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JT Bioscopen Dolby Cinema

Why Vue’s Acquisition of JT Signals Merger Mania Ahead

Vue has acquired Dutch exhibitor JT Bioscopen in a deal valued at EUR €85 million (USD $97.5 million). The deal is significant in that it represents the first time Vue is acquiring purely for size rather than growth. It also portents a consolidation of the global exhibition sector, with more mergers…

Event cinema revenue

IHS Technology: Event Cinema Develops Into a Global Sector

IHS and Rentrak provide analysis of Event Cinema revenues in eight territories. The Event Cinema sector has been around for many years, with experiments taking place as soon as digital projection was a workable reality. Digital conversion has acted as the main driver for Event Cinema. In both Franc…

Gun shooting cartoon

Cinemas Can’t Prevent Shootings (But Are Forced To Act)

The shooting in the Grand 16 Theatre in Lafayette, Louisiana unleashed the sort of temporary soul-searching that always accompany acts of gun violence in the United States, whether in a cinema, church, high school, college, military base or other public space. This week saw another gun incident, thi…

Ent Group China cinema growth 2015

China Cinema Growth Slows Dramatically

New data released by Ent Group shows that while the growth of cinemas in China continued in the first half of 2015, the pace of growth is slowing significantly. According to Ent Group the first six months of 2015 saw an addition of 600 new cinemas with 2,449 screens, putting the total in China atRea…

FFA Germany

German Cinema Going in Terminal Decline, Study Finds

A study by Germany’s Federal Film Board (FFA) paints a bleak picture for the future of cinema going in Europe’s largest economy. The report finds that after a strong 2015, cinema attendance is set to decline by one to two per cent annually from 2016 onwards. The research was conducted wi…

UNIC annual report

European Cinema Figures and More by UNIC

Definitive cinema attendance figures for Europe in 2014 have been published by cinema trade body UNIC, as part of its 2014-2015 General Report. Preliminary figures were released by UNIC back in February and are largely the same, so the report is more interesting for its analysis of market trends, ad…

China private cinema

Private Cinemas Set To Conquer China

With Wanda Cinemas’ skyrocketing share price pushing the company’s market cap to CNY ¥50 billion (USD $8 billion), China Daily asks “who will create the next 50 billion yuan” cinema business. The answer might not be another Wanda, Imax or China Film Giant Screen but a company…

Gfinity Arena Vue

Why eSport Is The Next Major Cinema Trend

With the Great Blockbuster Year of ’15 well underway, non-film content in cinemas such as opera, theatre and concerts is seeing its steady rise temporarily eclipsed. But for eSports (electronic sports or pro-gaming) on the big screen this is set to be the breakthrough year. Having already won…

Sweden Alice Bah Kuhnke

End of Film Agreement Will Push Up Swedish Cinema Ticket Prices

VAT is set to increase from 6% to 25% for cinema tickets in Sweden, as part of the scrapping of the 50-year old mechanism for supporting domestic films. Culture Minister Alice Bah-Kunke has announced the scrapping of Filmavtalet (the Film Agreement), the support scheme whereby 10% of sales of each c…

CinemaCon Bill Alberti Generation Z

CinemaCon: Bill Alberti Looks At Cinema’s Generation Z Challenge

At CinemaCon 2015 Bill Alberti of Communispace looks at the challenges of making cinema relevant for today's always-on Generation Z.