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How Automation is Saving Cinemas Money

For cinemas counting on the end of Covid and the return of blockbusters, the twin challenges of skyrocketing energy costs and never-ending staff shortages could not have come at a worse time. To help overcome these challenges, exhibitors are increasingly turning to ever more innovative automation te…

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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…

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TWIC 2021: Anne Fitzgerald – Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, Cineplex

This post is part of CJ’s Top Women In Global Cinema 2021 – Redux. How have your role, position and responsibilities changed since you were first nominated for Top Women In Cinema in 2020? I remain in the same role at Cineplex, but my day-to-day work certainly has changed as a result of…

“Don’t Give Up Hope”: Kim Ludolf Koch on the Current Cinema Situation

This interview with Kim Ludolf Koch, CEO of Cineplex (Germany), was first published in Blickpunkt: Film on 15 April and conducted by Marc Mensch. It is re-published here with their kind permission. The English version is a Google Translation with manual corrections. Any errors are entirely ours. Ci…

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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…

CJ Interview: Ellis Jacob and Rolando Rodriguez Discuss Their Work on the NATO Board

When the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) announced in June that Ellis Jacob and Rolando B. Rodriguez had, respectively, been elected to their board as Chairman and Vice Chairman, it seemed like a fairly ordinary organizational procedure. NATO needed to fill the role because it’s…

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Gruvi’s Web A.U.D.I.T. Asks How Effectively Are European Cinemas Reaching Online Audiences?

The Cinema Industry’s Worrying Trend The latest theatrical attendance analysis by the MPAA shows the Key demographics for 18 – 24 and 25 – 39 are all in decline in 2016 relative to their positions in 2012. Declines are also noted in Germany with recent research published by Filmförderung…

delphi LUX cinema in Berlin. (photo: York Cinema Group.)

Europe Cinema Property Update – October 2017

Germany: Yorck open delphi Lux in Berlin, Cine K Korback work starts, Cineplex Meitingen delayed; France: Pathe Massey is France’s first Dolby Cinema, Cinevillage go-ahead; Poland: Oh Kino and Cinema City open in Wroclaw; Romania: first all-VIP cinema and first government since since 1990; Hol…

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CJ Cinema News Digest – Friday 13 October 2017

Dear Junkies, Cinemas are increasingly catering to the deaf and blind, but what about patrons who are both? A US court has just ruled that cinemas have an obligation to such customers as well. This all stems from an incident in which the Plano, Texas-based circuit Cinemark was asked to cater to the…

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CJ Analysis: Taking Stock of Cinema Stocks

Shares in North American cinema operators have endured a rough ride this summer, with AMC taking a particular battering following a perfect storm of a weak third quarter (Q3), uncertainty in China (especially over financing from its largest shareholder, Wanda) and the enforced sell-off of shares in…