Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 29 August 2014
Today's Cinema News: US summer BO worst in 8 years (but Italy up), THX goes China (as does AAM), VUE IT contract, Hamlet on screen
Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 28 August 2014
Fox’s The Maze Runner will be the first film released in Barco’s Escape triptych-screen format. The film will be released exclusively in five Cinemark locations, two in California and one each in Florida, Texas and Illinois before it is released later in Europe at Brussels Kinepolis Esca…
Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 27 August 2014
The Netherlands – 4K will be a major topic at the upcoming IBC (show – not ice bucket challenge), with awards just announced for the 4K transmissions by the Vienna State Opera and the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Be sure not to miss this year’s IBC Big Screen Experience – bigger and…
Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 26 August 2014
USA (NY) – Manhattan’s arthouse Quad Cinema has been sold and it could frankly not have asked for a better new owner. At first, news that the revered Quad Cinema in New York’s Greenwich Village had been sold to a real estate magnate caused us alarm. But it turns out that Charles S.…
Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 25 August 2014
First Cineworld got in trouble with some vocal customers for introducing allocated seating. Now marketers are complaining that the cinema is keeping house lights on during the running of the adverts. Darren Hayday, marketing consultant at Competitive Edge Marketing and former “loyal customer of Cine…
Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 22 August 2014
Cinema advertising is experiencing major growth in China, with a 33% year-on-year increase even as the spot-per-screen-per-play cost has fallen from 16 yuan [USD $2.60] in 2011 to 12 yuan [USD $1.95] this year. As so often we are indebted to EntGroup for this data and analysis. Due to the favorable…
Future of Cinema Advertising on Show at SAWA Cannes Lions 2014
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiqiBilgvOM[/youtube] The Screen Advertising World Association (SAWA) held its annual showcase of Cinema Advertising innovation at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity 2014 on Monday 16 June. For those of you unable to attend (perhaps understandably, as Ci…
Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 20 August 2014
AMC and Imax have signed a deal to deepen their business ties. What this signifies is that AMC and Wanda Cinemas, while technically different companies (though with shared ownership) are increasingly becoming indistinguishable with regards to cinema business policies. I bet they even buy popcorn ker…
Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 18 August 2014
Cinemark will also be on trial for the deaths resulting from the shooting and killing of 12 people by alleged mass-killer James Holmes, after a Colorado judge threw out Cinemark’s attempt to have the wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits dismissed. U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson o…
When Reporting On Piracy Becomes Ethically Irresponsible, If Not Illegal
I have been waiting for this day for what feels like an eternity. Today, August 15th 2014 is the day “The Expendables 3” hits movie theatres worldwide. No, I have not been waiting two years since the “The Expendables 2” was released and earned more than USD $300 million in wo…