Councils are set to spend £1bn on buying shopping malls as they try to redevelop town centres depressed by a wave of store closures. Local authorities have spent a record £775m buying shopping centres over the past three years, and are expected to outlay a further £230m next year according to research from shopping centre…
Tim Richards, founder and boss of Vue cinemas, reckons he knows what the nation wants to watch and when. Families in northern England want early film times to allow an early dinner. In Islington, north London, the local Turkish community wants films in its own language. “There’s one part of London, I don’t want to…
This new study focuses on release windows in Germany, France, United Kingdom, Belgium and the Netherlands. It finds that: The average window between cinema release and retail TVOD (actually buying the film) is 18.6 weeks and rental TVOD (just hiring it) is 19.4 weeks in the five countries studied; For retail TVOD, there is difference…
Rising Africa uniquely sounds like a Hollywood movie title and with its rapidly expansive and changing dynamics, Africa has propelled into joining the fastest growing nations in cinema exhibition. Driven by democratic movement and better governance with elections reflecting societal change across several countries, we begin the cinematic benchmark series reviewing Africa’s vitality and the…
