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Cinema News Digest – Friday 26 January 2018

Dear Junkies, Two types of projections happen in the cinema. The first is the light, colours and shapes thrown onto the screen by the projector. The second is the dreams, hopes, joy, fear, prejudice and more that we as an audience invest in the big screen for the two hour duration of the film. ThisR…

Facebook Fandango Integration

Did Facebook Just Reveal Their Plans To Sell Cinema Tickets? – BREAKING NEWS

Facebook has inadvertently revealed its ambition to directly sell cinema tickets through its platforms. A job posting on the social media giant’s Career’s page for Sales & Marketing seeks applications for ‘Monetization Product Marketing Manager – Movies’. The senior…

"Padmaavat" is subject of attacks and threats of violence.

Cinema News Digest – Tuesday 23 January 2018

Dear Junkies, How much is MoviePass worth and what are its business prospects? Predicting this currently is a fool’s errand, because there are simply too many unknowns. The unknowns include how fast it will burn through its cash reserves, what revenue potential its data-play holds and whether…

China BO overtake US by Mtime

China Cinema News – Monday 22 January 2018

Will China’s BO overtake US; Chinese audiences go off 3D; battle of mobile ticketing platforms; Wanda cinema report and sheds assets abroad; SMI Group show off ‘new marketing’ ahead of backdoor listing; “Secrtet Superstar” is Bollywood’s first revenue share;…

Four Macbeths coming to event cinema in 2018

How Many Macbeths Is Too Many?

In the year that will see the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, even more Star Wars mania and Jamie Lee Curtis returning to the Halloween film franchise, we, the general public, are going to be treated to four, yes FOUR, productions of Shakespeare’s Macbeth when they grace the big scr…

An Entire Den of Thieves and Hemsworth on Horseback Still Can’t Stop the Jumanji Express. The Rock Rolls to Another Weekly Win. This Weekend at the Boxoffice.

WEEKEND RECAP Although a pair of new openers put up a decent fight, alas it was Sony’s juggernaut, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle that proved to be King of the Jungle yet again this week, tallying USD $20.0 million and its third weekly win in a row per our friends at ComScore. The Rock’s BigRead Mor…

Amy Miles of Regal Cinema

Regal Revenue Declines in 2017 As Key Executives Get Pay Raises

Over the past ten days Regal Entertainment Group gave guidance on 2017 earnings by announcing their revenue had declined last year, as well as making public the bonuses and pay raises some of its senior executives would be receiving in 2018. Regal, which is in the process of being acquired by Cinewo…

DEG U.S. Home Entertainment Consumer Spending By Format in 2017

CJ Analysis: U.S. Cinema Box Office Overtakes Home Video Purchasing

Cinema box office in the United States overtook home video retail spend in 2017 for the first time in over 20 years. Let the significance of this monumental shift sink in for a moment. Cinema, through theatrical releases, is effectively now bigger than any other stand-alone film consumption platform…

Yelp Luxury Cinema Madrid

Cinema News Digest – Thursday 18 January 2018

Dear Junkies, Average ticket price in the US went up 3.69% to USD $8.97 in 2017. Cue usual hysterical headlines (THR: ‘Average Price of a Movie Ticket Soars to $8.97 in 2017‘ – really, “soars”?), particularly when coupled with the drop in admissions. And, yes, this is t…

Craig Ramsey, CFO of AMC Entertainment

AMC Backs Off Premium-VOD Talks With Studios

With some of technology’s biggest players in Las Vegas last week for CES, Citigroup thought it would be a good idea to wrangle some of them into an investor conference taking place at the Bellagio Hotel. Among those in attendance were telecom, media and related companies as well as Craig Ramsey, the…