Where is the cinema?
电影院在哪里？
Let's go to the cinema.
让我们去电影院。
The cinema was half empty.
影院里空着一半座位。
It will have a luxury hotel, cinemas and a water park on board.
船上将有一家豪华酒店、电影院和一个水上公园。
Daniel Manwaring, CEO of IMAX China, said the company's China box offices are likely to approach pre-pandemic levels this year supported by recovering demand for moviegoing, a wide cinema network and a strong pipeline packed with films from both home and abroad.
IMAX中国首席执行官Daniel Manwaring表示，今年该公司在中国的票房可能会接近疫情前的水平，这得益于观影需求的复苏、广泛的影院网络和大量国内外电影的强大渠道。
A recent survey conducted by media platform Yicai showed that among 1,200 respondents, 90 percent of people now ranked going to the cinema as the number two consumption choice at the beginning of this year, lagging behind travel.
媒体平台壹财最近进行的一项调查显示，在1200名受访者中，90%的人在今年年初将去电影院列为第二大消费选择，落后于旅行。
"Despite making up just 1 percent of (cinema) screens in China, IMAX took 22 percent of the total box office of Avatar: The Way of Water, and 9 percent for The Wandering Earth 2.
“尽管IMAX仅占中国（影院）屏幕的1%，但它在《阿凡达：水之路》的总票房中占22%，在《流浪地球2》中占9%。
Zhi said: "Financial pressure of cinemas has also been greatly eased.
支说：“影院的资金压力也得到了很大的缓解。
By the end of March, total box office revenue reached nearly 16 billion yuan with 335 million visits to cinemas.
截至3月底，总票房收入近160亿元，影院访问量达3.35亿人次。
Malls, supermarkets, cinemas and sightseeing areas saw their popularity rise significantly, according to the ministry.
商务部表示，商场、超市、电影院和观光区的人气显著上升。
In addition to guest rooms, it includes bars, cinemas, chess and card rooms, gyms, KTV rooms, a 120-square-meter supermarket, conference halls and an outdoor barbeque restaurant.
除了客房，它还包括酒吧、电影院、棋牌室、健身房、KTV室、一个120平方米的超市、会议厅和一个户外烧烤餐厅。
"Cheng said the unexpected COVID-19 pandemic has compounded a malaise in the cinema industry, which typically features a lack of certainty concerning financial returns or overall aesthetic quality.
Wanda's cinemas saw their box office revenue hit 540 million yuan ($80.7 million) during the first seven days of the holiday, which had recovered to the same level of last year, as several new movies hit the big screen.
At this time, the group is involved in business segments such as movies and television, games, cinemas, animation, literature, media and education.
At present, the group is involved in business segments including movies and television, games, cinemas, animation, literature, media and education.
The company has also launched its latest flagship TV sets -- S81 Pro OLED TVs, which cover 55-inch and 65-inch versions, and deliver immersive sound for the ultimate home cinema experience.
China's largest cinema chain operator Wanda Film said on Tuesday it expects to report a net loss of 1.5 to 1.6 billion yuan ($214 to $228 million) in the first half of the year as COVID-19 forced it to shut down theaters.
China asked cinemas across the country to shut down in late January to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.
While the epidemic is seen to be mostly under control in China, cinemas have not yet been allowed to open.
"All the more than 600 cinemas of Wanda Film in China have been closed since January 23, and the ones overseas also suspended business after the end of March," Wanda Film said in its preliminary earnings estimate, filed with the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
The company started to operate the second phase of the complex which includes foreign brand designer stores, a cinema, a children's park and restaurants in Sanya in January.
It is expected that these rights will expand to all Wanda cinemas across the nation in 2022.
Since the launch of the first Dolby Cinema in China in 2016, the company has partnered with Chinese cinema lines to launch 59 Dolby Cinema sites in 32 Chinese first-tier and second-tier cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Dalian, Shenzhen and Nanjing, said a source with Dolby on Friday.
