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Paris-based MK2 buys Spanish exhibitor Cinesur

Paris-based exhibitor and distributor MK2 has bought Spain’s third largest exhibitor Cinesur in a deal valued at around €10.5 million. MK2, which this month celebrates its 40th anniversary, is based only in France’s capital where it controls 11 multiplexes with 65 screens, as well as fou…

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Premium VoD Just Killed the Cinema Release Window

One single tweet was the final nail in the coffin of the cinema exclusivity window, given added poignancy by being in French; “100 000 locations en une semaine, rien ne sera plus comme avant” (‘100,000 viewings in a week, nothing will be as it was’). This was the message fro…

Is It Time To Go Short on AMC’s Shares?

It has been close to six months since the initial public offering (IPO) of AMC Entertainment, meaning that senior management will soon be allowed to start selling shares that they hold in the company. Seeking Alpha therefor asks if the time is right to go short on AMC. The question of whether AMC ma…

Wanda breaks RealD embargo

BREAKING NEWS: Wanda Breaks Embargo on Deal For 780 New RealD 3D Installations

CELLULOID JUNKIE EXCLUSIVE: It seems that China’s Wanda – the world’s biggest cinema operator and owner of American multiplex chain AMC – has broken its own embargo on an announcement for an expanded deal with 3D vendor RealD. It looks like this deal was set to be announced o…

Taking A Closer Look At Cine Grand’s 500 Screen Deal With Time Antaeus In China

“Cine Grand BV, Netherlands based Cinema Exhibition company announced their collaboration with the Beijing based Time Antaeus Group,” said the press release as did all the articles regurgitating it. The release went on to say that there is a joint plan to open over 500 screens in China o…

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Deluxe To Close Hollywood Film Lab

Well, we all knew it was coming. With the motion picture industry’s transition away from 35mm film to digital production and distribution it was only a matter of time before the need for film laboratories would disappear entirely. The industry took a step closer toward that end when on Tuesday…

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MoviePass Adjusts Pricing For Beta Subscribers

Just last week we wrote about how the unlimited moviegoing subscription service MoviePass benefited from being agile and developing their business in an iterative fashion. This week the company is proving just how willing they are to roll out changes to their service in an effort to build a lasting…

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Paramount Shows Some Alternative Thinking With Super-Sized “Anchorman 2” Release

By now you’ve probably heard that Paramount Pictures is rereleasing “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues” on 1,000 North American screens this weekend. More accurately, the studio is putting an alternate cut of the film into theatres – one with the weighty title of “Ancho…

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If At First They Don’t Succeed, MoviePass Tries, Tries Again

Say what you want about MoviePass, the unlimited moviegoing subscription service, but one can not fault the startup for yielding to overwhelming market obstacles or folding at the first sign of serious industry pushback. Instead, when encountering hurdles to their business, the company, which operat…

Cineworld’s Me-Too Eastern Expansion Comes At A Price

UK’s publicly listed exhibitor Cineworld is expanding into Central Europe through £503 cash and equity deal for Warsaw-listed Cinema City International (CCI), which will make it the second largest chain in Europe after Odeon UCI. The deal signals a strategic shift for Cineworld after a small domesti…