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The Cinema Theatre in Rochester goes digital

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 9 May 2014

This small-single screen is one of the last in its area to make the switch to digital. So why aren’t we filing it away further down? Because the area is Rochester, home of Eastman Kodak, aka the Company That Digital Nearly Killed. The Cinema’s swap this week from film to digital projection mar…

Astor Film Lounge

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 5 May 2014

We don’t normally start with a non-English article (though Google/Chrome will easily translate it for you). But this is a good overview of how German exhibition is dealing with a contracting demand: 20 million fewer cinemas goers went to see a film in 2013 compared to 2003 and some 200 net cin…

ABC Brussels cinema

Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 22 April 2014 (post-Easter Bumper Issue)

Belgium: Save the Brussels ABC! One of the last 35mm adult film cinemas in the world closed last year when the ABC in Brussels shut its doors. There is now a campaign to save it and turn it into an art-house cinema with exotic flare. You can donate by PayPal. The campaign is 47% towards itsRead Mo…

ArcLight Santa monica

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 9 April 2014

Normally we bury cinema openings further down in the Daily, but this merits top billing. Back in January we wrote about how premium cinema operator ArcLight had set its sights on Los Angeles’ Santa Monica market and whether this would create a screen glut. Now news reaches us that ArcLight is…

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 14 February 2014

Jesus is coming…to every single screen in your multiplex. Not so much a Second Coming as a First Showing, the Son of God film follow up to last year’s television hit The Bible will appear on every single screen in many US multiplexes on Thursday 27 February, before going on general relea…

Daily Cinema Roundup – Thur 23 April

– Cinema box office “is performing well despite the bad economy — not because of the bad economy,” according to a new survey published by Nielsen. Perhaps no surprise that it found that cinema was still considered a good value proposition, even in these tough economic times,…

No, no, no – Internet distribution WON’T kill cinemas

Print and on-line media have been getting WAY over excited about the straight-out-on-Internet release of Paramount’s Jackass 2.5 (less so about Hammer Horror’s return to production with the S-o-o-I release of Beyond the Rave). For a film that came across in its first outing (Jackass 1.0?…

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