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2025 Toronto International Film Festival

Toronto at 50: TIFF Still Delivers, Even as Its Clout Wanes

At the international premiere of his long-gestating labor of love “Frankenstein,” Guillermo del Toro couldn’t stop gushing about the capital of Ontario. “This movie is the culmination of a long, long, not dating, not a casual fling, but a complete marriage to Toronto,” he said from the stage of the…

A montage of filmstars - Dwayne Johnson, Julia Robertson, George Clooney, Jim Jarmusch - sit against the Venice Film Festival sign

Venice Film Festival 2025: Streamers and Stars Own the Lido While Jarmusch Sneaks Off with the Golden Lion

Forget easing into the Lido with gondolas and red-carpet glitz — Venice 2025 (27th August to 6th September) came out swinging. Between George Clooney and Dwayne Johnson lighting up the premieres, MUBI and Netflix muscling into awards-season territory, and a record-breaking ovation for “The Voice of…

Thierry Fre?maux - Cannes Film Festival 2025

Thierry Frémaux Is Keeping Cannes Focused on the Big Screen

Thierry Frémaux never strolls into a room. Rather, the Director of the Cannes Film Festival, seems to bound into the room, usually a packed auditorium at the Palais des Festivals, as if running behind schedule, delayed by whatever previously scheduled rendezvous he has just departed. Such was the ca…

2023 Sundance Film Festival Acquisitions

The Deal With Sundance 2023 Acquisitions

Each year the annual film sales and acquisitions cycle is kicked off in January by the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, followed swiftly by the Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale) and its accompanying European Film Market in February. Sundance itself has long been used as a barometer for the…

Theatrical Releases Profit As Streaming Losses Mount

CJ Analysis: Theatrical Releases Profit As Streaming Losses Mount

Long before COVID sparked a global pandemic in 2020, leaving millions dead and upending the world economy, another virus began spreading across the planet. Though not as deadly as COVID, this virus spreads just as easily, is often not immediately detected and has proven to be just as disruptive to t…

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…

Why Warner Bros. Is Max-imizing Its 2021 Movie Slate

Editor’s Note: This post is longer than those we ordinarily publish, however we can assure you that it will give you a thorough understanding of the seismic upheaval currently affecting the motion picture industry, why it is occurring and what to expect moving forward. When 2020 began everyone…

Asian Cinemas and COVID-19: The Show Must Go On?

Sat alongside straws and napkins on a cinema concessions counter in South Korea is a bottle of hand sanitizer. The few remaining customers wear face masks, and have had their temperature taken with a gun-like device on entrance to the auditorium. Scenes like this feel more suited to the big screen,…

Like to Stream and Cinema Keen

If you’re reading this the chances are that you are well versed in the “is Netflix Killing Cinema” notion, as you may well have been for “is VHS killing Cinema” iteration decades previously. Whilst external commentators band around assumptions based on little more than a hunch that subscription serv…

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…