EU Cinema Attendance Up By 5.5% in 2019, Showing Best Result Since 2004
On the occasion of the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, the European Audiovisual Observatory releases its first estimates for European cinema attendance in 2019. After two years of decrease, the Observatory estimates that total admissions in the European Union increased by 5.5% thus breaking…
Odeon Cinemas Group To Receive “International Exhibitor Of The Year” Award At CineEurope 2020
ODEON Cinemas has been named as the 2020 recipient of the “International Exhibitor of the Year” award at CineEurope. The award will be presented to Mark Way, President of AMC Europe and Managing Director at ODEON, and Juan Antonio Gomez, Chief Partnership and Content Officer at ODEON, as part of the…
Funimation Films Teams With MediaMation’s MX4D to Offer “My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising” in Immersive, Motion Format
Saudi Arabia’s Leading Animation Studio, Manga Productions, Inks Theatrical Distribution Deals for Much Anticipated Feature “The Journey” with VOX Cinemas for MENA Region and T-Joy for Japan
Michael B. Jordan to Receive “CinemaCon Male Star of the Year Award”
Michael B. Jordan will receive this year’s “CinemaCon Male Star of the Year Award,” Mitch Neuhauser, Managing Director of CinemaCon, announced today. CinemaCon, the official convention of NATO, will be held March 30-April 2 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Jordan will be presented with this special h…
Ymagis Group Reports Full-Year 2019 Revenue
Ymagis Group (FR0011471291, MAGIS, PEA-PME, TECH 40), the European specialist in digital technologies for the film industry, today reported its consolidated financial results for the fourth quarter and for the full year 2019. Sustained growth of the CinemaNext BU, Eclair BU stable excluding disconti…
North London Film Lovers Are in for a Treat as Odeon Announces Luxury Upgrade to Odeon Holloway
ODEON – the UK and Ireland’s largest cinema chain – has today announced it will be transforming its iconic Holloway establishment into a luxury cinema, making it the latest addition to the ODEON Luxe cinema estate. The major upgrade will bring with it the latest state-of-the-art cinema technology, i…
Cinemark Holdings, Inc. Reports Fifth Consecutive Year of Record Worldwide Revenues and Dividend Increase
Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK), one of the largest motion picture exhibitors in the world, today reported results for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2019 and announced that its Board of Directors has increased its cash dividend by $0.08 to $1.44 per share of common stock on an a…
An Innovative Audience Booster from Greta & Starks
A new platform and the existing app, Greta, will make different language versions (both as audio and as subtitles) available worldwide as an innovative pay-per-view option. Currently 400 million expats, students, immigrants as well as tourists are excluded from enjoying the cinema because of languag…
A Strong 2019 for Kinepolis
The continued implementation of the Kinepolis business strategy, both in new and existing markets, combined with favourable market conditions in Europe, led to excellent results for the Group in 2019. Almost all cinemas received significantly more visitors, particularly in the second half of the yea…
Alamo Drafthouse Introduces Season Pass Subscription Program In All Locations
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is proud to announce that their hotly-awaited Season Pass program is now in use at all 41 locations across the country. Season Pass is the only subscription program that allows guests to have the Alamo Drafthouse cinematic experience every single day, all for one low monthly…
Trafalgar Releasing to Bring Elvis: That’s The Way It Is Back to Cinemas in Selected Territories For One Night Only on 22 April
Epsom’s Luxe-ury Odeon Cinema Launches This Spring
ODEON – the UK and Ireland’s largest cinema chain – is gearing up for its Spring launch of the newly transformed and much anticipated ODEON Luxe Epsom, as the cinema becomes the latest in the Group to receive the impressive transformation. Alongside new handmade recliner seats, the refurbishment wil…
Record 1.34 Billion Visits to European Cinemas in 2019
The International Union of Cinemas (UNIC), the body representing European cinema trade associations and operators, has today released its provisional update on admissions and box office revenues across Europe for 2019. While some data remains to be collated and figures for certain territories are ba…
Cinemark Brings Luxury Moviegoing to The Pavilion at Durbin Park
World-Renowned Dating Expert Appointed as ODEON’s ‘Head of Row-mance’
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, ODEON is helping Brits have a successful cinema date by appointing celebrity dating expert Lara Asprey as its first ever ‘Head of Row-mance’. The move comes after new research revealed that 3 in 4 Brits (73%) have been put off their date based on their cinema etique…
Kinepolis Free to Open New Cinemas in Belgium from August 2021
On 23 October 2019, the Brussels Court of Appeal ruled to annul the decision of the Belgian Competition Authority (BMA) of 25 March 2019 and to give Kinepolis the green light to grow organically in its home market Belgium, provided that a transitional period is respected. To determine the duration o…
Event Cinema Release of “Kinky Boots The Musical” Struts to £1.2 Million at the UK Box Office
More2Screen, the award-winning Event Cinema distributor, today confirms that the cinema release of “Kinky Boots The Musical” has taken £1.2million at the box office to date and it was the #1 film on Tuesday 4th February. Christine Costello, CEO and Founder of More2Screen said, ‘This supe…