As China is poised to become the world's largest film market by 2020, Dolby has seen the country as a major exhibitor to promote Dolby Cinema, a specially-designed type of movie theater equipped with Dolby technologies to enhance the viewing experience.
The latest installment in the Star Wars franchise -- "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker," which was created with Dolby sound and vision technologies, is available at all Dolby Cinemas in China starting Friday.
The company's expansion in China is boosted by local blockbusters created with Dolby technologies, such as Chinese action star Donnie Yen's franchise finisher, "Ip Man 4: The Finale," which was also released in Dolby Cinemas on Friday.
To meet the rising demand of Dolby Cinemas in China, Dolby has been investing in the education of local filmmakers to create content with Dolby technologies.
In September, Dolby opened the 2,000th Dolby Atmos cinema screen in China, at Jinyi Cinemas Jiaxing in Zhejiang Province.
Since Dolby Atmos, an advanced sound system, debuted in the cinema industry in 2012, more than 5,000 Dolby Atmos screens have been ordered globally, almost half of them in China.
The launch of the 2,000th screen in China "marks a significant milestone in our Dolby Atmos cinema business as we expand our global footprint," said Michael Archer, vice president of worldwide cinema sales at Dolby.
There will be an indoor garden, a performing arts theater, and luxury movie theater with 1,400 seats, 12 screens and 4D cinema.
Before becoming Devialet's global head in March 2018, Lebouchard was the CEO of Pathe Gaumont Cinemas between 2003 and 2012.
He transformed the company into one of the world's major cinema groups and accelerated the company's digital transformation.
According to the company, this drop was due to a decline in China's box office receipts and visits to the cinema.
Box office revenue in the first half of 2019 in China stood at 31.17 billion yuan, down 2.7 percent year-on-year, while cinema visits dropped 10.3 percent year-on-year to 808 million visits in the same period, according to official data.
For example, when Avengers: Endgame was playing at the cinemas, one restaurant in the park adopted a Marvel-themed decor and added new dishes to its menu, including an Avengers wagyu beef burger with bun, and a Captain America soda float.
"We have a couple of old television studios on the site, and one of them is going to be converted into the first permanent home for a local company called Backyard Cinema, who create themed, immersive events around film screenings,"xa0said Daly.
According to Cheng, step one is to tap into the torrent of audience data provided by social media, online ticketing and cinema loyalty programs.
Jack Ma, chairman of Alibaba Group, said a good movie does not necessarily have to cost a lot, nor tell an earth-shattering story, according to the Paper, which also said Ma watched Green Book with some of his friends, including Chinese computer giant Lenovo Founder Liu Chuanzhi and Chinese studio Bona President Yu Dong in a Beijing cinema on Monday, though the film will not be officially screened in China until March 1.
Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin's real estate-to-media conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group is exploring a deal to cut its stake in AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc, the world's largest cinema operator, people familiar with the matter said.
The company also plans to set up a total of 120 VR cinemas in the Chinese mainland by the end of the year, Seah said.
So far, the company has six VR cinemas in Beijing.
During the past year, the mini KTV houses boom has swept across the nation, rolling out in shopping malls, cinemas and even restaurants in an effort to bring back the past glory of KTV bars.
A new ambitious outlet has been launched on Wednesday in Shenzhen to screen new films on mobile devices at the same time they hit cinemas.
Smart Cinema was unveiled at a warm-up event of the 14th China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industry Fair which opened on Thursday.
It is actually like an officially recognized online cinema chain.
The China Research Institute of Film Science and Technology approved the license for Smart Cinema, a joint venture among Linksus Digiwork Marketing Consulting Co Ltd, Shenzhen Dingjunshan Technology Co Ltd and several other investors, to develop and run the platform.
The legendary film executive Dr Jack Q. Gao, former senior vice president of Wanda Cultural Industrial Group and CEO of International Investments and Operations of Dalian Wanda Group, has become CEO of Smart Cinema.
Tencent Pictures, the film unit of Chinese tech giant Tencent, has set up a distribution subsidiary aiming to boost its influence on cinemas.
