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A Cinema Superpower: China, One Year On

It’s a little over a year since the World changed forever. The Covid 19 pandemic, originating in China, would force the closure of all of their cinemas creating a domino effect that would see the cinema industry come to a standstill. It was on 23rd January 2020, on the eve of the Spring Festival (mo…

The UK Cinema Industry in 2020 – A Year to Learn From

It is quite revealing as to the state of the year when a third of the top 10 films of 2020 were in fact released in 2019. But 2020 was far from normal, as the latest annual summary from Comscore illustrates. The headlines are not pretty. Total UK and Ireland box office was just £323m,Read More

Everyman Cinemas 100th Anniversary

100 Years of Everyman

The Everyman Cinema in London’s Hampstead (known as “Everyman Hampstead”) has joined many of us this year in having a lockdown-restricted birthday. One hundred years after opening its doors for the first time in 1920 as a theatre, the company now has 35 sites around the UK. And despite this last yea…

Secret Cinema - Moulin Rouge!

CJ Opinion: Questioning Secret Cinema’s £1 million Arts Council of England Bail-Out

Tim Concannon is an investigative journalist and film blogger. He recently exposed evidence of over half a billion US dollars unaccounted for in the UN-endorsed clean-up of oil pollution in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. “I see secrecy as a form of truth that allows you to do what you want” Secret Cinema fo…

Heather Morgan of Harkins Theatres

Tackling The Mental Health Consequences of Covid-19, with Heather Morgan of Harkins Theatres

Heather Morgan, Vice President of Content and Programming for Harkins Theatres in the United States, is a good example of how education-to-career pathways aren’t always linear. With a PhD in Industrial and Organisational Psychology, a usual role for the recipient of this qualification would be to he…

Global Cinema Opening/Closure Overview (UPDATED)

Thursday 26 November 2020 Top – Study by Berlin’s Hermann-Rietschel -Institut finds spread of aerosol particles (i.e. potential Covid-19 infection risk) almost negligible in cinema auditoriums and far below that of offices, as long as people are not talking, only breathing. Good reason t…

The Storm Before the Calm: European Cinemas Buoyed by Local Films Pre-Lockdown

For European exhibitors in November 2020, there is a sense of deja-vu. “Lockdown 2 – The Sequel”. Not playing in a cinema near you. In response to rising coronavirus cases, Europe is once again closed for business. Gower Street reports that only 24% of theatres are now open across the EMEA region, d…

Mission Impossible? Opening a Cinema in a Global Pandemic

Anyone who has ever opened a cinema before will know that it’s not the easiest – or quickest – of things to do. Even on a smooth ride there are a multitude of complex moving parts. Opening a cinema during a global pandemic could therefore either be the bravest or the daftest thing that aRead More

CJ Analysis: The Number of COVID-19 Outbreaks Traced to Cinemas is Zero

An extensive study undertaken by Celluloid Junkie has found that not a single outbreak of COVID-19 anywhere across the globe can be traced to a cinema, multiplex or public screening venue. With a majority of global cinemas closed in the first half of 2020, and with health and government officials so…

Cinemas Lack Movies, Not Audiences

Letter to the Editor Cinemas lack movies, not audiences The Danish movie industry has shown that the turning point is not far away and that few factors are making the difference for recovery. In Denmark, the past weeks have demonstrated that the audience is ready and will visit the cinema if the mov…