Norway Launches Cinema Scheme for Quality Films – SF Boycotts
Norway's largest cinema chain Nordisk has launched a cinema discount scheme for quality film, but rival SF Norge is boycotting it in favour of its own promotion.
Weekly Cinema Digest – Friday 5 February 2015
WHO warns against smoking on screen, UK ticket prices rising fast, Miraj cinemas to expand, BIG fine for inflated water price, Cineworld kicks out mother & child.
China’s Micro Cinema Business Gets Serious
The first ever summit has been held for the micro cinema business in China. Also known as private cinemas, the sector is growing but still faces issues such as piracy.
Weekly Cinema Digest – Friday 29 January 2016
Pointless gun shooting in Regal cinema, SF expands outside Thailand, DeinKinoTicket.de live, interactive cinema, Illumina lasers, Kanye West, BBFC watches "Paint Drying".
China Cinema Digest – Thursday 28 January 2016
Wanda 100 screen Dolby Cinema deal, China's global ambitions, Times United IPO, HK cinema building law, Sherlock in China, MediMation
Weekly Cinema Digest – Friday 21 January 2016
India – Could the Indian box office boom be undermined by single screen cinema closing faster than multiplexes are adding new screens? Like the PVR five-screen cinema at Grand Mall in Chennai’s Velachery, there are dozens of multiplexes across India ready to open but still awaiting a lic…
How Sustainable Is The Chinese Cinema Market?
In 2011 the average ticket price in China was CNY ¥37 (USD $5.62) but by 2015 this had fallen to nearly CNY ¥35 (USD $5.32) despite the growth of Imax and premium screens and the increase in cinema ticket prices in all other major economies. Mobile ticketing by third-party vendors is the main cause,…
Fathom Events and US Cinemas Find the Faith(ful)
One if the fastest growing genres of event cinema (a.k.a. alternative content) is the uniquely US-focused rise of faith-based events in cinemas. Fathom Events has been a driving force behind this, with three faith-based events this past autumn. Fathom attributes its record-setting first financial qu…
Weekly Cinema Digest – Friday 15 January 2016
Europe – 2016 was a pretty good year at the European box office, with the feel good of “Star Wars: the Force Awakens” at the end of the year masking some spectacular flops (remember “Fant4stic 4”?), some troubling attendance figures and a dismal year for arthouse cinema…
China to Crack Down on Box Office Fraud
Chinese authorities are cracking down on box office fraud, with severe punishments for cinemas, ticket software vendors or apps caught siphoning off BO.