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Emily Cecil-Dennett stands in front of the inside of Trafalgar Releasing’s original broadcasting truck

A Complete Service: Trafalgar Releasing’s End-to-End Offering

For the past decade, London-based distribution company Trafalgar Releasing (Trafalgar) has been a market leader when it comes to event cinema (also known as alternative content). Bringing live experiences to a wider audience via the cinema screen, whether it’s recorded productions of pop concerts, s…

The Evil Dead In Concert

“The Evil Dead” Comes to Life in National U.S. Concert Tour

How a cult horror classic is being reborn as a live-to-film musical experience. What happens when one of horror’s most notorious cult films gets a symphonic resurrection? In 1981, Sam Raimi made his directorial debut with the supernatural indie “The Evil Dead,” a low-budget cabin-in-the-…

Billie Eilish Hit Me Hard and Soft Listening Event

AMC Theatres Gets Serious About Music with New Hire and Listening Events for Billie Eilish Album

AMC Theatres is set to host exclusive listening events for Billie Eilish’s highly anticipated third studio album, “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” across roughly 130 locations in the United States. The events, scheduled for 16 and 17 May will offer fans to be among the first to hear the Eil…

Katrin Mathe and Laura Correia - Event Cinema Association (Left to Right)

ECA Announces Addition of Two New Board Directors

The Event Cinema Association (ECA) has welcomed two new members to its Board of Directors. Katrin Mathe, International Event Cinema Manager for Kinepolis, and Laura Correia, AVP Film & Event Cinema National Amusements have joined the board of the trade body, not only bringing with them a wealth…

2020's Top Event Cinema Titles in UK

Movio Tallies the Numbers for 2020’s Top UK Event Cinema Releases

In normal years event cinema titles are programmed amidst a stream of blockbuster releases, often during low occupancy times such as early matinees or weeknights. But in a year which saw a global pandemic force studios to delay all of their big releases into 2021 or later, event cinema titles turned…

The ECA has benefitted from the UK Government's Cultural Recovery Fund

Back with a (Cultural Recovery Fund) Bang: ECA Secures Funding

For a membership-and-events-funded organisation such as the Event Cinema Association (ECA), a consequence of 2020’s cinema-shutting pandemic resulted in, like for so many others, pretty much zero income. So some truly happy news in 2021 is that the ECA has had its application to the second round of…

BTS World Tour: Love Yourself In Seoul

The CinemaCon Award That Would Have Been

Many disruptions brought about by the coronavirus pandemic have devastated the global cinema industry, with one such example being the cancellation of the annual, much-anticipated CinemaCon. During this year’s Las Vegas conference a host of awards were due to be bestowed upon deserving industry figu…

COVID-19 Cinema Update – 2 March 2020

Here is a roundup of the latest news in the global cinema market as it relates to the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak. China – Beijing Municipal Government held its 34th coronavirus press conference, stating that the local cinema industry is not yet ready for resumption of operation. Their…

2019 Cannes Film Festival Opening

Cannes Film Festival Opening Broadens Cinema Footprint to Nearly 600 Screens

When movie stars like Julianne Moore, Gong Li, Adam Driver and Tilda Swinton strutted up the red carpet to attend the opening ceremony of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, those who had journeyed to the French Riviera beach town weren’t the only ones to get a glimpse. Sure, there were throng…

A Few Good Ideas – CinemaCon 2019

CinemaCon as a tech show is amazing for new good ideas. 4K RGB for the price of 2K laser phosphor… good idea. 10 years of support included in the price of the projector… good idea. Not blaming Netflix for cinema’s fortunes… good idea. Having a day without a long lunch program…