A boutique, single-screen cinema in development — built on the belief that film is more than content. It’s atmosphere, ritual, and connection.
The Celluloid Lounge is a boutique, single-screen cinema in development in Coral Springs, Florida — a space built on the belief that film is more than content. It’s atmosphere, ritual, and connection. A place where the lights fall, the room quiets, and a hundred separate lives are briefly aligned by the glow of a single frame.
We curate repertory gems, cult discoveries, contemporary indies, genre deep cuts, festival favorites, and seasonal programming — each selected for a shared experience rather than a mass release cycle.
The Celluloid Lounge is designed for people who don’t just watch movies. They gather for them.
To revive the feeling of cinema as ceremony — the hush before the projector starts, the weight of a story in a darkened room, the communal pulse that rises and falls with the screen.
The Celluloid Lounge exists to:
Film is the ritual. People are the atmosphere.
The Celluloid Lounge opens in 2027 — a single-screen, carefully designed cinema that blends modern comfort with classic character. The programming will be intimate and intentional: one room, many moods. Seasonal slates, director spotlights, midnight series, holiday marathons, guest curator nights, and special events.
We’re building a theater meant for discovery, nostalgia, and the kind of conversations that continue in the lobby long after the credits end.
The Celluloid Lounge began as an idea carried from theater to theater — the desire to create a cinematic home where atmosphere mattered as much as the film. Big multiplexes serve crowds; we serve experiences.
The concept grew slowly, shaped by years of watching films with reverence, exploring repertory programming, analyzing theatrical design, and wanting to bring something meaningful back to Coral Springs.
What started as a feeling is now becoming a room.
The Celluloid Lounge is founded by Johnny Mariani, a lifelong film lover and former professional filmmaker whose relationship with cinema began long before this theater had a name. In his early years, Johnny wasn’t just experimenting with film — he was working in it. Creating projects, collaborating with teams, and learning the industry from inside the craft itself.
Movies weren’t just an escape; they were a vocation, a discipline, and a world he lived in fully. Whether on set, behind a camera, or in the editing room, storytelling shaped his identity long before The Celluloid Lounge became a possibility.
Even as his professional path evolved, the ritual of cinema remained constant. Midnight screenings, festival runs, repertory houses, and deep-cut discoveries continued to fuel his belief that moviegoing could be more than passive — it could be transformative.
That belief drives The Celluloid Lounge.
Johnny’s vision is rooted in the idea that a theater doesn’t need to be huge to be meaningful; it needs to be intentional. The right atmosphere. The right programming. The right room for people who still feel something when the lights dim.
His goal is simple:
To build a theater where people don’t escape from the world —
they meet the world inside the frame.
Johnny oversees programming direction, creative identity, brand development, and the physical build of The Celluloid Lounge. This isn’t just a business — it’s the culmination of a life shaped by cinema.