In this month’s podcast, DCM’s Head of Film, Tom Linay, is joined by Matt Eagle, Broadcast Manager at Carat to discuss the big films of the summer, including Godzilla, X-Men: Days of Future Past and 22 Jump Street. They also discuss potential selections in the second round of the popular Fantasy Film League and Matt puts his 2014 film knowledge to the test. Read more
The Weekend Round-up
For the second week in succession, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 topped the box office but it came under more pressure than perhaps was expected from The Other Woman. With £3.4m, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 fell 45% from the previous weekend (once previews are removed), which is a shade higher than the 42% the first Amazing Spider-Man fell on its second weekend in July 2012. To date the Marvel blockbuster has grossed £16.5m and with no real tent-pole competition until Godzilla on 15 May, it will be looking to cross the £25m mark. Read more
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The Guest is released on 5 September 2014 Read more
Steve Davis, Head of Exhibition, Digital Cinema Media, reports back from last week’s CEA meeting in St. Andrews.
Just a quick update from a very foggy St. Andrews last week (just as well I don’t play golf). Myself, Rebecca Rau (Account Manager), Ian McKeag (IT Whiz Kid) and Joe Evea (Commercial Director) were welcomed into the heart, and cinema, at St Andrews. Read more
Digital Cinema Media’s (DCM) An Introduction to Cinema took place this week at Vue West End. A full house was in attendance from across media land to hear speakers talk about the cinema industry and how brands can maximise new digital cinema advertising opportunities.
The day kicked off with Phil Clapp, CEO, of the Cinema Exhibitors Association and an update on the performance of the cinema sector in terms of box office revenues and cinema attendance figures. He also outlined the 2015 film slate, stressing the quality of content coming to UK cinema such as Avengers: Age of Ultron, Fast and Furious 7 and Star Wars: Episode VII. Read more
This week, DCM Close Up catches up with Tamiko Mackie, Marketing & Communications Manager and Cinema & Digital Content Programme Manager at The Maltings Theatre & Cinema, Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Tamiko tells DCM Close Up about her deep love of film, the unique programme of content at her venue all year round, her respect for strong female characters in movies and much, much more. Read more
Nicholas Barber of the Guardian looks at our obsession with disaster movies and how the upcoming UK cinema release schedule is packed with big budget love letters to the genre.
Blockbuster season is here again, so the time has come to forget about depressing arthouse dramas for a while, and cheer yourself up with some rousing Hollywood escapism. Just look at what May alone has to offer. For starters, there's Godzilla, which features a town being sluiced by a tsunami, and Bryan Cranston bellowing: "It is gonna send us back to the stone age!" Then there's X-Men: Days of Future Past, which reduces a city to a murky graveyard of fractured skyscrapers. Or how about Tom Cruise's latest, Edge of Tomorrow, in which alien invaders lay waste to half the planet? And before all those, there's Paul WS Anderson's Pompeii: the ideal night out if you want to see crowds of terrified women and children being fried by flaming boulders. Read more
Dolby Laboratories has announced that upcoming feature Godzilla, directed by Gareth Edwards, will be mixed and released in the Dolby Atmos cinema sound platform.
The film, from Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures, will be released in the US on May 16, 2014. Warner Bros. Pictures is handling worldwide theatrical distribution, with Toho Company handling distribution in Japan. Read more
The Weekend Round-up
Over the long weekend The Amazing Spider-Man 2 climbed to the top of the box office with an impressive £10.8m, which includes Wednesday and Thursday previews of £2.9m. The Amazing Spider-Man opened with £11.1m in 2012 but that was from a Monday start, so included £4.3m of previews. In terms of Friday to Sunday, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was just behind its predecessor with £6.1m versus £6.8m, 53% of its box office was from 3D presentations. Read more
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Cold In July is out on 27 June 2014 Read more
Last week, The Festival de Cannes announced the 2014 official selection. Included in the line-up are Grace of Monaco, Foxcatcher, Mr. Turner and Jimmy’s Hall.
[caption id="attachment_8779" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Nicole Kidman and Tim Roth in Grace of Monaco[/caption] Read more
In the spirit of Digital Cinema Media’s partnership with D&AD, around the theme ‘Inspired by Film', Zoe Jones, Marketing Director at Digital Cinema Media takes a look at inspiring women in the movie industry for her inaugural Huffington Post Blog.
Sandra Bullock’s powerhouse leading role in sci-fi blockbuster Gravity has helped rocket the multi-award winning film to a global Box Office performance of more than $712m and counting. In Gravity, Bullock’s character Ryan Stone pulls off a seemingly impossible mission back to earth, but achieving the reality of gender equality across the film and media industry can still seem light years away… Read more
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