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Sightline at AMC
February 12, 2023

Dine-In Cinema Summit, AMC Tiered Ticket Prices and a Cineworld Bankruptcy Update

The Celluloid Junkie team has been quite busy over the past week or two. Helen Budge attended the Event Cinema Association’s Slate Day in London at the very end of January. Last week, Patrick von Sychowski headed off to Neurenberg, Germany for the 2023 EDCF conference last week, while at the s…
80 For Brady
February 5, 2023

Why Moviegoers Are Less Likely to Cancel Cinema Visits Than Netflix

With many western economies teetering on the brink of recession due to inflation and high energy costs, the worry is that belt tightening is going to impact cinema attendance in 2023. People looking to save money can forgo a trip to the restaurant or the latest Marvel film, but not milk, bread or he…
2023 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners
January 29, 2023

Will This Year’s Sundance Films Ever Play In Movie Theatres?

The 2023 Sundance Film Festival wrapped up in Park City, Utah this weekend. It’s the first time that one of the film industry’s biggest annual festival’s has been held in person since 2020. While there was lots of chatter about the current woeful state of “specialty films…
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania Chinese Posters
January 20, 2023

Directors Need to Stop Blaming Audiences for Their Flops

With awards season upon us and prestige releases filling up January, it seems to have become fashionable for some directors to blame audiences and streaming for the failure of their films. Passion projects like “Empire of Light,” “The Fabelmans,” “Bardo,” “A…
January 13, 2023

How James Cameron Defied Nay-Sayers With “Avatar: the Way of Water”

“Avatar: the Way of Water” walked away empty-handed from the Golden Globes this week, but it continues to rain gold on James Cameron’s sci-fi epic where it truly matters: the cinema box office. The film is approaching the global USD $2 billion mark and is now the fifth-biggest Inte…
The Naked Truth About What's Happening at AMC
January 8, 2023

Avatar and AMC Theatres Dominate Holiday Headlines

For anyone who took the Christmas and New Year’s holidays off, welcome back. We hope your 2023 is off to a productive and fruitful beginning. For those of you who may have worked through the holiday break, such as the hundreds of thousands of ushers, cashiers, servers and concession stand work…
Russian Cinemas Plan To Show Pirated Copies of Avatar: The Way of Water
December 18, 2022

Movie Theatres Get A Feliz Na’vi Dad Thanks To Avatar Sequel

Cinema operators all across the globe are dreaming of a blue Christmas. Filmmaker James Cameron is the unlikely high-tech Santa, who they hope will make all their box office wishes come true. The early signs for “Avatar: The Way of Water,” which opened this week/end are auspicious. Indee…
Sundance Film Festival 2023 - Official Selection Announcement
December 11, 2022

CineAsia Returns With a Bang in Bangkok

The CineAsia show held this week was a return to form in the new/former home of Bangkok after a gap of three shows, since its last event in Hong Kong in 2018. While it had been previously held in Bangkok many years ago, there were a lot of uncertainties about the move and inevitable challengesRead M…
Toni El Massih, Managing Director, Majid Al Futtaim Cinemas and Abdulaziz Almuzaini, Chief Executive Officer, Sirb Production
December 5, 2022

Cinema Industry Shines Spotlight on the Far and Middle East

While it is widely disputed whether certain businesses slow down during the month of December, there can be no debate on the subject when it comes to the cinema industry, especially as 2022 draws to a close. After two pandemic-dampened years, the business is spending the last four weeks of this one…
Amazon Acquisition of MGM
November 27, 2022

This Holiday Season Cinemas Are Thankful for Netflix and Amazon

This week was the Thanksgiving Holiday in the United States and US cinema operators are giving particular thanks to Netflix for having gifted them a sequel to a blockbuster with an all-star cast and, most importantly, a full one-month window before it streams. Call it a turkey holiday with a large h…
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