After numerous cinema industry consulting projects, Smart Pricer has created extensive benchmark analysis on worldwide cinema ticket pricing. Celluloid Junkie has partnered with Smart Pricer to share and highlight some of the insights they have gained. We will begin with…
Despite the recent box office success of the Chinese New Year festival, the long term growth of the market is not assured, due to over-building and lower cinema attendance in Tier Three to Five cities. Because of this hopes are…
During a keynote Q&A at Winston | Baker’s Entertainment Finance Forum in Los Angeles on March 2nd, MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe said that the subscription movie ticket service would have “over 5 million paid subscribers by the end of the…
A UK copy-cat version of MoviePass cinema subscription service has been revealed, with now operator cPass currently accepting applications for its GBP £9.95 (USD $13.83) a month plan. The websitesays that “cPass is the first UK and European cinema subscription service….
MoviePass made a big splash at the outset of this year’s Sundance Film Festival by announcing their plans to co-acquire titles with film distributors. After passing the 1.5 million subscriber mark earlier in the month, the movie-theater subscription service was…
Facebook has inadvertently revealed its ambition to directly sell cinema tickets through its platforms. A job posting on the social media giant’s Career’s page for Sales & Marketing seeks applications for ‘Monetization Product Marketing Manager – Movies’. The senior position…
The news that Germany’s UCI will roll out dynamic pricing to all of its 23 cinemas and 203 screens over the next five years marks the start of the embrace of dynamic pricing by the cinema industry. The fact that…
Barco has just announced the creation of a global cinema joint venture (JV) for enabling the roll-out of the next generation of cinema technologies and experiences. Celluloid Junkie spoke exclusively to Barco’s currently SVP of the Entertainment division Wim Buyens…
MoviePass, the movie theater subscription service that’s been stirring up the cinema industry over the past few months, announced they would be offering an annual plan for USD $89.95. That works out to USD $6.95 per month, or a 30%…
I bump into Ymagis’ CEO Jean Mizrahi as we walk in opposite directions on Rue Eugene Colas that connects the centre of Deauville with the convention building on the beach. It was the first day of the annual French cinema…
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