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Hollywood Megaplex's Imax in Pasching. (photo: Megaplex)

CJ Cinema News Digest – Friday 24 February 2017

Imax Q4 figures, NCM Q4, Belgian 2016 cinema figures, multiplexes anchor Indian malls, Cult Sauce in Manchester, Barco explains HDR, GFT wins autism friendly award, 35% of Aussies won’t watch subtitled films, Portland cinemas remembered. Canada – Q4 earnings were less than stellar for Im…

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 1 September 2014

China (PRC) – Korea’s CGV is expanding aggressively in Mainland China. With its latest opening in Chengdu the city now has more Imax screens than any other in China. In “5 yuan fare” era, the price war to Chengdu nationally known film market, as yesterday, the Korean CGV Star…

Why Digital Alone Won’t Kill Second Run Movie Theatres

The threat that the digital conversion poses to single-screen and drive-in cinemas have been highlighted several times on CelluloidJunkie.com (here, here and here), but there is a third category of cinemas that also face an existentialist threat with the phasing out of 35mm prints. Second-run cinema…

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday-Saturday 21/22 February 2014 (bit late, sorry, but good one)

The alleged mastermind of the Peshawar adult cinema bombing that left at least 15 people dead has been arrested – in hospital, where he was being treated for grenade wounds. “The alleged perpetrators of the Shama Cinema blasts had taped hand-grenades to their thighs before entering the c…

Bagdad Theater & Pub

LA Times Shines Spotlight On Portland’s Bagdad Theater & Pub

You know how sometimes when a brand new word enters your lexicon you wind up hearing the vocabulary word being used in all sorts of different situations? It leaves you wondering how you never noticed the word before, or if, unaware of its true meaning and definition, you had simply ignored it altoge…