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Celluloid Junkie’s 2020 Cinema Predictions

Having slightly dreaded revisiting our cinema predictions from a year ago, we were pleasantly surprised to discover just how much we managed to get right. And this wasn’t just right in the way that even a clock that’s stopped shows the correct time twice a day. Heck, no! Sperling effecti…

CJ Opinion: PwC Keeps Embarrassing Itself With Its China Cinema Predictions

Nobody can deny the importance of China as a cinema market, having overtaken the United States in screen count in December 2016 and has the second biggest box office in the world after North America. Now consultant and audit group PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC) is predicting that China’s box offi…

Ghost No. 1 with Projector and Camcorder Setup

Hunting Ghost No. 1 – China’s Three Year Quest to Take Down The Most Sophisticated Movie Piracy Ring Ever

It was the piracy nightmare that was supposed to be technically impossible. Hollywood studios had spent years coming up with the digital cinema specifications and a certification process that ensured military-grade encryption would protect the latest blockbuster film releases. Camcording, albeit tra…

China box office to overtake US in 2019-2020. (source: Mtime)

Will China Overtake US Box Office by 2020?

The roaring success of this year’s Chinese New Year box office releases has led to renewed speculation about China soon overtaking the United States as the world’s largest cinema market. Despite the failure of previous such predictions, there is a sense that with Chinese screens now outn…

China Cinema News – New Year Special 2018

Chinese New Year is over (also known as Spring or Lunar Festival) and with it a record box office haul for the world’s second biggest cinema market, as we enter the Year of the Dog. After last year failed to improve much on the previous holiday, this year saw a significant leap – both in…

Emperor Cinemas at the Entertainment Building in Hong Kong

Cinema of the Month: Emperor Cinemas – Hong Kong SAR, China

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. We would like t…

"Youth" poster

China Cinema News – Monday 8 January 2018

China’s BO returns to growth in 2017 – just about; interesting cinema year 2018 ahead with BO predicted to his CNY 60 bn ($8.5bn); growth of cinemas in smaller cities but average attendance low; authorities to push cinemas to show local films; China Giant Screen aims to overtake Imax; CJ…

Media Forecast 2018 Celluloid Junkie

Celluloid Junkie’s 2018 Cinema Predictions

2017 was an eventful year for the film and cinema business and 2018 promises to be even more so. So the Celluloid Junkie editorial team has gazed into the crystal ball to see what’s ahead. Here is a list of possible scenarios in the new year, as foreseen by our top contributors Jim Amos (JA),Read Mo…

Shengjia International Studios

CJ China Cinema News – Thursday 27 July 2017

China 45K screens, Dadi goes Tier 3-5, Alibaba increase Tao Piao Piao stake, ticket platforms battle, no growth Tier 1&2, H1 mixed report, “bottleneck period”, local films under-perform, Imax 7 screens with Bestar, Shengjia International Studios interview, 24h automated private cinem…

CJ Cinema News Digest – Tuesday 25 July 2017

mm2 won’t buy GV, US Q2 ticket prices, China island cinema, China invests in Vietnam’s Beta, CGR’s LightVibes reviewed, Everyman 1H ‘successful’, UAE arthouse, Tamil Nadu under-multiplexes, Movies@ profits, trailer releases, MK2 evacuation, The Light fire, Cayman Regal…