CJ @ CinemaCon: Interview with Smart Pricer’s Christian Kluge Smart Pricer's CEO Christian Kluge talks to Celluloid Junkie about dynamic pricing for cinemas, how to price a Star Wars film and more.
CinemaCon: The Three ‘S’ of the Immersive Cinema Experince: Sight, Sound and Seats This CinemaCon panel got to grips with whatmakes for an immersive cinema experince, with the leading exhibitors from the Gulf and S.E. Asia.
CinemaCon: The True Value Proposition of a Cinema-Goer: It’s Time to Cultivate a Lifetime of Support The first panel of CinemaCon 2015 looked at (declining) youth attendance and what could be done attract them back, with real-world examples from Kinepolis and Nordisk
CinemaCon: A True Partnership – Working Together To Drive the Cinematic Experience To New Heights CinemaCon panel A New Partnership looks at how exhibitors and distributors could and should work together to boost cinema attendance in the digital age.
Technicolor and Deluxe Joining Forces on Digital Cinema Spurs Industry Consensus One of the biggest breaking news stories to come out of CinemaCon last week was the news that two of the world’s largest content service providers, Deluxe and Technicolor, have entered into an agreement to launch a joint venture focused solely on digital cinema. The announcement on Wednesday w…
CinemaCon: Bill Alberti Looks At Cinema’s Generation Z Challenge At CinemaCon 2015 Bill Alberti of Communispace looks at the challenges of making cinema relevant for today's always-on Generation Z.
CinemaCon: David Hancock Delivers Digital Cinema Update The very first CinemaCon was held in 2011 with the worldwide conversion to digital projection at movie theatres already underway. Maybe that’s why David Hancock of IHS Technology has been a regular speaker on the first day of the event since it’s inception, presenting an update on the gl…
CinemaCon: ICTA Presents – The Unintended Consequences of Digital Cinema (“Motion seats will be the death of me.” – Un-Named Studio Executive at CinemaCon) Joe deMeo of Barco and President of the International Cinema Technology Association (ICTA) introduces the panel session with the question, “after the [digital cinema] roll out what are we looki…
Alibaba Buys China Cinema Ticketing Company for $134m The biggest financial cinema news of the week was not at the CinemaCon trade show in Las Vegas. Demonstrating instead the importance of China to the cinema business, e-commerce giant Alibaba paid 840 million yuan (USD $134 million) for cinema ticketing software company Yueke Software Engineering Com…
CinemaCon: Interview With Ymagis/DCNA’s Barry Rebo In the run-up to and during CinemaCon 2015 CJ is interviewing and profiling several leading companies, trade bodies and people to capture the mood of the cinema industry as it enters its post-digital era. Today we talk to Barry Rebo, newly appointed head of Ymagis’ just-launched division Direc…