John Fithian, NATO President & CEO, to receive Inter-Society’s Ken Mason Award
Cinema-industry veteran John Fithian, President and CEO, National Association of Theatre Owners, has been selected as the 2020 recipient of the Ken Mason Inter-Society Award. The Ken Mason Award honors an individual who has made outstanding long-term contributions leading to the overall improvement…
Passes On Sale Now for Cinemark’s Annual Oscar Movie Week Festival
Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK), one of the world’s largest and most innovative movie theatre companies, celebrates the 92nd Oscars with its annual Oscar Movie Week Festival. Movie fans will have the opportunity to enjoy this year’s Best Picture nominated films and the Best Live Action and Anima…
Showcase Cinemas Hosts Free Screening Of ‘Joker’ At Concourse Plaza Multiplex Cinemas To Celebrate The Film’s Oscar Nominations, Its Iconic Bronx Filming Location And National Popcorn Day
Showcase Cinemas, a world leader in the motion picture exhibition industry, announced today it would be hosting a free screening of the Warner Bros.’ film “Joker” at its Concourse Plaza Multiplex Cinemas in the Bronx on Sunday, January 19 at 4 p.m. ET (National Popcorn Day). The fr…
CJ 4DPLEX Successfully Wraps CES 2020
CJ 4DPLEX, the world’s leading cinema technology company, stunned convention attendees at CES 2020 – The Global Stage for Innovation – presenting its latest ‘4DX Screen’ auditorium, an innovative theatre system converging two ground-breaking cinema formats, 4DX and ScreenX, along with in…
Comscore Reports Highest Ever Worldwide Box Office
Comscore, a trusted partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms, today announced annual worldwide box office revenues for 2019. Highlights for the year include: For the first time ever, Global box office will exceed $42 billion. For the first time ever, International box…
Theater Owners Celebrate A Robust 2019 Box Office And Note Strength Of Upcoming Films
Theater owners today celebrated the confirmation of the second highest domestic box office in history $11.4 billion – with the release of official 2019 domestic box office data from Comscore, and expressed confidence and optimism in prospects for the 2020 and 2021 movie slates. “As we knew all…
Wanda Cinema’s 600th Multiplex in China Chooses Christie
Christie is pleased to announce that Wanda Cinema, China’s largest film distributor and cinema operator, has chosen Christie’s compact all-in-one, DCI-compliant RGB pure laser cinema projector, featuring RealLaser illumination technology, for its 600th multiplex in the country. Located in the southe…
American Society of Cinematographers to Honor Werner Herzog with Board of Governors Award
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) will bestow its Board of Governors Award to Oscar® and Emmy® Award nominee Werner Herzog. The tribute will be made at the 34th Annual ASC Awards for Outstanding Achievement on Jan. 25 at Hollywood & Highland’s Ray Dolby Ballroom. The ASC Board of Go…
Australian Cinemas and Film Distributors Unite to Raise Funds to assist Australians affected by bushfires
The following statement is issued jointly on behalf of Australian cinemas and film distributors by the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia (MPDAA), National Association of Cinema Operators (NACO), Australian Independent Distributors Association (AIDA) and Independent Cinemas Austral…
Now Showing: Cinema for the Mind Body and Soul
A trip to the cinema can actually be good for us and help us step away from the mounting pressure of being online all the time. That’s according to new research released today from Vue and University College London, revealing that a few hours behind the big screen can have fascinating benefits on ou…
National Independent Cinema Day
Trafalgar Releasing Leads Global Event Cinema Distribution in 2019
Trafalgar Releasing has proven the global appetite for event cinema once again with a record breaking 2019, dominated by success in the music and arts categories. The company’s continued expansion included distribution to more than 120 countries (a 13% increase from 2018), over 8,300 cinemas (46% in…
Riverdance 25th Anniversary Show To Be Screened in Cinemas Across the UK On 3rd & 8th March
Eclair Announces Deployment of its Theatrical Delivery Solutions in Brazil with Digital Cinema Integrator Quanta
Eclair, a leader in content services for the motion picture and television industries (Ymagis Group – FR0011471291, MAGIS, PEA-PME), today announced an agreement with São Paulo-based Quanta for the deployment of Eclair’s broadband network and digital content delivery solutions, including its innovat…
Innovative ‘4DX AR’ Platform to Open New Business Opportunities for the Gaming and Entertainment Industry
CJ 4DPLEX (www.cj4dx.com), the world’s leading cinema technology company, unveiled today an indoor AR platform at CES 2020, that will open new business opportunities for the gaming and entertainment industry. Whereas high precision AR experiences have only been available through the use of high-end…
AMC Entertainment to Elevate Dan Ellis to Senior Vice President, Development & International
AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC, “AMC” or the “Company”) today announced that Dan Ellis, head of Domestic Development at AMC, will succeed Mark McDonald as the head of AMC’s Development & International Department, following McDonald’s retirement at the end of February 2020. T…
CJ 4DPlex Appoints Don Savant as CEO of CJ 4DPlex Americas
CJ 4DPlex, the leading cinema technology company, has announced today that Don Savant will join the company as the new CEO of CJ 4DPlex Americas, the U.S. branch of the groundbreaking next-generation motion picture technology company. Savant will be responsible for growing both premium formats, 4DX…
American Society of Cinematographers Announces Feature Film Nominees
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) has nominated eight feature films in the Theatrical and Spotlight categories of the 34th ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards. Winners will be named at the organization’s annual awards on January 25 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland. T…
London Short Film Festival 2020 to Host Cinema’s First UK Pilot of National Theatre’s Innovative Smart Caption Glasses System for Cinema-goers for D/deaf, Deafened or Hard of Hearing Audiences
As part of the festival’s ongoing commitment to accessibility, LSFF is delighted to announce that smart caption glasses will be available to cinema-goers at all LSFF 2020 UK Competition screenings with support from the BFI Audience Fund (awarding funds from The National Lottery), BFI Southbank, Nati…