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Small fire in UK cinema – no one died

A small fire in Showcase cinema near Bristol, UK broke out this afternoon. The BBC has a short article about it: About 50 people were in the Showcase Cinema in the St Phillips area, near the A4, when the fire began on Wednesday afternoon. No injuries have been reported. The fire broke out in aRead M…

IMAX goes even bigger in China

Large format (LF) cinema operator IMAX has signed its largest deal yet in China with a ten-screen agreement with Wanda Cinema Line Corporation for the People’s Republic. The first couple of installations will take place before the year is out, according to this article from Reuters: The agreem…

India is becoming multiplex capital of the world

For a country that produces more films than Hollywood and sells more tickets each year than the US, you would think that India had a lot of cinemas. It doesn’t. Rather shockingly it is one of the most under-screened countries in the whole world. Whereas in the US there are 177 screens per mill…

Israel to get second Cinema City complex

Israel is set to get its second Cinema City complex in a $50m joint venture between Israeli company Gazit-Globe Israel and Portuguese company New Lineo Cinemas (NLC), which built the first Cinema City complex in Portugal. The article in Ynetnews.com reports that: The complex is expected to open in t…

Only two cinemas left in Baghdad

TimesNow.tv has an interesting though sad article and video from Reuters about one of the last cinemas left in Iraqi capital Baghdad (‘Iraq’s cinemas lost in violence‘), the Atlas cinema in the up-market Mansur district. Far from being a safe airconditioned refuge from the searing…

MovieTickets.com partners 100th cinema chain

Internet and telephone booking service MovieTickets.com has signed its 100th cinema chain partner, BowTie cinemas, which has 115 screens in 15 locations in Connecticut, New York, Maryland and Colorado. The announcement was made in a press release, which also highlighted the fact that it sales were u…

Garbage in cinema – charges filed at last

Someone has finally been charged for filling cinemas with pure garbage. No, it’s not the distributors filling the multiplexes with the usual post-summer derivative horror film re-makes. I this case it was a group of Australian teenagers rampaging in their local multiplex. This from an article…

Most trivial cinema-related story ever?

A woman in Scotland had her mobile phone stolen as she was going to a cinema in Edinburgh. And, erh, that’s it. But the BBC has seen fit to publish a new story about it on its online site. Either an example of Wired’s hyperlocal trend (or did I miss something there?) or that theRead More

Beaming directors to a cinema near you

Last week the London’s BFI Southbank (nee, NFT – the National Film Theatre) transmitted a live interview with director Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty via satellite to nine cinemas across the UK, following a special screening of the pair’s latest film ‘It’s a Fr…

UK’s Cinema Exhib. Ass’n Gets Clapp

The trade body of the United Kingdom’s cinema industry has appointed former government film deputy secretary Phil Clapp as its new chief executive. Clapp thus replaces John Wilkinson, who stood down earlier this year (or was stood down?) , as head of the Cinema Exhibitors’ Association (C…