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Film Festival for Blind Highlights France’s Accessibility Gap

Paris is currently hosting its 6th annual film festival blind and visually impaired people at the UGC Gobelins cinema. The event is arranged by l’Association Valentin Haüy (AVH) and this year sponsored by Luc Besson, whose films “Lucy” and “Taken 3” are being shown. However,…

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Universal’s Pragmatic “Fast & Furious 7” E-Cinema Release

Universal this weekend become the first Hollywood studio to release a major blockbuster in cinemas on digital equipment that falls short of the specifications set out by DCI. Rather than abandoning the hard-fought DCI guidelines, this arguably demonstrates Universal’s pragmatism in the one mar…

Wanda Cinema

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 2 April 2015

Wanda is expecting year-on-year profits to increase by 40% to 60%, with quarterly profit of CNY ¥298 million (USD $48 million), wheres in 2014 its profit was CNY ¥213 million (USD $34.4 million) over the same period. Growth is attributed to funds raised from its IPO speeding up the roll-out of new c…

Fast and Furious 7

Digital Cinema Firm Tries to Block “Fast & Furious 7” India Release

UPDATE: 4:30am IST – KSS claims that the CCI has ruled in its favour. Details at the end of the story. Cinema service provider KSS (K Sera Sera) has filed an injunctive petition with the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to block the release of “Fast and Furious 7” in India, a…

Harbin China cinema statistics

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 26 March 2015

The above infographic summarises almost everything you need to know about cinema developments in China’s Tier 2 cities, in this case Harbin in north-eastern China, perhaps best known for its annual ice sculpture festival. The chart on the left shows the opening of new multiplexes: four in 2012…

China cinema ticket theft

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 19 March 2015

An audacious hacking into a Shanghai cinema online ticketing system allowed thieves to allegedly siphon off almost CNY ¥1.5 million (USD $240,000). While SARFT says that this sort of attack has never been reported before, Beijing-based security consultant Chong Yu is quoted as saying that “th…

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Austrian Exhibitor Cineplexx Launched VoD Service

The boundaries between cinema and video-on-demand (VoD) in Europe are blurring further, with the parent company of Austria’s Cineplexx exhibitor announcing its Cineplexx2Go VoD service. While VoD services are already offered by exhibitors such as UK’s Curzon Cinemas (Curzon on Demand) an…

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How Endemic Is Box Office Fraud In China?

Is China’s cinema market larger than official figures suggest, due to box office fraud siphoning off 10% or more of its total value? Having looked last week at how micro-channel subsidies are inflating box office takings, it is time to look at box office spend that is collected but never rep…

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China Cinema Digest – Thursday 12 March 2015 (Price War Special)

First Financial Daily Online looks at how it is possible that two cinema seats next to each other for the same film might cost one person 100 yuan while the other paid less than 10 yuan. Yes, it is our favourite topic of micro-channels (BAT – Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, plus their smaller comp…

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Global Box Office 2014: Asia Comes to West’s Rescue

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has released its 2014 Theatrical Market Statistics report, providing an overview of global box office and trends. Overall box office grew year-on-year by just 1% but to a record USD $36.4 billion. However, the underlying trends point to a surging Asia…

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