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CJ@CineAsia – CineAsia University NAC: Building the Experience

In an effort to provide updates on the CineAsia 2014 conference and trade show presently taking place in Hong Kong SAR, this post was written live, and in the present tense, during one of the conference’s presentations. Comments attributed to speaker(s) are paraphrased unless denoted specifica…

Secret Cinema

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 1 August 2014

Great Scott, they did it in the end! Secret Cinema’s delayed Back to the Future event went off yesterday without a problem. The company’s founder had a few words of contrition before the start of the film, as reported in The Guardian. “I was always confident we would pull this off,…

Westminster London cinemas hygiene scorcard

London Cinemas’ Food Hygiene Scorecard: Quite Good, but Room For Improvement

With cinema attendance plateauing or stagnant in most developed markets, exhibitors are turning to ways to extract more money from the patrons that still frequent cinemas. Concessions is the most obvious way, which is why the last decade has seen a proliferation of in-theatre cafes, bars, stand-alon…

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…

Chinese and american cinema audiences

America’s Greatest Cinema Export to China Is Under Threat (Not Movies, Popcorn)

Could Chinese authorities be about restrict imports of the quintessential multiplex staple imported from the United States? No, we are not talking about movies or Hollywood; the greatest American export success to Chinese cinemas does not come from California but from the fields in Nebraska. Differe…

Kulturhuset stockholm

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 10 April

Three stories from my native country Sweden, to start off the Daily today. Click on the link if you are using Chrome browser (as 35.40% of you are) and you get the option of an automatic translation. Stockholm’s Culture House is taking back the running of its small in-house cinema from SF Bio.…

Vista Serves Up The Future of In-Seat Ordering

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9nZf-7gC5U[/youtube] I am always pleased when an email arrives from Murray Holdaway and/or Derek Forbes. They are, respectively, the CEO and President of North America for Vista, an entertainment software compa…

UK Cinemas Are High Profile Targets For Anti-Sugar Campaigns

Having looked at challenges facing United States exhibitors relating to carbonated sugar beverages (Cinema’s Dangerous Addiction to Sodas), it is now time to examine the situation in the United Kingdom. The issue has come to the forefront with an article in the Daily Mail’s This Is Money…

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 27 February 2014

Research from Australia confirms what we have always suspected; cinema goers are a happier bunch than people who stay at home. Some 47% of Australians (more than 9 million people) go to the cinema at least once every three months, which means that only gardening is a more popular leisure activity. I…

The best ever eats on the big screen

Forget the stale popcorn and overpriced soda at the concessions counter for a while and feast instead on this article from UK’s the Guardian on food portrayed on the big screen: What is the most famous food scene in all cinema? Could it be Samuel L Jackson interrogating the men he’s been…