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Golden Globe 2014 Nominations announced

The contenders for the 2013 Golden Globe awards were officially announced yesterday. The nominees are selected by a popular vote from the Hollywood Foriegn Press Association.

The Golden Globes celebrate the best in Film and TV entertainment. Read more

UK Box Office 06 - 08 December 2013

Disney ruled the box office this week as their big seasonal animation, Frozen opened with a very impressive £4.7m. That’s the second highest Friday to Sunday opening of the year for an animated film, behind Despicable Me 2 (£10m). Wreck-It Ralph opened with £4.5m in February and The Croods opened with £3.5m in March: both of those titles managed to cross £24m, so hopes are high for the rest of Frozen’s run. Over 39.1% of Frozen’s total came from 3D presentations, which is the highest percentage for a family animation since Wreck-It Ralph in February.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire fell 51% to £2.7m, for a cume of £26.4m and has now overtaken the first Hunger Games’ £24m final total. It is now placed seventh on the top 10 biggest films of 2013 and should climb a couple of places higher before the end of its run. Read more

Nebraska Review - A Windfall for Cinemagoers

DCM’s resident Film Specialist, Tom Linay, gives us his thoughts on Nebraska, via The Huffington Post.

Nebraska (directed by Alexander Payne of Sideways fame) is the story of an aging, booze-addled father (Bruce Dern) who makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son (Will Forte) in order to claim a million dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize. Read more

A Very Merry Christmas at the 81st Cinema Exhibitors’ Association Christmas Dinner

Exhibitors, distributors and suppliers came together last night to mark the festive season at the 81st Cinema Exhibitors’ Association Christmas Dinner, held at London’s magnificent Waldorf Hilton Hotel.

Digital Cinema Media was proud to sponsor the drinks reception this year for the first time and delighted to catch up with so many colleagues across the industry. Guests had travelled from all parts of the UK to mark the occasion, including Tamiko Mackie from The Maltings cinema in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Merlin’s Geoff Greaves and Billy Quitco from Cornwall, Steve Reynolds from Four Seasons Entertainment and Picturedrome’s Adam Cunard from Bognor Regis, to name a few. Exhibitors from closer to home included Tyrone Walker-Hebborn from the Genesis, Mile End and Reel’s Klash Suri. Read more

A Look Ahead To Q1 2014 Pt. 1 - Non-Stop Action and All You Need Is Love

2013 has been another great year for cinema with huge hits throughout, including Despicable Me 2 (£47.3m), Les Misérables (£40.7m), Iron Man 3 (£37m) and Monsters University (£30.6m), with big hitters such as Anchorman 2 and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug still to come.

As we draw closer to the end of 2013, we can look forward to a boat-load of movie entertainment in store in Q1 2014. Read more

The future of cinema: making cinema as essential for brands as it is for filmmakers

An early Monday morning start (25 November) at BAFTA headquarters saw Digital Cinema Media (DCM) host industry leaders to discuss the future of cinema at our inaugural Upfronts event this week.

With the aim of making the 200 strong media audience think differently about the cinema experience and share new advertising opportunities around the upcoming 2014 film slate, we also wanted to provoke discussion about the power of cinema advertising and the health of the industry as a whole. Read more

Doctor Who Leads Event Cinema Trend With Record Breaking Debut

“Whovians” habitually sit on the sofa—or hide behind it—to watch their favourite time-traveller battle Daleks, Cybermen, Zygons and other monsters. But on November 23rd thousands of them, all around the world, settled into cinema seats to see “Doctor Who” in 3D. The 50th-anniversary episode of the British television show was screened on 800 big screens in 20 countries at the same time as being broadcast on the BBC’s channels.

Doctor Who’s eagerly anticipated 50th anniversary episode ‘The Day of the Doctor’ teleported its way into the UK box office with £1.8m, setting a new European record for alternative cinema content and becoming the third highest-grossing film over the weekend hot on the heels of blockbusters The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Gravity. Read more

Phil Clapp of the CEA: More Than Five Reasons Why I Love Cinema

Phil Clapp, Chief Executive of the Cinema Exhibitors' Association, told Huffington Post readers this week, why he believes the cinema offers the ultimate movie viewing experience.

A few weeks back at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Steve Moffatt - the man behind two of Britain's biggest TV hits in Sherlock and Doctor Who - told an audience why in his opinion television was better than the movies. Given his pedigree, you might think that unremarkable. And on both sides of the Atlantic, it's probably true to say that we are in something of a golden age for long-form TV series, with Moffat's own offspring standing shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Breaking Bad and Mad Men. But Moffat went further than that - he said that television was better than cinema. And that's fighting talk. He then went on to give five reasons why this was the case. Well, as they say in the US, 'straight back at ya' - here are more than five reasons he's wrong: Read more

The DCM Christmas Movie Quiz at The Hospital Club

Cinephile’s met at the Hospital Club this week to earn bragging rights for the remainder of 2013 at the final DCM Movie Quiz of the year.

Tom Linay, Film Specialist at DCM, played quiz master and warmed up the assembled crowd before dazzling us with his knowledge of Christmas related movies. Read more

TBWA's Peter Souter: Why can’t cinema ads be better than the film?

Peter Souter, Chairman and chief creative officer for TBWA\UK Group, was a provocative keynote speaker at last weeks inaugural DCM Upfronts, offering his thoughts on why advertising needs to hold itself to higher standards.

The purpose of the Upfronts event was to bring together industry leaders to discuss the future of cinema, the power of storytelling on the big screen and new ad opportunities to target the diverse cinemagoing audience. Read more

UK Box Office 29 – 1 December 2013

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire continued to heat up the top of the box office, comfortably holding on to the number one spot. The dystopian blockbuster fell 46%, once previews are removed, to £5.5m and after 11 days in cinemas has an imposing cume of £21.7m. That figure places Catching Fire just £3m behind the first Hunger Games’ £24m final total and it now looks almost certain to reach £30m.

Gravity held on to second place with another strong hold, falling just 27% to £1.7m, for a hugely impressive cume of £22.5m. It should get to £25m, which is a fantastic achievement. This week’s highest new entry was thanksgiving animation Free Birds, in third spot with £1m. That puts it on a par with other animated titles, A Monster In Paris (£1m) and A Turtle’s Tale (£1.1m). Read more

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