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Cinema’s Dangerous Addiction to Sodas

The past couple of months have not only seen the 50th anniversary of the Beatles appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show and the premier of Stanley Kubrick’s nuclear satire Dr Strangelove: or, How I stopped Worrying And Learned to Love the Bomb. It is also 50 years since the landmark report Smoking…

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 19 February 2014

Vertical Cinema – it is such a crazy and brilliant idea that we wish we had thought of it first. But some clever Austrians beat us to it. Now you can finally have a place to project all those movies you shot on your iPhone holding it upright. Best of all, this pop-up cinema showsRead More

How MoviePass Works

If At First They Don’t Succeed, MoviePass Tries, Tries Again

Say what you want about MoviePass, the unlimited moviegoing subscription service, but one can not fault the startup for yielding to overwhelming market obstacles or folding at the first sign of serious industry pushback. Instead, when encountering hurdles to their business, the company, which operat…

Popcorn In Slow Motion

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Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 18 February 2014

Event Cinema UK: Secret Cinema has announced its new film and it is Berlin award-winner The Grand Budapest Hotel, showing a full week early, thus demonstrating the power the brand has built with audiences and distributors. “Today, Secret Cinema announces its live cinema experience of Wes Ander…

Europe’s Cinema Attendance Decline is Greatly Exagerated

It is appropriate that the European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO) should release its cinema admissions report at the Berlin Film Festival rather than Cannes, because it appeared not to make for sunny or cheerful reading. The headline figure of 4.1 per cent decline for EU cinema attendance and the se…

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 17 February 2014

The sale of the Cineworld cinema in central Dublin reveals some interesting things about the exhibition market in the Irish Republic. The deal itself is straightforward enough. “The country’s busiest movie theatre – Dublin’s 17-screen 3,360-seat Cineworld on Parnell Street – is t…

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 14 February 2014

Jesus is coming…to every single screen in your multiplex. Not so much a Second Coming as a First Showing, the Son of God film follow up to last year’s television hit The Bible will appear on every single screen in many US multiplexes on Thursday 27 February, before going on general relea…

2013 – Bad Year for Film; Great Year for Exhibitor Share Price

It may seem paradoxical, but while 2013 was a bad year for films in terms of growth, it was an excellent year for cinemas. Even with a strong summer at the box office, 2013 was flat or even down compared to the previous year in most western countries. Only emerging markets like China showed strongRe…

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 13 February 2014

A self-professed computer nerd in Shanghai who broke up with (or was dumped by?) his girlfriend last year is making V-Day plans difficult for romantically inclined cinema visitors. “Couples looking to enjoy a romantic Valentine’s Day at one Chinese cinema will be out of luck this Friday,…