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It’s Hammer Time as Thor Smashes November Records While Moms’ Moms Party It Up. This Weekend at the Box Office.

This week Jim Amos is taking a well-deserved brake, having been proven right to be very bullish about “Thor: Ragnarok” and predicting the “A Bad Moms Christmas” box office haul to within a rounding error. Instead it falls to conductors and porters J. Sperling Reich and Patric…

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Why Disney Can Demand 65% of Box Office for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”

Just when North American cinema operators looked forward to having blockbuster films like “Thor: Ragnarok” and “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” come along and boost a box office that has sagged in the second half of 2017, along comes Disney to squash any such dreams. Make no mistake, it’s not that these f…

Cathay Cineplex Parkway Parade. (photo: Patrick von Sychowski / Celluloid Junkie)

mm2 Buys Singapore’s Cathay Cineplex for $169 Million

Media company mm2 has agreed to buy Singapore cinema chain Cathay Cineplex for S$ 230 million (USD $169 million). The move come less than a month after it failed to buy half of rival Golden Village. Cathay operates eight cinemas with 64 screens and 11,569 seats, including the recently opened Parkway…

Striking UCI staff. (photo: Ute Gabriel / Der Westen)

Cinema News Digest – Thursday 2 November 2017

Dear Junkies, Strikes at UCI and Picturehouse makes us wonder what employees think of working at cinemas. Rather than putting that awkward question to the teen serving you popcorn before the next showing of “Thor Ragnarok”, you can find out through websites like Glassdoor.com or Indeed.c…

Regal Cinemas and Atom Tickets

Some Advice For Regal Cinemas On Dynamic Movie Ticket Pricing

During Regal Entertainment Group’s third quarter earnings call last week, while financial analysts grilled the company’s senior management on box office projections, EBITDA and the ROI of reseating multiplexes, CEO Amy Miles addressed two tangential subjects which received their fair share of media…

Emperor Group's Lan Kwai Fong cinema. (photo: The Standard)

Asia Cinema Property Update – October 2017

China/HK: luxury Central cinema; India: L&T’s Hyderabad Next multiplexes, Mukta Arts in TN, PVR Chanakya, Cinépolis Guwahati; Japan: Tokyo Midtown Hibiya Toho, Aeon Chofu; Kazakhstan: Astana; Malaysia: GSC Megawati Mall; Pakistan: Cinepax in Silakot; Singapore: Golden Village Paya Lebar; U…

“Suburbicon” Plunges Into Box Office Sinkhole While “Jigsaw” Lacks Teeth With Ho-Hum $16 Million Debut. This Weekend at the Box Office.

There is a famous 1980s era photo of one solitary baseball fan sitting in the far upper reaches of cavernous Municipal Stadium in Cleveland where the (then) sad sack Indians used to play their baseball games. It’s clear that there isn’t a single soul within another time zone of him. We probably coul…

Sydeny's Mov'in Bed cinema. (image: movinbed.com)

CJ Cinema News Digest – Friday 27 October 2017

Dear Junkies, The month before the Harvey Weinstein scandal exploded in Hollywood, the cinema industry was grappling with its own mini-Weinsteins. There was the Los Angels theatre Cinefamily sexual misconduct allegations, there was Alamo Drafthouse’s re-hiring of sexual harasser Devin Faraci a…

Randy Blotky of DCDC

CJ Interview: Looking To The Future and the Past with Randy Blotky, CEO of DCDC

When the idea to distribute motion pictures via satellite through a low-cost cooperative called the Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition (DCDC) was first being floated in the late 2000’s, it received a fair share of skepticism from certain cinema operators and content providers. It’s not that deliv…

CJ CGV-ADG signing ceremony in Seoul. (photo: CJ CGV)

CJ CGV to Open 33 Cinema in Moscow by 2020

Korean cinema major CJ CGV will become the first major foreign exhibitor to expand into Russia, with plans to build 33 cinemas with 160 screens in Moscow by 2020. CJ CGV signed a deal with Russian real estate company ADG Group to form a 70-30 joint venture called RusCo out of Hong Kong with a regis…