You might expect the director of media for the National Association of Theatre Owners to believe that, but so does Jonathan Sehring, president of IFC Films, which releases a small number of films in theaters and on pay-per-view simultaneously. According to the article in Weekly Variety: Sehring makes it clear that First Take is an… Read more »
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Una dia sin cinema
Spanish cinemas have gone on strike. For a day, anyway. Variety reports on plans for a Monday closure of Spanish movie theaters to protest the government’s new draft film law. The somewhat hard-pressed exhibition sector is upset that some long-standing concerns are either being ignored or implemented in ways they see as detrimental to the… Read more »
Theatrical release still drives the train
Does anybody remember 2005? That was the year of the summer slump that would not end – a slump that convinced many a pundit that the movie theatre business as we know it was dead. DVDs, flat screen TVs and instant downloading were killing the business, so theatres should acknowledge reality, turn off the popcorn… Read more »