate The Light delayed, Reel in Kirby Holland: Kinepolis Den Bosch Germany: Berlin cinema revival, …

AMC Town Square 18 Las Vegas sign. (photo: Patrick von Sychowski - Celluloid Junkie)

CJ Cinema News Digest – Tuesday 11 April 2017

AMC & Cinemark to spend >$1bn on recliner seats and F&B, US BO year up 5.5% already, Spaniards want lower cinema VAT, Oslo cinema privatisation success, Argentina BO up, AC turned off for Kannada film, Disney captioning protest, Korea cinema evacuation, ‘crazy’ cinema food sm…

Yo Xin, Dadi Cinemas GM

CJ Interviews: Yu Xin, General Manager, Dadi Cinemas

In collaboration with Boxoffice Magazine CJ recently celebrated the 50 top female executives in the global cinema industry. Here is an interview with this year’s top candidate, Dadi Cinemas’s Yu Xin, the general manager of China’s second largest exhibition circuit. It was carried out by Daniel…

F8, Gifted, Lost City of Z

Moviegoers Primed for a Furious Easter Holiday. This Coming Weekend at the Boxoffice

“Boss Baby” continued its boxoffice dominance this past weekend as all three newcomers performed exactly as CJ predicted last Monday. The best, and I do use that word loosely, of the bunch was Sony’s “Smurfs: Lost Village” which hobbled its way to a USD $14 million debut. The launch was yet another…

CinemaCon 2017

Tech Potential and Promise of CinemaCon 2017 – Part 1.5

CinemaCon is a NATO construct built on the pillars of The Exhibitor’s movie palaces, The Studio’s mix of movies, and The Techniques and Technology that brings them to life. The pillars sit on a wild and nuanced history which reflects forward to a constantly changing future… ……

Jan Runge, Chief Executive Officer of Union Internationale des Cinémas (UNIC)

CJ Cinema News Digest – Friday 7 April 2017

Jan Runge leaving UNIC, Tour des Cinemas report in English, Ster-Kinekor hacked, South Korean cinema “wage theft”, actors protest Picturehouse, CGV’s siesta cinema, Lotte chairman denies corruption, UK indies and cinema, Senegal cinema revival, Shia LaBouef film has just one viewer…

China Cinema box office 2012-2017 Q1 Mtime Ent Group

CJ China Cinema News – Thursday 6 April 2017

China BO slumps further, Alibaba losses, Wanda re-brand and profits, 362 cinema punished for fraud, Hollywood’s small China earnings, private cinemas to the rescue, cinema fragmentation and consolidation, Hengdian IPO, children cinema height and Jiang Tian’s acting isn’t appreciate…