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Main Entrance at SF Bio's Filmstaden Scandinavia in Stockholm, Sweden

CJ Cinema of the Month: SF Bio’s Filmstaden Scandinavia – Stockholm, Sweden

Celluloid Junkie is proud to have partnered with Vista Entertainment Solutions (VES) for the Cinema of the Month series. Vista is the world’s leading cinema ticketing and software solutions company. We won’t just be featuring cinemas whose operators use Vista, but we will surely mention when t…

Popcorn and tickets. (image: pixabay)

CJ Cinema News Digest – Tuesday 25 April 2017

US Q1 ticket prices up, NAB Future of Cinema, Mumbai single screens survive, French election tickets, Inox fined for water, growth plans for PVR and Inox, Bahrain Cinema Q1 profits, certificate-less film trouble, eating & boozing themed screening, “Boss Baby” for cancer victim. USA…

Megabox cinema Seoul

BREAKING NEWS: Korea Multiplex sells 20% Stake in Megabox

Korea Multiplex is selling 19.5% of its 50% stake in South Korean cinema chain Megabox to institutional investors for KWN 110 billion (USD $97.3 million). KB Asset Management and Shinhan BNP Paribas are buying 157,410 shares in South Korea’s third-largest cinema operators. JContentree, which s…

Sleight, How to be a Latin Lover, The Circle posters

The Calm Before the Guardians Storm as It’s Another Weekend of Less-Than-Unforgettable Titles on The Horizon. This Coming Weekend at The Boxoffice

To the surprise of absolutely no one (not named Katherine Heigl), none of the new openers this past weekend were any match for the second weekend of “The Fate of the Furious”. The eighth edition of the high octane franchise took in another USD $38 million at the boxoffice on 4,329 screens. That scre…

CJ Cinema News Digest – Friday 21 April 2017

PVR fires Kapoor, Paytm crosses $62m, ‘Limitless’ Odeon Printworks worries, AMC’s European shopping bill, ICTA awards, Netflix day-and-date policy no-change, WTW and Scott Cinemas merge, HArkness’ Mitchell heads BKSTS’ CTC, NBA and TED in cinemas, Cineplex attack, scann…

Hacking cyber attack

The Cyber Threat(s) Facing Cinemas

When discussing threats facing the cinema business, Netflix, piracy and shorter release windows always seem to come before any discussion about hacking and cyber threats. Yet as cinemas increasingly rely on complex databases, social media marketing, online transactions, networked point of sale (POS)…

"Fate of the Furious" in China.

CJ China Cinema News – Thursday 20 April 2017

F8 and BJIFF special: “Furious 8” does glorious business, Omnijoi-IMAX pact for +40 cinemas, Hollywood quota speculation and why Hollywood alone can’t save China’s BO, per-screen takings keep falling, yet more BO fraud, BJIFF opens, New Wave Forum panel, FIPL impact on privat…

Event Cinema Caneland. (image: artist's impression)

CJ Cinema Property Update – Wednesday 19 April 2017

Australia: Event in Caneland Japan: Aeon Tokyo’s largest France: ‘Irish pub’ design cinema Dubai: Cityland Mall signs Vox USA: Studio City UW+ ARQ and Riverside worries UK: Blackburn indie screen, Rochdale Riverside Reel Re-furb/Re-open: Wales Market Hall, Curzon Mayfair saved, Od…

Paul Donovan, CEO of Odeon & UCI at CineEurope 2016 (photo: Patrick von Sychowski / Celluloid Junkie)

EXCLUSIVE: CJ Interviews Paul Donovan, former CEO of Odeon & UCI

Having turned around the fortunes of Odeon & UCI, the company’s CEO Paul Donovan stunned the cinema industry by announcing that he was stepping down shortly after the exhibitors’ sale to Wanda-owned AMC. After a period of well-deserved holiday, decompression and introspection, Cellul…

Perhaps a Vue cinema soon? (image: Google Earth)

CJ Cinema News Digest – Tuesday 18 April 2017

Vue to buy Printworks, Odeon-Imax plans, fatal Showcase stabbing, Netflix France cinema pressure, India price cap, Cinepolis India UPI, 21% Germans ‘never’ go to cinema, 700 films banned in German cinemas, INCAA sacking protest, Picturehouse strike, Showcase shooting, another cinema stab…