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Venice Production Bridge Highlights How Italian Cinemas Are Going Green

On 7 September, Hotel Excelsior’s Spazio Incontri hosted the sixth edition of the Sustainable Screens conference as part of this year’s Venice Production Bridge. The event focused on the best green practices in film, from production to theatrical distribution. Moderated by journalist Marco Gisotti,…

Why Italian Cinema Recovery Lags the Rest of Europe

While the rest of Europe’s cinemas are recovering from pandemic closures, Italian cinemas are still struggling. Although every local business sector suffered an economic setback, the Italian cinema industry has been the market most impacted by the laws implemented to contain COVID. To this day cinem…

Cinema Reopenings in Italy Point the Way for the Rest of Europe

On 26th April 2021, Italian director Nanni Moretti had a special date: open the doors of his own cinema in Rome, the Nuovo Sacher, and greet the audience coming in after six months of darkness. Miles away through the north of the peninsula, in Milan, another cinema was the very first to reopen in It…

Arcadia Cinema in Melzo, Italy

Cinema of the Month: Arcadia Cinema – Melzo, Italy

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. CJ would like t…

Italy’s Cinemas Prepare to Re-Open After Europe’s Longest Closure

June 15th is the date that all the Italian cinema industry has marked in red on the calendar. One month to reopen with a new normality since that decision on 16th May when PM Giuseppe Conte announced cinemas and theatre will be allowed to turn on projectors and lift up their curtains again. Italy wa…

UNIC Launches Guide to Help Cinemas in Europe

International cinema trade body UNIC has launched a comprehensive guide to help cinemas across Europe, with detailed information about cinema closures, possible re-opening dates as well as overviews of public funding initiatives and support. UNIC has also been active in liaising directly with indivi…

Coronavirus Cinema Update – Tuesday 10 March 2020

As Bond is followed by the bunny in getting its release date shifted, with SPE’s “Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway” moved from March 27 (Easter) to August (five month later), we look at the latest news from around the world to see how cinemas are impacted by the Coronavirus (Covid-19).…

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…

COVID-19 Cinema Update – 26 February 2020

This is a roundup of cinema news related to the global Corona virus (Covid-19) outbreak. It is important to remember that while the virus is more contagious than previous SARS outbreaks, it has a relatively low mortality rate of 2% (mainly old and ill people) , though higher than the 0.01% mortality…

Cinema News Digest – Friday 12 January 2018

Indian national anthem not compulsory for cinemas; best Dutch film year since 1978/1965; good BO year for Ireland but bad for Italy; positive coverage of dynamic pricing announcement in Germany; cinema “better investment proposition” than restaurants in UK; Rec Room menu reviewed; Toby B…