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Cinema in China Is Still Headed for Crash – Five Trends Show Why

With Wanda Cinema’s IPO imminent we thought it would be a good to revisit the article ‘China’s Multiplexes Are Headed For a Crash – Statistics Show Why‘ that we published last April. With another year of strong box office growth in China and no large scale cinemas going bust in the…

Ted Hope

Amazon Enters Movie Business With Two Wise First Steps

In a twist of the old adage “give them an inch and they’ll take a mile”, just a week after winning a Golden Globe for television series, musical or comedy for their show “Transparent”, web giant Amazon has announced its intentions to enter the movie business by producin…

Diffusion of Netflix

Movie Theatres Face An Inevitable Netflix Effect

As we begin the new year, I strongly believe we are entering a period of great danger and even greater uncertainty. Events are unfolding within and without the movie industry that are extremely threatening to our studio. This is how Jeffrey Katzenberg began his now infamous 1991 memo which criticize…

Microsoft smartphone cinema

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 19 January 2015

Has Microsoft discovered a way to make smartphones less annoying in cinemas? For those who can’t bear to switch them off for a couple of hours, this could be the solution. A patent granted to Microsoft this week could automatically adjust the settings on your phone to make it less annoying in…

AMPAS Sci-Tec announcement

And the Oscar Goes to… Digital Cinema! (Specifically TI)

Last year the Motion Picture Academy’s Science and Technology branch effectively closed the book on film as a distribution medium for motion pictures by awarding the Academy Award of Merit (Oscar Statuette) to every single film processing lab in the world. So it is perhaps fitting and symmetri…

Cineworld lesbians

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 15 January 2015

UK – Cineworld clearly has to work on more LGBT awareness (not to mention common sense) for its staff, after a lesbian couple were evicted for (wait for it) using the Ladies toilet. A £20 voucher and two free tickets hardly seem like an adequate apology for treating paying customers this way.…

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 14 January 2015

USA (NV) – Is AMC going to ditch Imax for Dolby Cinema? Of course not, but this and other nuggets emerge from a Citi Global Internet, Media & Telecommunications Conference transcript with AMC’s Craig Ramsey, EVP and CFO, where he talks about the company’s five different strateg…

Tim League Alamo Drafthouse

Tim League Discusses the Alamo Drafthouse Smartphone Policy

Alamo Drafthouse is the premier up-market cinema chain in the United States. Yet it is sometimes better known for its ‘zero tolerance’ approach to people using cellphones, smartphones or even Google Glass in its cinemas. Following the big response we had to the topic of smartphone use in…

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 12 January 2015

India – Carnival group has acquired small Indian multiplex operator Glitz, having previously bought most of Big Cinemas. After buying Anil Ambani’s Big Cinemas, the Carnival Group has picked up elder brother Mukesh Ambani’s majority stake in Stargaze which operates the multiplex ch…

ECA Member Card - 2012 Trailer

Discovering How The ECA Uses Trailers To Promote Event Cinema

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acVQV44qRNM[/youtube] Rather than simply being a service that continuously clogs your inbox with email updates, it turns out LinkedIn, the popular social network, can be rather useful for discovering certain bi…