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Imax China

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 29 May 2015

China (Hong Kong SAR) – Well that was quick! Having only been set up last year, Imax China Holdings is already planning an IPO. “IMAX China Holding Inc, majority-owned by the namesake giant screen movie theater equipment maker, filed for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, looking t…

Avengers China

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 28 May 2015

Foreign Policy Review has an excellent in-depth article “Hollywood’s New Box-Office Battleground: The Chinese Heartland” with the sub-heading, “Forget Beijing and Shanghai. The fates of flicks like Age of Ultron will be decided in places like Changzhou.” The article is clear…

ECA Technical Handbook

ECA Handbook: Live Delivery Via Satellite (Part I)

Earlier this year The Event Cinema Association (ECA) published its “Technical Delivery Handbook”, a step-by-step guide to live delivery of event cinema, written by ECA members for the benefit of the industry. With satellite delivery the preferred mode of delivering live opera, theatre, c…

Game of Thrones Cineplex

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 27 May 2015

74 of Canada’s Cineplex cinemas will screen the season finale of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” on Sunday 14 June. “Last year, the season four finale was screened in 29 theatres, with more than 11,000 tickets snatched up within days.” The pre-show will include trailers…

China private cinema

Private Cinemas Set To Conquer China

With Wanda Cinemas’ skyrocketing share price pushing the company’s market cap to CNY ¥50 billion (USD $8 billion), China Daily asks “who will create the next 50 billion yuan” cinema business. The answer might not be another Wanda, Imax or China Film Giant Screen but a company…

Omniplex Paul Anderson

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 25 May 2015

[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/128287560[/vimeo] USA (CA) – Disney’s “Tomorrowland” is the first film to have screened to the public in Dolby Vision HDR (high dynamic range). Cnet is impressed. “In the Dolby Cinema presentation of Disney’s “Tomorrowland,” fi…

Mike Leigh Pirates ENO

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 22 May 2015

UK – An event cinema record has been set in the UK with the live transmission of the Mike Leigh’s staging of of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance” at the English National Opera (ENO). “Pirates, in Mike Leigh’s production, took £600,000 at the UK box office…

JetReel GDC

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 21 May 2015

GDC has been touting the home cinema potential of its DCI system in China. At Beijing Wangjing mansion the company showcased its Jie Terui (JETREEL) brand on 12 May, screening “Avengers: Age of Ultron”. GDC claims to have had 60 titles in 2014 for Jetreel, with Huayi Brothers holding a 3…

Shanghai Film Group Signs Cinema JV With China’s Retail Giant Bailian

Shanghai Film Group and retail major Bailian Group have thus signed a strategic cooperation agreement to established a 51-49 joint venture investment company for theater chains. State-owned and Shanghai-based Bailian Group is China’s largest retailer and is involved in everything from departme…

Gfinity Arena Vue

Why eSport Is The Next Major Cinema Trend

With the Great Blockbuster Year of ’15 well underway, non-film content in cinemas such as opera, theatre and concerts is seeing its steady rise temporarily eclipsed. But for eSports (electronic sports or pro-gaming) on the big screen this is set to be the breakthrough year. Having already won…