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Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back

CJ China News Digest – Thursday 26 January 2017

Advance ticket sales up ahead of Spring Festival, market share of online ticketing revealed, little cinema consolidation in 2016, should BO count include service charge, Xiao Feng reveals cinema expansion plans, Wang's Davos transcript, 6.7 was average score for Chinese films released in 2016.

China’s SMI Cinemas Launches Amazon-Style Delivery Service

SMI cinemas, known as Stellar International Cineplex in China, has launched an Amazon Prime-style delivery service with 2,000 vehicles servicing 2km area around each cinema.

Baidu and Stellar

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 15 October 2015

Now that the sheen has come off China’s stock market and overall economic growth, hard questions are starting to be asked about the success of China’s cinema box office. Reuters is the latest to have woken up to the fact that tickets are being massively subsidised by third-party e-commer…

Stellar Cineplex China

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 13 August 2015

Hong Kong-listed exhibitor Stellar Media International (SMI) recently issued securities (i.e. debt notes) backed by future ticket sales to fund its expansion. This is the first time funds have been raised this way in China. It is also a terrible way of building a war-chest to overtake Wanda. Yes, th…

China Film Group La Paking

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 13 november 2014

Hollywood is looking to make more money out of China than the import-restricted and revenue split-skewed arrangements currently allow. So why not expand merchandising? Just check the Fast & Furious Experience in last week’s China Cinema Digest to appreciate the opportunities. The head of C…

Chen Xing technology laser

China Special Cinema Digest – Thursday 25 September 2014

Today we catch up Chinese cinema news from the last couple of weeks, which I was unable to report while travelling. As always, the Google translation is not perfect, but as we do not have a journalist on staff who can translate perfectly from Mandarin (yet!), it will have to do. We are also savingRe…