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Planeta Kino Tempts Hollywood Back to Ukraine With Dinner and a Movie

Celluloid Junkie visited Kyiv’s Blockbuster Mall for a tour of Planeta Kino and a chat with CEO Natalia Baydan and found that the future of Ukrainian cinema might already be here. The Blockbuster Mall is possibly the shiniest building in Kyiv. A gleaming lump of burnished aluminium and crystalline g…

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Cinemas in Ukraine Are Reopening Cautiously

Cinemas in several large Ukrainian cities have started to reopen, but with restrictions in place in light of the ongoing war with Russia. The two largest Ukrainian cinema chains Multiplex and Planeta Kino are operating cinemas in a few key cities, though some cinemas have been destroyed by the war a…

Cinema United in Solidarity With Ukraine

Film is a widely used propaganda tool especially in times of war but simply keeping cinemas open can be an act of defiance. In Ukraine, local exhibitors are intent on business as usual even while shopping malls which house many of the country’s multiplexes are being destroyed. Planeta Kino, a networ…

The Batman Release Canceled In Russia

Global Cinema Community Unites Behind Ukraine

Natalia Baydan, CEO of Ukrainian multiplex chain Planeta Kino is a friend to Celluloid Junkie and well known to the cinema industry family. She was one of those interviewed on the CJCinemaSummit on Thursday 3 March, speaking from her native city Kyiv, which is currently threatened with a mass invasi…