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Event Cinema Tops Australia Cinema engagement Review by Gruvi

Gruvi has recently conducted an A.U.D.I.T. of the websites of major cinema chains in Australia to determine how effectively the websites interact with online audiences. The following three criteria were used to determine the results: Algorithm The Algorithm score is based on each cinema’s best use o…

Thailand Major Cineplex Movie On Demand (photo: Major Cineplex)

Cinema News Digest – Tuesday 17 July 2018

Dear Junkies, It’s been a year since Samsung launched the first LED Cinema screen in Korea on 13 July. Today the projector-less Onyx screens can be found in eight countries and 12 multiplexes, with the latest in Traumpalast Esslingen in Stuttgart, Germany and SFC Yonghwa Cinema City in Shangha…

Perhaps a Vue cinema soon? (image: Google Earth)

CJ Cinema News Digest – Tuesday 18 April 2017

Vue to buy Printworks, Odeon-Imax plans, fatal Showcase stabbing, Netflix France cinema pressure, India price cap, Cinepolis India UPI, 21% Germans ‘never’ go to cinema, 700 films banned in German cinemas, INCAA sacking protest, Picturehouse strike, Showcase shooting, another cinema stab…

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 2 November 2015

Australia – Recliner seats as standard are the “new normal” at Hoyts, according to Simon Ruhfus, manager at Hoyts Woden, which together with Hoyt’s Belconnen site is getting recliner replacements in ever row or every screen. And prices won’t go up either. At least not y…

CineEurope Retail Coca-Cola seminar

CineEurope: Cinema Retail – Tips & Tricks for Revenue Growth

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 Coca-Cola Company’s retail seminars tends to be one of the highlights of CineEurope, as the company always h…

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 15 December 2014

Perhaps the biggest news announced at CineAsia was Arts Alliance Media partnership with Wanda Cinemas. It would be good, however, to have a bit more specifics on what exactly the deal entails for both parties. The partnership will see AAM serving as a primary technology partner to Wanda with the aim…

CJ@CineAsia Concession Showmanship Seminar

The afternoon is presentations from three exhibitors showing what they do in their cinemas. [You will be happy to know that we got a 10 minute break for lunch and I scraped together the last of the rice and whatever suacy went with it that was still left on the buffet table.] Mariam El Bacha,Read Mo…

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 4 December 2014

With Hoyt having called off an IPO of its exhibition business earlier this year, there is now speculation that it could be sold to a private equity investor instead. Sydney-based Pacific Equity Partners is negotiating to sell the Hoyts chain – with 483 screens in Australia and New Zealand…

Dolby cinema

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 3 December 2014

THR has an exclusive on Dolby unveiling its own digital premium large format (PLF) concept, incorporating both Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision high dynamic range (HDR) technologies, in partnership with Christie. Initially, Dolby’s new projection system will use two Christie 6P 4K laser projectors…

China cine ad

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 22 August 2014

Cinema advertising is experiencing major growth in China, with a 33% year-on-year increase even as the spot-per-screen-per-play cost has fallen from 16 yuan [USD $2.60] in 2011 to 12 yuan [USD $1.95] this year. As so often we are indebted to EntGroup for this data and analysis. Due to the favorable…