2017 Mid-Year Studio Market Share Projections
Now that we’re halfway through 2017 it seems as good a time as any to project out how the Hollywood box office market share race will wind up by the end of the year. Can Disney hang onto its lead and…
Boy Power Can’t Save Transformers From Franchise Low Debut as the Minions Loom on the Box Office Horizon. This Week at the Box Office.
“Transformers: The Last Knight” launched to a tepid USD $69 million 5 day tally (USD $45 million 3 day), which was by far the lowest debut for any of the entries in the franchise (with two more sequels still to…
CJ Cinema of the Month – Golden Age Cinema, Sydney, Australia
Celluloid Junkie is proud to have partnered with Vista Entertainment Solutions (VES) for the Cinema of the Month series. Vista is the worlds leading cinema ticketing and software solutions company. We won’t just be featuring cinemas whose operators use Vista, but we will…
Crunching The Numbers On Paramount’s Dynamic Release Windows
When we first set out to craft our analysis of the July announcement that Paramount Pictures would release certain movies on home video just 17-days after most theatres stopped playing them, we must admit to initially focusing on the wrong…
Answering A Few Hypothetical Questions About the “Interstellar” Unlimited Ticket
Two weeks ago AMC Theatres and Paramount Pictures announced they’d be teaming up to provide members of the cinema chain’s loyalty program, AMC Stubs, an opportunity to see “Interstellar” as many times as they’d like. The Interstellar Unlimited Ticket, as the offering has…
Early Release Of “Interstellar” On Film Is A Nostalgic Marketing Coup
A heated industry debate was sparked last week by the announcement that Paramount and Warner Bros. would release director Christopher Nolan’s next movie, “Interstellar”, on film. Many of you may recall film as the sprocketed acetate material used by the…
Can Filmmakers Really Help Kodak Craft A New Image?
The long standing uncertainty over the future of 35mm motion picture film was finally laid to rest this past week by the Eastman Kodak Co. causing the industry to heave a huge sigh of relief. That’s one way to look…
Deluxe To Close Hollywood Film Lab
Well, we all knew it was coming. With the motion picture industry’s transition away from 35mm film to digital production and distribution it was only a matter of time before the need for film laboratories would disappear entirely. The industry…
Paramount Shows Some Alternative Thinking With Super-Sized “Anchorman 2” Release
By now you’ve probably heard that Paramount Pictures is rereleasing “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues” on 1,000 North American screens this weekend. More accurately, the studio is putting an alternate cut of the film into theatres – one with the…
Paramount Reportedly Stops Delivery of Film Prints
Well, it may finally have happened. Everyone working in any capacity of the motion picture industry knew the day would come when Hollywood studios would stop distributing their releases on 35-millimeter film prints. If Saturday’s story in the Los Angeles…