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PVR DT Cinema India

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 10 June 2015

India – PVR has acquired DT Cinemas in a deal valued at INR 5 billion (USD $78.33 million), adding a total of 39 screens (29 existing and 10 planned). DT Cinemas is focused on the National Capital Region (NCR) and Chandigarh and was set to be sold to PVR in 2009, but the deal fell apartRead Mo…

Havana Charles Chaplin cinema

Cuba Has 300 Cinemas – But Only Two Are Digital

With Latin America and the Carribean belatedly converting to digital cinema, Cube looks set to be the last country in the region to make the transition. Despite the recent thawing of relations between the communist island and the US, the country’s cinemas remain in the control of the state, wh…

India multiplex concessions

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 8 June 2015

[youtube]https://youtu.be/7MqmDJcmoYY[/youtube] France/Switzerland – A major eSports event cinema deal announced by the Electronic Sports League (ESL), BY Experience and Pathe Live. Today, the manic and sports world enters a new dimension. ESL partners with BY Experience , a global leader alte…

UNIC annual report

European Cinema Figures and More by UNIC

Definitive cinema attendance figures for Europe in 2014 have been published by cinema trade body UNIC, as part of its 2014-2015 General Report. Preliminary figures were released by UNIC back in February and are largely the same, so the report is more interesting for its analysis of market trends, ad…

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 5 June 2014

The first reviews are in for Secret Cinema’s “The Empire Strikes Back” and the Telegraph is positive about what it sees: As I step in to the first of a series of huge sets, all immaculately conceived and fully dressed, I feel like I have arrived in Marrakesh’s medina. Stormtroopers…

Wanda Acquires Hoyts

A Closer Look At Wanda’s Acquisition of Hoyts

Wanda Cinema Line had already planted its flag in the United States by acquiring the country’s second largest exhibition chain, AMC Entertainment, and now the Chinese company is entering the Australian market with an identical business move, snapping up Hoyts. Like AMC, Hoyts is the number two…

ECA Technical Handbook

ECA Handbook: Live Delivery Via Satellite (Part II)

Earlier this year The Event Cinema Association (ECA) published its “Technical Delivery Handbook”, a step-by-step guide to live delivery of event cinema, written by ECA members for the benefit of the industry. With satellite delivery the preferred mode of delivering live opera, theatre, c…

Dolby Cinema AMC Prime

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 1 June 2015

USA (CA) – High-Def Digest has the first in-depth review of a Dolby Cinema/AMC Prime, this one situated at the AMC Deerbrook 24. Lots of pictures and a take on both “Tomorrowland” and “San Andreas” in Dolby Vision and Atmos. Prior to venturing to the theater, I contacte…

Imax China

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 29 May 2015

China (Hong Kong SAR) – Well that was quick! Having only been set up last year, Imax China Holdings is already planning an IPO. “IMAX China Holding Inc, majority-owned by the namesake giant screen movie theater equipment maker, filed for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, looking t…

Avengers China

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 28 May 2015

Foreign Policy Review has an excellent in-depth article “Hollywood’s New Box-Office Battleground: The Chinese Heartland” with the sub-heading, “Forget Beijing and Shanghai. The fates of flicks like Age of Ultron will be decided in places like Changzhou.” The article is clear…