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Europe’s Cinema Attendance Decline is Greatly Exagerated

It is appropriate that the European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO) should release its cinema admissions report at the Berlin Film Festival rather than Cannes, because it appeared not to make for sunny or cheerful reading. The headline figure of 4.1 per cent decline for EU cinema attendance and the se…

2013 – Bad Year for Film; Great Year for Exhibitor Share Price

It may seem paradoxical, but while 2013 was a bad year for films in terms of growth, it was an excellent year for cinemas. Even with a strong summer at the box office, 2013 was flat or even down compared to the previous year in most western countries. Only emerging markets like China showed strongRe…

We Need To Talk About Event Cinema Piracy

It is a measure of the success of event cinema that it is fast becoming a victim of internet piracy, a trend that is only like to get worse, for one very simple reason. With the NT Live screenings proving particularly popular for pirates, it is a challenge that the industry will have to dealRead Mor…

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New Chinese Box Office Records Come As No Surprise

Thanks to a quota on foreign films limiting the number of imported titles to 34, movie studios have often struggled to get their movies released in China. Apparently there is no quota on box office bragadocio and Hollywood has been able to easily export its affinity for trumpeting their latest movie…

Disney To Release Sing-Along Version of “Frozen” In Theatres

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]http://youtu.be/0HtACLaRDk0[/youtube] Walt Disney Studios may have struck upon an inventive way to squeeze more revenue from moviegoers who have already seen their latest animated feature, “Frozen”. Hoping to get fans of “Fr…

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Movie-Hopping – The Lesser Discussed Form of Film Piracy

Film piracy or ‘movie theft’ is a well covered subject in exhibition industry circles. The fight is against people recoding films on video cameras in cinemas and uploading them to the internet or selling them on discs is one that unites multiplex operators, film studios, trade bodies lik…

Klip Collective’s Projection Mapping Impresses Sundance Film Festival Audiences

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/84063773[/vimeo] Before every film screened at the Sundance Film Festival, presently taking place in Park City, Utah, a pre-roll trailer is shown. This has been going for as long as anyone can remember. The trailers, often referred to as “festival bumpers”, are cr…

MPAA Agent Bob Hope Detains Man For Wearing Google Glass in Ohio Cinema

It was only two weeks ago that we predicted the day would come when people would be wearing Google Glass in cinemas and be able to record an entire movie. That future has already arrived sooner than we expected. Over the weekend of January 18th an un-named man went to see “Jack Ryan: Shadow Re…

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India’s New Censor Board CEO Faces Industry Revolt

The role of a censor/certifier is not an easy one in any country. It is a tightrope walk between filmmakers and demanding audiences seeking freedom of artistic expression and right to view age-appropriate content on one hand, and concerned parents and moral guardians on the other worried about the i…

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Paramount Reportedly Stops Delivery of Film Prints

Well, it may finally have happened. Everyone working in any capacity of the motion picture industry knew the day would come when Hollywood studios would stop distributing their releases on 35-millimeter film prints. If Saturday’s story in the Los Angeles Times is to be believed, that day may f…