Hoyts has bolstered its senior leadership team, promoting Ellisa Woodham and Christina Langdon to director of partnerships and sales and general manager of cinema operations, respectively.
Major and independent exhibitors talk to IF about the year so far at the box office and prospects for 2024, the impact of the US strikes and the landscape for Australian features.
It can be argued that now more than ever, when customers opt to watch a film out of home, they’re wanting more than a movie, but an ‘experience’. In response, the country's major exhibitors are looking to bump up premium offerings. IF takes a look.
The movies are back! All cinemas in NSW can now open at 75 per cent capacity for the fully vaccinated. IF speaks to Hoyts Group president and CEO Damian Keogh and Event Cinemas director of entertainment Luke Mackey to understand how they have prepared for reopening, and canvass their opinions on the current theatrical landscape.
Hoyts Group CEO Damian Keogh is confident the business will rebound strongly once there is a steady flow of new releases.
The closure of Australian cinemas and entertainment venues as well as licensed clubs, hotels and pubs, casinos and nightclubs is a body blow to Village Roadshow Ltd (VRL) and the exhibition and distribution sector.
“If as an industry we think we can rest on our laurels and young people will continue to go to the cinema without offering them a great experience we are sadly mistaken.”
Now under new owners, Hoyts Corp. plans to expand its circuit of premium screens and to introduce a new brand which will be pitched between a standard and top-of-the-range cinema.