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Celebrating the 2024 North American Cinema Awards and the CJ Cinema Summit’s Fifth Anniversary

Five years ago on Thursday 19th March 2020, shortly after unprecedented global COVID lockdowns started to take effect in response to the pandemic, a group of people based between Los Angeles, London and Oslo hastily pulled together a live online broadcast to talk to their industry colleagues about w…

2024 Third Quarter Earnings - Lionsgate, Paramount, Sony, Warner Bros. Discovery

Studios See Streaming Growth, Theatrical Decline During Third Quarter of 2024

Election returns weren’t the only results being announced last week. The parent companies of four Hollywood studios held earnings calls for the third quarter of 2024 providing a snapshot of the current state of the entertainment business. It’s a narrative that can be told in four words;…

CinemaCon 2021 - Industry Think Tank - Ryan Faughnder, Rolando Rodriguez, Patty Jenkins, Mark Zoradi, Chris Aronson - Featured - David Becker - CinemaCon

CinemaCon 2021: Industry Think Tank Debates How To Bring The Big Screen Back

For the most part, the filmmaker lunch at each year’s CinemaCon is a fairly straightforward affair. Don’t get us wrong; show organizers always manage to get big names to turn out for an hour long conversation. In 2012 directors Martin Scorsese and Ang Lee took the stage to banter about filmmaking,…

CinemaCon 2021 - Globally Speaking Panel - Mooky Greidinger, Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, Nancy Tartaglione, Alejandro Ramirez Magana, Mark Viane

CinemaCon 2021: International Market Panel Features Optimistic Studio and Exhibition Executives

Traditionally, the first day of any CinemaCon (and ShoWest before it) has been reserved for International Day; a full program of seminars geared towards international attendees who usually arrive in Las Vegas a day before the conference begins. With COVID-19 travel restrictions preventing most inter…

CJ Analysis: Cinema Is Back! But With Some Major Changes.

It’s been a very long time since anyone in the cinema business has been in a rush to look at box office figures. The habitual daily check came to a bit of a grinding halt last year and for a long while things were very depressing indeed. Despite some key success stories for local productRead More

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CinemaCon Secures Major Studio Participation for 2021 Conference

As the cinema industry in various parts of the world slowly stirs to life after more than year of COVID closures, one persistent question has been asked over the past few months at every virtual event; will a postponed CinemaCon actually take place in Las Vegas in August, or like last year, will its…

The Hollywood Studio Release Schedule Shuffle: Where It’s Been and Where It’s Going

There’s a favorite New England saying, “If you don’t like the weather wait 10 minutes and it will all change.” Welcome to 2020 in the movie business. Obviously this year has been unlike any other (I will make a concerted effort to avoid the now cliched “these are uncertain times” mutterings in this…

Celluloid Junkie’s 2020 Cinema Predictions

Having slightly dreaded revisiting our cinema predictions from a year ago, we were pleasantly surprised to discover just how much we managed to get right. And this wasn’t just right in the way that even a clock that’s stopped shows the correct time twice a day. Heck, no! Sperling effecti…

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Celluloid Junkie’s 2018 Cinema Predictions

2017 was an eventful year for the film and cinema business and 2018 promises to be even more so. So the Celluloid Junkie editorial team has gazed into the crystal ball to see what’s ahead. Here is a list of possible scenarios in the new year, as foreseen by our top contributors Jim Amos (JA),Read Mo…

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Cinema News Digest – Monday 20 November 2017

Paramount VR ‘cinema’; Bloomberg’s Q3 summary; CGR buys Cap’Cinema; Cinefamily to close after scandals; first cinema to boycott ‘Star Wars VIII‘; PVR expands VKAAO; re-birth of community cinemas in UK; single screens cling on in UAE; Bernadette McCabe joins MovieP…