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The Real Reason That Carmike Bought Digiplex

Is A. Dale (“Bud”) Mayo the savviest man in US exhibition? One thing is for sure, after Carmike’s acquisition of Digiplex he is one of the country’s richest cinema entrepreneurs, with a hat-trick of deals in the last 15 years. So what lies behind this merger and what were the…

Personal Tailer

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 19 May 2014

[youtube]http://youtu.be/VJWJMh1PmR4[/youtube] Could glasses-free stereoscopic 3D soon be a reality in cinemas? A research paper on ‘A Compressive Light Field Projection System’ from MIT seems to suggest so. Fascinating work if you can get your head around the science behind the screen,…

National Cinemedia

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 16 May 2014

USA (NY) – National CineMedia has announced the details of its partnership with Shazam, to create audio-embedded links in its adverts for enhanced content. There are further partnerships with Disney’s Maker Studios and Idea United. National CineMedia revealed intriguing partnerships with…

Cinema Advertising Goes Back to the Future at Cannes Lions 2014

The Screen Advertising World Association (SAWA) has announced the theme for this year’s much anticipated session at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, held 15-21 June in Cannes. The Back to the Future focus is a recognition of the milestone that in the second film of the BTTF trilogy Mar…

Tim League

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 14 May 2014

An in-depth interview with Tim League, founder and CEO of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, a true pioneer in the American exhibition industry. Very disarming and insightful. How did the dining experience while watching a movie come about? There was a theater in Portland [Ore.]that did beer and food service…

Spanish film posters

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 12 May 2014

A total of 50 cinemas closed in Spain in last year, representing a drop of 7%, with the total standing at just 695. It is the third year in a row of shrinking cinema numbers. There has also been a reduction in the number of screens within cinemas, dropping from 3,813 screens in 2013 toRead More

European Cinema Statistics 2013

Local Films to Blame for Decline in European Box Office in 2013

The European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO) has released its statistics on European cinema admissions in 2013 ahead of the Cannes Film Festival and they make for grim reading. We have already written about the preliminary figures (Europe’s Cinema Attendance Decline is Greatly Exaggerated), so we will…

The Cinema Theatre in Rochester goes digital

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 9 May 2014

This small-single screen is one of the last in its area to make the switch to digital. So why aren’t we filing it away further down? Because the area is Rochester, home of Eastman Kodak, aka the Company That Digital Nearly Killed. The Cinema’s swap this week from film to digital projection mar…

Sun Xiaobin

China’s ‘Last Mile’ Plan for Digital Cinema: Ditch Western Technology

Is Chen Xing the biggest and most important digital cinema company that you’ve never heard of? Quite likely. With the conversion of existing cinemas to digital winding up around the world, future focus of manufacturers will be on territories with organic growth, before the the replacement cycl…

Wanda Cinema CBD

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 8 May 2014

RealD and Wanda Cinemas have launched a 3D Brightness certification scheme that will ensure that participating screens will be displaying at least 6footLamberts (6FL) of brightness. There is a fear that dim 3D images could soon lead to a similar 3D backlash that has already been experienced in the U…