Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 29 August 2014
Today's Cinema News: US summer BO worst in 8 years (but Italy up), THX goes China (as does AAM), VUE IT contract, Hamlet on screen
Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 25 August 2014
First Cineworld got in trouble with some vocal customers for introducing allocated seating. Now marketers are complaining that the cinema is keeping house lights on during the running of the adverts. Darren Hayday, marketing consultant at Competitive Edge Marketing and former “loyal customer of Cine…
China Cinema Future – Barrage 2: Return of the Tucao
We were quite overwhelmed by the response to last week’s article about how China is inventing the future of cinema with the concept of ‘barrage’. (Thank you for all the tweets, Facebook posts, emails, LinkedIn mentions and other shares.) So we have decided to do what Hollywood alwa…
Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 8 August 2014
Wondering about the above picture? That’s no less than ten (10!) different ticketing machines in the lobby of a cinema in Beijing. Online ticketing has exploded in China along with the growth of multiplexes, Imax screens and attendance. But it is not what you are used to in the West with one o…
China Just Invented the Future of Cinema Watching (But Everyone Older Than 30 Will Hate It)
This week saw a cinema screening in China that may prove a watershed moment for how films are watched on the big screen. But chances are that unless you are a Millennial, particularly in Asia, you are not going to want to embrace it. I’ve seen things… Covering mainland China as a non-Man…
Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 1 August 2014
Great Scott, they did it in the end! Secret Cinema’s delayed Back to the Future event went off yesterday without a problem. The company’s founder had a few words of contrition before the start of the film, as reported in The Guardian. “I was always confident we would pull this off,…
Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 25 July 2014
Much has been made of the success of Transformers 4 in China (biggest hit of all time, etc. etc.). But at the risk of coming across all Cassandra, it should be noted that before Transformers 4 and the local hit Tiny Times 3 lit up the mainland box office, the outlook for China’s cinemas wasRea…
Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 4 June 2014
File under ‘Keep Calm & Carry On’ – online film distribution revenue will overtake cinema box office in 2017, according to a new report by PwC. But box office is actually predicted to keep rising, while the real loser will be DVD and Blu-ray. China and 3D also come under scruti…
Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 3 June 2014
The fact that China’s box office is booming is taken as a given, but depending on how you look at the figures, some more troubling aspects shine through. Grace, vice president of Arts and Consulting Research told the “First Financial Daily” correspondent that although the theater b…
Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 2 June 2014
“Farewell My Concubine” had its global premiere yesterday at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles; the first ever Chinese 3D opera in Atmos to be shown in cinemas. Yesterday, appears on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles of a particular landscape, held annually Oscars Dolby theater en…