Celluloid Junkie
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Celluloid JunkieCinema 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.
Celluloid JunkieFinancing 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.
Celluloid JunkieAt 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.
Celluloid JunkieDid 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…
Celluloid JunkieThe 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…
Celluloid JunkieCinema 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.
Celluloid JunkieCinema’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.
Celluloid JunkieFilm Marketing Needs to Start Earlier. Eurimages Is Learning How Hard That Can Be If the industry consensus is now that film marketing needs to start earlier, Eurimages has spent the past two years trying to fund what that actually looks like.
Celluloid JunkieEveryone Wants to Market Independent Films Earlier. So Why Doesn’t It Happen? A working session at the Venice Production Bridge attempted to unpick the varying priorities of producers, distributors and sales agents, raising some uncomfortable questions.
Celluloid JunkieThe Paramount-Warner Merger Is Permanent. The Guardrails for Movie Theatres Are Not The state settlement puts theatrical output, windows, rental terms and catalogue access into a court order, but allows a permanent merger to close without the structural remedies California and the…
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