Cinema Exhibition
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A record number of large format cinema screen openings is expected in 2008, with 3D a key element
Mini Report - Feb 08
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Hollywood is still successful, despite being subject to quotas and blackouts
Mini Report - Jan 08
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Box office is polarised between strong hits and weaker 'also-ran- movies
Mini Report - Jan 08
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We report on the Budapest conference at which delegates voted on the underlying priciples for their hopes and expectations
Mini Report - Dec 07
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World markets account for the lion's share of toptitle revenues—and rising
Mini Report - Oct 07
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Continuing shift in balance of world cinema business
Mini Report - Oct 07
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Worldwide d-cinema screen count is now over 4,000
Mini Report - Sep 07
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This report examines the current and future state of the online movie markets in Western Europe and the USA. It includes five year forecasts of consumer spending and Studio level revenues generated from online a la carte movie transactions. The report provides detailed analysis of the strategies adopted by each of the Hollywood Studios in the digital marketplace.
Size of screen is expected to be a key factor in the rollout of digital cinema across Europe
Mini Report - Aug 07
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Although export releases fell, admissions to French films were greater abroad than at home
Mini Report - Jul 07
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Studio content is providing a solid foundation for expansion towards the 6,000 screens predicted by Screen Digest for 2009
Mini Report - Jul 07
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DVD dominates studio movie value but the margins on video-on-demand are greater
Mini Report - Jul 07
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The gap between cinema and DVD release continues to shrink, falling by 38 days since 1999
Mini Report - Jul 07
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This report is the first major analysis of this rapidly growing sector. It includes 5 year forecasts for digital 3D cinema screens by major territory, exhibitor business models as well as analysis of potential revenues and profit margins for the industry
Last year nearly two thirds of territories performed below their previous five-year averages, while the top five markets accounted for 70 per cent of the continent's box office revenue
Mini Report - Jun 07
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A comparison of video purchasing between French cinemagoers and their UK counterparts shows that the French film fans buy more and that the UK video buyers are older
Mini Report - Jun 07
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Local films accounted for a third of box office revenue worldwide last year
Mini Report - May 07
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The pay TV and games sectors contributed to UK spending on entertainment rising to £8.6bn. But spending on video fell for the first time ever
Mini Report - May 07
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Roll-out is accelerating rapidly in the US, thanks to AccessIT's early installations (with studio support), while Europe seems to be biding its time. The number of commercial d-cinema screens in the world grew by 253 per cent in a year, from 848 to 2,996 at end 2006. This number doubled between the end of the first half 2006 and the end of the year, from 1,474 d-screens to the eventual 2,996. The rate of change has largely been the product of an industrial scale roll-out in the US. AccessIT is driving this progress and has now exceeded 2,000 installations of its 4,000 initial target.
Mini Report - Apr 07
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Construction of new screens-especially in shopping malls-is buoying up admissions but a quarter of new screens are in the Moscow area
Mini Report - Apr 07
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In a market still consolidating, where eight exhibitors each now have over 500 screens, the top three account for 36 per cent of all screens and the top 20 for 89 per cent of all digital installations
Mini Report - Apr 07
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Only the UK suffered a slight decline in revenue in 2006 as most territories made gains, with China as the fastest growing market
Mini Report - Feb 07
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This report is a joint venture between Screen Digest and Nielsen NRG and provides a detailed market analysis of the cinema and home entertainment sectors in China. The report also includes the findings from a consumer survey that was conducted online by Nielsen NRG and AC Nielsen in China.
A new record set last year for total takings in an opening weekend of theatrical release highlights atrend in which over 30 per cent of total revenues are achieved during the first weekend
Mini Report - Jan 07
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A European model for apportioning the costs of upgrading cinemas for digital presnetations is beginning to take shape
Mini Report - Jan 07
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Television output is stable while feature-length animation struggles for distribution. Government the current state of health, despite some spectacular international successes.
Mini Report - Dec 06
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Among the varied market conditions, new screen growth is consistently outstripping the rise in admissions
Mini Report - Dec 06
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The young may still be the cinema's primary market but in France and the UK older people - and the better educated and more affluent - form a growing segment of cinema audiences.
Mini Report - Nov 06
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Major cinema markets around the world reported a drop at the box office in 2005. The slump has been linked to many factors, including a lack of overtly strong titles, both from Hollywood and indigenous film industries, generally slug...
Mini Report - Oct 06
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Average frequency of cinemagoing is highest in world cities.
Mini Report - Oct 06
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With 39 primary and 157 other languages used for film releases in UK and Ireland - Hindi coming second after English - diversity does not mean box
Mini Report - Oct 06
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Eighteen per cent of all screens worldwide have now been converted to show digital screen advertising—a total of more than 18,700 screens. Again, the US accounts for most activity, in this case 94 per cent of the world total being in a country that until recently tended to eschew advertising in cinemas.
Mini Report - Sep 06
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The rate of digital cinema deployments is accelerating fast, with over 600 installations in the first half of 2006, three-quarters of them in the US.
