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Regal To Convert Quarter of All Screens To Luxury Seating

The world’s largest exhibitor Regal has announced plans to convert 25% of all its screens to luxury seating. The move mirrors similar efforts by other large chains such as AMC and Marcus Theatres, and is an attempt to extract more revenue from patrons as cinema attendance declines in the Unite…

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 17 February 2015

AMC has published its 2014 Q4 and year-end figures and though admissions and ticket sales were down, F&B revenue was up as the exhibitor continues to focus on the “guest experience.” Highlights for the fourth quarter 2014 include the following: Total revenues were $712.2 million comp…

FSOG Girl's night out

Women Behaving Badly at “Fifty Shades” Screenings

Yesterday we reported how cinema patrons’ bags were searched and a man was attacked with a broken bottle (by women!) in relations to screenings of “Fifty Shades of Grey” in Glasgow. It seems that this was only the start of various antics tied to the S&M romance film across Brit…

Red Carpet Communication

Cinemaxx and CineStar Launch German Cinema Marketing JV

Details have been announced about Germany’s new cinema marketing venture, formed as a JV by Cinemaxx and CineStar, aimed at corporate and advertising clients. Red Carpet Cinema Communication GmbH & Co. KG. will target German B2B clients in an effort to enhance the position of cinema for co…

Cineworld 50 Shades

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 16 February 2015

Women attending the opening night screening of “Fifty Shades of Grey” at Cineworld in Glasgow’s Renfrew Street had their bags opened and searched as they were waiting to enter. It is not known what the staff were looking for. Cineworld have yet to comment on the searches, but their…

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 13 February 2014

Regal has announced its 2014 Q4 figures, which are up, up, up in all departments, on the back of an improved film slate. Reason enough for it not to want to sell itself any longer. Dividend was also announced. Total revenues for the fourth quarter ended January 1, 2015 were $799.1 million compared t…

A truck seized in Belo Horizonte, Brazil was filled with digital cinema equipment stolen from Quanta DGT

Breaking News: Quanta DGT Recovers Part of Their Stolen Digital Cinema Equipment

The thieves who made off with more than 120 screens worth of digital cinema equipment from Quanta DGT could run, but they couldn’t hide. Actually scratch that. Apparently they could run, but they couldn’t hide all of the digital cinema devices they stole from the Latin American integrato…

China digital cinema satellite

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 12 February 2015

China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television’s (SAPPRFT) Digital Program Management Centre has inaugurated a test NOC for the satellite distribution of DCP copies of films. It is not clear which cinema are participating in this, but it’s one to mon…

EAO Cinema Figures Europe 2014

EAO Releases European 2014 Cinema Statistics – Up, But Not Much

A week after cinema trade body UNIC released its provisional European Cinema going figures for 2014, the European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO) has released its preliminary cinema figures at the Berlin Film Festival. The figures show an overall slight upward trend for the EU as a whole, breaking a l…

Ticketsoft

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 10 February 2015

Vista Group has agreed to acquire Texas-based ticketing firm Ticketsoft on undisclosed terms. Last year the company acquired a stake in MACCS International and had a successful IPO, with share price currently up 67%. Terms of the agreement are confidential and subject to commercially sensitive condi…