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EFM Industry Sessions - Surfing the Waves: Audience Building in a New Period of Changes (credit: Davide Abbatescianni)

EFM Panel Surveys Exhibition and Distribution in the Current Post-pandemic Phase

On 19 February, the event hall of the Berlin’s Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation hosted a panel titled “Surfing the Waves: Audience Building in a New Period of Changes,” organized by the European Film Market (EFM) in partnership with Europa Distribution and moderated b…

EFM Got Down to IRL Business in Berlin

The European Film Market’s online editions for 2021 and 2022 did surprisingly good business, but it was with hugs and handshakes that the EFM came back to IRL action, celebrated this year with a rather spiffy grey fabric tote. In hindsight, the real work of the EFM this year might be said to be more…

Berlin Film Festival Hesitantly Embraces Glitz and Glamour

The first of the year’s big European film festivals, the Berlinale attracts lovers of art house and European cinema as well as those enamoured with film history, politics and documentaries. Those with a taste for serious cinema – the kind that points to problems, highlights emotions and shines…

The Future Comes Into Focus at Cinema Vision 2030

Europe has a new cinema conference well worth paying attention to. The second annual Cinema Vision 2030 was held in Berlin on 15 February, on the eve of the city’s Berlinale film festival. The one-day event boasted a wealth of international speakers, topics and sessions that tackled the challenges b…

Berlin Film Festival 2022 – The Luckiest Festival of Them All?

The Berlin Film Festival might be the luckiest festival in the world. The very last major international film festival outside the pandemic, Berlinale 2020, ended one day before the city’s first official Covid-19 case was recorded. Before then, it had sold 330,000 tickets, hosted over 18,500 fi…

Zoo Palast in Berlin, Germany

Cinema of the Month: Zoo Palast Kino – Berlin, Germany

Celluloid Junkie is proud to have partnered with Vista Cinema for the Cinema of the Month series. Vista is the world’s leading cinema management software solutions company. We won’t just be featuring cinemas whose operators use Vista, but we will surely mention when that is the case. CJ would like t…

Berlinale 2018

Cinema News Digest – Thursday 15 February 2018

Dear Junkies, Today is the start of the Berlin Film Festival (aka Berlinale to locals) and CJ will be taking part in various panels, forums, presentations, meetings, receptions and, who knows, we might even be able to fit in a film or two. German cinema is celebrating a return to growth, with 122.3m…

Chunky's Cinema Pub in MAnchester, MA. (photo: Chunky's Facebook page)

CJ Cinema Property Update – Wednesday 17 May 2017

USA: Chunky’s swivel-chair cinema India: SPI in Warangal Canada: Cineplex VIP in Vancouver UK: Cineworld Ely, Reel Chorley Germany: Berlin could get Film House, Weber wants luxury for Erlangen Re-furb/Re-opening: United Cinemas Tokyo Odaiba, Inox R-Mall 7-star, Vox Chamonix replaced, Regal 17…

Kino International, Berlin

Cinema of the Month: Kino International – Berlin, Germany

Berlin's Kino International is the cinema of the month, a piece of East German nostalgia transformed into a retro-chic single-screen art-house cinema of the highest order.

Fifty Shades

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 9 February 2015

“No props, please” is the message from the three largest US cinema chains when it comes to patrons enjoying “Fifty Shades of Grey” – but not too much, obviously. [T]hree leading US cinema chains – AMC, Regal Entertainment and Cinemark – have requested that t…