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Wanda Cinemas Announces 2014 Figures & AAM Tech Deal

Wanda Cinemas has published its first post-IPO figures for they whole of 2014 and they show overall growth in the number of screens and box office, though the exhibitor’s market share has slipped somewhat. Win Business Network reports that: Wanda Cinema’s 2014 box office revenue was 4.21…

UNIC European BO 2014

UNIC 2014 European Cinema Statistics – It’s a Funny Thing

The legendary Speaker of the US House of Representative Tip O’Neil famously said that “all politics is local.” The same can be said for European cinema statistics. With US in the doldrums and China booming in 2014, the just released UNIC Update on Cinema Exhibition in 2014 highligh…

Symphony

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 5 February 2015

“Who stole my box office takings?!” Ten Chinese cinemas have been named-and-shamed for operating dual ticketing systems that enabled box office fraud. This is down from 16 in the last quarter of 2014. China The film Distribution and Exhibition Association (the “Association”)…

Kodak Finalizes Deal With Studios To Save Film

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyBw–M4OMY[/youtube] In news that is sure to make the likes of Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino rather happy, Kodak announced earlier today that they have finalized a deal to continue supplying fil…

Fun cinemas

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 4 February 2015

India – Having confirmed its new acquisition, Cinepolis won’t just re-brand the Fun cinema circuit but revamp its entire portfolio, we are told. And it also plans a significant – but realistic – organic expansion. Cinepolis India Pvt. Ltd, the Indian movie exhibition arm of M…

Quanta DGT

Quanta DGT Suffers Major Digital Cinema Equipment Heist

More than 120 screens worth of digital cinema equipment was stolen from at least one, possibly two, warehouses in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil over the weekend, delivering a setback to the country’s ongoing digital conversion. The incident highlights the precautions taken by the motion picture indus…

Cell Phones In Cinemas

Suggestions For Preventing Mobile Phone Distractions At Film Festivals

If reader reaction to Celluloid Junkie posts is any indication of broad public sentiment, then a majority of moviegoers are infuriated by fellow audience members using their mobile phones in the middle of screenings. Raising the topic in conversation or in posts like the ones we’ve published o…

Sundance Provides A Perfect Environment For Industrial Eavesdropping

One unique aspect of the Sundance Film Festival is the broad spectrum of industry professionals that attend each year’s event. Producers, directors, editors, screenwriters, craft people, acquisitions executives, journalists, distributor reps, sales agents, talent agents, and exhibitors are jus…

NEC laser projector

Laser, the Next Big Digital Transition as the Xenon Lamp Fades Away

This year (2015) is definitively the year the world became completely digital as Sundance Film Festival announced that not one film shown was on celluloid-film. Most of the major markets are now completely digital. If you listen carefully, you can hear tens of thousands of cinema owners letting out…

Imax Carnival Vista

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 26 January 2015

USA – Given how large cruise ships have become it was inevitable that sooner or later one of them would get an Imax cinema. Carnival is partnering with entertainment innovator IMAX® to bring the world’s most immersive cinematic experience to sea with the first-ever IMAX® Theatre on a ship. Gue…