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CJ Cinema Property Update – Thursday 9 March 2017

Africa: Solar powered Burkina Faso cinema USA: cinema drive-thru ‘accessory’ UK: Kentish town work halts S. Korea: Megabox cinema ‘illegal’, new Yeongju cinema India: new Inox & PVR three-screeners. Refurbs: Cineworld Hemel Hempsted Super Screen, Showcase Bluewater expan…

August Moon drive-in experience cinema in Nashville. (image: artist's rendering)

CJ Cinema Property Update – Tuesday 14 February 2017

USA: indoor drive-in UK: Showcase & Odeon flagships in South England S.Korea: Small cinemas Brazil: Cinesystem’s 1st all-laser multiplex in S.America Re-furb/opening: Santa Barbara’s Riviera, Paris’ Les 3 Luxembourg, Cineplex Capitol Kino in Kassel, Erlangen Manhattan VIP, Mumb…

CJ Cinema Property Update – Tuesday 13 December 2016

USA: Coral Gables (FL) new Landmark, Flushing (NYC) gets cinema. CANADA: Landmark plans in East Regina. S. KOREA: MegaBox in Dongdaegu, all-laser CGV in Kwangyang. ISRAEL: Cinema City Netanya. FRANCE: Sable's cinema in Thum, Mont-de-Marsan's Le Grand Club, GERMANY: Luxor Filmpalast Heidelberg, Pocki…

Snapchat ticket X-men Apocalypse.

CJ Cinema Digest – Friday 27 May 2016

X-Men Snapchat tickets, PVR halts expansion, Odeon to expand, BFI to expand, Cineworld grows in H1, Indonesian cinema set for growth, Rio strike, Deptford appeal, FNE's CotM is Romuva, Arcadia's Meyer Leopard sound, Almeida Richard III event cinema, Branagh's Bard broadcast, QBIC opening, ShowCase r…

Aurora cinema victims

Weekly Cinema Digest – Friday 14 August 2015

USA (CO) – The Aurora mass killer James Holmes was spared the death penalty after the jury could not unanimously agree for him to be executed. He will now spend the rest of his life in prison instead. Holmes never expressed any remorse for killing 12 people (above) and injuring many more. Vari…

Nordic Cinema Group

Catch-up Cinema Digest – Wednesday 13 May 2015

A catch-up of cinema news from mainly Anglophone countries from the last few weeks, plus one very big piece of news from Scandinavia. Scandinavia – The majority stake in Nordic Cinema Group, the regions largest cinema operator, has been sold for SEK 4.7 billion (USD $546 million) by Swedish pr…

Cineworld 50 Shades

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 16 February 2015

Women attending the opening night screening of “Fifty Shades of Grey” at Cineworld in Glasgow’s Renfrew Street had their bags opened and searched as they were waiting to enter. It is not known what the staff were looking for. Cineworld have yet to comment on the searches, but their…

Imax China

Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 22 July 2014

Imax – According to Wall Street Journal China, Imax is planning to open a further 19 screens in partnership with local companies ahead of listing its local operation. Interestingly Richard Gelfond’s Chinese name is Gail Fang. IMAX theater will open new cooperation with Chinese state-owne…

Tim League

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 14 May 2014

An in-depth interview with Tim League, founder and CEO of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, a true pioneer in the American exhibition industry. Very disarming and insightful. How did the dining experience while watching a movie come about? There was a theater in Portland [Ore.]that did beer and food service…

Shankweiler's Drive-In Theatre

Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 4 February 2014

USA: Drive-in cinemas have become the twin victims of the end of analogue film and changing social habits that has mostly de-linked automobiles from cinema-going, other than as a mode of transport to the multiplex. So this is a lovely exception: Americas self-proclaimed oldest drive-in cinema is goi…

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