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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…

Does Re-Releasing Oscar Nominees in Cinemas Work?

The nominations for the 86th Academy Awards (Oscars, to you and me) have been announced, insta-shared, tweeted, analysed, commented and blogged. The front runners that were all released in the fall will not be out on DVD or Blu-ray for at least a month: Gravity (25 February), 12 Years a Slave (4 Mar…

Hollywood Box Office In China

Why China’s Box Office Growth Is Bad News For Hollywood

Spectacular figures showing a 27% year-over-year growth of the 2013 box office in China (PRC) hide several far more troubling numbers for Hollywood studios trying to maintain a hold on the world’s second biggest cinema market. Even before official box office data was confirmed by last year’s merged…

China, Japan and South Korea

Homegrown Movies Help Asian Box Office Surge To Record Levels

I wonder if senior management at the big three Detroit automakers during the late 1970s and early 1980s experienced the same sense of pending anxiety that many Hollywood studio executives must presently feel. You see, as the media and certain members of the industry spent this past summer lamenting…

Viral Video Marketing Campaign Builds Awareness For “Carrie” Remake

[youtube width=”580″ height=”435″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlOxlSOr3_M[/youtube] One movie marketing trend that has proven most effective over the past several years is the use of viral videos. These short videos are crafted to promote and build awareness of a specific…

Regal Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs Download Promotion

Exhibitor Loyalty Programs Are Now Offering Free Digital Downloads

Two marketing emails from large cinema chains appeared in my inbox during the month of September both of which proved effective, at least for me. Rather than quickly scan them before relegating them to the trash bin, I actually took the rare step of following their calls to action. Maybe you’r…

Honest Trailers Use Satire To Lampoon Blockbuster Movie Trailers

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2cS5Fv5xIQ[/youtube] Earlier this year the National Association of Theatre Owners entered discussions with studios over the trailers being used to promote upcoming releases. Cinema operators were requesting th…

Google's Comparison of 2012 Box Office Index and Film-Related Search Index

Dissecting Google’s Box Office Prediction Study

Predicting box office receipts for a motion picture release, whether for opening weekend or an entire theatrical run, is anything but an exact science. Leave it to the good folks at Google, those lords of the algorithm, to rely on math rather than fuzzy logic when coming up with a better formula for…

New Yorker Movie Franchise Profitability Infographic

New Yorker Magazine Measures Movie Franchise Profitability

Take a look at the release schedule this summer and you might begin to notice a trend; “Hangover III”, “Iron Man 3”, “Star Trek Into Darkness”, “Monsters University”, “Grown Ups 2”, “Despicable Me 2” “RED 2”, etc. Th…

New York Times Lincoln Trailer Timeline

New York Times and NPR Dissect Movie Trailers

As part of their coverage of this year’s Academy Awards, the New York Times has published an interesting (and technologically slick) interactive graphic that details how scenes from a film are used in their accompanying trailers. The Times examines five of the nine Oscar nominees for Best Pict…