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Understanding audiences – BFI debate
How can the UK film industry build on the national passion for cinema in the emerging on-demand era? That was the central question of a debate at the BFI London Film Festival, called ‘Understanding the...
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UK film audiences – download paper
Cinema First is an organisation dedicated to increasing cinema admissions profitably in the UK. Its main constituents are film distributors, via the Film Distributors Association (FDA) and exhibitors,...
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Gothenburg lecture. Part Three
The first two parts of this report suggested that the essential task of the content industries, and particularly film, was to find new ways to engage consumers. They suggested that changes in consumer...
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Film Focus: The Spirit Of ’45
Each week SampoMedia will take a look at a new film release to uncover some of the key issues and ideas raised Ken Loach says he has a clear ambition for his polemical documentary The Spirit Of ’45 –...
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Access, experience, ownership key to demand models
Ernest Bevin, Foreign Secretary in the radical 1945 UK government famously described his foreign policy as being able “to buy a ticket at Victoria Station to anywhere I damn well please.” The words...
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A Field In England – Insight report
SampoMedia’s in-depth report into the day-and-date release of Ben Wheatley’s genre-busting fourth film A Field In England is published today. The innovative release was the result of a partnership...
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Europa Cinemas: Renewing audiences
CINEMAS need to learn to work with young people, rather than for them, if they are serious about renewing their audiences. That was the central theme of a series of sessions at this year’s Europa...
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Cinema: Is the price still right?
A comforting cliche that has held true for decades is that film always performs well in a depressed economy. In hard times, the argument goes, cinema is the cheapest and best escape from the humdrum...
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Coming soon from SampoMedia
SampoMedia has been heavily engaged over the last few months in a series of events, workshops and conferences around the world. And it has been working on a series of in-depth reports, covering a wide...
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Cinema in the on-demand age. Part 1
Independent cinemas across Europe gathered in Prague for the first Europa Cinemas conference as a 100% digital network. SampoMedia’s Michael Gubbins worked on the agenda and chaired the event and here...
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