Event cinema will be 'saviour'

SCREEN FILM SUMMIT: Event cinema will be the “saviour of cinema”, according to Curzon Artificial Eye CEO Philip Knatchbull, and Lionsgate UK’s CEO Zygi Kamasa, who called it “the future of cinema”. Speaking on the Screen Film Summit’s New Audience panel at the BFI Southbank today, Knatchbull and Kamasa noted the success of the Dr Who 50th anniversary special which took $2.3m theatrically on a Saturday night (Nov 23) alone despite being freely accessible on TV at the same time. “This is a massive part of our business,” said Knatchbull. “We’re building out new venues all around the UK and we’re telling our designers to focus on this, to design the venues so they feel accessible to the younger...