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Box Office: Captain America holds on to the top

The Weekend Round-up

The first real sign of sunshine for the year over the weekend meant cinema took a slight hit but Captain America: Civil War comfortably held on to the top spot. The epic superhero showdown fell a chunky 67% to £4.8m, which brought its 10-day total to £27.4m. That’s on a par with Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice’s second weekend drop and at the same stage of its run, Dawn Of Justice was on £27.8m. The cloudier weather forecast for the rest of the week has already seen titles start to bounce back. Read more

DCM Intro to Cinema at the Picturehouse Central, London on the 21/03/2016. Photo: David Tett

The Digital Cinema Media Awards: the categories

There are six award categories open for entry for The Digital Cinema Media Awards, plus one overall Grand Prix for the most effective and forward-thinking campaign of the last year, which is chosen by the judging panel solely from the winners of the five main entry categories.

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DCM Intro to Cinema at the Picturehouse Central, London on the 21/03/2016. Photo: David Tett

UK box office a record-breaking £1.2 billion in 2015, according to BFI report

The BFI released the first chapters from their 2016 statistical yearbook this week and they paint a rosy picture of the UK box office. Box office in the UK for 2015 was a record-breaking £1.2 billion, up 17% from 2014 and admissions were 171.9m, up 9% on 2014. Every month in 2015, with the exception of August, was up on the equivalent month in 2014.

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Marvel's Captain America: Civil War

L to R: Falcon/Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), Ant-Man/Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), Hawkeye/Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner), Captain America/Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen), and Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan)

Photo Credit: Film Frame

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Box Office: Captain America rules the UK

The Weekend Round-up 

Captain America: Civil War launched with a blockbusting £14.5m from Friday to Sunday. In terms of three day openings, that’s just behind Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice (£14.6m). Read more

The Great Advertising Detox: busting the jargon

Hosted by Comedian Adam Buxton, Digital Cinema Media’s Karen Stacey participated in a jargon-free discussion around some of the modern day issues facing the advertising industry today at Bloomberg Media’s Advertising Week Europe session last week.

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