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Weekly Cinema Digest – Friday 30 October 2015

UK – The Financial times has a special ‘The Business of Film’ supplement that looks at cinema and finds – surprise, surprise – that it is still surviving and thriving in the age of streaming and lauded TV shows. Rentrak’s Paul Dergarabedian is quoted as saying tha…

German Cinemas Threaten “Star Wars” Boycott

Small and independent cinemas in Germany are threatening to boycott Disney/Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars: the Force Awakens” over unfavourable screening terms. Amongst many points of contention Disney is said to be enforcing a minimum ticket price that is seen as too high for small towns,…

Baidu and Stellar

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 15 October 2015

Now that the sheen has come off China’s stock market and overall economic growth, hard questions are starting to be asked about the success of China’s cinema box office. Reuters is the latest to have woken up to the fact that tickets are being massively subsidised by third-party e-commer…

Imax Shanghai

Imax Q3 Earnings Up, Pins Hope to China, Blasted for “Star Wars” 70mm

Meanwhile there is an online backlash growing that “Star Wars VII” will only be screening in Imax 70mm in 11 US states (not including Washington DC) and one Canadian province. By way of comparison, “Interstellar” opened on four times as many 70mm screens. In total “Star…

ECA coca-Cola

CJ @ ECA – Breakout Session: Coca-Cola & eSports

This is a live transcript of the presentations made at last week’s Event Cinema Association conference held in London. As such we sometimes paraphrase what is said on stage and any errors are most likely the fault of the note taking and not the speakers. 100% coherence is not possible as we often in…

Concessions and Re-seating (Not Films) Give Regal Strong Q3

USA (TN) – Regal Entertainment Group, the biggest cinema operator in the US, has reported third quarter financial year 2015 figures, which were slightly above expectations thanks to strong concessions sales. Total revenue was up by 4.5% year-on-year to USD $725 million, but net income was down…

Event Cinema Association ECA conference 2015

CJ @ ECA Conference – Welcome & Content Delivery

This is a live transcript of the presentations made at last week’s Event Cinema Association conference held in London. As such we sometimes paraphrase what is said on stage and any errors are most likely the fault of the note taking and not the speakers. 100% coherence is not possible as we of…

Spectre

Weekly Cinema Digest – Monday 26 October 2015

UK – The two leading IP protection bodies in the UK are increasing the bounty for cinema staff who catch camcorders in the act. The Film Distributors’ Association (FDA) and the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) will now pay cinema staff GBP £1,000 (USD $1,532) – double what…

IBC Big Screen HDR 3

CJ @ IBC: HDR – From Zero to Infinity (Part 3)

This is a live transcript of the presentations made at this year’s IBC Big Screen conference strand held in Amsterdam in September. As such we sometimes paraphrase what is said on stage and any errors are most likely the fault of the note taking and not the speakers. 100% coherence is not poss…

Weekly Cinema Digest – Friday 16 October 2015

USA (FL) – Lots of news – well, mostly press releases, out of ShowEast this week. This selection is by no means complete, but gives you a flavour of some of the things being announced at the show, which tends to have a very Latin american focus these days. Barco has signed up Lotte Cinem…