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Odeon for Sale

UK’s Odeon For Sale Again – Third Time the Charm?

Private equity group Terra Firma has announced that UK/European cinema chain Odeon & UCI Cinema Group (Odeon for short) is for sale. The merged exhibition operation failed to attract bidders willing to match the asking price in both 2011 and 2013 but Terra Firma’s chair Guy Hands is hoping…

AMC recliner seats

AMC’s Premium Recliner Seating Plans Revealed

A week after Regal announced that it plans to convert 25% of its screens to luxury seating, AMC has provided details about its plans for reseating. While the Chinese-owned exhibitor is not committing to a particular screen percentage target, the ambition is great for the cinema chain that in many wa…

Regal To Convert Quarter of All Screens To Luxury Seating

The world’s largest exhibitor Regal has announced plans to convert 25% of all its screens to luxury seating. The move mirrors similar efforts by other large chains such as AMC and Marcus Theatres, and is an attempt to extract more revenue from patrons as cinema attendance declines in the Unite…

Tim League Alamo Drafthouse

Tim League Discusses the Alamo Drafthouse Smartphone Policy

Alamo Drafthouse is the premier up-market cinema chain in the United States. Yet it is sometimes better known for its ‘zero tolerance’ approach to people using cellphones, smartphones or even Google Glass in its cinemas. Following the big response we had to the topic of smartphone use in…

AMC Big Hero 6 Pin Giveaway

AMC Scores Promotional Hat Trick With “Big Hero 6” Giveaway

I awoke on Monday morning to a notification on my iPhone related to “Big Hero 6“. The latest animated release from Walt Disney Pictures had just topped the box office in North America during its debut weekend, fending off Warner Bros. “Interstellar” by taking in over USD $56…

Bud Mayo opportunist

The Real Reason That Carmike Bought Digiplex

Is A. Dale (“Bud”) Mayo the savviest man in US exhibition? One thing is for sure, after Carmike’s acquisition of Digiplex he is one of the country’s richest cinema entrepreneurs, with a hat-trick of deals in the last 15 years. So what lies behind this merger and what were the…

In an Age of Automation, Sweden’s SF Bio Welcomes You to Each Screening in Person

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDMT2I9vmE4[/youtube] I tend to travel to Sweden a few times each year, usually to visit family and/or on business. Even if I am there for just a few days I make an effort to visit the cinema and catch up on a S…

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…

AMC Theatres Expands Content Marketing Efforts With “Versus”

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]http://youtu.be/oyEup3gG53E[/youtube] AMC Theatres is taking a page out of the latest marketing play books with its new online series “Versus”. The first episode was posted to their website, via YouTube, on Tuesday, January 28th.…

How Cinema Dining Conquered the World (And Soon New York Too)

When Jeffrey Katzenberg is quoted as saying, “I am one hundred percent sure that these theaters are the future of movie-going,” you assume that he is talking about 3D, maybe with HFR and Immersive Audio. But in the case of this article in WSJ he is talking about another phenomenon that has gro…