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Stan Ruszkowski, CEO of The Boxoffice Company, Carla Boyd of Cineworld, Adrien Chabel, the CEO of AlloCine) and Mariano Otero of Fever during the Turning Social Buzz Into Box Office Sales panel at CineEurope on 15 June 2025 in Barcelona, Spain

CineEurope 2025: Turning Social Buzz into Box Office Success

“We’re here to talk about something that never sleeps,” proclaimed Stan Ruszkowski, CEO of The Boxoffice Company, at the outset of a panel discussion at this year’s CineEurope. Titled “From Scroll to Screen: Turning Social Buzz into Box Office Sales”, the session came on the first day of the confere…

Phil Clapp, President, Laura Houlgatte, CEO, International Union Of Cinemas Keynote Address – CineEurope 2023

This is the keynote speech delivered by Phil Clapp, President, and Laura Houlgatte, CEO, International Union of Cinemas (UNIC) at CineEurope 2023 in Barcelona on 19 June 2023 Good afternoon everyone – on behalf of UNIC, the International Union of Cinemas, we are delighted to welcome you to Cin…

CineEurope 2022 - Trade Show Floor

CineEurope 2022: Wired for Sound

For those who attended this year, it’s safe to say that CineEurope 2022 was a great success. Attendance numbers were at least double that of the 2021 convention (itself a success in terms of ambience and getting the cinema community back together again) and there was a definite feeling that “cinema…

CineEurope 2022 Opening Speech

Phil Clapp, President, Laura Houlgatte, CEO, International Union Of Cinemas Keynote address – CineEurope 2022 – 20 June 2022 Good afternoon, everyone – on behalf of UNIC, the International Union of Cinemas, we are delighted to welcome you to CineEurope 2022. The past two years have been a roug…

CineEurope Coca Cola Seminar: Emerging Stronger, Charting the Path for Growth

Bond. Venom. Dune. The audiences are back in their droves, but how have their spending habits changed? With extremely strong retail spends being reported by cinemas, CineEurope’s Coca Cola seminar 2021 examined whether this is a short-term trend or if it is here to stay. The Tuesday morning session…

Charles Rivkin of the Motion Picture Association Keynote at CineEurope 2021

MPA’s Charles Rivkin Brings the Charm to CineEurope 2021

While more Americans made it over to CineEurope this year than did European to CinemaCon, they were still small in number. The Motion Picture Association’s Chairman and CEO Charles (Charlie) Rivkin was one of those and, even though he spends a considerable amount of time in Washington DC, he p…

Phil Clapp at CineEurope 2021

UNIC Opens CineEurope 2021 With Optimistic Keynote

The first in-person CineEurope since June of 2019 opened in Barcelona, Spain on Monday, 4 October with Phil Clapp, the President of the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC), and Laura Houlgatte, the organization’s CEO, personally welcoming attendees in keynote address that recounted the toll…

2021 Cinema Trade Shows

Cinema Trade Shows Are Back… But Will The Industry Turn Up?

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 cinema trade show and, as it turns out, (as with everything COVID-19 it…

We’re All Grounded: The Impact of a Lack of Trade Shows on the Cinema Business

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 of us outside of the United States) and the email from the show’s Managing DirectorRead More

Film Expo Group Rallies Around ShowEast

Film Expo Group Rallies Around ShowEast During Challenging Year

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 year and as cinemas reopen, it is uncertain whether audie…