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Cinépolis Acquisition of Chile’s Cine Hoyts Signals Global Ambition

Mexican-based exhibitor major Cinépolis has acquired Chile’s largest cinema chain Cine Hoyts. The acquisition, reported in this article in El Financiero, means that Cinépolis is now present in 11-12 countries around the world. It also signals an intention to take on Wanda/AMC for the crown of…

Daily Cinema Digest – post-Christmas/New Year roundup

Happy New Year to all our CJ reader and may 2015 be a good year for cinema everywhere. Other then the circus surrounding the release of “The Interview”, here are some of the other cinema-related news you may have missed over the holidays. South Korea: A not-so-Merry Christmas for South K…

Mexico’s Cinepolis Heads North Of The Border

Not sure how I missed this. None of the gazillion Google alerts I’ve set up to track all things exhibition and distribution informed me that National Public Radio broadcast a story on Cinépolis back on August 12th. Nor did I hear the piece on Morning Edition, the NPR program my alarm clock bla…

Daily Cinema Roundup -Thursday 8 May – “the best industry you could want to be in”

– Things are returning to semi-normal in Mexico, with fear of an H1N1 pandemic abetting and cinemas outside of the capital are re-opening, we are told by THR.com. “All employees must wear protective masks and those handling food are required to wear rubber gloves and wash their hands fre…

RealD and Cinepolis see Latin America in 3D

Mexican exhibitor Cinepolis has big 3D plans for the whole of Latin america. Its deal with RealD envisions 500 screens to be converted in the next few years. From the press release: The rollout of these 500 RealD 3D screens has already begun with six new screens installed for the release of Journey…

Mexican Cinemas Show TV and Concerts

Mexican exhibitor Cinepolis has begun screening recorded music concerts and plans to show operas and popular television shows on the big screen. The music push came as a result of a deal with Warner Music Mexico to show pre-recorded (high def?) concerts of the likes of Mexican rock band Mana, Pearl…

Hollywood Takes Spanish Lessons On NPR

Anyone who has had to distribute or exhibit American motion pictures in Latin America for any length of time has their opinion of dubbed versus subtitled prints. More often than not comedies and action movies are dubbed from English into Spanish. Of course all animated films are dubbed since childre…