As well as premiering 16 films from some of the world’s most acclaimed directors in the main competition, the Cannes Film Festival also hosts a prestigious competition for short films, by filmmakers who are just starting out. Tom Linay, Digital Cinema Media's Head of Film, picks out a few of his 2014 favourites... Read more
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Steve Ochs, SVP Marketing at NCM, the US advertising sales house, talks about how movies are the ‘original social media’ and how the experience keeps on going after the credits have rolled and the audience have left the auditorium. The ‘Millennials’ make up over 50% of the movie going audience in the US, and for them being ‘in the know’ about the latest movies is a critical form of social currency. Read more
On Wednesday 18th June Sheffield’s Showroom Cinema will be hosting a Q&A session with Director Ken Loach, following the screening of his latest film Jimmy’s Hall. Read more
This year, from 15-21 June, around 11,000 members from 90 countries are coming together to be inspired at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. For the second year, Digital Cinema Media (DCM) is partnering with the Screen Advertising World Association (SAWA).
SAWA established what is now known as Cannes Lions, hosting the first festival in Venice in September 1954 with 187 film advertising entries from the 14 countries competing. The Lion of Piazza San Marcos in Venice formed the inspiration for the coveted Lion trophy. The second Festival was held in Monte Carlo and then in Cannes in 1956, which became the festival’s permanent home in 1984. Read more
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Volkswagen UK has launched a new campaign to promote its long-standing support of independent cinemas throughout the UK.
The series of films, created by adam&eveDDB, sees the brand move away from its ‘See film differently” platform of the past few years, with the new line “Made for real life, not the movies”. Read more
The Weekend Round-up
Maleficent enchanted the UK public this weekend, comfortably taking the top spot. The Disney fantasy grossed £6.6m, which included £2.7m from previews. Its Friday to Sunday total of £3.8m is bigger than both Oz: The Great and Powerful (£3.7m) and Snow White and the Huntsman’s (£2.6m) opening weekend and both those films went on to cross the £15m mark, which suggests that Maleficent should too. Read more
A selection of the UK’s best independent film directors have been given unprecedented access to 229 years of archive material to create a series of films celebrating the historical and cultural impact of The Times and The Sunday Times.
The collection of films, called The Unquiet Film Series, is the first time The Times (est. 1785) and The Sunday Times (est. 1822) have committed their stories to film and explore the values, beliefs and behaviours of past and present editors, journalists and readers. Read more
The premier for Downhill took the glamour of the red carpet and turned it on its head, instead bringing a traditional Cumbrian twist to the film premier as we know it.
The screening was held at Zeffirellis in Ambleside on Tuesday 27 May and the film's stars Richard Lumsden (Sightseers) and Karl Theobald (Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa) were in attendance. For the premier the red carpet and fancy cocktails were nowhere to be seen. Instead attendees walked down the faux turf path, drinking pints of locally brewed ale and wearing worn-down walking boots. Pairing wellies with suits, guests were presented with a goodie bag when they arrived at the screening, which included a packet of cheesy Wotsits crisps. Read more
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), the world's second largest professional services network, has announced its global predictions for the filmed entertainment sector up until 2018.
The organisation has announced that it believes Filmed Entertainment revenue will surpass US$100bn in 2017 as emerging markets drive growth. Read more
It has been a genuinely stellar 12 months for animation. Four animated titles made it into the top 10 of 2013, with Despicable Me 2, the third highest grossing animation of all time in the UK, comfortably out on top. It may have come out in December but Frozen is still packing them in at the cinemas and is now worldwide, the biggest animated film of all time, having grossed a huge $1.1bn. The LEGO Movie received huge critical acclaim and is the biggest film of the year so far in the UK, with £32m and a sequel is already in the works. Smaller titles have made maximum impact too, with Mr.Peabody and Sherman breaking out from their 1960s roots to wow families during February. This all bodes well for the summer with its mix of bona fide blockbusters, big screen debuts for old favourites and the return of recent successes.
July is the start of the summer holidays so this is usually when the biggest animated titles vie for the key release dates. Last year, Despicable Me 2 came out on the last weekend of June and Monsters University followed it a couple of weekends later. This year the biggest animated title and a contender for biggest film of the year is How To Train Your Dragon 2. Read more
The Weekend Round-up (including Bank Holiday Monday takings)
Two generations of X-Men rolled back the years this weekend and posted a series best opening. X-Men: Days of Future Past’s Friday to Sunday total of £7.5m is even better than the débuts of X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand, which opened with £7m and £7.1m respectively. Including Thursday previews and Bank Holiday Monday, Days of Future Past has already grossed £11.6m and is over half-way to overtaking X2’s series best final total of £20.7m. Read more
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