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Wanda cinema

What Wanda’s IPO Prospectus Tell Us About China’s Cinema Market

No less than 30 Chinese companies are looking to list on US stock exchanges this year, led by Internet giants such as JD.com and Alibaba. The reason for choosing the likes of Nasdaq is because unlike their Chinese counterparts they don’t require three years of profitability as well as US regul…

Flick restaurant Belfast

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 28 May 2014

UK – An alleged case of E-Coli in a restaurant owned by a Belfast-based cinema. The list of charges is pretty disturbing and disgusting. Read it for yourself. As more and more cinemas focus on premium F&B options, food safety and handling will only become more critical. Belfast City Counci…

Invisivision specs

Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 27 May 2014

USA – The idea of the same audience watching two different movies isn’t new (Finch won a Gold Lion for their Pedigree advert that used that technology), but the problem is that the audience will always hear the same soundtrack, which limits the possibilities of what can be done on the sc…

Monkey King

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 26 May 2014

China is setting a new box office record with ferocious speed that helps cement the view that it will overtake even the US in the foreseeable future as the world’s biggest cinema market. In the first five months of 2014, Chinese box office hit 10.2B yuan, or about $1.63B, with local movies dom…

Event Cinema Association

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 23 May 2014

The Event Cinema Association will be playing a prominent role at this year’s Cine Europe trade show in Barcelona (16-19 June). The association will have its own dedicated space that will no doubt be a popular hang out between show reels and trade-show floor visits. The Event Cinema Association…

4D cinema in North Korea

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 22 May 2014

In yesterday’s Daily we highlighted the rivalry between fellow South Korean motion-seat vendors CJ 4DPLEX (4DX) and ACOUVUE Inc. (Cine-Sation). Today we bring you a potentially greater rivalry, with NORTH Korea getting in on the motion-seat market as well. Yes, this is not an April Fool’…

4DX Advertisement

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 21 May 2014

Rolling Stone magazine has an overview of what you can expect from the 4D movie going experience. Quite detailed and analytical, cutting through a lot of preconceptions without too much hype. Most U.S. journalists have only participated in brief 4DX demos, but Rolling Stone was given the opportunity…

Red London cinema

Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 20 May 2014

UK – Is cinema becoming a luxury? By that we mean unaffordable to the average income family? This study makes for worrying reading. A night out at the cinema is becoming increasingly unaffordable because of rising ticket prices, experts are warning. The consumer media survey by consulting firm…

Bud Mayo opportunist

The Real Reason That Carmike Bought Digiplex

Is A. Dale (“Bud”) Mayo the savviest man in US exhibition? One thing is for sure, after Carmike’s acquisition of Digiplex he is one of the country’s richest cinema entrepreneurs, with a hat-trick of deals in the last 15 years. So what lies behind this merger and what were the…

Personal Tailer

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 19 May 2014

[youtube]http://youtu.be/VJWJMh1PmR4[/youtube] Could glasses-free stereoscopic 3D soon be a reality in cinemas? A research paper on ‘A Compressive Light Field Projection System’ from MIT seems to suggest so. Fascinating work if you can get your head around the science behind the screen,…