CJ Cinema Digest – Friday 1 April 2016 IMAX VR (EXCLUSIVE)
IMAX VR EXCLUSIVE, Cinema Park+Formula Kino, Movipass adds 111%, Odeon FY 2015 good, Kinepolis to sell 2 Utopolis sites, Secret Cinema, PVR Playhouse for kids, Reel, Vox and Bahrain.
Weekly Cinema Digest – Monday 14 December 2015
UK – It is not just cinemas in the US taking security precautions during the new “Star Wars” film, with UK cinemas also asking patrons to refrain from wearing Darth Vader masks and bringing light sabres. Odeon has sold 500,000 tickets and Vue 320,000. There will also be an un-prece…
Weekly Cinema Digest – Friday 20 November 2015
Belgium – A riot broke out at the Kinepolis cinema in Brussels screening the gang-themed film “Black” last week. Under-aged patrons entered the sold-out screening and refused to leave. The movie has attracted controversy, not so much for its Romeo-and-Juliet plot as for the ’…
CineEurope: Executive Roundtable – Engaging the Youth Audience
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. Retaining the youth audience, which has traditionally been one of the cinema industry’s most loyal customer base…
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…
Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 14 January 2015
USA (NV) – Is AMC going to ditch Imax for Dolby Cinema? Of course not, but this and other nuggets emerge from a Citi Global Internet, Media & Telecommunications Conference transcript with AMC’s Craig Ramsey, EVP and CFO, where he talks about the company’s five different strateg…
Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 7 January 2015
The two last episodes of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” plus a new trailer for the upcoming season will screen in Imax. The show previously screened pre-release episodes theatrically, but that was ‘only’ George R.R. Martin’s own Cocteau Cinema in Arizona. HBO and Imax ha…
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…
Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 14 November 2014
Cinema Park, Russia’s biggest cinema chain, has just been bought by a 19-year old college student for USD $385 million. Proof that Russia is a land of bold young Internet entrepreneurs buying into traditional media or a crony capitalist nepotistic kleptocracy? You be the judge. Said Kerimov, a…
Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 20 February 2014
Econsultancy has done a good job of comparing and reviewing the ticket booking customer interfaces of UK’s three leading cinema chains: Cineworld, Odeon and Vue. This review has relevance for ticket booking experience over the web for every country, even though restricted to just three in one…