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DCM Upfronts Showcase: How Cinema Can Help with Societal Loneliness

Shared Cultural Experiences: Cinema’s Role in Helping Societal Loneliness

Cinema advertising company, Digital Cinema Media (DCM), held its annual Upfronts showcase again this year (3rd July) at the impressive Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London. The event was attended by a full house of agencies and brand representatives who all took their seats for CEO Karen Stacey’s k…

Why Cinema is Designed to Make a Lasting Impact

The Science Behind the Impact of Cinema

On 7th July, cinema advertising company Digital Cinema Media (DCM) hosted their UpFronts Showcase at the Odeon Luxe in London’s Leicester Square. The morning’s presentations focused around a theme of “cinema as attention leader” (not the official title) and a data presentation was given to support t…

Karen Stacey - CEO, Digital Cinema Media (DCM)

TWIC 2021: Karen Stacey – CEO, Digital Cinema Media (DCM)

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? I was first nominated for Top Women in Cinema in 2017 and have been recognised each year since. This has be…

Cinema Service Providers and Vendors Face Uncertainty During Prolonged Coronavirus Closure

It’s been a little over a week since the majority of the world’s cinema screens turned dark and despite an absence of customers, new releases and box office analysis, in many ways our sector has never been busier as it turns to new challenges and opportunities. Players from all sides are implementin…

2019 Winners and Losers

Cinema 2019 – Who Had a Good Year And Who Didn’t?

Before 2019 vanishes in the rearview mirror, let’s take a last look at who was king and queen of the multiplex over the past 12 months, as well as who ended up in the bin with the popcorn sweepings. Remember, hindsight is 2020 and as the investment warning goes, “past performance is no g…

Yelp Luxury Cinema Madrid

Cinema News Digest – Thursday 18 January 2018

Dear Junkies, Average ticket price in the US went up 3.69% to USD $8.97 in 2017. Cue usual hysterical headlines (THR: ‘Average Price of a Movie Ticket Soars to $8.97 in 2017‘ – really, “soars”?), particularly when coupled with the drop in admissions. And, yes, this is t…

"1984" National Screening Day 4 April.

CJ Cinema News Digest – Wednesday 22 February 2017

“1984” US cinema protest, Landmark <3 recliners, not VR & laser, CNC flexible on windows, Lotte in missile trouble and launches VIP coupons, UCI Italy ‘blind date’ ticket, Secret Cinema oyster poisoning, iPic $250 champagne, man eats trout in cinema, Italian cinema mol…

Showtime Analytics Alibaba CineAsia 2016

CJ Cinema News Digest – Monday 12 December 2016

Alibaba invests in Showtime, GIC pumps $260m into Cinema XXI, Atom Tickets profiled Redux, cinema stocks fall, Odeon-AMC Manchester conflict, Showtime Taipei is Christie Vive's 400th, Korean cinemas' variable pricing, Canada cinema hack, Indian cinema national anthem arrests, Inox plans, MK2 VR venu…

CJ Cinema Digest – Friday 8 April 2016

ScreenX grows, Everyman expands, Curzon's 3 Cs, Czech BO, Vue complaints, Thunderstorm partners, Bardan+TK, rats, DCM, Inox+Imax and more.

Weekly Cinema Digest – Friday 15 January 2016

Europe – 2016 was a pretty good year at the European box office, with the feel good of “Star Wars: the Force Awakens” at the end of the year masking some spectacular flops (remember “Fant4stic 4”?), some troubling attendance figures and a dismal year for arthouse cinema…