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Prince Badr bin Abdullah at 2024 Saudi Film Confex

Growing Saudi Film Industry Is Star of Second Annual Confex

Saudi Arabia is quite vocal about wanting to become a major player in the global film industry and during the second edition of the edition of the Saudi Film Confex in Riyadh, Minister of Culture Prince Badr bin Abdullah unveiled ambitious plans to transform the kingdom into a regional and internati…

Cine 13 - Giornate estive di Cinema - 2024 - Riccione, Italy

Italian Exhibitors Celebrate Summer Cinema Days at Riccione Conference

The curtain was lowered on the 13th edition of Ciné – Giornate estive di Cinema which ran from July 2 – 5, 2024 in Riccione, Italy. The event, organized by Associazione Nazionale Industrie Cinematografiche Audiovisive Digitali (ANICA), set a record for the Italian cinema industry in term…

CineEurope 2024: A Trade Show Overview

An important part of every CineEurope conference, held at the CCIB in Barcelona every June, is the trade show, where the latest in cinema service provider offerings – from concession stand options through to the nitty-gritty technical side of cinema exhibition – are displayed in all thei…

ISE and ProLight & Sound 2024

ISE and ProLight & Sound 2024 Roundup

Although not technically cinema exhibition trade shows in the purest sense, entertainment technology events Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) and ProLight & Sound (PL&S) both still have a clear relevance to the exhibition industry, particularly when you consider ever-morphing cinema techn…

CinemaCon 2024 - Working Together To Boost Mid-Budget Films

CinemaCon 2024: Boosting Mid-Budget Films Panel

One of the first panel discussions at CinemaCon 2024 was also one of the more interesting, and perhaps, productive sessions. Titled “Strength in the Middle: Working Together To Boost Mid-Budget Films” the panel was held on the first day of the conference, which was held in Las Vegas from…

Executive Roundtable panel at the 2024 UK Cinema Association Annual conference

Industry Execs Express Cautious Optimism for 2024 at UKCA Conference

One of the more informative sessions at the UK Cinema Association’s annual conference held in London at the BFI Southbank, March 5-6th, was an executive roundtable moderated by Sharon Reid of Cinema First, an industry body that promotes cinema going in the United Kingdom. It left everyone pres…

2023 ProLight and Sound

ProLight + Sound 2023 Brings Some Theatre Fairy Dust to Cinemas

To use a phrase that is fairly common today, this article/report is to encourage you to ‘think outside the box’ in terms of how your venue is presented and what could be done to bring the audience to your cinema before they even get into the auditorium. Though not a cinema show per se, ProLightRead…

Locarno Pro panel, August 2023 (l-r Jaume Ripoll; Elise Cochin; Ronald Chammah; K.J. Relth-Miller; Frédéric Maire; Erin Farrell; Jay Weissberg).

Locarno: Market Classics Like New Releases, Says Panel of Experts

On 7 August, the Locarno Film Festival hosted a Heritage Online panel titled “Theatrical Distribution and Streaming of Classics,” moderated by critic and programmer Jay Weissberg. The panel was comprised of Ronald Chammah (Les Film Camelia); Frédéric Maire (Cinématèque Suisse); Elise Cochin (mk2); J…

India Opens International Day at CinemaCon 2023 – Keynote by Ajay Bijli of PVR INOX

At CinemaCon 2023’s International Day the honour of the International Keynote Addresses from Exhibition went to Mr Ajay Bijli, Managing Director, PVR INOX Leisure Limited & Founder PVR Cinemas. India’s two largest cinema operators PVR Limited and INOX Leisure had recently merged to f…

Caesars Colosseum Hosts CinemaCon

Converting the Colosseum at Caesars Palace for CinemaCon

In 2010, when the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) decided to rebrand and move its annual convention (then called ShoWest) from its previous home at Paris and Ballys Hotel in Las Vegas across the street to Caesars Palace they had to come up with solutions for a number of tricky logistic…