Weekly Cinema Digest – Friday 5 February 2015 WHO warns against smoking on screen, UK ticket prices rising fast, Miraj cinemas to expand, BIG fine for inflated water price, Cineworld kicks out mother & child.
Weekly Cinema Digest – Friday 30 October 2015 UK – The Financial times has a special ‘The Business of Film’ supplement that looks at cinema and finds – surprise, surprise – that it is still surviving and thriving in the age of streaming and lauded TV shows. Rentrak’s Paul Dergarabedian is quoted as saying tha…
Weekly Cinema News – Friday 18 September 2015 This weekend “Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials” opens in cinemas around the world where it hasn’t already debuted. The sequel to last year’s box office winner “The Maze Runner” is also providing Barco with another opportunity to show off and expand its new theatrica…
Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 4 September 2015 UK – A horrific acid attack on a cinema patron after an argument at a late screening of “Straight Outta Compton” took place outside the Cineworld in Crawley, West Sussex. The 27 year old man left the cinema between 1 and 1:30am when he was approached by his assailants in the car p…
Weekly Cinema Digest – Friday 14 August 2015 USA (CO) – The Aurora mass killer James Holmes was spared the death penalty after the jury could not unanimously agree for him to be executed. He will now spend the rest of his life in prison instead. Holmes never expressed any remorse for killing 12 people (above) and injuring many more. Vari…
Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 10 June 2015 India – PVR has acquired DT Cinemas in a deal valued at INR 5 billion (USD $78.33 million), adding a total of 39 screens (29 existing and 10 planned). DT Cinemas is focused on the National Capital Region (NCR) and Chandigarh and was set to be sold to PVR in 2009, but the deal fell apartRead Mo…
Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 27 May 2015 74 of Canada’s Cineplex cinemas will screen the season finale of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” on Sunday 14 June. “Last year, the season four finale was screened in 29 theatres, with more than 11,000 tickets snatched up within days.” The pre-show will include trailers…
Catch-up Cinema Digest – Wednesday 13 May 2015 A catch-up of cinema news from mainly Anglophone countries from the last few weeks, plus one very big piece of news from Scandinavia. Scandinavia – The majority stake in Nordic Cinema Group, the regions largest cinema operator, has been sold for SEK 4.7 billion (USD $546 million) by Swedish pr…
Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 25 March 2015 [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hniDk0w0KeY[/youtube] France – It is ‘Cinema Spring’ in France for the 16th year when tickets are sold for just 3.50 euro for every show for three days (Sunday-Tuesday) this past week. France is one of the few European markets where cinema g…
Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 18 March 2015 [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/122202971[/vimeo] Following the announcement of a dedicated eSports screen in London’s Fulham Broadway (Vue), plus one more site, this now looks set to be the biggest global eSporting event since the Coca Cola-sponsored League of Legends tournament finale. More deta…