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What We Learned at CinemaCon 2025

What We Learned at CinemaCon 2025

With CinemaCon 2025 in the rearview mirror, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on some of the major takeaways from this year’s conference. Amid all the sprinting to trade show meetings and escalator surfing inside Caesars Palace, did we actually learn anything about the current state of the…

Cineworld Negotiating Bankruptcy Reorganization With Lenders While Also Pursing Sale

Cineworld was back in United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas on 8 February to update Judge Marvin Isgur on the status of their ongoing bankruptcy case. Lawyers for the United Kingdom-based company provided an overview of current operations, a potential reorganization plan,…

Cineworld on the Road To Recovery

Cineworld On Its Road To Recovery – Part 3

This is the third of a three part series examining some of the finer points and details of Cineworld’s ongoing bankruptcy in an attempt to provide some analysis for what it all means for the company and the industry-at-large. On 7 September the world’s second largest movie theatre operat…

Cineworld's Bankruptcy Journey

Cineworld’s Bankruptcy Journey – Part 2

This is the second of a three part series examining some of the finer points and details of Cineworld’s ongoing bankruptcy in an attempt to provide some analysis for what it all means for the company and the industry-at-large. On 7 September the world’s second largest movie theatre…

Cineworld In A Time of Bankruptcy

Cineworld In A Time of Bankruptcy – Part 1

By the beginning of September, Cineworld Group’s potential bankruptcy was so widely reported and broadly anticipated that when the company officially filed for Chapter 11 protection on 7 September, most major media outlets buried their coverage in the business section. Few, if any, of the…

AMC and Alamo Top US Cinema Online Engagement Review by Gruvi

Gruvi has recently conducted an A.U.D.I.T. of the websites of major cinema chains in the UK, Australia and the US, in terms of their effective engagement with online audiences. The following three criteria were used to determine the results: Algorithm The Algorithm score is based on each cinema’s be…

The AMC Empire 25 in New York City

Movie Theatres Schedule Dates For Reopening and Pandemic Recovery

There are finally some signs of hope for movie theatre owners who have been in various forms of forced hibernation for the past year due to the global coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19 infection rates are declining, vaccination rates increasing and now cinemas in England, Quebec and New York City are s…

Regal Switches to Pepsi

Regal Switches to Pepsi and Sparks Social Media Backlash

The announcement that Regal Cinemas is switching from Coke to Pepsi has not gone down well with most people on social media. The announcement came after a flirty Twitter campaign between the official @RegalMovies and @Pepsi accounts, proclaiming their mutual attraction. But it was Variety’s Br…

Amy Miles of Regal Cinema

Cinema News Digest – Monday 26 January 2018

Miles & Co. exit Regal; “Black Panther” augers well for 2018; 10 Saudi cinemas to open in March; Samsung Cinema LED screen coming to LA; Russian cinema fined for “Death of Stalin”; Aussies protest tax money for cinema; more films dubbed in Poland; iPic IPO raises $15m; CJ…

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Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 24 October 2014

The acquisition of dcinex by Ymagis has finally been approved by shareholders. This is the single largest and most important digital cinema consolidation in Europe as dcinex/Ymagis is without a pan-European competitor of similar size, facing instead competition on the national levels. From the trans…