Celluloid Junkie

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Celluloid JunkieCinemaChina’s Animation Boom Has a Hidden Cost At Turin’s VIEW Conference, Base Media’s Chris Bremble discussed sustainability issues in the lucrative Chinese animation market, in a wide-ranging talk covering hits like ‘Ne Zha 2’, the reason why…

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Celluloid JunkieCinemaCJ’s Top Women In Global Cinema – 2026 Celluloid Junkie’s 2026 Top Women in Global Cinema is proudly sponsored by Barco, Lionsgate and Qube Cinema.

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Celluloid JunkieCinemaCJ Tech: Single vs Dual Projectors There’s a moment that every projectionist dreads. The lights fade, the feature begins, and within minutes, you can feel it in the room. The image is flat. Colors are muted. Dark scenes are murky.

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Celluloid JunkieCinemaCinema Collectibles Are Big Business, but Knowing What to Order Requires Strategy Dan Herrle would love to sell every movie-themed collectible his cinemas order. Just not too quickly.

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Celluloid JunkieCinemaFinancing Bold Films Takes More Than Money For MUBI ’s Efe Cakarel, financing an Edward Berger film and releasing it around the world requires both capital and capabilities.

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Celluloid JunkieCinemaAt Zurich Summit, Online Fandom Finds Its Way to the Big Screen At the 2026 Zurich Summit , a strong theatrical summer prompted a closer look at who was returning to cinemas and what was bringing them there.

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Celluloid JunkieCinemaDid TIFF’s First Market Deliver for Buyers? The Answer Is Yes, With Caveats Toronto’s long-established dealmaking acquired a formal framework this year with TIFF: The Market, a new platform for sales, financing and international partnerships backed by CAD $23 million (USD…

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Celluloid JunkieCinemaThe Global Film Sales Playbook Is Changing as Pre-Sales Carry Less of the Load As international pre-sales become harder to rely on, FilmNation’s Glen Basner and CAA’s Roeg Sutherland argue at TIFF: The Market that sales agents must take more risk, package films earlier and help…

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Celluloid JunkieCinemaCinema Owners Have Invested $2.7 Billion in Theatres. What Is That Money Buying? There was a point, not all that long ago, when the movie theatre industry wasn’t wondering whether it had enough premium large format screens.

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Celluloid JunkieCinemaCinema’s Creator Problem Is No Longer Just About Marketing For years, the film industry’s relationship with online creators followed a fairly predictable model: invite them to premieres, provide access to talent and hope their followers notice the movie.

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo