Eight months ago Celluloid Junkie explored the impact that the lack of trade shows would have on the cinema business. We speculated that it could be an entire 18 months that the business would have to do without an international…
I squinted at my phone at 6:00 am on the 12th of March. “Did you see that they cancelled CinemaCon as well as all flights to and from Mainland Europe?” read the text. The news had broken overnight (for those…
To say that 2020 has been a bad year for cinema operators and theatrical film distributors would be quite the understatement. With COVID-19 shuttering most of the world’s movie theaters, global box office is down well over 70% from last…
This is a 15 minute presentation I gave on the 18th of June at the virtual CineEurope conference, discussing how cinema operator can use technologies to keep audiences and their staff safe form the Coronavirus, which we are sharing here…
The first ever spacewalk made by an all female team. The European Commission’s first woman President and the most gender-balanced college in history. Finland’s all female government coalition led by the youngest head of state in the world – these…
Having spent more than two decades of her career in the hospitality and events industry, Debbie Stanford-Kristiansen was presented with a new challenge when she was asked to head up Gulf cinema company Novo. Despite feeling as though it may…
The second video in our “Women in Cinema” series, in partnership with the Cinema Technology Community (CTC), features the delectable Mariam el Bacha, CEO of Pakistan’s largest cinema company, Cinepax. I sat down with her to discuss her international career,…
Part Two – Costa: Creating Value From Waste Welcome back to part two of our CineEurope Coca-Cola Sustainability seminar round up. If you missed part one – covering the EU’s directive on plastic waste & marine litter, and Coke’s sustainability…
Part One – No Time To Waste Despite CineEurope 2019 now seeming like a distant memory, sustainability is a topic that doesn’t lose relevance (also see: Celluloid Junkie’s new regular feature CJ Green). The Celluloid Junkie team attended the second…
As delegates make there way to Barcelona, Spain for CineEurope 2019, one of the highlights at this year’s conference will undoubtedly be when Peter Fornstam of Svenska Bio will pick up the UNIC Achievement Award. Fornstam is not only the…