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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…

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