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Industry 2020: YEAR IN REVIEW GDC Technology Congratulates the Giants of Exhibition! It’s finally arrived…our favorite time of year when Boxoffice Pro spotlights the Giants of Exhibition. GDC congratulates not only the Giants but every exhibitor for demonstrating, despite challenges, that “the show must go on.” We are proud to be one of your trusted partners. It’s also that time of year we introduce our new products and services to improve the moviegoing experience. Introducing the new Espedeo Supra-5000 RGB+ laser phosphor cinema projector for mini-theatres. See you soon. Your friends at GDC GDC Technology Hong Kong ∙ Beijing ∙ Shenzhen ∙ Barcelona ∙ Dubai ∙ Jakarta ∙ Los Angeles ∙ Mexico City ∙ Mumbai ∙ São Paulo ∙ Seoul ∙ Singapore ∙ Tokyo Powering your digital cinema experience @GDCTechnology 52 Q1 2021 PA-1056-2101-V1E Copyright©2021 GDC Technology Limited. All rights reserved. www.gdc-tech.com 48-61_Top-10-Moments.indd 52 12/02/2021 12:33
EXHIBITORS HAVE THEIR SAY What’s your biggest takeaway from 2020? 5 CINEMASAFE August As soon as cinemas went dark in March, the industry’s focus turned to reopening. A crucial part of that step was developing and instituting an industrywide set of guidelines and best practices to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 in cinemas. That effort culminated in August with the launch of CinemaSafe, a NATOled initiative to establish a voluntary set of protocols based on World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control, and Occupational Safety and Health Administration guidelines, in consultation with leading epidemiologists. More than 370 companies, representing over 33,000 screens in North America, signed up for the program at launch. The CinemaSafe protocols include provisions for mask enforcement inside auditoriums, social distancing, reduced capacity, air filtration, modified concessions sales, mobile ticketing, and enhanced cleaning and disinfection measures for employees. The CinemaSafe logo became a fixture of pandemic-era moviegoing, informing and easing the first wave of moviegoers returning to theaters. “The biggest impact this year to all of us was the disruption of our normal business by the Covid pandemic. It was a systemic shock to the entire entertainment industrial complex. The March shutdown closed movie theaters, canceled concerts, shuttered theme parks, and stopped film and TV production. For movie theaters it killed momentum built by the first 11 weeks of 2020, where pictures like Bad Boys for Life, 1917, and Sonic the Hedgehog were overperforming. In a perfect example of the Newtonian Laws of Audience Dynamics, an audience in motion was acted upon by that other force and completely stopped. “But it’s not like they stopped watching filmed entertainment. Oh, no, people still watched. The biggest beneficiaries of the Covid theater crisis were the alphabet streaming soup of Amazon, Netflix, Apple, Disney Plus, Hulu, HBO Max, and Peacock. They were already competing with movie theaters for audiences and original productions before Covid. The pandemic shutdown only accelerated that trend. With no theaters to show their films, studios did what they always do. They made decisions in their own self-interest and found other ways to monetize their movies. Darwin would have been proud. Some studios, like Paramount and Sony, sold off releases to streaming services. Others, like Disney and Warner Bros., used the disruption to feed what were once theatrical releases to their proprietary streaming outlets. Universal’s Covid strategy was to recalculate the theatrical window. Now, 10 months into the pandemic, theaters are still facing forced health closures, and audiences are gathering around the watercooler talking about ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ ‘Bridgerton,’ ‘The Crown,’ ‘The Undoing,’ and other streaming series. Sometime in 2021, exhibition will awake from its Rip Van Winkle slumber to a different landscape. Only time will tell as to its ultimate effect. As the stuttering effort to turn vaccines into vaccinations ramps up, a cloud will lift over all of us. The biggest takeaway is that people still want stories. Soon they will be able to experience them again on our big screens.” Jeffrey Kaufman SVP Film and Marketing Malco Theatres m Q1 2021 53 48-61_Top-10-Moments.indd 53 12/02/2021 12:33
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