Last week on the CJ Cinema Summit we were joined by Tony Chambers, Executive Vice President and Head of Theatrical Distribution at The Walt Disney Studios Company as well as Dimitrios Mitsinikos, CEO of Gower Street Analytics. The conversation was incredibly informative. You can watch it on-demand h…

Before we jump into this week’s editorial, I’d like to take a moment for a little self promotion. First, our managing editor Helen Budge will be attending the 2024 Norwegian Cinema Conference being organized by Film & Kino in Lillehammer, Norway from 4-7 November to give a presentati…

In last week’s Marquee newsletter I stepped right into a trap that has snagged many a rookie award winner throughout the years. Nominees for entertainment industry awards are often warned against thanking colleagues, associates, companies, etc. by name in acceptance speeches. Not only can ratt…

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Or so the saying goes. While one might debate the principle behind the aphorism, it truly is nice to be missed during an extended absence. That was certainly the case for us here at CJ when, upon missing the last few weeks of the newsletter, a fair number ofRead…

When we first set out to celebrate those women holding leadership positions in the exhibition industry back in 2016, we found so few that the original headline of the piece was “Why So Few Women CEOs in Cinema?” We wisely chose to change the headline to “Celluloid Junkie’s Top 25 W…