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Box Office: Jurassic World stomps on the competition

The Weekend Round-up

In a year of amazing performing films, Jurassic World may have just delivered the most impressive yet. An opening weekend of £16.8m is the fourth biggest of ALL TIME and the biggest of the year to date, eclipsing Avengers: Age Of Ultron’s £14.4m.  Read more

Box Office: Spy comes out on top

The Weekend Round-up

Melissa McCarthy comedy, Spy opened at the top of the box office with a solid £2.6m (including £198k from previews), which is comfortably higher than its obvious comparison, The Heat, did in July 2013 (£2.5m, including £910k from previews). Read more

Minions set to invade media land.

With family films set to dominate this summer, Digital Cinema Media (DCM) has created a bespoke offer around two of this year’s biggest family films, Minions and Inside Out. If someone books into the full run of either film, they will get this summer’s smaller family films free, including Pixels. That’s an estimated 1.5 million admissions for FREE. 

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Q&A with mac birmingham’s Amy Smart

This week we speak to mac birmingham’s Amy Smart about how she started working in the cinema industry, what’s unique about her cinema and what her favourite film of all time is.

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Alcohol friendly films in cinemas this summer

It’s been an electric first half of the year for cinema in 2015. April saw 15.1m admissions, which makes it the biggest April since 1972, while Avengers Age of Ultron saw the greatest April opening ever and is the biggest film of the year to date. Fast & Furious 7 opened with £5.6m, the largest opening day for a film since Skyfall in 2012 while Fifty Shades of Grey’s opening weekend amassed a colossal £13.6m at the UK Box Office, the highest ever opening for an 18-certificate film. 

In this month's edition of We Love Cinema, we’re looking at the opportunities for alcohol brands to utilise the power of cinema.  Read more

DCM Intro To Cinema April 2015 at the London, UK on the 27/04/2015. Photo: David Tett

Industry leaders set to gather for Media360

Kicking off tomorrow, industry leaders are preparing to gather in Brighton for this year’s Media360 event. In MediaWeek's 30th year, the two-day event will play host to a schedule of inspiring keynotes, interactive roundtables and challenging panel sessions.

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Box Office: San Andreas shakes things up

The Weekend Round-up

Dwayne Johnson confirmed himself as a bona fide box office leading man as San Andreas kicked off with a terrific £4.6m, which included £741k from previews. Last year’s Dwayne Johnson star vehicle, Hercules, finished its entire run with £5.5m, so this is a great result. Read more

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