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Cinema News Digest – Tuesday 6 February 2018

Dear Junkies, Cineworld’s shareholders have approved the USD $3.6 billion merger with Regal, something that was never really in doubt given that the largest voting share (29%) is controlled by the Greidinger family that proposed the merger. In the end 87% of shareholders voted in favour. The…

Cinema News Digest – Tuesday 5 December 2017

Dear Junkies, Cineworld’s purchase of Regal is a bit like a python swallowing a goat – it can be done, but the initial result will be more goat than snake-shaped. Once investors and analysts had time to digest the proposed merger (no pun intended), the brief rally in Cineworld’s sh…

AMC Saratoga 14. (photo: AMC)

CJ Cinema News Digest – Tuesday 19 September 2017

AMC CEO buys AMC shares; Regal & AMC both set to rise; MoviePass (not) a ‘unicorn’; ‘Burkha’ is Indian PVoD hit for Amazon; Genesis expands to Cameroon; CGV ‘cultural playground’; ‘Matilda’ threats to Russian cinemas; “It” fight in St P…

Warren Buffett, chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway, drinks a Cherry Coca-Cola as he tours the exhibition floor prior to the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S., on Saturday, May 1, 2010. Buffett, the Wall Street critic who invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs Group Inc., said he supports the bank's Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein '100 percent' after the firm was sued by regulators for fraud. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images

CJ Opinion: Should Warren Buffett Buy Regal Cinemas?

“Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful,” is one of Warren Buffet’s most famous maxims. It is this strategy combined with shrewd analysis and long-term thinking that has made the ‘Sage of Omaha’ one of the world’s greatest investors a…

CJ Cinema Digest – Friday 1 July 2016

Regal AMC AT&T make Twosday, #BoycottCinemark, Indian cinema 24/7, la Fete du Cinema up 5%, Canada toddler tickets, Pathe allocated seating, Japan rugby event cinema, Spain diabetes kids cinema ban, laser battle, Cinema Next & Cineplexx TMS deal, Pakistan cinema Ramadan violation, cinema stabbing in…

CJ Cinema Digest – Wednesday 4 May 2016

Re-seating is key for Regal and AMC, cheap Spanish cinema, Secret Cinema secrets revealed, Cineplex's Langhammer is Exhibitor of the Year, Reel's VIP cinemas, #Cinnovate in Cannes, Cineworld 4DX x10, Jakarta cinema for blind, Indian cinema F&B feast, Lotte in Hong Kong and burn in hell movie pirates…

Concessions and Re-seating (Not Films) Give Regal Strong Q3

USA (TN) – Regal Entertainment Group, the biggest cinema operator in the US, has reported third quarter financial year 2015 figures, which were slightly above expectations thanks to strong concessions sales. Total revenue was up by 4.5% year-on-year to USD $725 million, but net income was down…

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Weekly Cinema Digest – Friday 9 October 2015

USA – With the stocks of the three largest exhibitors off their one-year high by between a fifth and a third, Seeking Alpha contributor Johannes Salim looks at whether there is a buying opportunity. He starts off with Wanda-controlled AMC. The summary (for those that don’t have the patie…

Regal Cinemas Spectre Ultimate Ticket

How Regal Cinemas Created the Ultimate Ticket for “Spectre”

In an entertainment retail business that’s more than a century old, and in an age when many multiplex cinemas look and feel identical, one might easily come to the conclusion that cinema operators long ago gave up on executing unique and original ideas. That isn’t necessarily accurate, a…

Regional Split of PLF Screens By Type Chart

PLF: Investment In The Next Generation of Cinema Exhibition

The following post is a synopsis taken from the recent report on PLF Cinema from IHS Technology, published in June 2015. Premium large format (PLF) is one of the fastest growing and most active areas of cinema exhibition with significant potential to grow in size over the next ten years. The busines…