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Global Box Office 2014: Asia Comes to West’s Rescue

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has released its 2014 Theatrical Market Statistics report, providing an overview of global box office and trends. Overall box office grew year-on-year by just 1% but to a record USD $36.4 billion. However, the underlying trends point to a surging Asia…

Christie D3D Cinema

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 11 March 2015

An interesting partnership between Christie and D3D Cinema to cater to the somewhat forgotten dome cinema market. The architectural requirements means that this won’t be a major league Imax/PLF format rival, but could fill an untapped niche. Christie and D3D previously collaborated on the Mood…

Beasts of No Nation

Though Major Exhibitors Still Boycott Simultaneous VOD Releases From Netflix, the Oscars Willingly Accept Them

On Monday of last week, Deadline broke the news that Netflix was making another move into feature films by acquiring “Beasts Of No Nation” for a reported USD $12 million. This was followed the trade publication Variety which published three stories on the same subject in quick succession…

Odeon Printworks Manchester

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 9 March 2015

UK – With a drink called ‘Fifty Shots of Grey Goose’ on the menu, is it any surprise that Manchester’s Odeon takes the crown in most booze sold for the S&M blockbuster? Amazingly there were “barely any incidences of anti-social behaviour” in the cinema. Odeon…

Sad movies concessions popcorn

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 6 March 2015

USA – Last year the same Cornell lab blamed action films, now sad films, for people eating more snacks. Free hankies with every tub of super sized popcorn and extra large soda. Sad movies are bad news for diets. A newly reported study from the Cornell Food and Brand Lab showed movie-goers watc…

China box office micro-channel Dragon Blade

How Subsidies Distorted China’s “Record” February Box Office

Much has been written about how China’s cinema box office ‘overtook’ that of the United States this past February. While we have already covered how much of this is down to skewed arithmetic, often without proper context, it now seems that this “record” may require a la…

Wanda Group

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 5 March 2015

Wanda Cinema’s shares have been soaring since their IPO and WinShang looks at how the company is expanding, with presence now in 80 Chinese cities. During the reporting period, the strong momentum in the company’s development, gradually expand the scale theaters, grossing a rapid increas…

Dragon Blade

Exageratting China’s February Box Office Victory Over the U.S.

There is an idiom in the English language that states, “Don’t take any wooden nickels”. The phrase sprang up in the United States during the early 20th-century when, during the Great Depression, banks would hand out wooden nickels which could be traded in for prizes. This was pract…

Nordic Cinema Group

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 4 March 2015

No sooner has Odeon reminded the world that it is (still) for sale then Vue lets slip that it is interested in buying Nordic Cinema Group. British cinema operator Vue Entertainment is preparing a bid for Nordic peer Nordic Cinema Group, majority-owned by listed Swedish private equity firm Ratos, The…

Ana Cláudia Medina of DECO

Breaking News: Police Find More Stolen Digital Cinema Equipment Belonging To Quanta DGT

It may be proving easier to steal 121 auditoriums worth of digital cinema equipment than it is to actually hide or fence the stolen devices. Early Monday morning Brazilian law enforcement discovered a warehouse in Campo Grande, Brazil filled with some of the digital cinema equipment stolen from Qua…