At the end of last year the Celluloid Junkie editorial team began discussing its annual predictions piece for 2021. However, most expert forecasts for 2020 crumbled like volcanic lava sliding into the ocean. We stared into the 2021 crystal ball…
Lotte to enter Indonesia and gets Cinema LED; CGV 50th cinema in Vietnam; Australia ticket price war; Everyman revenue up 55%; Timeplay funding; interview Cinemaxx past and present head; India GST strain; Russia cinema van attack; Utah beer and cinema…
While the film industry has been preoccupied with the growth of monolithic movie markets in China and India over the last decade, another country in Asia, Indonesia, has quietly emerged as a territory worthy of cinematic investment. Last week Fox…
CGV’s bed cinema banned, Malaysian state allows cinemas, CGV & Lotte escape fines, Fithian says cinema is not dead, EclairColor cinema reviewed, AMC goes alcoholic for “Fifty Shades”, Secret Cinema “Moulin Rouge”, pop-up Tarantino cinema & bar, Glastonbury luxury drive-in…
Fandango buys Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes, Spain roof collapse, Indonesian competition, Film & Kino cuts, Paris scent cinema, CineEurope 25, TED Cinema, Canadian centenarian porn cinema…
Regal has announced its 2014 Q4 figures, which are up, up, up in all departments, on the back of an improved film slate. Reason enough for it not to want to sell itself any longer. Dividend was also announced. Total…
Should success at any price be celebrated? Because when it comes to cinema in Indonesia it is hard to escape accusations that ‘success’ is linked to unsavory business practices, tax evasion, rent seeking, crony capitalism and corporations tainted by links to…
First Cineworld got in trouble with some vocal customers for introducing allocated seating. Now marketers are complaining that the cinema is keeping house lights on during the running of the adverts. Darren Hayday, marketing consultant at Competitive Edge Marketing and…
The Event Cinema Association will be playing a prominent role at this year’s Cine Europe trade show in Barcelona (16-19 June). The association will have its own dedicated space that will no doubt be a popular hang out between show…
Having mentioned India and China as the interesting and important (respectively) Asian cinema territories in the last two Dailies, the time now comes to The One to Watch: Indonesia. South-East Asia’s most populous country is severely under-screened following decades of…