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2026 Box Office - January through June - First Half

International Box Office Recovery Accelerates as Local Films Gain Ground

Selected markets across Europe, Asia and Australia reported stronger revenue or attendance during the first half of 2026, with China the major exception and domestic productions increasingly powering the rebound. One year ago, the international theatrical recovery still looked fragile, uneven and he…

UNIC 2026 Annual Report

UNIC Reports European Box Office Held Near €6.9 Billion in 2025, But Admissions Tell a More Complicated Story

European cinemas spent much of 2025 proving a point that has become familiar in the post-pandemic theatrical business: audiences show up when the films are there. The harder question, and the one the International Union of Cinemas’s (UNIC) 2026 Annual Report keeps circling back to, is whether…

Blitz - Apple

Apple Breaks French Theatrical Release Windows with “Blitz”

Invoking a rarely used loophole, and a first for a major streaming service, Apple utilized an “exceptional visa” to release Steve McQueen’s World War II drama “Blitz” in French cinemas for a limited two-day run on November 9-10. The maneuver bypassed France’s stri…

2024 Film Releases - First Half

Mixed Results for Global Box Office During First Half of 2024

With the first six months of 2024 in the books, it a natural time to take a quick look at the theatrical box office statistics of various geographic territories during the first half of the year. As expected, box office was down against 2023 in most countries during the January through June time fra…

Fights Break Out In Theatres During Creed 3 Screenings

“Creed III”: Screenings Take ‘Immersive’ to a Whole New Level

There’s no enemy like the past, says the tagline of “Creed lll”, the ninth film in the “Rocky” franchise. Nevertheless, it seems like some spectators managed to find contemporary enemies during the opening weekend in France and Germany. Thinking outside the boxing ring, several cin…

SNPTC Study on Movie Advertising on Television

France Discovers Benefits of Advertising Movies on TV

It may come as a shock to some, but for decades advertising theatrical film releases on television was prohibited in France. The French government believed that allowing movies to air commercials and trailers on television would only benefit American studios, i.e. Hollywood, at the expense of local…

7 Batignol Cinema - Paris, France

French Cinema Attendance in “Free Fall” as Other European Countries Consider Health Pass Mandate

The introduction of an EU Health Certificate (a.k.a. ‘vaccine passport’) requirement to attend cinemas in France has led to a ‘free fall’ drop in attendance. The news is a blow to French cinemas, which had experienced a steady growth since reopening earlier this summer after…

French Cinemas Are Closing (Again)

It has sadly not been uncommon for re-opened cinema to be forced to shutter their doors again in many part of the world. China was first with the brief re-opening in the spring quickly ending and cinemas in Dalian also recently forced to close a second time. Cinemas in several southern US states hav…

Keep Calm, It’s Just The Corona Virus (But Panic if You See Ridley Scott)

The Corona Virus may now be spreading faster outside of China than in it, but Arnauld Vialle, the owner of the Rex Cinema in Sarlat (Dordogne, France) doesn’t appear to be too worried at all. “As long as we don’t have bird flu that stops us eating duck, everything is fine!” he jokes. With sensationa…

Pathé Beaugrunelle in Paris, France

Cinema of the Month: Pathé Beaugrenelle – Paris, France

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, as it is with P…