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Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 17 April 2014
USA (TN): Discount tickets was a hot topic at CinemaCon. No update on that, but Regal will be showing older films for just USD $1 this summer, as it has for the past 22 years. Parent rejoice. Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE: RGC), a leading motion picture exhibitor owning and operating the largest t…
Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 16 April 2014
London’s Evening standard does an in-depth piece on British art-house major Curzon Cinema and its visionary CEO Phil Knatchbull. The Curzon Victoria is part of a £6 million London expansion by the company behind the boutique Curzon cinema chain as it almost doubles the number of screens in the…
China Embraces Event Cinema With ‘Turandot’ and 3D ‘Farewell My Concubine’ (CJ EXCLUSIVE)
China’s two major opera houses are joining the ranks of distinguished institutions like the Met Opera and the Royal Opera House with the first recordings and screenings of their operas. Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) recording of Puccini’s Turandot opened…
Fathom Events New CEO John Rubey Provides Both Experience and Leadership
When National CineMedia (NCM) spun off its alternative content division, NCM Fathom Events, into a completely separate business entity at the end of 2013, it did not identify a chief executive officer for the newly formed company. Kurt Hall, the chairman and CEO of NCM, stayed with the cinema advert…
Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 15 April 2014
The Wall Street Journal examines the plight of small-town single-screen cinemas that are unable to make the costly transition to digital in the article ‘Is Film the End of the Road for Small Cinemas?‘. It highlights one particular cinema near Scranton, Pennsylvania, facing imminent death…
America’s Greatest Cinema Export to China Is Under Threat (Not Movies, Popcorn)
Could Chinese authorities be about restrict imports of the quintessential multiplex staple imported from the United States? No, we are not talking about movies or Hollywood; the greatest American export success to Chinese cinemas does not come from California but from the fields in Nebraska. Differe…
Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 14 April 2014
The Wrap takes a look at the growth of ‘4D’ offered by the likes of D-Box, CJ 4DPlex and MediaMation and whether there is a business case for it. Not if it shakes the popcorn out of the tub, it seems. Indeed, some theater owners have experimented with the technology, only to decide that…
Vista Continues Strategic Growth and Diversification With Stake In MACCS
One of the more important stories to come out of this year’s CinemaCon is one that didn’t even get announced until more than a week after the show ended. By then anyone who follows such news was already well aware that the cinema exhibition software firm Vista Entertainment Solutions had…
Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 11 April 2014
A row has broken out in Australia about the high price of cinema tickets (which we have written about before) and its relation to, or supposed-justification for, film piracy. Quoted in the Brisbane Times, The chief executive of Palace Cinemas, Benjamin Zeccola, said cinemas were just trying to stay…