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Cineworld on the Road To Recovery

Cineworld On Its Road To Recovery – Part 3

This is the third of a three part series examining some of the finer points and details of Cineworld’s ongoing bankruptcy in an attempt to provide some analysis for what it all means for the company and the industry-at-large. On 7 September the world’s second largest movie theatre operat…

Cineworld's Bankruptcy Journey

Cineworld’s Bankruptcy Journey – Part 2

This is the second of a three part series examining some of the finer points and details of Cineworld’s ongoing bankruptcy in an attempt to provide some analysis for what it all means for the company and the industry-at-large. On 7 September the world’s second largest movie theatre…

Cineworld In A Time of Bankruptcy

Cineworld In A Time of Bankruptcy – Part 1

By the beginning of September, Cineworld Group’s potential bankruptcy was so widely reported and broadly anticipated that when the company officially filed for Chapter 11 protection on 7 September, most major media outlets buried their coverage in the business section. Few, if any, of the…

Anne Fitzgerald and Thomas Santram of Cineplex Entertainment

Anne Fitzgerald Announces Retirement From Cineplex; Thomas Santram To Take Over As General Counsel

Anne Fitzgerald, the Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at Cineplex, Canada’s largest movie theatre chain, has announced she will be retiring at the end of February. Thomas Santram will become the company’s General Counsel. The news came from Fitzgerald herself, who informed the…

Cineplex Canada's RecRoom. (image: Cineplex Corporate)

Beyond Hollywood: How Cinemas Are Creating New Revenue Streams

Until Marvel Studios’ “Captain Marvel” swooped in and boosted the global box office, Hollywood was struggling to kickstart 2019 and an uncertain year stretched ahead. Which is perhaps why, at least in part, two international cinema operators are actively diversifying their offering and moving away f…

Al Salaam Mall, Jeddah

CJ Cinema News Digest – Wednesday 15 February 2017

Cinemas planned for Saudi Arabia, CGV grows & grows in Vietnam, more UK cinema ticket price cuts, Cineplex production thoughts, India 5% GST plea, dying Swiss single screens, KNCC profits fall, 50 Shades cucumber finds, Bondi cinema evacuation, Vue comfy seats in Newcastle and for UCI in Brazil,…

Cineplex Odeon Victoria Cinema and Empire Capitol 6 Cinemas. (image: Google Maps)

Canada’s Luxury Seating Arms Race Points to Future

A luxury seating arms race between two small multiplexes in British Columbia's Victoria holds an important lesson for the future of cinema going.

Cineworld Yates

CJ Cinema Digest – Friday 12 August 2016

Brexit hits Cineworld, Cineplex Q2 down, Inox down, Odeon questions, Rialto yard sale, Cineworld carbon monoxide scare, NCMI Q2 down, India censor leakage, Optishell anti-piracy, Everyman opening, Nord-Sud refurb and gas-lit cinema in Leeds.

Colours comparisons on a RealD Ultimate Screen (left) and a standard silver screen.

CJ Cinema Digest – Wednesday 10 August 2016

RealD's Ultimate Screen, AMC accelerates Dolby Cinema, Cinepolis India price hike OK, Harkness India growth, walking distance Picturehouse, Russian BO up, weekly immersive live Little Cinema, Cineplex bedbugs, Germna cinema lock-in, CGV bed cinema success, Imax Pasching #1, Kate Scherping NCM CFO, n…

Odeon for Sale

Weekly Cinema Digest – Friday 28 August 2015

UK – Odeon & UCI group has released its first half-year result. It looks like rather than just cruising on the blockbuster wave of the first six months there are signs of a genuine turnaround – just as the group prepares to be sold. Last years loss of GBP £40 million (USD $61.7 milli…