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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…

12 Strong & Den of Thieves

It’s a Jungle Out There For Newcomers as “Jumanji” Rocks Again With $34 Million. This Weekend at the Box Office.

WEEKEND RECAP It’s a long Martin Luther King weekend here in the United States and despite snow, freezing temperatures, NFL playoff games and a oops-my-bad Hawaiian missile warnings, moviegoers still found time to trudge to their local multiplexes, led by Sony’s “Jumanji,” which won yet another week…

Cinema News Digest – Friday 12 January 2018

Indian national anthem not compulsory for cinemas; best Dutch film year since 1978/1965; good BO year for Ireland but bad for Italy; positive coverage of dynamic pricing announcement in Germany; cinema “better investment proposition” than restaurants in UK; Rec Room menu reviewed; Toby B…

Curzon Ladywell cinema in Lewisham.

UK Cinema Property Update – Thursday 11 January 2018

Picturehouse loses Ladywell Playtower project to Curzon; Cineworld’s Weston-super-Mare ready to open (nearby Odeon drops prices); Everyman in old ABC in Tunbridge Wells, Cirencester and Lincoln’s Corn Hill hat-trick; The Light‘s funky Redrock cinema opens; Odeon Derby property sol…

UCI seating map dynamic pricing

Why Cinemas Are (Finally) Embracing Dynamic Ticket Pricing

The news that Germany’s UCI will roll out dynamic pricing to all of its 23 cinemas and 203 screens over the next five years marks the start of the embrace of dynamic pricing by the cinema industry. The fact that it comes the same week as Australia’s Village cinemas abandons its ill-conce…

2017 film posters

Cinema News Digest – Tuesday 9 January 2018

2017 US BO off by one animated hit; UK box office record; CEO PVR Bijli settles ‘out-of-court’; CGR now France’s largest circuit; US ‘bomb cyclone’ could freeze BO; Nollywood cracks UK Top 10; bringing food into cinemas in India; Newcastle’s Tyneside Cinema gets n…