formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
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
Yueke, a subsidiary of China’s Alibaba Pictures, has taken a stake in Irish movie-data company Showtime Analytics.Showtime provides movie-theater chains with data analysis products and services. It looks at areas such as box office, occupancy rate, merchandise sales, and moviegoer … Continued
IMAX’s first virtual-reality entertainment center in Europe will open in Manchester, in northern England, by the end of the year, the company announced Tuesday. The pilot IMAX VR center will be housed in Manchester’s Printworks multiplex as part of a … Continued
Boasting one of Europe’s biggest movie libraries, the 120-year-old French company Gaumont is seeking to expand the scope of its activities linked to heritage films. Source: Gaumont Expands Heritage film Activities Abroad | Variety
LYON, France — Could Lyon’s Lumière Festival – an event dedicated near entirely to classic movies – be shaping up, outside animation, as France’s second biggest film festival? Last year, it ratcheted up 150,000 admissions Source: Thierry Fremaux on Tarantino, … Continued
The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has backed a plan to look into building what could become the city’s largest film and TV studios. The production facility, which would be based in Dagenham, on the eastern edge of the city, … Continued