CJ @ CinemaCon: Q&A Interview with Eying 1958’s Peng Jin
CJ talks to Ms Jing Peng of Eying 1858, the Chinese exhibitor which earlier this year opened the world's largest laser theatre
Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 10 April 2015
Cinema data and campaign firm Movio has launched a product that tracks and analyses cinema-goer behaviour, aimed at giving studios and distributors greater consumer insights. Movio, the global leader in marketing data, analysis, insights, and campaign creation and management for theatrical exhibit…
Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 18 March 2015
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/122202971[/vimeo] Following the announcement of a dedicated eSports screen in London’s Fulham Broadway (Vue), plus one more site, this now looks set to be the biggest global eSporting event since the Coca Cola-sponsored League of Legends tournament finale. More deta…
China Cinema Digest – Thursday 5 March 2015
Wanda Cinema’s shares have been soaring since their IPO and WinShang looks at how the company is expanding, with presence now in 80 Chinese cities. During the reporting period, the strong momentum in the company’s development, gradually expand the scale theaters, grossing a rapid increas…
China Cinema Digest – Thursday 12 February 2015
China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television’s (SAPPRFT) Digital Program Management Centre has inaugurated a test NOC for the satellite distribution of DCP copies of films. It is not clear which cinema are participating in this, but it’s one to mon…
Laser, the Next Big Digital Transition as the Xenon Lamp Fades Away
This year (2015) is definitively the year the world became completely digital as Sundance Film Festival announced that not one film shown was on celluloid-film. Most of the major markets are now completely digital. If you listen carefully, you can hear tens of thousands of cinema owners letting out…
Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 26 January 2015
USA – Given how large cruise ships have become it was inevitable that sooner or later one of them would get an Imax cinema. Carnival is partnering with entertainment innovator IMAX® to bring the world’s most immersive cinematic experience to sea with the first-ever IMAX® Theatre on a ship. Gue…
Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 14 January 2015
USA (NV) – Is AMC going to ditch Imax for Dolby Cinema? Of course not, but this and other nuggets emerge from a Citi Global Internet, Media & Telecommunications Conference transcript with AMC’s Craig Ramsey, EVP and CFO, where he talks about the company’s five different strateg…
Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 7 January 2015
The two last episodes of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” plus a new trailer for the upcoming season will screen in Imax. The show previously screened pre-release episodes theatrically, but that was ‘only’ George R.R. Martin’s own Cocteau Cinema in Arizona. HBO and Imax ha…
Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 18 December 2014
“The Interview” may have been pulled from cinemas, but that won’t stop this freedom-loving Texan cinema chain from showing a Hollywood film making fun of North Korea’s leaders. The Alamo Drafthouse in Texas was one independent cinema willing to brave the threat and show the f…