formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
After it was revealed that some cinemas have installed night vision cameras inside the theaters to enable them to “spy” on patrons, questions were raised over whether this constitutes an invasion of privacy. Source: Night vision ‘spy’ cameras in cinemas … Continued
With box office growth hitting a roadblock in China, cinema operators are coming up with integrated solutions to leverage new revenue streams. SMI Cinemas, also known as Stellar International Cineplex, has just launched an Amazon Prime-style delivery service, with a fleet of 2,000 … Continued
China’s second largest exhibitor Dadi Cinemas has acquired the cinema operation of Orange Sky Golden Harvest (OSGH) in China in a deal worth CNY ¥3.387 billion (USD $492 million) divided into three transaction segments. The move is a serious challenge to … Continued
Pan-Asian cinema group, Orange Sky Golden Harvest to sell its theaters in China to Dadi. The move reflects China’s box office slowdown. Source: Dadi Pays $575 Million For Orange Sky Golden Harvest’s China Theaters | Variety
In this Dec. 12, 2016 photo, a man walks out from a main screening hall of the Digital Cinema in Zhuolu county in north China’s Hebei province. The brightly-decorated 3-D cinema in this town outside Beijing is showing the latest … Continued
Having anticipated the implosion of the Chinese cinema bubble – as we predicted here and here – and at a time when commentators were falling over themselves to predict how soon China would overtake North America as the number one movie market in … Continued