Global data kindly provided by Comscore. With almost 50% of cinemas around the world back in business, the big screen is stretching and coming out of its deep sleep. “Tenet” tickets have gone on sale, spreading like wildfire across social…
Worst Memorial BO weekend in 18 years, but cinema stocks up-ish, Screening Room patents, Bollywood looks outside metros, grown films for ‘baby’ screenings in UK, Vox Ramadan afternoon opening and Ramadan food restrictions in Dubai cinemas, pricey Imax VR still…
Are box office figures being falsely over-reported to attract audience interest? Sina Entertainment is quite explicit about what the issue is: As of the end of May, China has nearly 17 billion yuan takings at the box office. Such results…
Foreign Policy Review has an excellent in-depth article “Hollywood’s New Box-Office Battleground: The Chinese Heartland” with the sub-heading, “Forget Beijing and Shanghai. The fates of flicks like Age of Ultron will be decided in places like Changzhou.” The article is…
A few days ago you may have felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of PR managers suddenly cried out in terror, and a theatre chain was suddenly silenced. Translation: Regal Cinemas learned the hard (and often…
Take a look at the release schedule this summer and you might begin to notice a trend; “Hangover III”, “Iron Man 3”, “Star Trek Into Darkness”, “Monsters University”, “Grown Ups 2”, “Despicable Me 2” “RED 2”, etc. The number of…