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Uber SPI Cinemas

SPI First Cinema to Integrate With Uber API

India’s SPI Cinemas (formerly Sathyam Cinemas) has become the first exhibitor in the world to integrate with the Uber API for the city of Chennai. The deal between one of south India’s best known cinema brands and the world’s largest car-ride service allows users to book cinema tic…

Movio Media

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 10 April 2015

Cinema data and campaign firm Movio has launched a product that tracks and analyses cinema-goer behaviour, aimed at giving studios and distributors greater consumer insights. Movio, the global leader in marketing data, analysis, insights, and campaign creation and management for theatrical exhibit…

Lai Bhaari Marathi

Bollywood Upset by Mumbai Multiplex Decree

Multiplex operators in Mumbai and the surrounding state will be obliged to screen local Marathi-language films in a move that has stunned and upset the Hindi-language Bollywood film industry. While Bollywood is centred in Mumbai, the main language spoken in the western state of Maharashtra is Marath…

Multikino all-inclusive

Multikino Launches ‘Unlimited’ Films, Popcorn and Soda Deal

Polish multiplex major Multikino has launched an ‘Unlimited’ deal that truly lives up to its name. The special promotion will allow patrons to watch as many films as they can, drink as much soda as they like and top up their popcorn as many times as they want in the span of 24 hours. The…

Wolf Warriors poster

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 9 April 2015

Heng Ye Film Distribution’s commando action-drama “Wolf Warriors” beat out “Kingsman” over the holiday to earn over CNY ¥200 million (USD $32.5 million) in its first four days on release. In the film, which is playing in China in 3D and Imax, Wu plays a Chinese Special…

Audiovision

Film Festival for Blind Highlights France’s Accessibility Gap

Paris is currently hosting its 6th annual film festival blind and visually impaired people at the UGC Gobelins cinema. The event is arranged by l’Association Valentin Haüy (AVH) and this year sponsored by Luc Besson, whose films “Lucy” and “Taken 3” are being shown. However,…

Cinema Fire popcorn Australia

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 8 April 2015

Australia – This is the first time I’ve ever heard of a cinema being evacuated because of its popcorn. A batch of burnt popcorn caused the evacuation of four cinemas at the Grand Cinema Warwick complex on Monday night. Fire fighters were called to the Beach Road cinemas just after 9pm af…

CJ Coverage at NAB and CinemaCon

NAB and CinemaCon are upon us. I am happy to announce that I will be covering them for CJ as well as CineTechGeek video-blog. This year at NAB I have a theme. “Emerging SMPTE standards and how they will be effecting Cinema Production”. Then onto CinemaCon where it is all about Laser and how itRead M…

UFO Fast & Furious 7 screenshot

Universal’s Pragmatic “Fast & Furious 7” E-Cinema Release

Universal this weekend become the first Hollywood studio to release a major blockbuster in cinemas on digital equipment that falls short of the specifications set out by DCI. Rather than abandoning the hard-fought DCI guidelines, this arguably demonstrates Universal’s pragmatism in the one mar…

Wanda Cinema

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 2 April 2015

Wanda is expecting year-on-year profits to increase by 40% to 60%, with quarterly profit of CNY ¥298 million (USD $48 million), wheres in 2014 its profit was CNY ¥213 million (USD $34.4 million) over the same period. Growth is attributed to funds raised from its IPO speeding up the roll-out of new c…