CJ Cinema Digest – Monday 16 May 2016
Alibaba ticketing worth $2bn, India cinema deaths, Ballantyne overhaul, PVR piracy trace, FilmExpoGroup website re-launch, Live Cinema Conference streams, Overwatch globally and dog cinema.
CJ Cinema Digest – Monday 25 April 2016
CGV mulls divests, VPF transparency call, Helios expansion, Prince in cinema, Saudi Arabia cinema, Marathi films mandated, "Deadpool" alcohol raid, Japan's 1st dine-in cinema and more
Weekly Cinema Digest – Monday 14 December 2015
UK – It is not just cinemas in the US taking security precautions during the new “Star Wars” film, with UK cinemas also asking patrons to refrain from wearing Darth Vader masks and bringing light sabres. Odeon has sold 500,000 tickets and Vue 320,000. There will also be an un-prece…
Weekly Cinema Digest – Monday 25 August 2015
Israel – Protests by ultra-Orthodox jews against the opening of the new Yes Planet multiplex in Jerusalem descended into riots. Hundreds of protesters threw stones at police and clashed with troops. The multiplex is said to have been packed on its opening weekend, with secular residents in Jer…
Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 10 November 2014
Variety reports that Australian exhibitor Hoyts’ IPO has been called off. The flotation had been expected to value the company at up to A$900 million ($773 million) in a pre-Christmas sale handled by investment bank UBS. The sale process was triggered by majority shareholder Pacific Equity Par…
Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 24 September 2014
Barco is doubling down on its immersive audio efforts by hiring away IOSONO’s audio team and setting up what is now called Barco Audio Technologies [BAT?]. This could potentially mean moving away from a dependance on the Auro brand and Auro Technologies partnership, though the latter is quoted…
Only two cinemas left in Baghdad
TimesNow.tv has an interesting though sad article and video from Reuters about one of the last cinemas left in Iraqi capital Baghdad (‘Iraq’s cinemas lost in violence‘), the Atlas cinema in the up-market Mansur district. Far from being a safe airconditioned refuge from the searing…