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Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 20 August 2014

AMC and Imax have signed a deal to deepen their business ties. What this signifies is that AMC and Wanda Cinemas, while technically different companies (though with shared ownership) are increasingly becoming indistinguishable with regards to cinema business policies. I bet they even buy popcorn ker…

AMC Q2’14 Results: Revenue Down But Focus On Re-Seat, Imax, AMC Prime, F&B and Internet Ticketing Steady

AMC has released its quarterly figures and it was a dark cloud but with a silver lining. Revenue was down nearly five per cent (4.7%), dragged down by a 7.1% drop in admissions and despite average ticket price being up to an average of USD $9.55, with Imax and F&B (food & beverage, i.e. conc…

ADA headline

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 30 July 2014

Guidelines have now been published for what American cinema need to do to comply with disabilities and access regulation, or, ‘Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Under Title III of the ADA to Require Movie Theaters to Provide Closed Movie Captioning and Audio Description’. This is a major hot…

AMC Fork&Screen

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 5 June 2014

Don’t go short on AMC! If you only read one cinema-related article this week (other than one of ours) make it this one. Heck, forward or print it out and give it to your colleagues. This is one of the best pieces of analysis that I have read about any exhibitor in a very longRead More

Wanda cinema

What Wanda’s IPO Prospectus Tell Us About China’s Cinema Market

No less than 30 Chinese companies are looking to list on US stock exchanges this year, led by Internet giants such as JD.com and Alibaba. The reason for choosing the likes of Nasdaq is because unlike their Chinese counterparts they don’t require three years of profitability as well as US regul…

Graham Cinema NC

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 2 May 2014 (Bumper Issue!)

It is not often that we start with a ‘Digital Death Watch’-type of story, but the Graham is not just an amazingly resilient single-screen cinema in North Carolina. This is also example of terrific college journalism that incorporates video (below), photos, info-graphics, mapping and soci…

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 26 February 2014

Our ‘Finally’ item from yesterday is today’s front page article; the opening of the first major multiplex in Jerusalem. Its opening is a big deal to the city. Many of Jerusalem’s movie theaters closed over the last two decades, leaving a dearth of silver screens in the city. For Ma…

MPAA Agent Bob Hope Detains Man For Wearing Google Glass in Ohio Cinema

It was only two weeks ago that we predicted the day would come when people would be wearing Google Glass in cinemas and be able to record an entire movie. That future has already arrived sooner than we expected. Over the weekend of January 18th an un-named man went to see “Jack Ryan: Shadow Re…

Sony Pictures VPF Deal With Regal & AMC Makes Warner Bros The Only Hold-Out Studio

Sony Pictures has become the next-to-last Hollywood studio to sign a virtual print fee (VPF) agreement with DCIP, the digital cinema integrator representing the three largest US cinema chains (AMC, Regal and Cinemark). This should help DCIP re-start the intended 3 1/2 year roll-out of digital cinem…

Regal’s Not-As-Large-As-AMC’s Deal With IMAX

Regal has signed a major deal with Regal for the deployment of its digital 3D system. Major, but not as major as the previous 100 screen deal with AMC. According to Reuters: Imax Corp said on Monday it had entered a joint venture with Regal Cinemas to have 31 of its giant movie screens installedRead…

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