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Bomb in Indian cinema kills six, injures many

There are no ‘good’ places for bombs to go off, but to me there is something particularly despicable about bombings directed against places like temples, schools, nurseries – and cinemas. Six people were killed and 32 maimed and injured in a bombing of a cinema in the Shringar cine…

Rise of Multiplexes in India Doom Single Screen Theatres

Picture the following sentence at the start of a news article: “With multiplex industry’s soaring business and ominous presence, can the single screen cinema halls sustain its business?” It wouldn’t be a far stretch to imagine this sentence being ripped from a newspaper or magazine article abo…

How multiplex arrival changed Bollywood

A very interesting Q&A with author Anupama Chopr about her book King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema over at the Freakonomics blog by Melissa Lafsky. It looks at how the Indian/Hindi film industry (a.k.a. Bollywood) has changed in the last decade-and-a-half,…

Rain = good cinema summer in UK

It appears that cinema have been making hay while the sun didn’t shine. Most British newspapers and websites seem to agree that it is primarily the weather rather than the quality of the films on offer, that made 2007 a strong box office summer. Take this article from The Guardian (‘Wet…

Hungary to get first IMAX cinema

While Vienna has lost interest in IMAX, neighbour capital Budapest will the first (and probably only) city in Hungary to get its own IMAX cinema. According to a report on the website MTI, relating a story from business daily Vilaggazdasag, the screen will open by the end of October: A special projec…

Russians re-discover cinema going

After several years of post-Soviet decline, cinema going is picking up in Russia on the back of new multiplexes and a boom in local production. Two articles highlight how the country has turned itself around from a state of rampant piracy (still prolific) and closing cinemas to a new found confidenc…

Nobody wants to buy Vienna’s IMAX

While IMAX theatres are growing faster than bamboo in China, it appears that nobody is interested in acquiring the old IMAX cinema in the centre of Austrian capital Vienna. The large format (LF) cinema shut its doors two years ago and the property owners Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft (ironically enou…

Leaded, unleaded or a cinema ticket?

Indian refinery company Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) is branching out from petrol station – into forecourt cinemas. As income declines from retail petroleum products BPCL thinks that it can revive its fortunes by pumping out digital cinema features in halls all across India. Wit…

Surprise cinema (pay if you like the film) and ‘Lost’ on the big screen in Prague

The Czechs have come up with a new cinema concept, which is to screen a surprise movie at Prague’s largest arthouse cinema where patrons only pay afterwards depending on how much they like the film. From ABC Prague’s website: Aero cinema in Prague has chosen an interesting way, how to at…

Adopt-a-seat in world’s oldest interactive cinema

You can now adopt a seat in one of Prague’s oldest cinemas, Kino Svetozor, which is raising money for refurbishment through the innovative scheme. The idea and the background to the cinema is discussed in an article and broadcast by Radio Praha: Kino Svetozor is one of the oldest cinemas in th…