Vox Cinemas, one of the largest and fastest growing cinema exhibitors in the Middle East, has installed the Movio Cinema platform. Vox Cinemas, owned and operated by Majid Al Futtaim Cinemas, will use Movio Cinema software to further develop and boost its loyalty program. Sarah Lewthwaite, Movio’s strategic partnerships director for the EMEA Region, and Michelle Walsh, marketing director for Vox Cinemas, made the announcement jointly.
Arts Alliance Media has signed a deal with China’s Jackie Chan Cinema chain to deploy AAM’s Screenwriter Theatre Management System across more than 200 screens. The deal was concluded in conjunction with Beijing CServ, a professional IT and cinema TMS provider and one of AAM’s Chinese reseller partners.
Rich Phillips is chief technology officer for Arts Alliance Media, one of the pioneers of digital cinema. In this, the first article in an ongoing series of articles about the cloud, Phillips and I talk about how the evolving technology is changing the cinema business including distribution and exhibition.
Studio Movie Grill has signed with Vista Entertainment Solutions and Movio to enhance its service offerings.
Movie has appointed Dr. Bryan Smith as the company's chief data scientist. A computational scientist with research and management experience, Smith most recently was research group manager, information & communications technologies at Callaghan Innovation, the New Zealand government agency, which commercializes technical innovation of New Zealand companies. The announcement was made by Will Palmer, Movio’s chief executive and co-founder.
014 DS, Madrid, has selected Advertising Accord software developed by Unique Digital to drive the full conversion to digital cinema pre-show management and distribution.
The theater management systems of European system integrators Ymagis Group, Proyecson and Ciné Digital Service are now compatible with the Barco Alchemy cinema projector range.
Leading Dutch exhibitor JT Cinema is set to centralize all its operations with Arts Alliance Media’s Producer enterprise content management system. The agreement, which covers 102 screens across the Netherlands, will see all of JT Cinema’s sites connected to Producer at head office. From one central instance at head office, JT will be able to monitor and manage all content, KDMs, advertising and trailer pre-show, and reporting across 20 sites.
Leading cinema operator, Galaxy Theatres has netted a record $10 million in ticket sales from its online platform in the past year. The theatre operator with locations in California, Nevada, Texas, Washington and Iowa, has reported consistently high returns from investment in its web presence; online revenue has doubled every year for the last four years at a time when overall box office sales has slowed in the US.
AMC Theatres and Movio today announced a multi-year partnership to ensure movies of all scope, size and budget are more effectively promoted to guests who are most likely to be interested. The partnership, which is scheduled for rollout in July, will help ensure movie enthusiasts can find relevant information about all films, including independent productions and foreign language films, in a way that’s tailored to the specific guest based on their movie going habits and interests.
