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Wanda Christie Cinema 9

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 3 September 2015

Wanda Cinema Line has signed a major deal with Christie Digital to deploy the latter’s projectors and audio solutions in its cinemas. The deal covers Christie’s 2K and 4K digital cinema projectors, Christie 6P laser projectors and Christie Vive Audio solutions, which will be installed ac…

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…

Wang Jinlian

Insider Trading Questions Raised About Wanda’s Shimao Acquisition

Chinese shares have taken a major plunge in the past few weeks, including those of Wanda Cinema Line Co., which in response promised to expand and acquire aggressively in a move to defend its share price. Yet questions are now being raised about one Wanda’s most recent acquisitions in China, w…

uy box office China

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 11 June 2015

Are box office figures being falsely over-reported to attract audience interest? Sina Entertainment is quite explicit about what the issue is: As of the end of May, China has nearly 17 billion yuan takings at the box office. Such results make the world speechless, but behind there is a simmering uns…

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…

Avengers China

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 28 May 2015

Foreign Policy Review has an excellent in-depth article “Hollywood’s New Box-Office Battleground: The Chinese Heartland” with the sub-heading, “Forget Beijing and Shanghai. The fates of flicks like Age of Ultron will be decided in places like Changzhou.” The article is clear…

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…

Shanghai Film Group Signs Cinema JV With China’s Retail Giant Bailian

Shanghai Film Group and retail major Bailian Group have thus signed a strategic cooperation agreement to established a 51-49 joint venture investment company for theater chains. State-owned and Shanghai-based Bailian Group is China’s largest retailer and is involved in everything from departme…

MasterImage Invalidates RealD Chinese Patent

MasterImage Scores Second Patent Victory Against RealD, This Time In China

MasterImage has managed to invalidate RealD’s utility model patent for its “light-doubler” technology in China, just over a month after it did the same in Russia. With China having overtaken the US as the world’s biggest 3D cinema market, this is a significant development, th…

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…