US leading audio technology company Dolby Laboratories (Dolby Labs) on Thursday announced 20 Disney titles created in Dolby's advanced imaging and sound technologies to meet the growing demand of Dolby Cinemas around the world, especially in China.
Those new titles to be shown at Dolby Cinemas include live-action and animated films, such as Marvel Studios' "Avengers: Infinity War" and Lucasfilm's "Solo: A Star Wars Story.
"The San Francisco-based company has been promoting Dolby Cinema in China in the past few years.
The specially designed cinema features a vivid laser projection system and sound technology which moves audio around the theater and overhead.
The company on Tuesday announced its partnership with Guangzhou Jinyi Media Corporation, one of China's largest cinema circuits, to open 20 Dolby Cinema locations in four years.
The partnership also includes the deployment of 630 Dolby digital cinema systems in Jinyi's cinemas.
"Our partnership with Jinyi marks a significant milestone as we strive to extend spectacular Dolby experiences to more moviegoers in China and around the world," said Doug Darrow, senior vice president of Cinema Business Group at Dolby.
So far, 34 Dolby Cinemas have been opened in China in partnership with Wanda Cinema Line, Jackie Chan Cinema and other theater operators since the debut of Dolby Cinema in China almost two years ago.
Combined with advanced vision and audio technologies, the cinema is designed to make audiences feel closer to the onscreen action, transforming the movie experience, according to Dolby.
Premium cinemas have been growing rapidly in China, driven by new technologies and consumers seeking novel experiences.
China contributed 246 new premium large format (PLF) screens to the world's total of 507 in 2016, which makes China the largest PLF screen base in the world, said David Hancock, research director of film and cinema at IHS Markit.
China is also the only region to host at least one screen of each of the seven global brands, including IMAX, CGS and Dolby Cinema, he said in an article published by Film Journal on Dec 1, 2017.
"Dolby represents premium quality and experience in cinemas.
We are excited to upgrade our overall cinema experiences with Dolby and meet the growing demand of our moviegoers on higher-quality experiences," said Leo Li, CEO of Guangzhou Jinyi Media Corporation.
The increase in cinema locations has created a foundation for China's booming film market.
The country has surpassed North America with more than 44,400 cinema screens as of March 2017.
The latest PCs adopt Dell Cinema, a function providing an immersive viewing experience that the company launched in January at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
Large-screen cinema company IMAX Corp and IMAX China Holding Inc have announced a deal to build 30 new IMAX theaters with Guangzhou Jinyi Media Corp, one of the largest exhibitors in China.
Currently, it manages at least 2,000 screens across 350 subsidiary and affiliated cinemas in 21 provinces and four municipalities across the nation.
This year - like Darling in the Franxx, breaking their reliance on cinema, DVD and books - many Japanese cartoon makers are devoted to derivatives offline.
The company has also been actively pushing forward in performance and theater management and the arts, as well as auctions and cinema investment, exporting Chinese cultural products to markets overseas while introducing Western classics to the Chinese market.
Its parent Wanda Group also owns cultural tourism parks, hotels, cinemas, children's entertainment and other offline commercial businesses catering to various consumer needs.
As Chinese shoppers changed their consumption habits rapidly and started frequenting malls for one-stop-shop experience provided by cinemas, restaurants and retailers under one roof, Anta extended its distribution channels to such shopping centers and high-end department stores, outlets and e-commerce.
The company has also been pushing forward cooperation in performance and theater management and the arts business, as well as auctions and cinema investment, exporting Chinese cultural products to Western markets, while introducing Western classics to the Chinese market.
Xu Niansha, chairman of China Poly Group CorpThe company has also been pushing forward cooperation in performance and theater management, art business, as well as auctions and cinema investment with the US exporting Chinese cultural products to Western markets, while introducing Western classics to the Chinese market, including the introduction of the Dream of the Red Chamber from San Francisco Opera, film and TV arts cooperation with FilmNation Entertainment and collaboration with Art Institute of Chicago.
View of a branch of Bona Cinema of Bona Film Group in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu province, Jan 12, 2013.
