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Maze Runner

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 28 August 2014

Fox’s The Maze Runner will be the first film released in Barco’s Escape triptych-screen format. The film will be released exclusively in five Cinemark locations, two in California and one each in Florida, Texas and Illinois before it is released later in Europe at Brussels Kinepolis Esca…

Alamo Drafthouse Downtown LA

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 13 August 2014

Alamo Drafthouse is coming to downtown Los Angeles. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the quirky Austin-based theater chain known for its beer and food service, is expanding into downtown Los Angeles. The cinema chain, which specializes in independent and repertory films, will open its first L.A. theater at…

Gerry Lopez, CEO of AMC Entertainment

Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 8 July 2014

Today’s big news is AMC spending USD $600 million on upgrading its cinemas, primarily introducing bigger and more comfortable seats. The strategy has been flagged before but now everyone is following. It is effectively an admission of defeat in terms of ever hoping that attendance figures will impro…

Carmike share price

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 11 June 2014

Carmike Cinemas’ share price is up 166% in the last two year, but that’s not necessarily a good thing, according to research analyst Gary Bourgeault. This long article looks at Carmike’s rollup and acquisition strategy, whether it will be bought by a larger competitor and what pric…

4DX Advertisement

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 21 May 2014

Rolling Stone magazine has an overview of what you can expect from the 4D movie going experience. Quite detailed and analytical, cutting through a lot of preconceptions without too much hype. Most U.S. journalists have only participated in brief 4DX demos, but Rolling Stone was given the opportunity…

Tim League

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 14 May 2014

An in-depth interview with Tim League, founder and CEO of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, a true pioneer in the American exhibition industry. Very disarming and insightful. How did the dining experience while watching a movie come about? There was a theater in Portland [Ore.]that did beer and food service…

French cinema box office 2014

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 7 May 2014

Cinema attendance is up in the first four month in France. Let’s hope this is the start of a Europe-wide trend. April 2014, the attendance of cinemas rose +15.4% vs. the same period in 2013, to 19.13 million entries, according to estimates of the National Film Centre and Moving Image Centre (C…

Kulturhuset stockholm

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 10 April

Three stories from my native country Sweden, to start off the Daily today. Click on the link if you are using Chrome browser (as 35.40% of you are) and you get the option of an automatic translation. Stockholm’s Culture House is taking back the running of its small in-house cinema from SF Bio.…

How Cinema Dining Conquered the World (And Soon New York Too)

When Jeffrey Katzenberg is quoted as saying, “I am one hundred percent sure that these theaters are the future of movie-going,” you assume that he is talking about 3D, maybe with HFR and Immersive Audio. But in the case of this article in WSJ he is talking about another phenomenon that has gro…

Major Studio Release Windows

Studios Find A Backdoor Into Shorter Theatrical Release Windows

History may remember this past summer’s blockbuster season more as the one when studios successfully shortened the theatrical window by three weeks, rather than as the one in which numerous $200 million tentpole films failed at the box office. Sure, the latter seems to be getting all the press…