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Weekly Cinema Digest – Friday 30 October 2015

UK – The Financial times has a special ‘The Business of Film’ supplement that looks at cinema and finds – surprise, surprise – that it is still surviving and thriving in the age of streaming and lauded TV shows. Rentrak’s Paul Dergarabedian is quoted as saying tha…

Event Cinema Association ECA conference 2015

CJ @ ECA Conference – Welcome & Content Delivery

This is a live transcript of the presentations made at last week’s Event Cinema Association conference held in London. As such we sometimes paraphrase what is said on stage and any errors are most likely the fault of the note taking and not the speakers. 100% coherence is not possible as we of…

Secret Cinema's Production of Star Wars Empire Strikes Back

Weekly Cinema News – Friday 2 October 2015

On September 27th Secret Cinema ended its 100-day run of “Secret Cinema presents Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back” in London, which despite opening to lukewarm reviews, was a financial success taking in GBP £6.45 million (EUR €8.7 million or USD $9.8 million) from 100,000 audience memb…

AMC re-seating plans

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 2 September 2015

USA (CA) – Is AMC too over-leveraged (i.e. in debt) to execute its ambitious plans for re-seating and expanding premium F&B to stay ahead of the competition? That’s the upshot of this persuasive piece of analysis from Seeking Alpha. Pay particular attention to the penultimate paragr…

Odeon for Sale

Weekly Cinema Digest – Friday 28 August 2015

UK – Odeon & UCI group has released its first half-year result. It looks like rather than just cruising on the blockbuster wave of the first six months there are signs of a genuine turnaround – just as the group prepares to be sold. Last years loss of GBP £40 million (USD $61.7 milli…

Kurt Hall NCM

Weekly Cinema Digest – Friday 7 August 2014

USA – Kurt Hall is retiring and stepping down as President and CEO of National CineMedia (NCM Inc.), parent company of the largest cinema advertising operator in the US. He was instrumental in building up NCM and reinvigorating the cinema advertising (or “pre-show”) market in North…

PVR DT Cinema India

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 10 June 2015

India – PVR has acquired DT Cinemas in a deal valued at INR 5 billion (USD $78.33 million), adding a total of 39 screens (29 existing and 10 planned). DT Cinemas is focused on the National Capital Region (NCR) and Chandigarh and was set to be sold to PVR in 2009, but the deal fell apartRead Mo…

ECA Technical Handbook

ECA Handbook: Live Delivery Via Satellite (Part II)

Earlier this year The Event Cinema Association (ECA) published its “Technical Delivery Handbook”, a step-by-step guide to live delivery of event cinema, written by ECA members for the benefit of the industry. With satellite delivery the preferred mode of delivering live opera, theatre, c…

Barry Rebo Ymagis DCNA

CinemaCon: Interview With Ymagis/DCNA’s Barry Rebo

In the run-up to and during CinemaCon 2015 CJ is interviewing and profiling several leading companies, trade bodies and people to capture the mood of the cinema industry as it enters its post-digital era. Today we talk to Barry Rebo, newly appointed head of Ymagis’ just-launched division Direc…

Jean Mizrahi Ymagis

CJ @ CinemaCon: Q&A Interview With Ymagis’ Jean Mizrahi

In the run-up to CinemaCon 2015 CJ is interviewing and profiling several leading companies, trade bodies and people to capture the mood of the cinema industry as it enters its post-digital era. Today we talk to Jean Mizrahi, Co-Founder and CEO of Ymagis, the pan-European cinema services company whic…