CineEurope 2015 – Day 1
The first day of CineEurope saw a focus on mobile and social media challenges as well as the opening keynotes.
CineEurope: Interview With UNIC/UKCA’s Phil Clapp
In the run-up to CineEurope 2015 CJ is interviewing and profiling several leading companies, trade bodies and people to capture the mood of the cinema industry in Europe. Phil Clapp is both the head of the UK Cinema Association (UKCA) and President of the pan-European cinema trade body UNIC. In his…
European Cinema Figures and More by UNIC
Definitive cinema attendance figures for Europe in 2014 have been published by cinema trade body UNIC, as part of its 2014-2015 General Report. Preliminary figures were released by UNIC back in February and are largely the same, so the report is more interesting for its analysis of market trends, ad…
Cinema Expo Thoughts: David Hancock of Screen Digest
The final entry in our series of posts presenting the comments of industry participants on last month’s Cinema Expo provides us with some valuable information. David Hancock’s name will sound familiar to anyone having worked in motion picture exhibition or digital cinema over the past decade. He is…
UK’s Cinema Exhib. Ass’n Gets Clapp
The trade body of the United Kingdom’s cinema industry has appointed former government film deputy secretary Phil Clapp as its new chief executive. Clapp thus replaces John Wilkinson, who stood down earlier this year (or was stood down?) , as head of the Cinema Exhibitors’ Association (C…