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Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 13 March 2014

India is an amazing country, not only does it produce more films than Hollywood but it has the world’s most thriving cinema culture. A staggering 75 per cent of Indian films’ lifetime earnings come from domestic cinema distribution. The equivalent figure for Hollywood is less than one fi…

Prima Cinema

Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 4 March 2014

“A grocery store and a cinema are two things that are a foundation for good downtowns.” – David Gordon, professor at School of Urban and Regional Planning at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada We don’t normally cover home cinema here at Celluloid Junkie, but when Imax and Prima Cinem…

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 17 February 2014

The sale of the Cineworld cinema in central Dublin reveals some interesting things about the exhibition market in the Irish Republic. The deal itself is straightforward enough. “The country’s busiest movie theatre – Dublin’s 17-screen 3,360-seat Cineworld on Parnell Street – is t…

Cinema News Roundup – 29 May 2009 – Indian theme day

– The stand-off between Indian multiplexes and Bollywood distributors appears to be close to being resolved, according to several news sources. TOI says, “Evidently, it was the producers who first blinked. An industry insider said, “The final settlement reads 50 per cent in the fir…

Daily Cinema Roundup – Tue 21 April

– Despite a proliferation of new multiplexes in the major cities, China still faces a massive cinema shortage reports Xinhuanet. ““Many cities in the western regions still don’t have modern cinemas with multiple screening rooms,” Mao Yu, vice president of the SARFT told…

Daily Cinema Roundup – Sun 19 April 2009

– UK cinema goers spent GBP 250m in the first quarter of 2009, reports the FT, with “Slumdog Millionaire” leading the way with 6m visitors. “The latest figures, compiled by the Film Distributors’ Association (FDA), support the frequent claim that cinema-going, perceived…

End of line for India’s exploitation cinemas?

It looks like the corporatization of the Indian film industry coupled with the relentless drive of the multiplex building is slowly killing off the exploitation films of the crime (‘dacoit‘), horror and semi-nudity variety, alongside the cinemas that show them. From the Times of India: R…

A cinema holiday bigger than Thanksgiving

That would be Diwali, celebrated in India, its neighboring states and NRIs (non-resident Indians) all over the world. The five-day Festival of Light has in recent years become the favourite holiday for the big ticket Bollywood film releases. And this year was the biggest of them all, with the head-h…

How multiplex arrival changed Bollywood

A very interesting Q&A with author Anupama Chopr about her book King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema over at the Freakonomics blog by Melissa Lafsky. It looks at how the Indian/Hindi film industry (a.k.a. Bollywood) has changed in the last decade-and-a-half,…

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…