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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…

Israel to get second Cinema City complex

Israel is set to get its second Cinema City complex in a $50m joint venture between Israeli company Gazit-Globe Israel and Portuguese company New Lineo Cinemas (NLC), which built the first Cinema City complex in Portugal. The article in Ynetnews.com reports that: The complex is expected to open in t…

Only two cinemas left in Baghdad

TimesNow.tv has an interesting though sad article and video from Reuters about one of the last cinemas left in Iraqi capital Baghdad (‘Iraq’s cinemas lost in violence‘), the Atlas cinema in the up-market Mansur district. Far from being a safe airconditioned refuge from the searing…