David is a senior expert on the global film and cinema sectors. He is the Head of Film and Cinema with Screen Digest and has overseen its development in this area since 1997, including the set-up of the online data and analysis service Cinema Intelligence and is also actively developing the company's digital cinema activities. He has been involved in numerous consultancy projects for international organisations and companies, specialising in new business models and in-depth market analyses.
David is the co-author of the major report Digital Cinema: Roll-out, business models and forecasts. He also authored the groundbreaking Screen Digest/SAWA report The World Market for Screen Advertising. He is also the original author of Cinema exhibition and distribution in Europe: Market Assessment and Forecasts and several other reports. He developed and authored the comprehensive analysis of world film production, distribution and exhibition, which are published annually in Screen Digest magazine, as well as other research into cinema and film industries, including digital cinema. He has also acted as a consultant to producers, banks and other interested stakeholders in the film-making process. David is a frequent contributor to newspapers, trade press, radio and television regarding the film industry and is a regular speaker at international conferences and film festivals. He has edited and authored many articles, books and book chapters on the film industry chain.
Prior to joining Screen Digest, David was a senior executive with Eurimages, the Strasbourg-based pan-European co-production fund working within the Council of Europe, and also worked as a research consultant in the media sector with the major French consultancy IDATE. He holds a BA Honours degree in Business Studies/French from Leeds Metropolitan University and speaks fluent French.
UGC staff stage partial strike over digital cinema plans | 17 Aug 10
Dutch digitisation programme agrees way forward | 13 Aug 10
US Losing Global Box Office Share | 31 Jul 10
Sony makes further advances with 4K digital cinema systems | 13 Jul 10
Multiplexes Reverse Mid-East Trend | 07 Jul 10
Digital cinema roll-out in Europe | 01 Jul 10
ESPN Foothold In UK Premium Pay TV | 28 Jun 10
London is top digital screen city | 23 Jun 10
Digital Cinema Moves Into the Mainstream | 21 Jun 10
UK circuit signs up to digital conversion with AAM | 14 Jun 10
Asian cinema markets soar in first quarter | 04 Jun 10
Digital Cinema roll-out in Western Europe | 02 Jun 10
France and China sign co-production agreement | 18 May 10
Odeon signs fifth studio and triggers digital rollout | 05 May 10
Digital cinema takes off worldwide | 22 Apr 10
Indian box office declines in 2009 and growth forecasts revised | 20 Apr 10
US screen count falls as box office jumps in 2009 | 31 Mar 10
Arts Alliance Media broadens digital cinema reach | 26 Mar 10
Digital cinema takes off in Europe | 11 Mar 10
Independent cinema exhibition and the challenges of digitisation | 10 Mar 10
Norway grants regional digital cinema tenders | 01 Mar 10
US exhibitor group raises finance for digital switch | 26 Feb 10
Setback for French digitisation | 23 Feb 10
French Competition Authority rejects CNC plan for digitising cinemas | 11 Feb 10
Arts Alliance signs Danish indies to its VPF rollout | 04 Feb 10
Asia Pacific box office in line with global growth | 20 Jan 10
Breakthrough for US smaller operators in digital conversion | 12 Jan 10
Box office up in France, Italy and Netherlands | 08 Jan 10
China maintains strong box office growth | 07 Jan 10