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CJ@ECA Conference: Event Cinema Awards 2014

It is time to hand out the Bronze, Silver and Gold awards for event cinema, which is for 100K, 250K and 500K admittance to any event cinema event. This is to help cast a light on the success of events in cinemas. The second category of awards is excellence awards, voted on by the membersRead More

CJ@ECA Conference: Practicalities of Live Cinema Delivery

The afternoon break out session No. 1 looked at technical issues, such as delivery of live events to cinemas. Fabrice Testa of DSat gave a presentatio earlier over lunch (which they sponsored) of the company and its network 1,300 cinemas, showing 50 events and 400 hours of content last year. Isabell…

CJ@ECA Conference: New Business Models and New Technology

Micheal Gubbins of Sampo Media chairs the afternoon panel looking at new business models and new technology for event cinema. He begins with an anecdote about pensioners in his neighbourhood that book up entire opera seasons, go to every performance and all of them dressing up in their best operatic…

CJ@ECA Conference: Farsight Blueprint of the Future – Discussion Session

Christine Costello from More2screen introduces the session looking ahead by quoting Bill Gates about over/under estimating change in the short/long term, as well as getting it wrong (as Bill Gates and Microsfto did with the Internet). There is no panel, but an opportunity for discussion between Chri…

CJ@ECA Conference: Utilising the Intermission to Generate Ravenue

The second breakout session looked at revenue generating opportunities in the intermission, presented by Atena Simovic, head of event cinema department in a multiplex in Bucharest with 13 screens for past three years, during which they have had over 500 events, which inlcludes renting out the venue.…

CJ@ECA Conference: Marketing Event Cinema panel

The first panel of the conference is a ‘big sofas’ discussion on the major and challenging topic of marketing event cinema, with a panel of truly leading industry expert. Each sofa sitter introduces him/herself and provides a background to their company. There seems to b a friedly compe…

CJ@ECA Conference: Keynote by Melissa Cogavin & Niels Swinkles

The second Event Cinema Association conference in London with live reporting by CJ from the event on the day. Opening with keynote from ECA's Melissa and Universal's Niels.

Billy Elliot

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 1 October 2014

Event cinema has a new hero and his name is Billy Elliot, having grossed more on the day it beamed than The Equalizer, the highest grossing film. Universal’s live stream from London’s Victoria Palace Theatre last night [Sept 28] danced its way to an extraordinary $3.1m (£1.904m), setting a new recor…

CJ@IBC ‘Event Cinema – more than just TV on the Big Screen’

Event cinema is about to become a billion dollar busisness. Leading practitioners assembled to share their experience of events such as Doctor Who and Met Opera on the big screen around the world.

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 4 September

IBC is less than a week away and the IBC Big Screen Experience (free for all attendees!) will hear an urgent appeal for digital cinema manufacturers, exhibitors and others to resolve the vexing issue of software upgrades. John Hurst, co-founder and CTO of CineCert, LLC internationally recognized dev…

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