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Pakistani Cinema Terrorist Attack

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 3 February 2014

Pakistan: A terrorist attack in a cinema has killed five and injured dozens in a small Pakistani cinema. “Pakistani police say a bomb attack in a cinema in the northwestern city of Peshawar has killed five people. Police official Zahid Khan says the explosion on Sunday night also wounded 30 pe…

Curzon Cinemas in Victoria

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 31 January 2014

UK: London’s leading arthouse cinema chain is on a major expansion drive. “Boutique cinema chain Curzon Cinemas will almost double the number of its screens in the capital, from 12 to 20, as part of a £6 million expansion plan and design makeover. The main investment is in a new £3 milli…

Ispwich Odeon

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 29 January 2014

UK: Fancy going up against not one but THREE cinemas in Ipwich? If so then you are in luck, because the original £1m asking price just halved. “The former Odeon cinema at the junction of St Margaret’s Street and Woodbridge Road was built in 1991 but closed in August 2005. It had become unable…

Stephanie Georgio at Cineworld

Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 28 January 2014

UK: A girl is recovering after being bitten by a venomous spider at a Cineworld multiplex. yes, you read that correctly; not in Australia but in the UK. “A teenager needed three operations after she was bitten by a venomous spider at an Enfield cinema. Stephanie Georgiou, was bitten by a false…

Romeo and Juliet

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 27 January 2014

USA: The New York Times looks at the business of event cinema for Broadway, noting that with a few exceptions, “Broadway has shied away from this booming phenomenon, which could represent a new revenue stream (it certainly has for the Met) or at least a potent new marketing tool.” By Ex…

Seeing Eye Dogs In Chinese Cinema

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 24 January 2014

China: PRC is cracking down on tax avoidance and under-payment to distributors by cinemas. “New rules have gone into place in China to prevent cinemas from manipulating viewing figures and engaging in other forms of fraud. The State General Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and…

Galaxy Cinema Demolition

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 23 January 2014

When the local art house cinema in Carey, North Carolina was torn down to make way for a grocery store, Indian expats had nowhere to see Hindi, Tamil and Telugu films. So they approached the local multiplex about screening Indian films. “Yanamadala approached Carmike about a year and a half ag…

Movie Hopping Planner

Movie-Hopping – The Lesser Discussed Form of Film Piracy

Film piracy or ‘movie theft’ is a well covered subject in exhibition industry circles. The fight is against people recoding films on video cameras in cinemas and uploading them to the internet or selling them on discs is one that unites multiplex operators, film studios, trade bodies lik…

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 22 January 2014

Japan: How to tackle piracy? With action figures! “It’s a well-known fact that, when faced with public relations or marketing dilemmas, 99.99% of Japanese companies create a cute mascot to solve the problem. So naturally, this is how the Japan Motion Picture Association tackled the issue of film pir…

Support Your Local Cinema – Communities Rally In the Face of Digital Death

With close to 90 per cent of cinemas in the US digitised, the question about what would happen to the last stragglers loomed large even before Paramount announced that it had (reportedly) ended 35mm print distribution. The problem is that while one in ten screens is still reliant on film prints, the…