Taking out the issuance expense, the company says it will allot 605 million yuan to eight film projects and 820 million yuan to cinema upgrades and maintenance.
Huang is best known for his cinema and television roles in films and series such as Blind Massage (2014), The Legend of Mi Yue (2015), The Interpreter (2016) and Extraordinary Mission (2017).
Dolby Laboratories has teamed up with Chinese brands to target more Chinese consumers－not only in the cinema, but also at home and on the go.
So far, 23 Dolby Cinemas, which combine Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision laser projection, have opened in China in partnership with Wanda Cinema Line, Jackie Chan Cinema and other theater operators since the debut of Dolby Cinema in China last June.
That's also the reason why Dolby is geared up to quickly expand Dolby Cinema locations in China, he said.
Wanda, Dolby's largest partner in China and the world, plans to open 100 Dolby Cinema movie theaters in China within five years.
"The cinema market in China is rich and vibrant, and there's a huge culture of moviegoing.
People want to have the best cinema experience," Borchers said.
[Photo provided to China Daily]Cinema operator HG Entertainment Co isxa0one step closer to an initial public offering (IPO) in Shanghai, a move which will make it the first listed entertainment branch of its parent company Hengdian Group, owner of a movie production base closest to Chinese version of Hollywood.
It first planned to raise 2.49 billion yuan for cinema construction but revised the volume to 2.36 billion yuan in this updated prospectus.
At the end of June, the company owned 310 cinemas in operation, the prospectus said.
In the January to June period, box office revenues of HG Entertainment rose to 1.11 billion yuan, the eighth highest of its kind in China, though the market share dropped slightly to 4.38 percent in the same period from 4.55 percent in 2016, which is some distance from the 13.38 percent market share of its rival Wanda Cinemas.
HG Entertainment is just one company in the field of television and film seeking listing, and companies like Talent Television and Film Co Ltd, and Omnijoi International Cinema have succeeded in going public in the country's A-share stock market in recent years.
The IPO application of Zhejiang Times Cinema Chain Co Ltd was dismissed, and the government asked it to further explain issues, such as how to deal with lots of its holding companies losing money and downside risks of the company's overall performance, an announcement released by China Securities Regulatory Commission in May said.
Shanghai received an early introduction to Disney when the animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs showed in the city's cinemas in 1938.
A man dressed up as a robot plays around with two kids at a Wanda cinema in Qingdao, Shandong province.
Wanda has been diversifying, through buying a slew of assets in various sectors including cinema chains and sports clubs, and has been a high profile buyer of assets internationally.
Two moviegoers check their mobile phones at a Wanda cinema in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province.
Beijing ThunderStone Technology Co Ltd, one of the largest karaoke system suppliers in China, announced partnerships with more than 10 leading Chinese cinema operators on Sunday, its latest efforts to further expand its online-to-offline mini karaoke businesses.
The company said it had signed deals with over 10 cinema operators, including Wanda Cinema, Evergrande Cinemas, UME International Cineplex and Poly International Cinema, and is expected to provide more than 7,000 mini karaoke booths called WOW mini KTV in those cinemas by the end of 2017.
WOW mini KTV product director Lei Yifeng said the partnerships are a win-win strategy for both ThunderStone and those cinemas.
At the same time, the mini KTV itself will also attract more customers for those cinemas.
Lei said the company and the cinemas will seek more cooperation in the future, such as offering cinema customers free mini KTV coupons.
And it plans to expand the number of installed self-service entertainment machines to 100,000 units by the end of 2017, mainly in cinemas and restaurants.
In contrast, the Index has a very strong correlation with cinema spending, with a coefficient of 0.88.
Therefore, the Index chimes with the indicators that reflect endogenous consumption such as cinema spending.
With only a 10-minute walk, Wang and her son can reach Chaoyang's Hopson One Mall, a shopping center that offers many types of services including dining, leisure activities, preschool education, sports, a cinema and bookstores.
The recovery of China's services sector at present is now more reflected at the high-level end, such as international tourism, domestic tourism, cinema attendance and entertainment.