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CinemaCon 2026 Product Preview - Concessions, Food and Beverage

CinemaCon Product Preview 2026: Concessions, Food & Beverage

Concessions remain one of the most important drivers of revenue for cinema operators — [referring to my comment on the previous piece, maybe em-dash is just house style?]and one of the areas seeing the most visible evolution. At CinemaCon 2026, exhibitors are showcasing a mix of new products, format…

CJ Cinema Digest – Friday 18 March 2016

No 6 After 6 in US cinemas, home cinema food delivery, Japan VIP cine dining, child sex assault in Oz cinema (again), US cinema advertising, Grand Action founder dead, MK2 expanding in Canada, Helios in Warsaw and great PA cinemas.

John Bodega light sabre

Weekly Cinema Digest – Monday 14 December 2015

UK – It is not just cinemas in the US taking security precautions during the new “Star Wars” film, with UK cinemas also asking patrons to refrain from wearing Darth Vader masks and bringing light sabres. Odeon has sold 500,000 tickets and Vue 320,000. There will also be an un-prece…

Concessions and Re-seating (Not Films) Give Regal Strong Q3

USA (TN) – Regal Entertainment Group, the biggest cinema operator in the US, has reported third quarter financial year 2015 figures, which were slightly above expectations thanks to strong concessions sales. Total revenue was up by 4.5% year-on-year to USD $725 million, but net income was down…

CineEurope Retail Coca-Cola seminar

CineEurope: Cinema Retail – Tips & Tricks for Revenue Growth

This post is a transcription composed in real-time during one of the many seminars at CineEurope 2015 in Barcelona, Spain. As such we often paraphrase the presentations being given. The Coca-Cola Company’s retail seminars tends to be one of the highlights of CineEurope, as the company always h…

Adam Gottlieb

CJ @ CinemaCon: Interview with Adam Gottlieb of Continental Concession Supplies Inc.

Many North American cinema operators probably associate Adam Gottlieb with candy, refreshments and a wide variety of cinema concessions. During the past 17 years Gottlieb has been the cinema industry liaison for Continental Concession Supplies Inc. (CCSI) helping exhibitors of all sizes improve thei…

Sad movies concessions popcorn

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 6 March 2015

USA – Last year the same Cornell lab blamed action films, now sad films, for people eating more snacks. Free hankies with every tub of super sized popcorn and extra large soda. Sad movies are bad news for diets. A newly reported study from the Cornell Food and Brand Lab showed movie-goers watc…

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UK Cinema Spending Habits and Intentions Revealed

British polling company YouGov has published a report that details the spending patterns and intentions of UK cinema goers. The findings reveal regional variations and an overall positive outlook, though cost is a factor in some people choosing not to frequent the cinema. YouGov’s Film and Cinema Ev…

CJ@CineAsia Concession Showmanship Seminar

The afternoon is presentations from three exhibitors showing what they do in their cinemas. [You will be happy to know that we got a 10 minute break for lunch and I scraped together the last of the rice and whatever suacy went with it that was still left on the buffet table.] Mariam El Bacha,Read Mo…

CJ@CineAsia Coca Cola Presentation

Brian Chau, Customer Leadership and Operations Director for Coca-Cola Pacific is on immediately after Larry. [No break for lunch – I’m sipping my Coke Zero and thinking that these seminars will do wonders for my figure.] “We as a beverage company are proud to refresh the worl…