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By The Numbers: Predicting Cinema’s Post-COVID Recovery

At the end of last year the Celluloid Junkie editorial team began discussing its annual predictions piece for 2021. However, most expert forecasts for 2020 crumbled like volcanic lava sliding into the ocean. We stared into the 2021 crystal ball and saw a lot of fog regarding the return of cinema and…

A VIP Auditorium at the Cinépolis JK Iguatemi in São Paulo, Brazil

Cinema of the Month: Cinépolis JK Iguatemi – São Paulo, Brazil

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…

Expocine

Expocine 2017 Has More To Offer Attendees

Since its inaugural event four short years ago, Expocine has become the preeminent industry trade show for motion picture exhibitors and distributors in Latin America. Like CineEurope, its equivalent in the European Union, the conference has fast become invaluable for its ability to bring together c…

South American Box Office - January 2017

South America’s January Box Office Gets 2017 Off to a Good Start

If the month of January proves to be a bellwether, than South America could be in for a banner year both in cinema attendance and box office. Though obtaining accurate figures is not always easy, based on preliminary numbers from the countries surveyed, it would seem that cinema attendance is up ove…

Minha Mae e uma Peca 2 - My Mother is a Character 2

“My Mom is a Character 2” Becomes Brazil’s Highest Grossing Domestic Film

On Tuesday of last week a new box office record holder for domestically produced films was crowned in brazil. The BRL R$117.2 million (USD $37.7 million) earned by the comedy “Minha Mãe é uma Peça 2: O Filme” (“My Mom is a Character 2”) surpassed the BRL R$116.8 million (USD $37.5 million) brought…

Sully: O Herói do Rio Hudson

Warner Bros. Delays Release of “Sully” In Brazil

At the last possible moment, Warner Bros. Pictures has delayed the release of “Sully: O Herói do Rio Hudson” (Sully: The Hudson River Hero) which was scheduled to open today, Thursday, December 1st. The studio made the decision due to the crash of LaMia Flight 2933 outside Medellín, Colombia on Mond…

CJ Cinema Digest – Wednesday 17 August 2016

Alibaba goes cinema, Vox goes Saudi, CGV charged, Brazil cinemas need banks, Alamo grows, NCM bonds, Profits@Dundrum, trailer trauma, Guzzo baby surrender, UFO sues cinemas, deaf man sues Celebration Cinemas, laser survey, Sunshine bomb hoax, Reel goes luxury at Palm, Vue facelift, Pathé and Gaumont…

Mauri Palos and Marcelo Lima at Expocine 2015

Expocine Was Bigger and Better In 2015

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBRSVwNUkrY[/youtube] If you are a cinema operator or distributor in South America, then you were probably at the Centro de Convenções Frei Caneca in São Paulo, Brazil last month for Expocine 2015. Nearly 2,000…

Marcelo Lima

Profile: Interview with Marcelo Lima of Expocine and Exibidor

As the worldwide motion picture exhibition and distribution industries head to Las Vegas next week for CinemaCon, their annual convention, few will be thinking about trade shows later in the year, let alone ones outside North America. That’s not true of Marcelo J. L. Lima, the CEO of Tonks, a…

A truck seized in Belo Horizonte, Brazil was filled with digital cinema equipment stolen from Quanta DGT

Breaking News: Quanta DGT Recovers Part of Their Stolen Digital Cinema Equipment

The thieves who made off with more than 120 screens worth of digital cinema equipment from Quanta DGT could run, but they couldn’t hide. Actually scratch that. Apparently they could run, but they couldn’t hide all of the digital cinema devices they stole from the Latin American integrato…

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