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Box Office: Pitch Perfect 2 aca-smashes it

The Weekend Round-up 

Pitch Perfect 2 opened with a huge £5m, the fifth biggest opening weekend of the year. To put that into further context, the first Pitch Perfect finished its entire run with £6.5m, and the sequel is set to top that in the next few days. Read more

Box Office: Age of Ultron scores third week at the top

The Weekend Round-up

The Avengers: Age Of Ultron is now the biggest film in the UK in 2015. It grossed £3.5m over the weekend, overtaking Fast & Furious 7 in the process and crossed the £40m mark on Sunday to sit on £40.4m. On its third weekend in 2012, Avengers Assemble added £4.2m, so Ultron is falling away slightly faster but there’s still an outside chance it can reach £50m. Read more

Q&A with Hippodrome, Bo’ness’ Alison Strauss

The Hippodrome is Scotland's oldest purpose-built cinema. Opened in 1912, and an A-listed historic building, it is the masterpiece of architect Matthew Steele, who left Bo'ness with a remarkable built heritage of early 20th century design styles. This week, we spoke to Hippodrome, Bo’ness’ Alison Strauss on her love of cinema and how she started out in the industry.

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Cinema was and still will be THE medium for epic storytelling.

Media Week turned 30 last week and, after closing its print edition five years ago, it celebrated its birthday by publishing a special anniversary print edition. As part of the celebrations, industry stalwarts commented on what the future holds for those working in media today and DCM’s Karen Stacey penned a piece discussing the broad appeal of the cinema medium.

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Box Office: Age Of Ultron continues to smash it

The Weekend Round-up 

The Avengers: Age Of Ultron has been in cinemas just two weekends and it is already the third biggest film of the year. From Friday to Sunday it added a further £8.6m for a huge cume of £32.3m. It’s now the third highest grossing Marvel movie, behind Iron Man 3 and Avengers Assemble and it’s certain to overtake Iron Man 3 later this week. Read more

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