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Seeing the Good and the Bad in Third Quarter Movie Ticket Prices

The price of movie tickets during the third quarter fell by 2.5%in North America from the second quarter of this year and that’s either positive news, or negative news, depending on the way industry trade outlets chose to spin it. On Tuesday, the National Association of Theatre Owners announced that…

David Passman, President and CEO of Carmike Cinemas

CJ @ CinemaCon: Interview with Carmike Cinemas CEO David Passman

When CinemaCon officially opens on Tuesday April 12th with the “State of the Industry” presentation, the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) will bestow the 2016 NATO Marquee Award upon David Passman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Carmike Cinemas, the fourth largest cinema chain…

Dave Hollis Introduces Avengers at CinemaCon 2015

Dissecting the Dispute Between Disney and Cinema Owners Over Film Rental Terms

The recent news that exhibitors in North America and Germany were unhappy with the film rental terms Walt Disney Studios was offering for their release of “Avengers: Age of Ultron” provides a perfect opportunity to explain some longstanding industry practices associated with theatrical f…

Movie Tickets In Popcorn

Why North American Movie Ticket Prices Rose In 2014

A week after the investment firm PricewaterhouseCooper released a survey in which found 53% of its 1,000 respondents felt movie tickets cost too much, the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) reports that the average cost of a movie ticket in 2014 rose to USD $8.17. That figure is a 0.50% i…

TCL Chinese

Smartphones Are Killing the Cinema Experience

Last week a man got maced in the face for asking a fellow patron in a cinema to turn off their smartphone during the screening of a film. What is shocking is not that the attacker was a woman, or that it happened during a screening of an art-house film, or that the woman wasRead More

New MPAA and NATO Wearables Policy Is As Much About Social Norms As It Is About Piracy

In his classic 1835 treatise on American society, Democracy In America, french historian Alexis de Tocqueville wrote “Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.” This passage sprang to min…

NCM DoJ Screenvision

US Department of Justice Seeks to Block NCM-Screenvision Merger

The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) has filed a lawsuit with the aim of blocking the proposed USD $375 million merger between US cinema advertising majors National CineMedia Inc. (NCM) and Screenvision LLC. NCM admitted to being both “disappointed” and “surprised” b…

Berr in cinema

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 7 August 2014

The City Council of Bristol, Tenn, recently voted 3-2 in favour of allowing beer sales in the local cinema, clearing a first hurdle and in line with a larger national trend. National Association of Theatre Owners Director of Media and Research Patrick Corcoran said wine, cocktails and suds in the ci…

100,000 viewings DSK movie

Premium VoD Just Killed the Cinema Release Window

One single tweet was the final nail in the coffin of the cinema exclusivity window, given added poignancy by being in French; “100 000 locations en une semaine, rien ne sera plus comme avant” (‘100,000 viewings in a week, nothing will be as it was’). This was the message fro…

ABC Brussels cinema

Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 22 April 2014 (post-Easter Bumper Issue)

Belgium: Save the Brussels ABC! One of the last 35mm adult film cinemas in the world closed last year when the ABC in Brussels shut its doors. There is now a campaign to save it and turn it into an art-house cinema with exotic flare. You can donate by PayPal. The campaign is 47% towards itsRead Mo…