Carmike Cinemas Acquisition Caps Banner Year for Adam Aron at AMC
One year into his job as CEO of AMC, Adam Aron has already accomplished more than anyone ever expected, including the Carmike and Odeon deal. CJ takes a look behind the scenes.
CJ Cinema News Digest – Friday 5 January 2017
Korea cinema quality certification, Vue price cut, 6 Ways Film Biz is Changing, lessons from Houston cinemas, TV on big screen, France BO but German down, PVR partners comScore, Nueplex raided, Bollywood bother, good theatre projection guide, CGV's Tempur mattress cinema, iPhone Theatre Mode, Imax V…
China’s Box Office ‘Slump’ Is Worse Than You Realise
CJ looks at what caused the box office in China to crash in 2016, what the actual business climate is and the future prospect of the Chinese cinema market.
CJ Cinema Property Update – Wednesday 4 January 2017
USA: Universal CityWalk AMC refurbished, Clark Cinema 10 work underway, UK: Glasgow BHS to become cinema, Omniplex Omagh green-lit, Galeri Caernarfon work to start, Bosnia-Herzegovina: CineStar opens third multiplex, Korea (South): Lotte Cinema Incheon Asiad is 112th, Trinidad: MovieTowne 4th cinema…
CJ Cinema News Digest – Tuesday 3 January 2017
Polish films big in UK, Pathé seating backlash, Mexican cinema up, PVR goes UPI, mandatory Punjabi films, Carnival in Odisha, Pakistani entertainment tax, Korea highlights popcorn sugar, Pepsi fined in India, Kinepolis' Malayam black list, "Rogue One" sleep in and Brit builds 34-seat ABC cinema in b…
Mizrahi and MK2 Acquire Ciné Metro Art Cinemas
The last of Galeshka Moravioff's Ciné Métro Art cinemas have been taken over by MK2 (Paris' La Bastille) and Ymagis' Jean Mizrahi (Marseille's Les Variétés).
1916-2016: 100 Years of Coca-Cola on the Big Screen
It is exactly 100 years since Coca-Cola first appeared in a movie. Celluloid Junkie looks back at the history of cinema's most important corporate partnership.
Legendary Projectionist Charles Aidikoff Dies at 101
With the adoption of digital cinema there seems to be fewer and fewer experienced motion picture projectionists working in the industry. Sadly the world now has one less. Indeed, Charles Aidikoff was such a fixture in Hollywood that his death last week at 101 years-of-age was noted on National Publi…
Merry Christmas and an Exciting 2017 Ahead
Celluloid Junkie wishes its readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We will be back even bigger, better and with more coverage of everything that matters to the cinema industry in 2017.
CJ + Vista: Interview with Murray Holdaway, Vista Group CEO
CJ talks to Murray Holdaway, Vista Group CEO, about our Cinema of the Month partnership, areas of growth, China, the thinking behind Vista's acquisitions and what it's like to be a non-dairy New Zealand export.