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Paramount Warner Bros. Merger - Antitrust Settlement

The Paramount-Warner Merger Is Permanent. The Guardrails for Movie Theatres Are Not

The state settlement puts theatrical output, windows, rental terms and catalogue access into a court order, but allows a permanent merger to close without the structural remedies California and the other state attorneys general once demanded. California Attorney General Rob Bonta had a peculiar assi…

(From left) Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison, California Attorney General, Rob Bonta, Cinema United President & CEO, Michael O'Leary

Cinema United Didn’t Back the Paramount-Warner Merger. It Put Its Terms on the Table.

As Paramount Skydance wins conditional support from America’s largest theatre chains, Cinema United is trying to turn months of warnings about consolidation into enforceable protections, particularly for smaller theatres that lack the leverage to negotiate their own deals. Four months ago, Michael O…

Celluloid Junkie’s 2020 Cinema Predictions

Having slightly dreaded revisiting our cinema predictions from a year ago, we were pleasantly surprised to discover just how much we managed to get right. And this wasn’t just right in the way that even a clock that’s stopped shows the correct time twice a day. Heck, no! Sperling effecti…

Bigscreen VR cinema - don't forget to turn off your virtual smartphone. (image: Bigscreen)

Cinema News Digest – Monday 20 November 2017

Paramount VR ‘cinema’; Bloomberg’s Q3 summary; CGR buys Cap’Cinema; Cinefamily to close after scandals; first cinema to boycott ‘Star Wars VIII‘; PVR expands VKAAO; re-birth of community cinemas in UK; single screens cling on in UAE; Bernadette McCabe joins MovieP…

No Speak English? Cinema Show Noah In 3D Just For You.

Are you familiar with the Ramayana? Have you ever read Journey To The West? If not, then chances are that you will be watching the story of Noah in 2D at your local multiplex. The Hollywood Reporter yesterday had an exclusive on Paramount’s decision to release Darron Aronofsky’s Old Test…

Hollywood unites on satellite movie delivery – but is it too late already?

With the overwhelming majority of multiplexes in the US converted to digital, the largest cinema chains have now reached agreement with the majority of Hollywood studios for the satellite delivery of DCPs. The Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition (DCDC) has added Walt Disney, Paramount Pictures and…

Box Office Review-Sunday 10 May

The Star Trek franchise had its biggest opening yet, as Paramount’s relaunched “Star Trek” topped the North American box office this weekend with an estimated $72.5 million, giving the film a domestic total of $76.5 million (with its Thursday opening night). “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”—which la…

Full “Iron Man” Trailer Airs During “Daily Show”

Monday night the film industry may have figured out a way to combat a growing problem faced by most television advertisers; time shifting. Wikipedia, that bastion of all things completely true and accurate, defines “time shifting” as: “the recording of programming to a storage medi…