Why Is Carmike Cinemas Suddenly For Sale?
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NCM-Screenvision Call Off Merger – Winners and Losers – Celluloid Junkie
The proposed merger between US cinema advertising majors National CineMedia (NCM) and Screenvision has been called off. NCM announced in a press release that it has agreed with Screenvision’s owner SV Holdco to terminate the merger agreement signed on 5 May … Continued
Austrian Exhibitor Cineplexx Launched VoD Service – Celluloid Junkie
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. via Austrian Exhibitor Cineplexx Launched VoD Service – Celluloid Junkie.
New MPAA and NATO Wearables Policy Is As Much About Social Norms As It Is About Piracy – Celluloid Junkie
In his classic 1835 treatise on American society, Democracy In America, french historian Alexis de Tocqueville wrote “Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power … Continued
Smartphones Are Killing the Cinema Experience – Celluloid Junkie
Last week a man got maced in the face for asking a fellow patron in a cinema to turn off their smartphone during the screening of a film. What is shocking is not that the attacker was a woman, or … Continued
Cinépolis Acquisition of Chile’s Cine Hoyts Signals Global Ambition – Celluloid Junkie
Mexican-based exhibitor major Cinépolis has acquired Chile’s largest cinema chain Cine Hoyts. The acquisition, reported in this article in El Financiero, means that Cinépolis is now present in 11-12 countries around the world. It also signals an intention to take on Wanda/AMC for … Continued
EDCF Guide Highlights Film Festivals’ Digital Nightmares – Celluloid Junkie
The European Digital Cinema Forum (EDCF) has just published ‘The EDCF Guide for Film Festivals in the Digital Age.’ The free guide, available to download on the EDCF website (PDF link) was created based on feedback from professionals responsible for … Continued
Tim League Discusses the Alamo Drafthouse Smartphone Policy – Celluloid Junkie
Alamo Drafthouse is the premier up-market cinema chain in the United States. Yet it is sometimes better known for its ‘zero tolerance’ approach to people using cellphones, smartphones or even Google Glass in its cinemas. via Tim League Discusses the … Continued
And the Oscar Goes to… Digital Cinema! (Specifically TI) – Celluloid Junkie
Last year the Motion Picture Academy’s Science and Technology branch effectively closed the book on film as a distribution medium for motion pictures by awarding the Academy Award of Merit (Oscar Statuette) to every single film processing lab in the world. So … Continued
Daily Cinema Digest – post-Christmas/New Year roundup – Celluloid Junkie
Happy New Year to all our CJ reader and may 2015 be a good year for cinema everywhere. Other then the circus surrounding the release of “The Interview”, here are some of the other cinema-related news you may have missed … Continued