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Cinema Fire popcorn Australia

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 8 April 2015

Australia – This is the first time I’ve ever heard of a cinema being evacuated because of its popcorn. A batch of burnt popcorn caused the evacuation of four cinemas at the Grand Cinema Warwick complex on Monday night. Fire fighters were called to the Beach Road cinemas just after 9pm af…

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Universal’s Pragmatic “Fast & Furious 7” E-Cinema Release

Universal this weekend become the first Hollywood studio to release a major blockbuster in cinemas on digital equipment that falls short of the specifications set out by DCI. Rather than abandoning the hard-fought DCI guidelines, this arguably demonstrates Universal’s pragmatism in the one mar…

Wanda Cinema

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 2 April 2015

Wanda is expecting year-on-year profits to increase by 40% to 60%, with quarterly profit of CNY ¥298 million (USD $48 million), wheres in 2014 its profit was CNY ¥213 million (USD $34.4 million) over the same period. Growth is attributed to funds raised from its IPO speeding up the roll-out of new c…

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Ymagis FY’14 Results Reflect European Cinema Market

The pan-European cinema integrator and service provider has released financial results for the fiscal year 2014. While the company merged with Belgian-based digital cinema operator dcinex in October, the results are for Ymagis’ operation alone, with the joint results published separately. The…

Barco Dolby Atmouro

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 1 April 2015

Celluloid Junkie can exclusively reveal that in an effort to spur uptake of immersive audio for cinema Dolby and Barco have concluded a groundbreaking agreement to merge their Atmos and Auro systems. While a formal announcement is not expected before CinemaCon – so there is no press release ye…

Fast and Furious 7

Digital Cinema Firm Tries to Block “Fast & Furious 7” India Release

UPDATE: 4:30am IST – KSS claims that the CCI has ruled in its favour. Details at the end of the story. Cinema service provider KSS (K Sera Sera) has filed an injunctive petition with the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to block the release of “Fast and Furious 7” in India, a…

UK’s Vue Cinemas Set to Re-Vamp Brand

UK cinema chain Vue is set for a major re-vamping of its brand in an effort to “transform” the experience of attending the cinema. The exhibitor has appointed branding agency Joint and digital agency TH_NK to deliver the changes. The announcement is the culmination of the appointment of …

Printemps de Cinema France

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 30 March 2015

France’s 16th annual ‘Cinema Spring’ between 22-24 March attracted around 2.6 million viewers, similar to the previous year, according to figures from the National Federation of French Cinemas (FNCF). For this national operation, cinemas offered three days a discount of 3.50 euros…

Empire SuperTicket

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 27 March 2015

The ‘SuperTicket’ concept is already common in North America and in Europe, but this is the first time that it will have been tried in the UK. On April 3rd, thriller Kidnapping Freddy Heineken, starring everyone’s favourite on-screen serial killer Anthony Hopkins, will debut in UK…

Harbin China cinema statistics

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 26 March 2015

The above infographic summarises almost everything you need to know about cinema developments in China’s Tier 2 cities, in this case Harbin in north-eastern China, perhaps best known for its annual ice sculpture festival. The chart on the left shows the opening of new multiplexes: four in 2012…