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"Welcome to Cineworld South Ruislip" (photo: Harrow Times)

CJ Cinema (UK) Property Update – Wednesday 19 July 2017

Cineworld: South Ruislip, Colchester, Leeds, Plymouth Curzon: Hoxton (London) Everyman: Newcastle Odeon: Stafford, Leeds The Light: Redhill, Birmingham, Sittingbourne Vue: Glasgow No operator: Northamptonshire, Grimsby, Tunbridge Wells, Forge Island Re-furb/Re-opening: Oxford Phoenix Picture House,…

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…

AMC Town Square 18 Las Vegas sign. (photo: Patrick von Sychowski - Celluloid Junkie)

AMC Q1 Lifts Lid on Carmike, Odeon & NCG Integration

AMC has published its Q1 2017 figures and profits are down but revenue is up at the world’s biggest cinema chain. The 67.5% growth in turnover had a lot to do with including Carmike, Odeon and (four days of) NCG revenue, but it is the earning call transcript that provides the most fascinating…

Baahubali 2 poster

CJ Cinema News Digest – Friday 5 May 2017

Baahubali 2 overload, JJ Abrams on bad cinemas, SPIO and VdF for German cinema tickets, mm2 buys into Pro Cinema, vote on 10% ticket tax in Switzerland, AMC Manchester to become Odeon, French cinema strike, Polish Q1 growth, CGR PLF ICE with Light Vibes, Vue picks BrightSign, Inox + Orbgen, Gaumont…

CJ Cinema News Digest – Friday 21 April 2017

PVR fires Kapoor, Paytm crosses $62m, ‘Limitless’ Odeon Printworks worries, AMC’s European shopping bill, ICTA awards, Netflix day-and-date policy no-change, WTW and Scott Cinemas merge, HArkness’ Mitchell heads BKSTS’ CTC, NBA and TED in cinemas, Cineplex attack, scann…

Event Cinema Caneland. (image: artist's impression)

CJ Cinema Property Update – Wednesday 19 April 2017

Australia: Event in Caneland Japan: Aeon Tokyo’s largest France: ‘Irish pub’ design cinema Dubai: Cityland Mall signs Vox USA: Studio City UW+ ARQ and Riverside worries UK: Blackburn indie screen, Rochdale Riverside Reel Re-furb/Re-open: Wales Market Hall, Curzon Mayfair saved, Od…

Paul Donovan, CEO of Odeon & UCI at CineEurope 2016 (photo: Patrick von Sychowski / Celluloid Junkie)

EXCLUSIVE: CJ Interviews Paul Donovan, former CEO of Odeon & UCI

Having turned around the fortunes of Odeon & UCI, the company’s CEO Paul Donovan stunned the cinema industry by announcing that he was stepping down shortly after the exhibitors’ sale to Wanda-owned AMC. After a period of well-deserved holiday, decompression and introspection, Cellul…

Perhaps a Vue cinema soon? (image: Google Earth)

CJ Cinema News Digest – Tuesday 18 April 2017

Vue to buy Printworks, Odeon-Imax plans, fatal Showcase stabbing, Netflix France cinema pressure, India price cap, Cinepolis India UPI, 21% Germans ‘never’ go to cinema, 700 films banned in German cinemas, INCAA sacking protest, Picturehouse strike, Showcase shooting, another cinema stab…

Jan Runge, Chief Executive Officer of Union Internationale des Cinémas (UNIC)

CJ Cinema News Digest – Friday 7 April 2017

Jan Runge leaving UNIC, Tour des Cinemas report in English, Ster-Kinekor hacked, South Korean cinema “wage theft”, actors protest Picturehouse, CGV’s siesta cinema, Lotte chairman denies corruption, UK indies and cinema, Senegal cinema revival, Shia LaBouef film has just one viewer…

August Moon drive-in experience cinema in Nashville. (image: artist's rendering)

CJ Cinema Property Update – Tuesday 14 February 2017

USA: indoor drive-in UK: Showcase & Odeon flagships in South England S.Korea: Small cinemas Brazil: Cinesystem’s 1st all-laser multiplex in S.America Re-furb/opening: Santa Barbara’s Riviera, Paris’ Les 3 Luxembourg, Cineplex Capitol Kino in Kassel, Erlangen Manhattan VIP, Mumb…