Thor: The Dark World dealt a hammer blow to all other contenders this weekend, comfortably taking the top spot. The Marvel sequel debuted with a god-like £8.7m, which includes £3.1m from Wednesday and Thursday previews. The £5.6m Friday to Sunday total is the seventh highest of the year, ahead of The Hangover Part III (£4.9m) and behind Star Trek Into Darkness (£6.9m).
The first Thor opened with £5.4m (including £2.3m from previews) in 2011 and finished on £14m, so Thor: The Dark World is already well over half way to overhauling that total. Over 50% of Thor: The Dark World’s gross was from 3D presentations. Read more
Matt Goodwin, Account Executive, Digital Cinema Media gives Campaign Magazine his unique view from the bottom.
Captain's log: it's 8.13 on Monday morning in the Digital Cinema Media offices. I'm early. In truth, the District line had a blinder this morning - all of the stops, none of the flops. And yet, two years into this game, I'm savvy enough to make my eager entrance look like it was planned. A brisk fire-up of the ol' Outlook, and it's probably a good thing I'm in early - it looks set to be a busy one. Read more
November 8 marks 15 years since The Elgiva Theatre and Cinema was officially reopened by the late Danny La Rue, after its transformation from The Elgiva Hall in 1988.
The establishment, which has been open since 1976, was rebuilt into the grand purpose-built theatre and digital cinema it is today having made way for an enlarged supermarket development nearby at the time. Read more
The Media Week Awards, one of the biggest events in the Media calendar, took place last week with awards given to a variety of industry luminaires for their hard work and creativity over the last year.
Manning Gottlieb OMD and ITV Commercial walked away with the 2 most sought after awards for media agencies after bagging the Media Agency of the year and Sales Team of the year awards respectively. Read more
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2: Revenge of the Leftovers, topped the UK Box Office this weekend past.
The Sony animation opened with a fantastic £3.6m. It’s some way off of the top performing animated film of this year to date (Despicable Me 2), but a strong start none the less. Read more
Following his review of week one, Digital Cinema Media's resident film specialist, Tom Linay, sums up the second installment for shots magazine.
The 57th BFI London Film Festival in association with American Express is over for another year and this year’s edition will go down as one of the best ever. Record equaling numbers attended the festival and some of the world’s biggest stars came and supported their films. Read more
Digital Cinema Media's resident film specialist, Tom Linay, looks back on the BFI London Film Festival with Cue Entertainment readers.
The BFI London Film Festival is over for another year and in its 57th edition once again showcased some of the most exciting upcoming films in the world. The main galas rightly commanded much of the attention and, yes, Gravity, Captain Phillips and 12 Years A Slave are as good as you’ve probably heard, but the programme was incredibly deep and diverse and there were gems to be unearthed throughout. Read more
The UK box office saw an upturn this weekend with the top 15 up a whopping 97% from last weekend. Two films were responsible for the lion’s share of this increase, family animation Turbo and Tom Hanks' nail-biter, Captain Phillips.
Turbo opened with an impressive £3.9m, although £1.8m of that was from previews. That’s a bit better than Epic, which opened with £3.2m (including £1.4m from previews) in May. With half term week kicking off on Friday, Turbo should have plenty left in the tank. Read more
Digital Cinema Media (DCM), the market leader in UK cinema advertising, has partnered with Berghaus, the outdoor clothing and equipment manufacturer, to produce the first national cinema ad with tailored local messaging, directing cinemagoers to their nearest Berghaus stockists.
The national ad concludes with several different end frames, targeted at specific local areas, driving audiences to their local Berghaus stockists, including Blacks retail stores, the outdoor experts. This is something that would not have been possible before the advent of digital operation in cinema. Read more
On Wednesday morning, DCM and The Screen converged in the fabulous Dolby Screening room to update the cinema industry on the progress of digital and the new opportunities it affords advertisers.
Speakers included Michael Kali, Head of Corporate Sales and Advertising at Vue, who gave an update on the roll out of its digital operations. He explained how the transition from analogue to digital has freed up the cinema chain, made them more flexible and able to respond to changes in cinemagoers tastes more effectively. Read more
Digital Cinema Media (DCM), the market leader in UK cinema advertising, has welcomed The Olympic Studios to its Independent Exhibitor portfolio. The new partnership coincides with The Olympic Studios’ stunning re-opening on 18 October 2013.
The addition of The Olympic Studios to DCM’s estate strengthens DCM’s London independent cinema offer which is a huge draw to upmarket and discerning audiences in London, showing art-house films as well as big budget Hollywood hits. Read more
The 57th BFI London Film Festival, in asscoation with American Express is over for another year and it once again showcased some of the most exciting upcoming films in the world. The main galas rightly commanded much of the attention and yes, Gravity, Captain Phillips and 12 Years A Slave are as good as you’ve probably heard, but the programme was incredibly deep and diverse and there were gems to be unearthed throughout.
In this week’s special podcast we’ll give you an overview of some of the 235 feature films that played at the festival as part of our review of potentially the festival’s strongest ever year. With record equalling numbers attending the festival (151,000 people), it was a fantastic twelve days. Read more
