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Leaded, unleaded or a cinema ticket?

Indian refinery company Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) is branching out from petrol station – into forecourt cinemas. As income declines from retail petroleum products BPCL thinks that it can revive its fortunes by pumping out digital cinema features in halls all across India. Wit…

Surprise cinema (pay if you like the film) and ‘Lost’ on the big screen in Prague

The Czechs have come up with a new cinema concept, which is to screen a surprise movie at Prague’s largest arthouse cinema where patrons only pay afterwards depending on how much they like the film. From ABC Prague’s website: Aero cinema in Prague has chosen an interesting way, how to at…

Who wants to see canned concerts in cinemas?

At a time when more and more rock bands are re-forming (Led Zeppelin, Police and Sex Pistols), one rock band that can’t reform (RIP Freddy Mercury) is having one of its old concerts dusted off and projected onto the big screen. Queen’s 1981 concert in Montreal will be shown at Empire cin…

Sale of Hoyts Now A Two-Horse Race

The latest from Publishing & Broadcasting’s imminent sale of Australian cinema chain Hoyts is that the field of candidates is now down to two suitors. Sydney buyout firm Private Equity Partners is down to the wire against India’s Pyramid Saimira Theatre, as the offer prise has gone u…

Adopt-a-seat in world’s oldest interactive cinema

You can now adopt a seat in one of Prague’s oldest cinemas, Kino Svetozor, which is raising money for refurbishment through the innovative scheme. The idea and the background to the cinema is discussed in an article and broadcast by Radio Praha: Kino Svetozor is one of the oldest cinemas in th…

No Avatar vs. Monsters vs. Aliens at the BO

It was a battle of the titans at the box office that was destined not to be. Paramount and DreamsWorks Animation (DWA) have moved the release date of ‘Monsters vs. Aliens‘ significantly forward to avoid a clash with James Cameron’s ‘Avatar‘. Both films were set to be sh…

Does sport work in cinemas?

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MPAA Urges ISPs To Help Fight Piracy

The Motion Picture Association of America has been hinting for some time now that internet service providers should prevent copyrighted material such as movies and televisions shows from being distributed illegally through their high speed broadband networks. Back in July of this year, the MPAA file…

Bahrain to get major cinema complex

Confirming the trend of mega-size multiplexes in the Middle East, the Bahrain Cinema Company (BCC) will spend BD6m ($2.65m) to build a 8,000 sq. m., 20 screen, 4,200 seat Cineco Cineplex in Bahrain City. The press release spares nothing when it comes to grand claims about the future facility: The Ci…

Sale of Australian Hoyts Said To Be Close

The sale of Hoyts, one of Australia’s Big Three exhibitors, is said to be imminent. Partly owned by James (Son of Kerry) Packer’s Publishing and Broadcasting and West Australian Newspapers, which bought Hoyts for $347m just two years ago. The asking price is said to be north of $400, but…