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Filmhouse Group CEO Kene Okwuosa and CMO Mojisola Oladapo

How Filmhouse is Positioning Nollywood, and Its Own Business, within the Global Cinema Landscape

On a typical weekend release night in Lagos, the line outside a Filmhouse cinema tells a story Nollywood has been trying to spread for decades, but never quite had the infrastructure to prove. The crowd is younger than you might expect. The tickets aren’t cheap. The screens are world-class. And the…

Homegrown hits at the Nigerian box office include Brotherhood, A Tribe Called Judah and The Wedding Party.

The Rise of Local Cinema: How Nigerian Cinemas are Rebuilt on Indigenous Films

For over a decade, conversations about cinema revolved around Hollywood imports: tentpoles, superheroes, franchise spectacles, and the billion-naira weekends they reliably drove. The last five years have indeed redrawn the theatrical map. Local content, once considered supplementar…

Locarno Film Festival 2025 - Building Sustainable Film Ecosystems in Africa - Panel - Mitchell Harper, Neigeme Glasgow-Maeda, Tshepiso Chikapa Phiri, Ema Edosio-Deelen, Yannick Mizero Kabano

Locarno Panel Champions Africa’s Self-Reliant Film Ecosystem

On 9 August, Hotel Belvedere’s Sala Granda hosted the Locarno Pro panel “Building Sustainable Film Ecosystems in Africa: Financing the Future” during this year’s Locarno Film Festival. The event brought together filmmakers and industry strategists from across the continent and beyond to explore inno…

Samsung Onyx Cinema LED Wanda Shanghai.

Cinema News Digest – Friday 14 September 2018

Dear Junkies, Here at CJ we don’t care to join in the Moviepass bashing, but we are curious how the cinema subscription service is working and what impact it is having on the larger US cinema market. Our musings last week on the impact it has had on this summer’s domestic box office rebo…

Samsung Cinema LED in Onyx Arena Siglcity Switzerland. (image: Arena)

Cinema News Digest – Friday 23 March 2018

Samsung Cinema LED 3D opens in Switzerland; man dies following Vue recliner accident; Odeon Oslo opens and ends 100 year old monopoly; new Odeon HQ in Manchester; Nigeria needs 774 cinemas; 3D Pursuit bring movie magic to Uganda; best Springtime for Cinema in France in 10 years and a very British ta…

Cinema News Digest – Tuesday 7 November 2017

Dear Junkies, Tomorrow Wednesday we will attempt a LIVE streaming on Celluloid Junkie’s Facebook page: ‘Like’ Celluloid Junkie on Facebook to watch me give a presentation at 10:15 AM CET on ‘Global Cinema 2017 – from AMC to Zuckerberg‘ at the Film & Kino confe…

Damola Layonu, Filmhouse Cinemas, Nigeria

CJ Interview: Damola Layonu – Filmhouse Cinemas, Nigeria

Nigeria is the world’s second largest market in terms of films produced and it is now also Africa’s fastest growing cinema market, with multiplexes, IMAX screens and VIP cinemas catering to the prosperous Nigerian middle class. Having first met and been impressed by him at CineEurope, Ce…

PayTM Citrus JustDial BookMyShow

CJ Cinema Digest – Monday 19 September 2016

Indian cinemas love online ticketing, UNIC-CICAE statement, GSC for sale, Imax VR details, Everyman to double, PVR NCDs for acquisition, Cinepolis India to spend & grow, Italy €2 cinema scheme a hit, Madrid €6 cinema, Argentina cinema on curriculum, EclairColor in Deauville, Numero win Roadside, Sma…

Microsoft smartphone cinema

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 19 January 2015

Has Microsoft discovered a way to make smartphones less annoying in cinemas? For those who can’t bear to switch them off for a couple of hours, this could be the solution. A patent granted to Microsoft this week could automatically adjust the settings on your phone to make it less annoying in…

Graham Cinema NC

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 2 May 2014 (Bumper Issue!)

It is not often that we start with a ‘Digital Death Watch’-type of story, but the Graham is not just an amazingly resilient single-screen cinema in North Carolina. This is also example of terrific college journalism that incorporates video (below), photos, info-graphics, mapping and soci…