Mini Report - Sep 06
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Mixed market conditions make a common approach to independent film distribution difficult
Mini Report - Aug 06
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China, Russia and Argentina lead world box office gains, while the UK is the only country in which revenue fell during the first six months of 2006
Mini Report - Aug 06
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European titles took 31 per cent of admissions in 2005, up from four per cent the previous year
Mini Report - Jul 06
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Our Digital Cinema Conversion Suitability Index shows that a one-size-fits-all approach would not work in Europe - or maybe anywhere outside the US
Mini Report - Jul 06
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With this month's second outing of Pirates of the Caribbean achieving the highest ever opening weekend take, we analyse the significance of the first few days
Mini Report - Jul 06
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Print release patterns analysed as digital cinema beckons, showing releases are getting wider
Mini Report - Jun 06
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But 3D is playing a role as a catalyst for digital cinema deployment
Mini Report - Jun 06
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Providing a global overview of the current state of digital cinema. It includes d-cinema forecasts, screen counts and locations, digital releases, rollout business models, market drivers and detailed profiles of the key players throughout the value chain.
Original screenplays still dominate the business but the most consistently successful sources are comic book adaptations
Mini Report - May 06
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We are now seven years into the launch of digital cinema, and the market has reached a point where large-scale commercial roll-out is in its early phases. The number of commercial d-cinema screens doubled in the six months from July to December 2005 and this growth has continued into 2006. In 2005, the first plan to digitise a whole nation was announced and 2006 has already witnessed the digitisation of a whole cinema circuit and another plan to prepare a whole territory for digitisation..
Mini Report - Apr 06
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Fastest growth for five years has been recorded as growth in large-screen shifts to emerging markets.
Mini Report - Apr 06
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US marketing costs dwarf other markets, accounting for almost half of box office revenue.
Mini Report - Apr 06
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The UK cinema market was one of the few in the world to come through relatively unscathed in 2005, with admissions only slightly down and box office revenue fractionally higher. Independent exhibitors in particular had a good year, increasing their market share as the age demographic drifts upwards. Phase one of the digital conversion scheme is complete.
Mini Report - Mar 06
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Local films gained market share as admissions mainly slipped below the past five-year average, leaving UK the second most successful local film industry
Mini Report - Mar 06
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China and the US are setting the pace as all the major
studios release new titles in digital versions
Mini Report - Mar 06
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Frequent cinemagoing fails to translate into
DVD/VCD sales
Mini Report - Feb 06
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Allowing relaxation of the screen quota
Mini Report - Feb 06
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Only a handful of countries bucked the trend of
declining cinema admissions last year
Mini Report - Feb 06
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In the 'big five' West European countries, viewers
watch an average of more than one DVD a week but
over a quarter of copies are borrowed
Mini Report - Jan 06
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Print releases are widening but the top films are not
punching with the same weight and average revenue
per print is at its lowest
Mini Report - Jan 06
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Athough only a little over one per cent of screens are in multiplexes, Indian cinema upgrading - - partly spurred by digital conversion - - is accelereating the trend towards multiplexes.
Mini Report - Dec 05
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This report analyses the changing release strategies for retail DVD in the USA and the key European markets of UK, Germany and Spain. Employing data on the top 50 titles by box office in each territory, the report examines the effect of the closure of the European rental-only window, and quantifies the much-debated squeezing of the theatrical-to-DVD retail window between 2002 and H1 2005.
Management Report - Nov 05
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A quarter of all modern screens are housed in shopping centres. The 1,000 new screen threshold is expected to be reached this year.
Mini Report - Oct 05
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The major growth of digital cinema screens is occurring in Europe, but Asia still has the largest share of digital screens.
Mini Report - Oct 05
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There has been a surge of interest by venture
capital firms taking ownership of prime exhibition
chains with a view to streamlining existing operations
Europe, mirroring the situation in North America.
Private equity firm Terra Firma Capital Partners
marched into the European cinema sector in late
2004. The group acquired the European interests of
UCI as well as the UK's leading cinema circuit Odeon
Mini Report - Sep 05
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Scandinavia and the Baltic states-where there has been a net loss of 600 screens in the past eight years-have huge growth potential for multiplex cinema development
Mini Report - Sep 05
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-The top film is still Gone With the Wind, which helps make the 1930s the most profitable decade per film, and a third of all the films were released over 30 years ago
Mini Report - Aug 05
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Not only have seasonal cinemagoing patterns varied between the main European territories but 2004 was also atypical
Mini Report - Aug 05
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The third edition of this benchmark report from Screen Digest provides a comprehensive analysis of the cinema exhibition market in Western Europe - with a 15 year span of data from 1995 to 2009. The report covers 13 territories and provides data on key metrics including cinema admissions and box-office receipts.
Five of top ten exhibitors in Western Europe are located in the UK
Mini Report - Jul 05
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State-owned CE manufacturer to dedicated media services group
Mini Report - Jul 05
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Top 10 companies account for nearly half the top 50's turnover
Mini Report - Jul 05
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Top 300 US releases average over 12.5m film print feet each
Mini Report - Jul 05
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The UK Film Council has announced the list of cinemas that are to benefit from installation of a digital projector as part of the Digital Screen Network (DSN) managed by Arts Alliance Digital Cinema. As already discussed in Screen Digest on previous occasions (see, for example, 2005/109-116), the network is being established to increase the diversity of cinema programming for UK audiences, and also to increase access to cinema in under-served areas.
