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Webinar: Helping Independent Cinemas Optimise Their Digital Marketing – Affordable Ways to Set Up a Virtual Cinema

To help independent cinemas make the most of their social media and digital activity, Celluloid Junkie has teamed with movie marketing company Screen Moguls on a digital initiative designed to educate and support cinemas with their digital activity during the coronavirus shutdown. One of the more in…

Love (of Movie-Going) in the Time of the Coronavirus

This week, I was poring over the most recent results from our 2nd national survey wave, in as many months, about consumer sentiment pertaining to when audiences think they’ll return to the theatrical movie experience, post-Coronavirus. As the head of research for National CineMedia (NCM), the larges…

Lumiere Cinema at the Music Hall in Beverly Hills, California

CJ Opinion: A Theater Re-Opening Manifesto

“Everybody talks as if they know what’s going to happen, and nobody knows what’s going to happen.” – Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman, The Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2020 The economic damage inflicted by COVID-19 is only beginning, but it may be so monumental th…

La Toile

Cinema Tech Innovators: La Toile (France)

Cinema Tech Innovators is a series where Celluloid Junkie profiles small innovators looking to make a big difference in the world of cinema. These are companies working in online, technology, social media and other spheres to enhance and expand the big screen experience. They are typically start-ups…

Paramount's Dynamic Release Windows Trial

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 aspect, or participants, of the distribution experiment. Whi…

Cineplexx2go

Austrian Exhibitor Cineplexx Launched VoD Service

The boundaries between cinema and video-on-demand (VoD) in Europe are blurring further, with the parent company of Austria’s Cineplexx exhibitor announcing its Cineplexx2Go VoD service. While VoD services are already offered by exhibitors such as UK’s Curzon Cinemas (Curzon on Demand) an…

Beasts of No Nation

Though Major Exhibitors Still Boycott Simultaneous VOD Releases From Netflix, the Oscars Willingly Accept Them

On Monday of last week, Deadline broke the news that Netflix was making another move into feature films by acquiring “Beasts Of No Nation” for a reported USD $12 million. This was followed the trade publication Variety which published three stories on the same subject in quick succession…

Sundance Provides A Perfect Environment For Industrial Eavesdropping

One unique aspect of the Sundance Film Festival is the broad spectrum of industry professionals that attend each year’s event. Producers, directors, editors, screenwriters, craft people, acquisitions executives, journalists, distributor reps, sales agents, talent agents, and exhibitors are jus…

Big Cinemas

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 11 July 2014

India – After the surprise merger of its RMW film services division with Prime Focus, Reliance ADAG looks set to sell off its Big Cinemas operation. Good analysis as always from Variety’s Patrick Frater. The company is in advanced negotiations to sell its Big Cinemas circuit to an uniden…

PwC global media 2018

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 4 June 2014

File under ‘Keep Calm & Carry On’ – online film distribution revenue will overtake cinema box office in 2017, according to a new report by PwC. But box office is actually predicted to keep rising, while the real loser will be DVD and Blu-ray. China and 3D also come under scruti…