Star Wars: The Force Awakens was finally released last Thursday and amazingly it has lived up to all expectations. The biggest opening day, the biggest Saturday, the biggest Sunday, the biggest Monday the biggest four day opening and the biggest Friday to Sunday opening weekend of all time are just five of the new benchmarks it has set.
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The Weekend Round-up
Well, the most hyped film of the century, Star Wars: The Force Awakens was finally released on Thursday and amazingly it has lived up to all expectations. The biggest opening day, the biggest Saturday, the biggest Sunday, the biggest four day opening and the biggest Friday to Sunday opening weekend of all time are just five of the new benchmarks it has set. In just four days it has grossed £34m, which includes £9.7m on Thursday. Its Friday to Sunday total of £24.3m eclipses Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ record of £23.8m to become the biggest of all time. Saturday saw it gross £8.7m, and remarkably, Sunday was almost as big, delivering £8.6m. It’s already the ninth biggest film of 2015. Read more
2015 has marked a phenomenal year for cinema advertising. Ad revenues, box office figures and admissions have all been up thanks to the power of our unique environment, our upmarket, undistracted audiences and the amazing film content launched in cinema.
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In a blog post written for The Huffington Post, Digital Cinema Media's (DCM) Head of Film, Tom Linay, looks back at what a great year 2015 has been for the cinema industry.
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The wait is over. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is in cinemas and has been breaking records across the board for the cinema industry. There's still time for fans across the country to enter the fourth and final phase of Digital Cinema Media’s Fantasy Film League (FFL), which is another Star Wars themed quiz.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens premieres in London this evening and finally comes to cinemas across the country from midnight. The unprecedented demand seen for the release of the film is leading to speculation that The Force Awakens has the potential to be THE biggest film of all time in the UK, challenging Skyfall for the mantle of the highest-ever grossing movie.
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The Weekend Round-up
The top five is exactly the same as it was last weekend and there were no new entries in the top 15, as The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 became the first film since Les Misérables in 2013 to hold on to the top spot for four consecutive weekends. A drop of 43% to £1.3m, is a much shallower drop than the 52% Part 1 fell on its fourth weekend last year and, although it’s still tracking behind Part 1, it’s catching up. It now sits on £25.5m, and provided it can hold on to some screens with Star Wars imminent, it should add a bit more over the Christmas period. Read more
Digital Cinema Media’s IT Director, Simon Rose, speaks to ComputerWeekly.com about plans to balance innovation in areas such as mobile and analytics with crucial infrastructure demands into 2016.
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The Weekend Round-up
On a quiet weekend before The Force Awakens, the top four remained the same as last week. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 held on to the top spot for a third straight weekend, falling 51% to £2.2m, for a new cume of £22.3m. Read more
Roald Dahl's The BFG comes to the big screen next year, courtesy of Steven Spielberg, and a teaser trailer for the movie has today been unveiled.
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Digital Cinema Media (DCM) is excited to be shortlisted for the 2016 Media Research Awards, in the ‘Best Use of Data Sets’ category for its proximity planning tool, Cinemapper.
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Cinema owners Derek Hook, Raymond Hook and Dorothy Smith recently purchased the Ambleside Lodge in Ambleside, Cumbria. The trio are already the proud owners of Zeffirellis, an independent cinema, award winning restaurant and jazz bar also located in Ambleside.
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