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Promotion Information Training. The Digital Roll-out in Europe by Elisabetta Brunella , Secretary General, MEDIA Salles DGT 2011 Helsinki - Tallinn. Promotion Information Training. Worldwide digitisation: digital screens increasing everywhere as at 01 January of each year.
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Promotion Information Training The Digital Roll-out in Europe by ElisabettaBrunella, Secretary General, MEDIA Salles DGT 2011 Helsinki - Tallinn
Promotion Information Training Worldwide digitisation: digital screens increasing everywhere as at 01 January of each year
Promotion Information Training Focus on Europe: Digital cinema sites and screens as at 01 January of each year Degree of penetration as at 01 Jan 2011 Screens 29% - Sites 33%
Promotion Information Training Focus on Europe 2009: a record year for digitalisation Screens equipped with DLP Cinema or SXRD technology more than tripled from 1,535 to 4,684 Growth rate in 2009: + 205%
Promotion Information Training Digital cinema sites and screens in Europe (2004-2010)
Promotion Information Training Focus on Europe: 2009 changed the “geography” of digital cinemas % of total digital screens: France became the leading market
Promotion Information Training Focus on Europe: Digital cinema sites and screens Growth continued in 2010
Promotion Information Training The Development of Digital Screens
Promotion Information Training The Development of Digital Screens
Promotion Information Training
Promotion Information Training The main digital markets in Europe(by number of screens) as at 1st Jan 2011
Promotion Information Training The average number of screens per site: a very important indicator! The European average continues to increase
Promotion Information Training Average no. of screens per siteas at 1st Jan 2011
Promotion Information Training Average number of screens per site: a very important indicator! In 2010 in some countries it decreased to raise again in 2011:
Promotion Information Training Why has the average number of digital screens per site started to decrease? The 3D effect: if digital projectors are used to show 3D movies only, not all the screens in a cinema need to be digitally equipped.
Promotion Information Training The boom of 3D screens: 8,409 at 1st Jan 2011
Promotion Information Training 3D screens in Western Europeas at 1st Jan 2011
Promotion Information Training 3D screens in Central - Eastern Europe and Mediterranean Rim as at 1st Jan 2011
Promotion Information Training 2010 highlights • The “rush” to 3D has continued; • Hollywood output was the main driver; • (e.g. up to 4 new 3D releases over a two-week period in the UK) • the number of 3D screens increased both because of “new comers” and existing players equipping more screens with 3D
Promotion Information Training 2010 highlights • European producers started to take advantage of the new booming 3D technology • Streetdance: first European live action film made in 3D released in the UK in May: huge success • Other 3D movies from Europe: • Océans, Moomins and the Comet Chase, Sammy’s Avonturen, Winx Club: Magic Adventure,Amphibious 3D, Konferenz der Tiere
Promotion Information Training 3D: a passing phenomenon? “3D is a language. In the near future it will invigorate the documentary, giving it body and volume.” Wim Wenders, Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Biennale Architettura 2010
Promotion Information Training 2010 highlights The 3D rush was product driven and commercially driven The growth was limited by the number of projectors and other equipment rolling off the production lines Large cinema chains have increased their share in the D Cinema offer: the 10 top players account for 36% of digital screens (24% twelve months earlier)
Promotion Information Training Top players Exhibition companies with at least 100 digital screens
Promotion Information Training Top players: different strategies
Promotion Information Training 2010 highlights Many schemes evolved to increase the number of digital screens available throughout Europe - more VPF agreements (integrators) - joint initiatives by small/medium sized exh. (UK) - joint initiatives by exhibitors and distributors (Italy) - public funding (the case of Malopolska, PL)
Promotion Information Training 18,500 digital screens between the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012
Promotion Information Training Cinema Digitisation: what for? “Today there are enormous opportunities for creation. My dream is that in this century communication tools will increasingly be in the hands of the people rather than in those of the old powers.” Wim Wenders, Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Biennale Architettura 2010
Promotion Information Training • To know more on digitisation: • pick up your copy of the DiGiTalk • stay in touch on our website www.mediasalles.it • visit the DGT online informer section (publishing the Dailies on this course) • visit the European Cinema Yearbook at http://www.mediasalles.it/publicaz.htm • -collaborate to the survey just launched by MEDIA Salles and the European Audiovisual Observatory