There’s just one month to go until the release of the much-anticipated Fifty Shades of Grey movie. Advance tickets are already on sale and showings are beginning to sell out and this, coupled with high demand from advertisers looking to book into the film, means time is running out for advertisers looking to book into the film.
With the February premiere edging ever closer, Universal Pictures released a new TV spot online earlier this week, giving fans a further glimpse into what they can expect from the film. Read more
Cineworld is soon to unveil the UK’s first ever 4DX cinema, which will include high-tech motion seats and special effects including water sprays, gusts of air, fog and strobe lighting contained in the auditorium to stimulate what’s on the screen.
The brand new 4D cinema makes use of the newest tech to add some additional pleasure to the latest Hollywood flicks and all of the 140 seats can transfer, blast out water, wind and even create smells to make individuals really feel a part of the on-screen motion. Read more
The winners of the 72nd annual Golden Globe Awards have been revealed, honoring some of the best names in film and TV. Held at the Beverly Hitlon Hotel in Bevely Hills, the ceremony marked the opening of the Awards Season.
Boyhood proved the biggest winner, winning Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Director for Richard Linklater, and Best Supporting Actress for Patricia Arquette. Read more
The nominations for the 2015 BAFTA awards are here, which bodes the question: Who will win a golden face at this year’s ceremony?
Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel received the largest number of nominations at this year’s BAFTAs, leading with 11. Birdman and The Theory of Everything are each nominated in ten categories. The Imitation Game has nine nominations. Boyhood and Whiplash are each nominated five times. Mr. Turner, Nightcrawler and Interstellar receive four nominations. Pride has three nominations. Read more
DCM's Pete Troiano analyses the 2015 film slate, outlining what cinema has in store for family audiences this year, highlighting the key films to look out for.
It was a triumphant year for family films in 2014. Off the back of Despicable Me 2 being 2013’s highest grossing film, family titles continued to thrive, with titles such as The Lego Movie charming both adults and children alike. Enjoying significant critical and commercial success, it was 2014’s number one film, grossing just over £34m. Elsewhere, Hiccup and Toothless returned for the second instalment of How To Train Your Dragon, taking £25m and 8th position at the end of year box office, while a certain marmalade-loving bear arrived on our shores to a rapturous winter welcome and an extremely impressive haul of £28m (and counting). Two other titles broke the £10m mark in Rio 2 and Mr. Peabody & Sherman, while there were other strong performers such as The Boxtrolls and Muppets Most Wanted, in Kermit and the gang’s latest outing. Read more
In an article written for The Drum, DCM's Head of FIlm, Tom Linay, outlines why 2015 is the year to be seen on the big screen and what it means for cinema advertisers.
2015 is set to be a remarkable year for cinema, with a selection of blockbusters unrivalled in recent memory. The Avengers once again assemble, there’s a revitalised Star Wars featuring Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Luke Skywalker, and a certain Mr. Bond makes an appearance too. Read more
Vice Media and Annapurna Pictures have partnered to produce The Bad Batch, a dystopian love story by upcoming director Ana Lily Amirpour.
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Recognising actors or actresses who have demonstrated exceptional talent and ambition and who are destined to be bright stars in the future of cinema, this year’s nominees for the EE Rising Star Award have now been announced.
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The Weekend Round-up
With a hugely impressive performance, The Theory Of Everything is the first box office champion of 2015. James Marsh’s Stephen Hawking biopic opened with £3.7m, which included £803k from new year’s day previews. Another high profile biopic, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, opened on the first weekend of 2014 with £1.5m (including £36k from previews), which gives some context to just how strong The Theory Of Everything’s debut is. Read more
The Weekend Round-up
The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies stayed in the top spot, adding £4.2m, and to date has grossed $28.8m, making it the fourth biggest film of the year. It’s certain to be the highest grossing film released in 2014, but it will probably overtake The Lego Movie next Friday or Saturday, so will not finish 2014 as the year’s biggest film. Read more
Christmas is upon us and as we near the end of December, DCM’s Fantasy Film League has come to a close for another year. We are now excited to announce the winner of the ultimate FFL Prize, a fabulous Red Carpet Premiere experience including a 5* dinner and overnight stay in London for two.
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DCM's Head of Film, Tom Linay, takes a look back at 2014, getting under the skin of an extraordinary year for film in a blog post written for The Huffington Post.
It is often said that there's never a bad year for cinema and 2014 emphatically proved that. In a year when cinema admissions were down on the highs of the last few years and no single film crossed the £40m mark for the first time since 2003, it would be easy to be pessimistic about the current state of cinema. Then you look at the success stories of the year. We saw the two highest grossing 18-certificate films of all time, a film like 12 Years A Slave out-grossing Transformers: Age Of Extinction, Marvel introduced a whole new team of superheroes in the freshest and funniest sci-fi adventure since we first visited a galaxy far far away and, when the biggest film of the year to date is the wonderful The LEGO Movie, you realise that everything is awesome. Read more
