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Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince lived up to its magical hype, conjuring up a staggering £19.8 million in its first five days at UK and Ireland box offices.The sixth film in the Potter fantasy series hasn’t disappointed audiences, or its distributor Warner Bros, making a massive £11.9 million during its opening weekend in the… Continue reading All-new Harry Potter opens with almost £20m

Cinema ticket sales for the first half of the year have reached 83.4 million, the UK’s highest box office figures for seven years.Films such as Slumdog Millionaire, which has taken an incredible £31.6 million in the UK so far this year, Monsters Vs Aliens and Star Trek, have contributed to the success of ticket sales… Continue reading Cinema ticket sales rocket

Sacha Baron Cohen’s much-publicised Brüno has taken the box office by storm, banking £5 million in its opening weekend.Brüno’s box office success makes it the second highest opening weekend for an 18 certificate film behind Hannibal in 2001, which pulled in £5.6 million excluding previews.The majority of top grossing box office films tend to be… Continue reading Brüno proves to be a box office hit

All Odeon cinemas will be equipped with Bluetooth over the next two months, after Digital Cinema Media appointed mobile marketing agency Bluepod Media to provide the technology.The move follows the publication of research which found that 65% of 15-24 year old cinema goers would download content to their phone, reports New Media Age.DCM expects to… Continue reading Odeon cinemas to get Bluetooth technology

Cinema has continued to connect with consumers and leads other channels in terms of advertising ‘talkability’, according to the Cinema Advertising Association’s latest data.The third annual Film Audience Management and Evaluation (FAME) study reveals that visual media is leading the way in creating advertising which gets people talking, and within this cinema comes out on… Continue reading Cinema continues to connect with consumers despite downturn

In the first of a new series of features, online discussion specialist Whitevector assesses the level of discussion around two recent movie releases…It has long been recognised amongst those planning campaigns for movies that word-of-mouth is a key factor in determining success at the box office. Some films (The Blair Witch Project is one of… Continue reading Whitevector Report: Cinema releases and the significance of social media

Peter Seabrook-Harris, regional sales director, Pearl & Dean UK, looks at what obstacles lie ahead for digital cinema and how these can be overcome…Background to Digital & CinemaDigital has of course totally engulfed the world of music, photography and video (few, if any, retailers now offer analogue/video products) with cinema the very last bastion of… Continue reading Digital Dreams – Is The Picture Still Blurred?

Mamma Mia!, the hit musical film, has helped the UK cinema industry to attract its highest number of attendances in recent years.The Abba-themed movie took more than £62 million at the box-office and pulled in more than 12 million cinema-goers since its release in July.Cinema visits were up by three million year on year to… Continue reading Mamma Mia! Boosts UK Cinema

Pearl & Dean has signed a deal to handle the advertising for Showcase Cinemas from October 2008.The cinema advertising company said that the new deal takes its UK market share to 33.3%, with its titles now set to appear in just under half (48%) of UK cinema sites.Owned by National Amusements, the Showcase Cinemas circuit… Continue reading Pearl & Dean Signs Showcase Cinemas Ad Deal

Mike Hope-Milne, enterprise director at Pearl & Dean, discusses how experiential advertising in cinemas can be a valuable tool in promoting brands…It can hardly have escaped notice that one of the biggest trends impacting advertising is that communication can no longer be a strictly one-way affair. The proliferation of digital marketing, rise of the web,… Continue reading The Rise Of Experiential In Cinemas