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
The Weekend Round-up
On the final weekend before Christmas The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies stayed in the top spot, holding off a couple of high profile sequels. Peter Jackson’s trilogy closer was off 45% to £5.4m and after ten days in cinemas has cracked the £20m mark. It now sits on £20.3m and at the same point in its run The Desolation Of Smaug fell 43% and sat on £20m. In the next few days, The Battle Of The Five Armies will crack the top 10 films of the year and with nine more days left of 2014, it should climb pretty high up the list before the year is out. Read more
The Weekend Round-up
For the final time (supposedly) a Middle Earth-set film opened at the top of the box office. The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies kicked off with £9.8m, which is the second highest opening weekend of the year, behind The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (£10.3m) and it also set a Friday to Sunday record for the series. An Unexpected Journey opened with £11.6m in 2012 but £2.1m of that was from Thursday previews, so its Friday to Sunday total was £9.5m. The Desolation Of Smaug had a Friday start last year and managed £9.3m in its first weekend. Read more
After four years as CEO, Simon Rees has announced that he will be leaving Digital Cinema Media (DCM) at the end of January in order to pursue other interests both inside and outside of the media industry.
Since joining in May 2011, Simon has led the transformation of DCM into a modern digital sales agency. Key developments have been the introduction of a new digital delivery system for commercials, and interactive capability through the mobile app Cinime. Read more
Digital Cinema Media (DCM) and FUEL, a marketing data intelligence platform, have joined forces to explore and showcase exclusive data insights around film in 2015 by taking a holistic look at the social chatter around all of the latest movies, content and audience demographics.
In a year that is going to be huge for cinema, there is no better time to analyse the narrative and tone around some of the leading films set to hit the big screen over the next 12 months and look at how brands can get involved in the conversation. Read more
Global youth media company, Vice, is getting into feature films by setting up Vice Films as a joint venture with 20th Century Fox.
The joint venture will develop, produce, finance, market, acquire and distribute films from emerging directors around the world, aiming to make at least two movies a year, at a budget of about $2m. Read more
