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Google Trends predicts Christmas Box Office winners

Data has never been more important to cinema operators. Many large cinema chains trumpet how they are using analysis of data about their patrons to achieve better results. Smaller cinemas have been left behind as collecting and making sense of this data is expensive and nontrivial. Google Trends is…

AET Cinema LED Display - Certification

New Chinese Cinema LED Gets DCI Certification

Chinese company AET Altai has become the latest manufacturer to get DCI certification for its Cinema LED screen technology. AET Altai thus joins the likes of Samsung, Sony and LG Electronics in having a non-projector cinema display solution that is certified to show first-run Hollywood films. The ce…

Anne Fitzgerald and Thomas Santram of Cineplex Entertainment

Anne Fitzgerald Announces Retirement From Cineplex; Thomas Santram To Take Over As General Counsel

Anne Fitzgerald, the Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at Cineplex, Canada’s largest movie theatre chain, has announced she will be retiring at the end of February. Thomas Santram will become the company’s General Counsel. The news came from Fitzgerald herself, who informed the…

Coca-Cola's Oli Delaney moderated the "Growing Back Greener" sustainability session at CineEurope 2021

CJ Green at CineEurope: Part One

The ever-important topic of sustainability was, once again, given devoted focus at CineEurope 2021 during a Coca-Cola Company session titled, “Growing Back Greener”. Held three months ago in early October in Barcelona, the chosen topic – this time focusing specifically on the world’s problem w…

2022 Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Cancels In-Person Festival for 2022

In the midst of a nationwide wave of COVID-19 infections the Sundance Film Festival announced today that its in-person programming had been called off. One of the most prominent film festivals in the United States, it was slated to commence on 20 January in Park City, Utah. The event will now be hel…

AMC Theatres - 2022 Rose Parade Float

AMC Theatres Floats Into 2022 Rose Parade

There are any number of New Years traditions practiced around the world. Some have to do with round foods, as in Spain, where 12 grapes are eaten at the strike of midnight, or in the Philippines where 12 round fruits are consumed. Many Japanese will prepare toshikoshi soba noodles for New Years. Oth…

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…

German Study Demonstrates Low COVID-19 Infection Risk in Cinemas

A study by a consortium led by the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics (Fraunhofer IBP) in Germany has found that regular cinema ventilation is enough to ensure that COVID-19 infection risk is minimal in a typical theatrical environment. The ‘CineCov’ project set out to test the di…

New Wave of Cinema Closures Across Europe and China

The contagious Delta variant of the Coronavirus has led to cinemas once again closing in places such as Beijing, Moscow and Latvia. There is a fear that the onset of winter in the Northern Hemisphere could lead to further restrictions on public life and possibly new cinema shutterings. However, in o…

CJ Spotlight: Mk2’s Hotel Paradiso In Paris, France Is A Dream Destination for Cinéastes

Mk2’s Hotel Paradiso in Paris is more than a movie-themed hotel run by a cinema operator; it is a reimagining of the premium hospitality experience that fuses the magic of the cinema with the finest luxuries of a boutique hotel. Situated next to and on top of the Mk2 Nation multiplex that has been a…

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