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Cinema Going Was Up in Europe in 2016

While the film screened there don’t contribute significantly to the European box office, the just concluded Berlin Film Festival is the occasion for publishing provisional statistics on the past year’s cinema attendance across Europe. No less than three trade bodies issued their data for…

AMC, Odeon & UCI and Nordic Cinema Group geographic footprint

Which Cinema Chain Will AMC Buy Next?

With three one billion-dollar acquisitions in Europe in the timeframe of just ten months, AMC is by no means done with achieving Wanda’s goal of controlling 20% of global screen count. AMC’s Adam Aron has openly said that the world’s #1 cinema chain will not shy away from bolt-on a…

Dead pool, Captain America Civil War Finding Dory Rogue One posters

2016 = Four Box Office Quarters = USD $11.372 billion

Guest columnist Patrick Corcoran, Vice President and Chief Communications Officer of cinema trade body NATO, reviews the North American box office year 2016 and finds that for the first time it was a year of four equal quarters, amongst other notable highlights. As the calendar pages flipped from 20…

Early Predictions of Movie Success: the Who, What, and When of Profitability

AI Algorithm Predicts Box-office Success (Sort Of)

A research paper by Dr Kang Zhao and Michael T. Lash looks at factors that can help predict the box-office success of films, with interesting results.

EU Box Office Hits Record High in 2015, But With France Anomaly

European Audiovisual Observatory finds that BO and admissions grew to record highs in 2015, but the picture was nuanced for the largest EU cinema territory France.

David Hancock, IHS, CinemaCon 2016

CJ @ Cinemacon: ‘Cinema: Experience is Everything’, David Hancock, IHS

IHS's David Hancock looks at how the experiential nature of cinema going is changing in the post-digital age.

Movio Tracks Blockbuster Audience Evolution Patterns

Movio's white paper looks at the evolution of cinema audiences over a blockbusters opening weekend and week, yielding surprising insights.

Why So Few Women CEOs in Exhibition?

In conjuncture with our Top 25 Women in Cinema, Celluloid Junkie asks why there are so few females in the top jobs of exhibition.

The Problem With India’s Multiplex Ticket Caps

Multiplex tickets in south India will be capped at INR 120 ($1.78) to delight of audiences but could inadvertently hurt local films and push cinemas out of business.

Sleeping cinema goers

Are Movies Getting Longer?

Are movies getting longer? Stephen Follows crunches the numbers and analyses which genres, what directors and whether films are really do stretch on forever.