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MoviePass Relaunch Event

MoviePass Relaunches with Original Founder, New Business Model and Ambitious Moonshot

MoviePass, the company that helped introduce moviegoing subscriptions to North America before infamously flaming out, plans on relaunching in the summer of 2022, albeit with some significant changes. The first revision to the new MoviePass is the return of its original co-founder and CEO, Stacy Spik…

Celluloid Junkie’s 2019 Cinema Predictions

“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future,” Yogi Berra famously quipped. This did not stop the editorial team at Celluloid Junkie from bravely sticking their necks out a year ago to read the tea leaves on what 2018 would have in store. Did we get it right? As alw…

How Bernadette McCabe Became A Part of the MoviePass Family

In the ebb and flow of buzz-worthy or even controversial subjects that become a part of our industry’s news cycle there have been few in recent years that have attracted more heated debate than release windows and subscription moviegoing. It’s often easy to forget while we’re prognosticating at trad…

CJ Interview: Ellis Jacob and Rolando Rodriguez Discuss Their Work on the NATO Board

When the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) announced in June that Ellis Jacob and Rolando B. Rodriguez had, respectively, been elected to their board as Chairman and Vice Chairman, it seemed like a fairly ordinary organizational procedure. NATO needed to fill the role because it’s…

Alamo Drafthouse screen. (picture: Alamo Drafthouse)

Cinema News Digest – Friday 29 June 2018

Dear Junkies, We have come to the half-way point for domestic (US and Chinese) and global box office, with the news being good all around. Ticket sales in North America are up more than 8% with over USD $6 billion ringing up the proverbial tills. The outlook for the rest of the summer – inRead…

AMC Stubs A-List

All About AMC’s New Subscription Program and What it Means for the Cinema Industry

In a move most of the cinema industry had been predicting for at least a year, AMC Theatres, the world’s largest movie theatre operator, announced a new moviegoing subscription program today named AMC Stubs A-List. It comes as no shock that the program was immediately compared to a competing subscri…

Cinema News Digest – Friday 25 May 2018

Dear Junkies, Happy GDPR day! In 2015 Odeon UK & Ireland abolished the online ticket booking fee. Not penalising customers for booking tickets in advance, instead of paying cash on the day at the box office, was trumpeted as a win for customers. At the UKCA ‘Data Day’ conference last…

Vue tickets London £6.99. (image: Vue)

Cinema News Digest – Tuesday 22 May 2018

Dear Junkies, Hold the front page: Netflix is NOT killing cinema! This is one of the conclusion of two independent pieces of research that have just been released in German and Ireland. Both studies found that heavy users of subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) services (so-called ‘streamers…

Russia cinema fire Kemerovo. (photo: Russia Crime)

Cinema News Digest – Monday 16 April 2018

Dear Junkies, No time for introductory words of wisdom as we prepare for CinemaCon. Hope to see you in Las Vegas next week. Drop us a line (tips[at]celluloidjunkie.com) to arrange a meeting or just have a chat over coffee (or something stronger). Regards – Patrick Russia cinema fire investigat…

Cinema News Digest – Thursday 5 April 2018

Dear Junkies, Seriously – did someone decree that 5 April should officially be “Everything Newsworthy in Cinema Happening At Once Day?” Because if so, then we didn’t get the memo. But we got the press releases – all of them! Smartpricer launching dynamic pricing in Russ…