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Theatrical Releases Profit As Streaming Losses Mount

CJ Analysis: Theatrical Releases Profit As Streaming Losses Mount

Long before COVID sparked a global pandemic in 2020, leaving millions dead and upending the world economy, another virus began spreading across the planet. Though not as deadly as COVID, this virus spreads just as easily, is often not immediately detected and has proven to be just as disruptive to t…

Why Major European and Japanese Cinema Chains Are Refusing to Play “Black Widow”

The Walt Disney Company has suffered the largest and most widespread theatrical refusal to play one of its tentpole releases after cinema chains in Germany, Belgium, Scandinavia and Japan refused to program Marvel’s “Black Widow.” The disagreement with many of Europe’s leading mid-size cinema chains…

Celluloid Junkie’s 2019 Cinema Predictions

“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future,” Yogi Berra famously quipped. This did not stop the editorial team at Celluloid Junkie from bravely sticking their necks out a year ago to read the tea leaves on what 2018 would have in store. Did we get it right? As alw…

El Capitan Theatre Up For Sale

You can own a piece of Hollywood history for a mere. . . USD $31 million! The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that the El Capitan Theatre, located in the heart of Hollywood, has been put up for sale by its owner, CUNA Mutual Group. The building in which the theatre resides also contains six-st…

Universal and Disney Close To VPF Deal With DCIP

And then there were four. Four studios that is. Or so says the Wall Street Journal which broke a story today reporting that Universal Pictures and Walt Disney Company have reached a virtual print fee deal with Digital Cinema Implementation Partners, the joint venture formed by North American exhib…

Disney Goes All Natural

While Earth day may not be as big a holiday as say, Christmas or Independence Day, but don’t tell that to the Walt Disney Company. On Monday, just a day before Earth Day, the studio had the media buzzing upon announcing that it would be launching a new division aimed at production and distribu…