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Cinema Park

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…

Kinepolis blames 2007 downturn on films

An interesting difference between perceptions of cinema in Europe and US is that the success of a film or cinema year is that admissions are counted by number of admissions in most European countries but in the US bucks at the box office is the only measure. Hence, 2007 was recently hailed as a grow…

RealD puts digital 3D on really big screens

There is only one place you won’t be able to watch ‘Beowulf‘ in 3D this weekend and that is at a really big conventional cinema screens. That is because stereoscopic cinema technology is ‘light eater’, which means that if you want to watch it on something larger than a…