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…

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…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…