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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…

Bahrain to get major cinema complex

Confirming the trend of mega-size multiplexes in the Middle East, the Bahrain Cinema Company (BCC) will spend BD6m ($2.65m) to build a 8,000 sq. m., 20 screen, 4,200 seat Cineco Cineplex in Bahrain City. The press release spares nothing when it comes to grand claims about the future facility: The Ci…

IMAX goes even bigger in China

Large format (LF) cinema operator IMAX has signed its largest deal yet in China with a ten-screen agreement with Wanda Cinema Line Corporation for the People’s Republic. The first couple of installations will take place before the year is out, according to this article from Reuters: The agreem…

India is becoming multiplex capital of the world

For a country that produces more films than Hollywood and sells more tickets each year than the US, you would think that India had a lot of cinemas. It doesn’t. Rather shockingly it is one of the most under-screened countries in the whole world. Whereas in the US there are 177 screens per mill…

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