The Weekend Round-up
The Secret Life of Pets made it three weeks at the top as it held off a spirited challenge from The Legend of Tarzan. The Illumination animation fell just 24% to £3.6m, taking its total to £22.3m. In the next week it will overtake Zootropolis (£23.8m) to become the biggest animation of 2016 to date, a title it will only hold for a few weeks as Finding Dory is let loose in UK cinemas on 29 July. Read more
The Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund (CTBF) raised a record-breaking amount of £145,000 at its annual London Party on Thursday 30 June as the industry came together to celebrate at London’s Gibson Hall.
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The National Autistic Society Scotland’s Too Much Information campaign is to air at Cineworld Glasgow after a screen time donation was made by Digital Cinema Media (DCM) on behalf of the charity.
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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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