Early yesterday morning, the 70th Golden Globes awards ceremony took place at the Beverly Hills Hilton, Beverly Hills, California. Big winners included Argo (two awards) and Les Misérables (Three Awards).
The acting awards went to Daniel Day Lewis (Best Actor, Drama), Hugh Jackman (Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy), Jessica Chastain (Best Actress, Drama), Jennifer Lawrence (Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy) and Ben Affleck took the Best Director prize for his hostage thriller, Argo. Read more
DCM’s Head of Content and Distribution Lucy Stern spoke to Julian Pinn, Director of Cinema Marketing (EMEA) at Dolby about digital cinema, developments and predictions for 2013 and what sets cinema apart from other mediums.
Lucy Stern: What were the most exciting developments for Dolby in 2012? How have they enhanced the cinema experience? Read more
Our Managing Director, Simon Rees, has talked to Media Week and Marketing Week this week, sharing his predictions for 2013. Read on to hear his perspective on what the future holds for cinema advertising, ‘involved’ media and audience behaviour…
2012 saw 'Skyfall' burst through the £100m barrier, smashing the record set by 'Avatar' in the process, while the cinema industry's £200m investment in digital projectors saw DCM switch to digital on 28 September. A big year for our industry – but I believe 2013 will be the pivotal year in the evolution of cinema advertising. Read more
Unlike the rest of us, cinema is not experiencing a post-Christmas hangover with the box office delivering another super-strong weekend, up 61% from the same weekend last year. That’s now TWELVE consecutive weekends where the box office has been up on the equivalent from a year ago. For the fourth weekend in succession, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3D came out on top but it was run mighty close by The Impossible.
The Hobbit fell 41% to £4.1m and it now stands on an imposing £44.9m. At its current rate, it has a good chance of at least catching the lowest performing Lord Of The Rings film, The Two Towers (£57.6m). True life tsunami drama, The Impossible made a very promising start with £4m, with £1.6m of that coming from Tuesday to Thursday previews. Those previews enabled it to finish ahead of Life Of Pi 3D, which continued its terrific performance with a further £3.4m, taking its cume to £17.9m. With Oscar and BAFTA nominations due out in the next week, there should be plenty more to come. Read more
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, or The Academy, have announced the nominations for the 2013 Academy Awards. The Oscars, as they are informally know, recognise excellence in the field of cinema achievements.
The 85th Academy Awards will include a tribute to the James Bond movie franchise which is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year, the telecast’s producers announced today. Read more
This morning, The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), announced the nominees for the 2013 awards ceremony, honouring luminaries in the Film and Television industry. Leading the nominee table is the Steven Spielberg directed biopic of Lincoln, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, with ten nominations.
Hot on the heels of Lincoln, both with nominations in nine categories, are Les Misérables and Life Of Pi. Read more
Thank you to everyone who entered our 12 Days Of Cinema competition via Twitter.
The answers to all the questions are below along with the winners' twitter usernames for each day. If your twitter username is stated below, please contact us via information@dcm.co.uk with your details (Name, telephone number and postal address). Read more
Following Tesco’s ‘Quality Apples’ and ‘F&F’ high performing cinema campaigns, further leading retailers are choosing the big screen this festive season including River Island and Ikea.
The advent of digital cinema has unleashed a more flexible and versatile medium meaning retailers can book and schedule media by the day instead of by the week. This lends itself particularly well to retail advertisers that wish to target customers at weekends on the busiest shopping days of the gifting season. Read more
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
Like a festive Avengers, Rise Of The Guardians 3D ascended to the top of the box office this weekend easing 19% to £1.6m. Wit a cume of £4.1m, showing that it is well on its way to becoming a family favourite. Last December, Puss In Boots opened with £2m, almost exactly the same as Rise Of The Guardians last weekend, and went on to gross £1.3m on its second weekend on its way to a final total of £15.6m. It’s not unreasonable to assume a similar level of performance for ROTG.
Skyfall dropped back to second spot with a further £1.4m, taking its tally to a record breaking £96.3m, smashing the previous record set by Avatar in 2009. It has not just been a success in the UK, it has grossed over $918m worldwide and may well break the $1bn barrier, which is an amazing achievement in itself but even more impressive when you consider that the last and previously highest grossing Bond film, Quantum Of Solace achieved $586m worldwide. Read more
It’s now winter and Christmas is fast approaching so Roxanne, Richard and Tom crammed themselves into the smallest room at DCM for warmth and while they were there, they recorded the third edition of the DCM Podcast.
Their informal, slightly unstructured chat covered the upcoming Christmas releases and the hottest awards films from January. Richard also revealed a little too much about his love for Ryan Gosling. Read more
Bond is back! Well, back at the top of the UK box office. Another £2.3m on Skyfall's sixth weekend of release for the all-conquering blockbuster takes it to £94.1m and it has now become the UK’s highest grossing film of all time, beating Avatar. An incredible achievement from one of the UK’s best loved film franchises. The film that kept Skyfall from the top spot for the previous two weekends was relegated to second place as The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 fell 59% to £2.2m. It still managed to surpass Breaking Dawn Part 1’s final total of £31.1m to become the biggest grossing Twilight film. It now stands on £31.4m and a final total of around £35m looks likely.
In third place was this week’s highest new entry and the year’s big Christmas animation, Rise Of The Guardians 3D. A healthy £2m opening puts it on almost on a par with last year’s big Christmas themed film, Arthur Christmas, which opened with £2.1m. With three further weekends before Christmas, expect it to improve on that opening figure quite considerably. 42.5% of its box office came from 3D presentations. Fourth spot was taken by the other Christmas film currently on general release, Nativity 2: Danger In The Manger, which fell 25% from last weekend to £1.2m and a cume of £3.2m. Read more
