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Kulturhuset stockholm

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 10 April

Three stories from my native country Sweden, to start off the Daily today. Click on the link if you are using Chrome browser (as 35.40% of you are) and you get the option of an automatic translation. Stockholm’s Culture House is taking back the running of its small in-house cinema from SF Bio.…

Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid

Latin American VPF Deals Hide Regional Problems – UPDATED

[Ed: We have received lots of feedback and updated info from readers fram and active in the region. ¡Muchas Gracias/Muito Obrigado! The article has been UPDATED THROUGHOUT as a result.] Much like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid headed to Bolivia after they had run out of banks in the Wild West to…

ArcLight Santa monica

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 9 April 2014

Normally we bury cinema openings further down in the Daily, but this merits top billing. Back in January we wrote about how premium cinema operator ArcLight had set its sights on Los Angeles’ Santa Monica market and whether this would create a screen glut. Now news reaches us that ArcLight is…

Imax China

Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 8 April 2014

Imax is to sell 20% of its China business to two Chinese-based entities in return for USD $80 million and a firmer foot hold in the world’s soon-to-be largest cinema market. IMAX Chief Executive Richard Gelfond said in an interview that investment fund China Media Capital and private-equity fi…

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 7 April 2014

A mere two weeks after CinemaCon, NAB rolled into Las Vegas this past weekend and wasted no time setting its sights on the future of the cinematic experience. Variety’s always excellent David Cohen was there, for the benefit of all those of you who couldn’t face returning to Vegas so soo…

Dreamloungers

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 4 April 2014

We have written a lot about the cinemas in Fargo, North Dakota in the Daily before (here, here, here and here), but it is an interesting microcosm of the evolution that the US exhibition industry as a whole is going through. This article highlight changes that three of Marcus Theatres’ Fargo p…

Unique MovieTransit

Unique’s MovieTransit Scores Major Deals in Denmark and UK

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/44131442[/vimeo] While satellite delivery was the talk of CinemaCon 2014, Unique Digital notched up two significant victories in Europe that point to fibre delivery playing a greater role for digital cinema in Europe. The deals with UK’s BT and The Danish Distributors A…

Noah and Captain america

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 3 April 2014

NATO President John Fithian was vocal at CinemaCon about getting studios to spread the releases more widely than just the summer and holiday windows. This year it looks like he is getting his wish, with summer already starting in April with films like Noah, Captain America 2, Rio 2 and Transcendence…

Royal Opera House’s Cinema Audience to Overtake Covent Garden’s

UK’s Royal Opera House (ROH) has announced its programme for the 2014/15 Season and with it the astonishing revelation that it expects its cinema audience numbers to overtake those watching it in person at its Covent Garden home this season. Despite ROH selling out 96% of all tickets to its Co…

Black coal, Thin Ice

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 2 April 2014

The emergence of China as the world’s second largest cinema territory after US comes as news to precisely no one. Interestingly recent Hollywood films like RoboCop and Need for Speed have earned more at the Chinese box office than in North America, helped in no small part by their 3D release.…