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CJ Cinema News Digest – Tuesday 9 May 2017

Constantin take-over try, Korean cine vote perks, Spain’s €2.90 cinema feast, Reading share buy-back, Malaysian cinema bullish, MaCaO 25th anniversary, India fantasy figure expansion, Vox cine ad withdrawn, Pocono burglary redux, Scotland’s free cinema for homeless. Germany/Switzerland…

AMC Town Square 18 Las Vegas sign. (photo: Patrick von Sychowski - Celluloid Junkie)

AMC Q1 Lifts Lid on Carmike, Odeon & NCG Integration

AMC has published its Q1 2017 figures and profits are down but revenue is up at the world’s biggest cinema chain. The 67.5% growth in turnover had a lot to do with including Carmike, Odeon and (four days of) NCG revenue, but it is the earning call transcript that provides the most fascinating…

Baahubali 2 poster

CJ Cinema News Digest – Friday 5 May 2017

Baahubali 2 overload, JJ Abrams on bad cinemas, SPIO and VdF for German cinema tickets, mm2 buys into Pro Cinema, vote on 10% ticket tax in Switzerland, AMC Manchester to become Odeon, French cinema strike, Polish Q1 growth, CGR PLF ICE with Light Vibes, Vue picks BrightSign, Inox + Orbgen, Gaumont…

Mayor Bill Mars and Marcus Theatre mascot Studdy. (photo: Marcus Theatres)

CJ Cinema Property Update – Thursday 4 May 2017

USA: Marcus Southbridge, Alamo Staten Island, Reading Titan XC San Diego Japan: Sunshine Aira Korea: Megabox Songdo, Ariary Jeongseon China: Suning x2 Australia: Footscray and Perth UK: Perth and Aberdeen’s Blackdog Ireland: Galway arthouse to open this year Germany: Bergheim cinema Poland:…

Main Entrance at SF Bio's Filmstaden Scandinavia in Stockholm, Sweden

CJ Cinema of the Month: SF Bio’s Filmstaden Scandinavia – Stockholm, Sweden

Celluloid Junkie is proud to have partnered with Vista Entertainment Solutions (VES) for the Cinema of the Month series. Vista is the world’s leading cinema ticketing and software solutions company. We won’t just be featuring cinemas whose operators use Vista, but we will surely mention when t…

Popcorn and tickets. (image: pixabay)

CJ Cinema News Digest – Tuesday 25 April 2017

US Q1 ticket prices up, NAB Future of Cinema, Mumbai single screens survive, French election tickets, Inox fined for water, growth plans for PVR and Inox, Bahrain Cinema Q1 profits, certificate-less film trouble, eating & boozing themed screening, “Boss Baby” for cancer victim. USA…

Megabox cinema Seoul

BREAKING NEWS: Korea Multiplex sells 20% Stake in Megabox

Korea Multiplex is selling 19.5% of its 50% stake in South Korean cinema chain Megabox to institutional investors for KWN 110 billion (USD $97.3 million). KB Asset Management and Shinhan BNP Paribas are buying 157,410 shares in South Korea’s third-largest cinema operators. JContentree, which s…

Sleight, How to be a Latin Lover, The Circle posters

The Calm Before the Guardians Storm as It’s Another Weekend of Less-Than-Unforgettable Titles on The Horizon. This Coming Weekend at The Boxoffice

To the surprise of absolutely no one (not named Katherine Heigl), none of the new openers this past weekend were any match for the second weekend of “The Fate of the Furious”. The eighth edition of the high octane franchise took in another USD $38 million at the boxoffice on 4,329 screens. That scre…

CJ Cinema News Digest – Friday 21 April 2017

PVR fires Kapoor, Paytm crosses $62m, ‘Limitless’ Odeon Printworks worries, AMC’s European shopping bill, ICTA awards, Netflix day-and-date policy no-change, WTW and Scott Cinemas merge, HArkness’ Mitchell heads BKSTS’ CTC, NBA and TED in cinemas, Cineplex attack, scann…

Hacking cyber attack

The Cyber Threat(s) Facing Cinemas

When discussing threats facing the cinema business, Netflix, piracy and shorter release windows always seem to come before any discussion about hacking and cyber threats. Yet as cinemas increasingly rely on complex databases, social media marketing, online transactions, networked point of sale (POS)…