Mini Report - Jun 05
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Japan no longer has solely the most expensive cinema tickets in the world, after years of falling prices in the early part of the decade. In 2004 it shared the top spot with Switzerland for the first time with an average $11.50. In local currency terms, average prices in Japan have fallen for five of the past six years, although in 2003 there was a sharp reversal of ticket price deflation with prices increasing 2.3 per cent.
Mini Report - Jun 05
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But the Japanese market is dominated by foreign blockbusters and the single top title took 9.5 per cent of total box office revenue in 2004
Mini Report - May 05
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Concessions account for a quarter of all revenue in UK cinemas but half the profits, with cardboard cartons full of popcorn and drinks each making up a third of all sales
Mini Report - Apr 05
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Russia has the potential to become one of the largest box office markets in the world, along with China and India.
Mini Report - Mar 05
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The UK independent cinema exhibition sector accounts for 32 per cent of all screens in the UK. There has been much change around the independents, with significant consolidation in the multiples as venture capital companies have acquired much of the sector. However, independents have still increased their box office revenues by 36 per cent between 1998 and 2004 (from £108m to £146.9m).
Mini Report - Mar 05
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In 2004, the total number of large format (LF) theatres increased by just 2.8 per cent to 368, in which 20 new screens opened but half of these were negated by 10 screens closing. Meanwhile, Imax screens continued to account for the majority 65.2 per cent of theatres by manufacturer in 2004, down slightly from 63.5 per cent the previous year.
Mini Report - Mar 05
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The Cinema Index is an at-a-glance way of comparing earnings with cinema prices. The lower the number in minutes, the less expensive a cinema ticket is realtive to earnings power.
Mini Report - Feb 05
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Last year, 2004, was a strong year for global box office revenues, led by spectaular growth in emerging markets. Total revenues increased 8.8 per cent in US dollar values, to $20.7bn, in the 25 territories analysed with final or provisional year-end results.
Mini Report - Feb 05
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Movie Sequels is a unique and original analysis of the increasingly popular area of movie sequels at the US box office between 1980 and 2004. The report includes box office numbers, release data, burn and frontloading rates as well as analysis of release patterns and box office by year, month, distributor and genre.
Management Report - Jan 05
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While Hollywood continues to wrangle with the issue of high-end digital cinema, a quiet revolution has taken place on the other end of the digital spectrum of cinemas. The rapidly growing use of cheaper digital projectors and servers for pre-show ads means that by early 2005 there will be over 12,000 screens worldwide converted to some form of networked digital content distribution.
Mini Report - Dec 04
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This new report from Screen Digest comprises a detailed analysis of the US and European markets for feature film animation. The report includes analysis of admissions and market shares in the US and key European markets between 1997 and 2003.
Management Report - Nov 04
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Mini Report - Nov 04
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US accounted for 56.3 per cent of total film based entertainment spending in 2003. Pay TV account for a higher share of spending per head in Poland than any other sector anywhere else. Cinemagoing in the UK contributes less to total film entertainment spending per head than anywhere else. Singapore has the highest contribution of cinemagoing to total film entertainment
Mini Report - Nov 04
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Mini Report - Oct 04
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Hollywood is the 800-pound gorilla in the global market for animated feature films. Since the 1980s the production of animated films has seen a strong revival, with DreamWorks SKG leading the challenge by a number of studios to the historical pre-eminence of Walt Disney Pictures.
Mini Report - Oct 04
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Mini Report - Oct 04
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Mini Report - Sep 04
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Mini Report - Aug 04
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Belgium and UK alone have more than 10 digital cinema screens each. UCI is leading pan-European, Kinepolis and City Screen leading national digital cinema exhibitors. UK Film Council deployment of more than 250 digital screens is imminent. Count excludes lower-end networks, like Netherland's DocuZone, for advertising purposes
Mini Report - Aug 04
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Mini Report - Jul 04
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Mini Report - Jul 04
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Mini Report - Jul 04
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This new report from Screen Digest and SAWA is the first study into the global market for cinema screen advertising. The 400 page report contains actual data from 1998-2003 and forecasts to 2007. It includes detailed analysis of the sector's value and key players and prospects in 35 countries.
Mini Report - Jun 04
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Mini Report - Mar 04
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This unique study assesses the state of the market for alternative content in electronic and digital cinema. This includes any form of large-screen content other than feature films and also includes alternative cinema use, such as for corporate events.
This is the second Edition of Screen Digest's benchmark study in the European film industry.
The second edition of the Cinema Exhibition and Distribution in Europe comprises detailed data-sets for 16 western European and 3 eastern European markets. 10 Years of historical data and five years of forecasted data is provided for cinema admissions, box-office receipts and screen counts.
Audience and exhibitor attitudes towards digital cinema have hitherto been largely uncharted.This is highly surprising given the mediumís three-and-a-half years of commercial history with over 65 titles shown on 160+ digitally equipped screens worldwide.T
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