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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…

The UK Cinema Industry in 2020 – A Year to Learn From

It is quite revealing as to the state of the year when a third of the top 10 films of 2020 were in fact released in 2019. But 2020 was far from normal, as the latest annual summary from Comscore illustrates. The headlines are not pretty. Total UK and Ireland box office was just £323m,Read More

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CJ Opinion: How Cinema Operators and Landlords Must Work Together to Bounce Back (Communication, Cooperation, Consensus)

An increasingly challenging relationship has developed over the last few years between commercial landlords and retail & leisure tenants, due to CVAs (Company Voluntary Arrangements), rental and service charge terms; business rates and ever-growing competition, mainly in the form of online shopp…

Investment in Vietnam’s Beta Cineplex Show Confidence in Cinema Post-Covid

Vietnam is the country in Asia that has probably seen the best handling of the Coronavirus outbreak, with the country that neighbours China not recording a single Covid-19 fatality. Now the country’s cinemas sector, which was growing rapidly before the pandemic, has seen a vote of confidence w…

How Will Cinemas Treat Their Staff While Closed?

In less than 24 hours two starkly different approaches emerged as to how cinemas in the UK will treat their staff while they are closed because of the Coronavirus outbreak. This was also one of the hot topics at yesterday’s #CJCinemaSummit, where the record number of participants (over 500 peo…

CJ Analysis: Rollercoaster for Global Cinema Shares in 2019

2019 was an eventful year for cinema. Worldwide box office grew to a record $42.5 billion, the Guardian announced that the growth in pre-show advertising would overtake growth in internet advertising for the first time in 20 years, and Moviepass officially shut their doors for the last time. As we l…