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- Korean multiplex giants release business showings of Q4 2023
- The business showings of three major Korean multiplex cinema chains for the fourth quartile of 2023 are released. Lotte Cinema and Megabox showed a rather unsatisfactory performance while CGV garnered a four-year-awaited upturn to surplus.CGV·Lotte Cinema·Megabox release earnings of 2023 Q4CGV repor...
- by KoBiz / Mar 04, 2024
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- Lotte Cinema Announces Ticket Price Hikes, following CGV and Megabox
- Following in the footsteps of CGV Cinemas and Megabox, Lotte Cinema has also raised its ticket prices in a bid to offset losses during the ongoing pandemic. The number two exhibition company in Korea also announced that it would permanently close 20% of its locations over the next two years as they ...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 01, 2020
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- The Era of VR Cinema Is Here
- CJ CGV aims to develop and sell the CGV 4D PLEX system to the 500 4DX movie theaters worldwide The era has come where we can watch VR movies in theaters. Following Lotte Cinema's "Special VR Screening Series", CGV has released exclusively a VR melodrama Stay with Me. It is highly symboli...
- by SHIM Eun-ha / May 09, 2018
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- Lotte Cinema Trains Aspiring Filmmakers in Vietnam
- Korean exhibition outfit Lotte Cinema announced on April 14 that it staged a movie production class for Vietnamese university students at the Lotte Legend Hotel in Ho Chi Minh. The special class, which was attended by 28 aspiring Vietnamese filmmakers who are currently students, is an example of Lot...
- by Pierce Conran / Apr 24, 2018
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- Lotte Cinema and Lotte Entertainment Introduce a New Independent Corporate Body, Lotte Cultureworks
- Lotte Cinema will take a leap to become a multi-entertainment company. Lotte Cinema which was originally an affiliate of Lotte Shopping will now be incorporated as Lotte Cultureworks Co. Ltd in order to expand the theater business. This change was approved at Lotte Shopping’s regular board meeting t...
- by KIM Su-bin / Apr 16, 2018
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- Airflix Debuts New Movie Theater Concept to Korean Audiences
- A new-concept in movie theaters will soon be putting empty performance venues to good use. Airflix, Korea's first "shared economy movie theater platform," recently began operating its first location. The company, which converts performance halls into movie theaters while not in use, open...
- by Christopher Weatherspoon / Jan 31, 2018
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- Lotte Cinema Stages Korea’s 1st VR Showcase
- Lotte Cinema is currently hosting the first commercial screenings of VR films in Korea at their flagship Lotte World Tower location, during a three-week showcase that began on January 24 and is set to run until February 14. Spectators can experience a variety of VR content in theaters equipped with ...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 29, 2018
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- Lotte Entertainment Enters 10-Million Admissions Club with ALONG WITH THE GODS
- Lotte Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Lotte Group conglomerate, has finally joined the 10 million admissions club thanks to its end-of-year release Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds. Directed by KIM Yong-hwa, the webcomic turned big-budget fantasy epic is the first 10 million viewer film of 201...
- by Christopher Weatherspoon / Jan 18, 2018
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- Lotte Cinema CEO Receives CineAsia Award
- CHA Won-chun, the CEO of Lotte Cinema Co., Ltd, received a Special Achievement Award at the CineAsia Awards. The ceremony took place at the CineAsa Expo on Thursday, 14 December at the Grand Hyatt in Hong Kong. Now in its 23rd edition, the CineAsia Expo is one of three major film exhibition conferen...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 26, 2017
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- Switzerland’s First Samsung LED Screen Cinema Opens
- A Samsung Cinema LED Screen theater will open in Switzerland. Samsung Electronics announced that the Samsung Cinema LED Screen technology they unveiled at CinemaCon in Las Vegas this March will be introduced in Switzerland in early 2018 through Arena Cinemas. Samsung claims that their technology is ...
- by SONG Soon-jin / Dec 26, 2017