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CineAsia: 3D Softens in Asian Theatrical Markets
Asia's theatrical cinema market continues to grow at a fast pace. But 3D viewing is slowing across much of the region, executives at the CineAsia convention were told.
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Hollywood Plays Guessing Game With 2014 Releases in China
Which Hollywood films will get into China in 2014 through the expanded import quota is a guessing game that was in full swing at CineAsia
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Thailand’s Vichya Poolvaraluk set as CineAsia Exhibitor of the Year
HONG KONG — Vichya Poolvaraluk, chairman of Thailand’s Major Cineplex Group, will receive the 2014 Exhibitor of the Year Award at the CineAsia Awards Ceremony in December. “Vichya’s revolutionary...
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CineAsia: Cinema Outlook in Asia Looking Rosy, Hollywood to Hold Its Own
New cinema building continuing across the region, but Hollywood strength increasingly challenged in Japan and China.
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CineAsia: IMAX To Surpass 500 Theaters in China As CGV Adds 25 Screens
South Korea’s CJ-CGV has ordered an additional 25 IMAX giant screens which it will locate in its Chinese theater circuit.
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CineAsia: Raman Hui Collects Director of the Year Award
Hong Kong’s Raman Hui receives ‘director of the year’ award at CineAsia for his record breaking film “Monster Hunt.”
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Jon Landau’s ‘Avatar’ Promise Closes CineAsia on a High
“Jim (Cameron) has only ever done two sequels. And each time the ambition was to make them better than the original,” said producer Jon Landau. “Well, we are producing not one, not two, but four...
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Indian Multiplex Leader PVR Expands 4DX Rollout
PVR Cinemas, India’s largest cinema exhibition company, is to install Korea’s 4DX motion and olfactory technology to ten of its multiplexes. The deal is an extension of an existing agreement between...
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CineAsia: Sony Applies Haptic Technology to ‘Insidious: The Last Key’...
Touch and feel technology will allow creepy sensations to invade viewers’ bodies when they are watching “Insidious: The Last Key.” The film is the first feature from Sony to use haptic technology for...
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CineAsia: Charles Rivkin Looks to Asia as Locomotive for Theatrical Cinema
Hollywood’s lobbyist in chief, Charles Rivkin Tuesday delivered a message of hope for the theatrical cinema industry, in Asia and the rest of the world. The chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture...
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CineAsia: India’s PVR Signs Bumper Deal With 4DX
Nearly two dozen additional cinema auditoriums with moving seats, smells and water effects will be coming to India. That follows an agreement between the country’s leading multiplex chain, PVR, and the...
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CineAsia Hands Out Prizes as Hollywood Mega-Deal Looms
Asia’s scale and importance as the world’s fastest-growing box office region were brought home as the CineAsia convention handed out its annual prizes against the backdrop of an impending Hollywood...
View ArticleCineAsia Conference Scrubbed Due to Hong Kong Protests
Film Expo Group has scrubbed next month’s CineAsia conference hosted in Hong Kong, citing escalating violence in the city. “Due to the escalating violence and on-going anti-government protesting we...
View ArticleCineAsia Turns its Back on Hong Kong
CineAsia, the long-running convention for the film exhibition and distribution sectors, has ditched Hong Kong, its home for the past decade. It was forced to cancel the 2019 edition in December, due to...
View ArticleCoronavirus Expands its Toll on Film Industry Events
Even as some film industry events are now firming up their schedules, others are being forced to cancel, due to continuing travel restrictions and new outbreaks of the coronavirus. The result is a...
View ArticleCineAsia Convention Is Canceled Due to Continuing COVID Restrictions
The annual CineAsia convention and trade show for the film industry’s exhibition and distribution sectors, has been canceled. It had been scheduled to be held in Bangkok, Thailand in December. “We have...
View ArticleBangkok ASEAN Film Festival Kicks off With Zhang Yimou’s ‘One Second’
The Bangkok ASEAN Film Festival kicked off on Wednesday evening with the screening of “One Second” Zhang Yimou’s homage to cinema and veiled critique of China’s Cultural Revolution. The festival runs...
View ArticleBangkok World Film Festival to be Revived in December
The World Film Festival of Bangkok, which was last held in 2017, is to be revived under new leadership. It will be held in the Thai capital Dec. 2-11, 2022, the Nation newspaper announced. The Nation...
View ArticleHow Cinema Audience Behavior Has Been Changed by COVID – CineAsia
The decision-making behavior of cinema audiences has been altered by the more-than two-year COVID era – and not just by streaming – executives at this week’s CineAsia convention said. It remains to be...
View ArticleChinese Exhibitors Leave CineAsia Executives in Tears on Emotional Final Day
After four days of back-slapping, plaudits for the hosts and encouraging noises about the imminent recovery of the theatrical cinema business, the CineAsia convention’s final awards lunch was reduced...
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