Do Opera Screenings Cannibalise Opera Audiences?
English Touring Opera claims live cinema screenings do not grow the audience for opera, but research paints a mixed picture and the ECA defends existing practices.
Fathom Events and US Cinemas Find the Faith(ful)
One if the fastest growing genres of event cinema (a.k.a. alternative content) is the uniquely US-focused rise of faith-based events in cinemas. Fathom Events has been a driving force behind this, with three faith-based events this past autumn. Fathom attributes its record-setting first financial qu…
IHS Technology: Event Cinema Develops Into a Global Sector
IHS and Rentrak provide analysis of Event Cinema revenues in eight territories. The Event Cinema sector has been around for many years, with experiments taking place as soon as digital projection was a workable reality. Digital conversion has acted as the main driver for Event Cinema. In both Franc…
CineEurope: Event Cinema – Taking Stock and Looking Forward
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 record box office movie summer has far from eclipsed event cinema (nee alternative content), with the Take That pu…
ECA Handbook: Live Delivery Via Satellite (Part II)
Earlier this year The Event Cinema Association (ECA) published its “Technical Delivery Handbook”, a step-by-step guide to live delivery of event cinema, written by ECA members for the benefit of the industry. With satellite delivery the preferred mode of delivering live opera, theatre, c…
ECA Handbook: Live Delivery Via Satellite (Part I)
Earlier this year The Event Cinema Association (ECA) published its “Technical Delivery Handbook”, a step-by-step guide to live delivery of event cinema, written by ECA members for the benefit of the industry. With satellite delivery the preferred mode of delivering live opera, theatre, c…
CJ @ CinemaCon: Q&A Interview with ECA’s Melissa Cogavin
In the run-up to CinemaCon 2015 CJ is interviewing and profiling several leading companies, trade bodies and people to capture the mood of the cinema industry as it enters its post-digital era. Today we talk to Melissa Cogavin, Managing Director of the Event Cinema Association (ECA), the trade body…
Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 27 March 2015
The ‘SuperTicket’ concept is already common in North America and in Europe, but this is the first time that it will have been tried in the UK. On April 3rd, thriller Kidnapping Freddy Heineken, starring everyone’s favourite on-screen serial killer Anthony Hopkins, will debut in UK…
Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 15 January 2015
UK – Cineworld clearly has to work on more LGBT awareness (not to mention common sense) for its staff, after a lesbian couple were evicted for (wait for it) using the Ladies toilet. A £20 voucher and two free tickets hardly seem like an adequate apology for treating paying customers this way.…
Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 21 October 2014
Last week’s big news was the announcement that UK/European exhibitor Vue had acquired Italian cinema chain The Space. Having previously expanded into Germany and Poland, this was a vote of confidence in the troubled south European market – though The Space is the cinema leader in an othe…