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In Korea Cinemas Evolve Into Customized Experience Spaces

Korea’s three largest multiplex chains CGV, Lotte Cinema, and Megabox, are evolving their business scope into complex cultural spaces that provide “unique experiences” to meet customer needs, instead of just being places where you come to watch movies. They are doing this by hostin…

CGV Cinemas, South Korea

Korean Cinemas Profitable at Home But See Overseas Loss

The latest figures from Korea’s largest cinema operators highlights an uneven recovery across Asia but a slow return to profitability in their home market. While CJ CGV saw a year-on-year decrease for the second quarter of 2022, Lotte’s cinema operation returned to profit for the first t…

Samsung Electronics' Vice President of Visual Display (VD) Division. (photo: Sedaily)

Cinema News Digest – Tuesday 12 December 2017

Celluloid Junkie is at CineAsia in Hong Kong this week. Hope to see many of you there. Samsung to target lobbies; a look at VIP cinema trends; Korean access ruling; Germany considers unlimited cards; Ster-Kinekor robbery (again); India’s single screens upgrade; birth certificates in Mexican ci…

A 4DX-Screen X theater at CGV Yongsan (photo: CJ CGV)

CJ Cinema News Digest – Tuesday 18 July 2017

CGV and Megabox fight back against Lotte, CGV Q2 results buoyed by overseas, Vue for sale, Mk2 3rd biggest in Spain, Odeon’s ‘blockbuster tax’, Chennai GST ticket sales drop, Abirami drops ‘convenience fee’, Indian cinema ad grows 20%, France cinema 6 month dip, smokin…

Cine de Chef cinema in Seoul, Korea

CJ Cinema News Digest – Friday 5 January 2017

Korea cinema quality certification, Vue price cut, 6 Ways Film Biz is Changing, lessons from Houston cinemas, TV on big screen, France BO but German down, PVR partners comScore, Nueplex raided, Bollywood bother, good theatre projection guide, CGV's Tempur mattress cinema, iPhone Theatre Mode, Imax V…

Showtime Analytics Alibaba CineAsia 2016

CJ Cinema News Digest – Monday 12 December 2016

Alibaba invests in Showtime, GIC pumps $260m into Cinema XXI, Atom Tickets profiled Redux, cinema stocks fall, Odeon-AMC Manchester conflict, Showtime Taipei is Christie Vive's 400th, Korean cinemas' variable pricing, Canada cinema hack, Indian cinema national anthem arrests, Inox plans, MK2 VR venu…

Daily Cinema Roundup – Tuesday 12 May – “Hollywood is providing people with some pretty sweet two-hour vacations.”

– The backlash against IMAX Digital appears to have begun in earnest with a Slashfilm blog post titled ‘Why You Probably Shouldn’t Waste $5 More For Digital IMAX‘. Imax gets taken up for the shrinking screen size (see comparison above), as well as the resolution of the new pr…