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RealD Light doubler

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 12 November 2014

RealD has won an important patent recognition in Europe for its “light doubler” technology. Global visual technology company RealD Inc. (NYSE: RLD) announced today the issuance to it by the European Patent Office of a patent that covers the fundamental optical architecture of the company…

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 10 November 2014

Variety reports that Australian exhibitor Hoyts’ IPO has been called off. The flotation had been expected to value the company at up to A$900 million ($773 million) in a pre-Christmas sale handled by investment bank UBS. The sale process was triggered by majority shareholder Pacific Equity Par…

Steve Cinema robot

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 7 November 2014

Terminator is not the only robot you are likely to encounter in multiplexes in the future, with Belgian cinema advertiser Brightish being the first in the world to launch a cinema robot. Apparently it is much friendlier than the Terminator robot too. Belgian cinema’s advertising sales house, Brightf…

Wang Jianglin, chairman and founder of Dalian Wanda Group

Questions Raised About Wanda Cinema’s IPO

Sina Finance carries a long and excellent analysis of Wanda Cinema’s re-submitted IPO document, written by Enterprise Observer newspaper reporter Zhu Lin. The article raises several pertinent question about the IPO of the world’ largest cinema chain, which also controls AMC in the US. Th…

Transformers China

China Cinema Digest – Wednesday 5 November 20

Not a month seems to go by without China breaking a new box office record. The Mainland box office is now on course to hit USD $5 billion (30 billion yuan) by the end of this year according to the Chinese Film Producer’s Association (CFPA). The CFPA’s vice president Wang Fenglin told an…

RealD Glasses

Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 4 November 2014

RealD has rebuffed the takeover offer from hedge fund Starboard Value, having posted better-than-expected quarterly financial figures. The company says that its board has “unanimously determined not to pursue” a $600 million unsolicited offer from Jeffrey Smith’s activist hedge fund Starboard Value.…

NCM DoJ Screenvision

US Department of Justice Seeks to Block NCM-Screenvision Merger

The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) has filed a lawsuit with the aim of blocking the proposed USD $375 million merger between US cinema advertising majors National CineMedia Inc. (NCM) and Screenvision LLC. NCM admitted to being both “disappointed” and “surprised” b…

Cinepolis

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 3 November 2014

Mexican/international chain Cinepolis is mentioned as one of the potential bidders for Regal, according to the LA Times. Other potential buyers mentioned include No. 3 US chain Cinemark, Shanghai Film Group Corp., Chinese e-commerce major Alibaba, or South Korea’s CJ Group. It is clear that th…

Zolten cinema Kiev fire

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 31 October 2014 (Halloween)

An apparent arson attack has destroyed the oldest cinema in Ukraine’s capital. While nobody was injured, this appears to be a despicable hate crime attack that could have had even more tragic consequences. The oldest movie theater in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev was seriously damaged as fire…

PLD Premium Large Format

IHS: 72 PLF Brands Compete With Imax (But Only Two Are a Threat)

IHS Technology recently published an Insight Report on “The market for Premium Large Format (PLF) cinema” as part of its Cinema Intelligence Service. Authored by Principal Analyst Charlotte Jones, the report does an excellent job of providing a comprehensive and data-focused overview of…