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Ice Man 3d

Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 6 April 2014

Is the air going out of the Chinese cinema business already? You wouldn’t think so from the strong opening numbers that The Amazing Spider-Man 2 delievered, opening on close to 40% of all Mainland screens this past weekend. The problem is what took place before, during the May Day/Labour Day h…

Westminster London cinemas hygiene scorcard

London Cinemas’ Food Hygiene Scorecard: Quite Good, but Room For Improvement

With cinema attendance plateauing or stagnant in most developed markets, exhibitors are turning to ways to extract more money from the patrons that still frequent cinemas. Concessions is the most obvious way, which is why the last decade has seen a proliferation of in-theatre cafes, bars, stand-alon…

Astor Film Lounge

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 5 May 2014

We don’t normally start with a non-English article (though Google/Chrome will easily translate it for you). But this is a good overview of how German exhibition is dealing with a contracting demand: 20 million fewer cinemas goers went to see a film in 2013 compared to 2003 and some 200 net cin…

Graham Cinema NC

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 2 May 2014 (Bumper Issue!)

It is not often that we start with a ‘Digital Death Watch’-type of story, but the Graham is not just an amazingly resilient single-screen cinema in North Carolina. This is also example of terrific college journalism that incorporates video (below), photos, info-graphics, mapping and soci…

Jeffrey Katzenberg

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 30 April 2014

There is really only one story to begin with today – Jeffrey Katzenberg is definitely off John Fithian’s Christmas Card list. Not only did Mr Peabody and Sherman underwhelm at the box office, but now the head of Dreamworks Animation has suggested that the theatrical release window for fi…

Cinetopia Vancouver

Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 29 April 2014

Canada: With shopping malls falling out of favour with US consumers, an interesting example from Canada Washington state of how to successfully convert underutilized shopping real estate to a successful multiplex. For example, in 2012, mall officials replaced a two-story Mervyn’s department st…

Wang Jianglin, chairman and founder of Dalian Wanda Group

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 28 April 2014

China: The Wall Street Journal notes that the imminent Wanda Cinemas IPO is very much a Wang family affair. Here are some takeaways from the company’s IPO prospectus: -China’s largest cinema chain takes a dim view of the domestic movie industry. In the risk factors section, the prospectus note…

ArcLight Santa Monica

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 24 April 2014

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4FMm6Jntfg[/youtube] In something other than sad news from South Korea, enhanced experience cinema seat maker CJ 4DPlex has revealed its global ambitions and roadmap. To many movie fans, “300” is a Hollywood blockbuster about an epic battle between the Sparta…

China 3D audience

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 23 April 2014

Is China undergoing a 3D backlash? Speakers at the recent Beijing International Film Festival seemed to go to great lengths to condemn poor 3D. Prominent members of industry like Yang Buting, chairman of China Film Distribution and Exhibition Association and China Film Overseas Promotional Corporati…

Z Storm

China’s Multiplexes Are Headed For a Crash – Statistics Show Why

Just 15%. Remember that figure as you listen to Hollywood representatives and trade press falling over themselves to laud the growth of Chinese cinemas. At this year’s CinemaCon MPAA’s Chris Dodd marvelled at China’s USD $3.6 billion box office in 2013, representing a year-on-year…