The Digital Cinema Media Awards 2016 deadline for entries has been extended to Friday 15 July 2016, adding an extra week for the media industry to enter the second annual competition.
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If you entered our Fantasy Film League - The Summer Edition, it's time for an update on how you're doing. We received over 300 entries to the competition and it's extremely tight at the top so far with 26 film buffs representing for the media and film industries.
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The Weekend Round-up
After comfortably topping the box office last weekend, The Secret Life of Pets held onto the top spot for a second week, holding off the strong challenge from Absolutely Fabulous. The Illumination animation added £4.7m, a drop of just 20% from last week, and it has now banked an impressive £16.6m. With the school holidays three weeks away, there should be plenty more to come. Read more
Digital Cinema Media (DCM) has today announced new senior appointments to its sales team with the addition of Louise Youll, Business Director, and Antonio Garcia, Client Director, as well as a promotion for Jeremy Kolesar (Head of Innovation) to Creative Business Director. All will report to DCM’s Sales Director, Davina Barker.
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DCM spent a week at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity this year and here’s what we got up to in the South of France.
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Plaza Community Cinema in Liverpool’s Waterloo has been honoured with a royal stamp of approval after being given an award by the Queen.
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The Weekend Round-up
The Secret Life of Pets has been highly anticipated ever since the ingenious first trailer was released over a year ago and it duly delivered, debuting with the biggest opening weekend for an animated film this year. With £9.5m, which included £3.8m from previews, it’s well on track to be one of the biggest family films of the year. Read more
The Screen Awards, the awards to celebrate and honour the very best of marketing, distribution and exhibition in the film industry, is open for entries and there’s just over two weeks left to get your submissions in.
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The annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity came to close on Saturday night with the final awards ceremony of the week taking place at the Palais des Festivals.
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Airbnb is set to launch a media first in UK cinemas this weekend taking its ‘Live There’ campaign to the big screen with the use of a revolutionary technology called 37 degrees. Read more
Cinema advertising trade body, SAWA, held a seminar on the power of the medium at Cannes Lions on Monday morning with ad icon, Sir John Hegarty, Anonymous Content producer, Steve Golin and UNICEF but a remake of the Spice Girls hit, Wannabe, stole the show for the good of the globe.
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The Weekend Round-Up
The Conjuring 2 opened in the top spot with an impressive £4.6m, which included £1.9m from previews, after opening last Thursday. This puts it on course to match the first film's final total of £10.5m. Read more