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The stage at Mediterranean Film Festival is lit up in a dark room for the awards ceremony. The left side says We Are Malta and the right says We Are Film.

Mediterrane Film Festival Showcases Malta’s Popularity with Hollywood

Most film festivals are designed to bring together audiences with the latest movies from both established directors and rising stars. Now in its third year, the Mediterrane Film Festival (MFF) seemingly has a different mission. Hosted on the island of Malta during the last ten days of June, it’s as…

Russian Federation Moves to Legalize Pirated Screenings

Russian State Media is reporting that legislative changes are being proposed by the Federation’s Council Committee on Economic Policy that will allow the distribution of foreign films in Russia without the consent of the copyright holders, but with payment of remuneration to them. These proposa…

CJ Opinion: Hollywood, Cut Off Russia Now!

A sovereign European nation of 44 million people is under attack by one of the largest armies in the world. The unthinkable reality of unprovoked hostility seeking to redraw the map of Europe is now playing out a two hour flight from most European capitals. NATO and other Western democracies are not…

Is 2020 Now a Write-Off Year for Cinemas?

So what now? That seems to be the common refrain from most cinema industry followers as this past week we watched more high profile films moved back to 2021. As cinemas reopen in some parts of the world, and as others prepare to do the same, they are increasingly faced with a crippling problem: they…

A Holistic Recovery: The Countries with the Most Resilient Film Industries

The film industry has, for the last 100 years, always proven itself to be recession-proof, having reaped the benefits of being affordable Out Of Home (OOH) leisure entertainment. But sadly, the last four to six months have shown the industry to not be pandemic-proof. So with a severe recession loomi…

How We Will View Hollywood Today In Twenty Years?

Hollywood today is mirroring Hollywood in the 1960s, so if you want to know how we will view Hollywood today just look at how we view Hollywood back then. By the 1960s, movie theater attendances had dropped super-low because people preferred TV, which they didn’t have to pay for. The studios combatt…

How Women Will Decide Hollywood’s Fate This Summer

As I sit here writing this column on April 15th Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire currently has 66 trails open for skiing. What in the world does this fact have to do with a summer movie boxoffice column? Excellent question. I bring this up because, despite what skiers in the Granite State or basebal…

1939 Hollywood top movies collage (image: Celluloid Junkie)

CJ Opinion: How 1939 Can Once Again Save Hollywood

This past weekend was yet another dismal failure at the North American boxoffice with revenues off a staggering 45% versus the same week last year. The remainder of August also looks bleak and may not improve until the fall when the plethora of titles vying for Academy votes descend upon multiplexes…

Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid

Latin American VPF Deals Hide Regional Problems – UPDATED

[Ed: We have received lots of feedback and updated info from readers fram and active in the region. ¡Muchas Gracias/Muito Obrigado! The article has been UPDATED THROUGHOUT as a result.] Much like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid headed to Bolivia after they had run out of banks in the Wild West to…

Deluxe Laboratories Hollywood

Deluxe To Close Hollywood Film Lab

Well, we all knew it was coming. With the motion picture industry’s transition away from 35mm film to digital production and distribution it was only a matter of time before the need for film laboratories would disappear entirely. The industry took a step closer toward that end when on Tuesday…