The Weekend Round-up
Ant-Man opened in the top spot with £4m, the eighth highest opening of the year. Minions fell to second but another £2.7m takes it to a huge £32.3m. With the school holidays starting for most of the country this week, it will inevitably see an uplift during the week too. Read more
The Regent Cinema in Redcar was host to a very special event on Sunday afternoon. Four months ago a young gentleman approached the cinema as he wanted to propose to his girlfriend in one of their screens in the form of a fake movie trailer.
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Marvel is on a roll and so far this year both Big Hero 6 and Avengers: Age Of Ultron have wowed audiences and, this week, Ant-Man hits the big screen. MyMovies talk exclusively to Director Peyton Reed about his film highlights and what fans can expect.
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The Weekend Round-up
Minions stayed in the top spot for the third successive weekend, adding £4.2m for a huge cume of £27.6m. It’s now the biggest animated film of 2015 to date and is now tracking ahead of Despicable Me 2 at the same point. Read more
Now in its sixth year, The Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival will for the first time be expanding to serve audiences in Birmingham. The Festival includes a selection of special screenings at the mac birmingham and Cineworld Broad Street and will run in the city from 20 – 26 July.
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Panasonic is celebrating the quality of its 4K Pro Televisions with its first cinema advertising for four years this summer in a campaign devised and implemented with Vizeum.
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The deadline for the inaugural Digital Cinema Media Awards has been extended to Friday 17 July. The awards scheme, run in association with Campaign and Media Week, will celebrate and reward the best advertising work showcased in cinema by the media industry over the last year.
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The Piccadilly Cinema, based in Birmingham, is the latest independent cinema to join the DCM portfolio. It makes another great addition to DCM and helps us continue to grow our 80% market share.
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The BFI (British Film Institute) has launched ‘Britain on Film’, an archive-based initiative through which thousands of unseen films have been digitised and will be made available for free to the public on the BFI Player platform.
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Last weekend Reel Cinema Bridgnorth held a special screening of the 1969 film Battle of Britain. The unique commemorative event for the 75th anniversary of the battle was attended by two of the 28 surviving Spitfire pilots from the historic battle. Squadron Leader Tony Pickering, who flew hurricanes and later spitfires, and Flying Officer Ken Wilkinson, who flew spitfires under the legendary Douglas Bader, were invited as guest speakers for the evening to help raise money for the RAF Benevolent Fund.
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As Ted returns this summer, alongside Mark Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried and Morgan Freeman, MyMovies gets all the latest news from the film-makers and stars.
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The Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle, together with a number of specialist partners, are bringing dementia-friendly cinema to its screens for the first time this summer.
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