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Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 25 March 2015

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hniDk0w0KeY[/youtube] France – It is ‘Cinema Spring’ in France for the 16th year when tickets are sold for just 3.50 euro for every show for three days (Sunday-Tuesday) this past week. France is one of the few European markets where cinema g…

Odeon Printworks Manchester

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 9 March 2015

UK – With a drink called ‘Fifty Shots of Grey Goose’ on the menu, is it any surprise that Manchester’s Odeon takes the crown in most booze sold for the S&M blockbuster? Amazingly there were “barely any incidences of anti-social behaviour” in the cinema. Odeon…

Sad movies concessions popcorn

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 6 March 2015

USA – Last year the same Cornell lab blamed action films, now sad films, for people eating more snacks. Free hankies with every tub of super sized popcorn and extra large soda. Sad movies are bad news for diets. A newly reported study from the Cornell Food and Brand Lab showed movie-goers watc…

Kim Jong Il puppet

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 18 December 2014

“The Interview” may have been pulled from cinemas, but that won’t stop this freedom-loving Texan cinema chain from showing a Hollywood film making fun of North Korea’s leaders. The Alamo Drafthouse in Texas was one independent cinema willing to brave the threat and show the f…

Google trailer study

Daily Cinema Digest – Saturday 22 November 2014

A study by Google called “Behind the Box Office: What Influences the Films We See” has found that trailers are by far the biggest determinant of what movies moviegoers chose. While the study come out in favour of YouTube, the infographics still has plenty of interesting facts and conclus…

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…

Jerome Seydoux Pathe Paris

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 8 September 2014

Paris is about to see the opening of a museum by the Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation, which will showcase the evolution of cinema through the Pathé film company’s history. The 2,200 square meter building itself looks hugely impressive (even if it makes people think of a ‘giant glass slug…

France 4 Euro scheme

Zut Alors! France Discovers Secret to Reversing Cinema Decline

While the US grapple with a poor summer box office (BO) most of western Europe seems to have accepted that as a mature cinema market, its countries will see stasis or gradual stagnation only interrupted by the occasional outsize local hit (Italy last year, Ireland this summer). German epitomises thi…

China Film Giant Screen

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 15 August 2014

China’s Entgroup Consulting has released an investment report on the Chinese exhibition business. While current growth is strong (14.5 screens per day), the report predicts that “the future number of Chinese cinema will be flat to down” and that there will be significant industry c…

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…