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
The Weekend Round-up
Captain America: The Winter Soldier climbed back to the top of the box office after adding £1.8m, giving the Marvel title a cume of £14.6m. Thor: The Dark World’s final total of £20.1m may be out of reach but it’s still a strong performance. Noah moved up one spot to second, with £1.6m for a cume of £5.9m. That’s a decent hold and with Easter this week, it may get a seasonal boost. Read more
Fresh from a stint at Advertising Week Europe, The DCM Popcorn Bike made appearances at media and creative agencies across London last week, promoting a great summer of cinema, with free popcorn for all and the chance to find a golden ticket, entitling the bearer to a red carpet première experience.
The DCM Popcorn Bike made stops at Maxus, Goodstuff, Havas, the7stars, ZenithOptimedia, Carat, MGOMD and TBWA, to name but a few. Read more
Leading travel company and 'home of all-inclusive', First Choice, has launched a new partnership with Vue Entertainment, aimed at bringing the ‘all-inclusive feeling’ to life in the UK. The partnership deal has been organised by Digital Cinema Media (DCM).
The First Choice ‘All-Inclusive Family Package’ ticket, available at 80 Vue cinemas nationwide, includes entry into a film, a snack of choice and a drink. There will also be a kid’s snack box option available for mini film buffs. Prices start from £10 per person meaning a family of four will save over 20% on the cost of a trip to watch the latest blockbuster together. Read more
Unilever has launched the first ever cinema advertising campaign for its beauty brand Dove, featuring a new creative celebrating real beauty.
The cinema campaign ‘Dove: Patches’, which was placed by Mindshare and created by Ogilvy, continues Dove’s iconic and innovative approach to advertising, following the lauded ‘Real Beauty Sketches’ TV ad. Read more
After the huge success of the Oscar season competition, it’s once again time to pit your wits against other film fans in media land!
This time around, players have to select 11 films to build a team from the summer line-up that they think will earn the most at the UK box office during each films opening week. Read more
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