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Weekly Cinema Digest – Friday 13 November 2015

Luxembourg – The largest cinema chain in Luxembourg – make that the ONLY cinema chain in Luxembourg – is being absorbed by Kinepolis, after the acquisition of Utopolis was recently approved. There is a long interview with Utoplis former head Eddy Duquenne, who is now a senior manag…

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Weekly Cinema Digest – Friday 6 November 2015

France – Gaumont-Pathé is today opening a new cinema in Paris that is exclusively programming old and restored films. The former Gaumont Gobelins is now a beautifully refurbished five-screen cinema located opposite the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé – Monsieur Seydoux was himself the dri…

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Looking Past the Headlights: The Next 10 Years in the Entertainment Industry

This article is re-printed from Medium because we feel it will be of interest to readers of CJ and we believe it deserves a wider audience. Ben Johnson at Gruvi kindly agreed for us to re-publish it here. This article is Part 3 in a series of 3. If you would like to read the firstRead More

Prince Porno and the Five Act Tragedy of the Private Empire

Porn films are rarely known for their elaborate plots, so it might come as a surprise that the true story of one of the world’s largest porn empires reads like a Shakespearean tragedy. Over the past fifty years Private Media Group rose to become Europe’s largest producer of what’s euphemistically kn…

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 2 November 2015

Australia – Recliner seats as standard are the “new normal” at Hoyts, according to Simon Ruhfus, manager at Hoyts Woden, which together with Hoyt’s Belconnen site is getting recliner replacements in ever row or every screen. And prices won’t go up either. At least not y…

Weekly Cinema Digest – Friday 30 October 2015

UK – The Financial times has a special ‘The Business of Film’ supplement that looks at cinema and finds – surprise, surprise – that it is still surviving and thriving in the age of streaming and lauded TV shows. Rentrak’s Paul Dergarabedian is quoted as saying tha…

German Cinemas Threaten “Star Wars” Boycott

Small and independent cinemas in Germany are threatening to boycott Disney/Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars: the Force Awakens” over unfavourable screening terms. Amongst many points of contention Disney is said to be enforcing a minimum ticket price that is seen as too high for small towns,…

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China Cinema Digest – Thursday 15 October 2015

Now that the sheen has come off China’s stock market and overall economic growth, hard questions are starting to be asked about the success of China’s cinema box office. Reuters is the latest to have woken up to the fact that tickets are being massively subsidised by third-party e-commer…

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Imax Q3 Earnings Up, Pins Hope to China, Blasted for “Star Wars” 70mm

Meanwhile there is an online backlash growing that “Star Wars VII” will only be screening in Imax 70mm in 11 US states (not including Washington DC) and one Canadian province. By way of comparison, “Interstellar” opened on four times as many 70mm screens. In total “Star…

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CJ @ ECA – Breakout Session: Coca-Cola & eSports

This is a live transcript of the presentations made at last week’s Event Cinema Association conference held in London. As such we sometimes paraphrase what is said on stage and any errors are most likely the fault of the note taking and not the speakers. 100% coherence is not possible as we often in…