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French cinema box office 2014

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 7 May 2014

Cinema attendance is up in the first four month in France. Let’s hope this is the start of a Europe-wide trend. April 2014, the attendance of cinemas rose +15.4% vs. the same period in 2013, to 19.13 million entries, according to estimates of the National Film Centre and Moving Image Centre (C…

Graham Cinema NC

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 2 May 2014 (Bumper Issue!)

It is not often that we start with a ‘Digital Death Watch’-type of story, but the Graham is not just an amazingly resilient single-screen cinema in North Carolina. This is also example of terrific college journalism that incorporates video (below), photos, info-graphics, mapping and soci…

Jeffrey Katzenberg

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 30 April 2014

There is really only one story to begin with today – Jeffrey Katzenberg is definitely off John Fithian’s Christmas Card list. Not only did Mr Peabody and Sherman underwhelm at the box office, but now the head of Dreamworks Animation has suggested that the theatrical release window for fi…

Regal Summer Movie Express

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 17 April 2014

USA (TN): Discount tickets was a hot topic at CinemaCon. No update on that, but Regal will be showing older films for just USD $1 this summer, as it has for the past 22 years. Parent rejoice. Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE: RGC), a leading motion picture exhibitor owning and operating the largest t…

Daily Cinema Digest – Fri/Sat 7/8 March 2014

We don’t normally start with a Finally-type of story, but this one is just too amazing to leave to the end. A cinema built and abandoned in the Sinai desert, with a story that is worthy of a film by Werner Herzog or a scene from Lost. This extraordinary outdoor cinema was captured by Kaupo Kik…

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 26 February 2014

Our ‘Finally’ item from yesterday is today’s front page article; the opening of the first major multiplex in Jerusalem. Its opening is a big deal to the city. Many of Jerusalem’s movie theaters closed over the last two decades, leaving a dearth of silver screens in the city. For Ma…

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