ARTS ALLIANCE MEDIA ANNOUNCES DEALS
TO SUPPLY FOUR MORE SITES WITH
CINEMA MANAGEMENT SERVICE
LONDON, 12th September 2006 - Arts Alliance Media (AAM), Europe’s leading provider of digital film distribution services, has announced two agreements to provide its cinema box-office and customer management service to four further London sites. The Renoir, Chelsea Cinema and Richmond Filmhouse (all part of the Curzon group) and the Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley have all signed deals to equip their cinemas with Newman, AAM’s online cinema management solution.
Newman offers a complete solution allowing cinemas to manage everything from booking films to managing online marketing campaigns to selling tickets and concessions, all geared towards making life easier, and more profitable, for independent cinemas.
Howard Kiedaisch, CEO of Arts Alliance Media, said “It’s great that we’re adding to the growing momentum for Newman following the success seen already with City Screen and Curzon cinemas. Now we have four more sites to add to the list of cinemas which have already seen increased revenue and decreased operational costs.”
The Renoir, Chelsea Cinema and Richmond Filmhouse, three sites absorbed into the Curzon group following a deal with Artificial Eye earlier this year, bring four more screens to the existing five Curzon screens already benefiting from Newman.
Karen Marshall, MD of Curzon Cinemas, said “We have already seen the advantages of using Newman in our Soho and Mayfair locations, and look forward to having our three newest sites benefit from increased customer profitability and streamlined operations.”
Paul Homer, CEO of the Phoenix East Finchley, which has signed up for the Newman Online package, said “Newman Online means we can meet our customers’ demands for online booking and enable our box office to take a higher volume of bookings, all for no upfront charge.”
Newman provides front and back office management software, including systems for programming, customer relationship management through memberships and newsletters, and site and circuit reporting. The point of sale available with the Newman Cinema package allows tickets and concessions to be sold from the same till, reducing queuing times and staff requirements. The Newman Online package provides a customisable, automatically updated, website and a complete back-office management system allowing customers to book tickets and manage memberships online, as well as buy tickets over the phone. All Newman packages include membership management tools, and the ability to send out email newsletters to customers, as well as comprehensive reporting.
Arts Alliance Media is currently in talks with several other independent cinemas to provide Newman to their sites.
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For further information, please contact:
Kate Pidgeon: Arts Alliance Media 0207 751 7512
kate@artsalliancemedia.com
For Newman sales, please contact:
Gavin Conran: Arts Alliance Media
gavin@artsalliancemedia.com
For information on the Phoenix Cinema, please contact:
Paul Homer 020 8442 0442
paul@phoenixcinema.co.uk
For information on the Curzon Cinemas group, please contact:
Rob Kenny, Operations Manager 020 7438 9519
rob.kenny@curzoncinemas.com
Notes to Editors:
About Newman
- Newman is Arts Alliance Media’s online cinema management service, offering a simple solution for online ticketing, website, back office and POS.
- Benefits of Newman include:
- Increased customer profitability
- Improved revenue generation through:
- Online sales via customisable web site
- Box-office/bars/kiosks/restaurant - Database of member information facilitates customer communication & marketing
- Coordinated activities across circuit (e.g. in deal negotiation with distributors)
- Improved operational efficiency and decision-making:
- Tools to enable efficiency in workflow (front & back office)
- Better access to shared information to make smarter decisions - Newman provides tools for:
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-Circuit & Site Management
- - Programming (film booking & scheduling)
- - Customer Relationship Management (including membership and email management)
- - Product Management
- - Business Reporting (including management and box office reporting and ad-hoc database queries)
About Arts Alliance Media
- Arts Alliance Media (AAM), based in London, is Europe's leading provider of digital film distribution services, dedicated to building a European digital network to deliver film to the cinema, to the home and between industry players.
- For Video-on-Demand and Download-to-Own, AAM provides ISPs, media companies and e-tailers with turn key solutions for acquiring rights and securely distributing digital video content over the internet to their audiences.
- AAM owned LOVEFiLM, Europe's largest online DVD rental company, until the LOVEFiLM/Video Island merger in April 2006. AAM remains the largest single shareholder of LOVEFiLM International, the merged company, and provides the technology and content for digital distribution.
- For digital cinema, AAM provides end-to-end digital cinema solutions encompassing equipment selection, financing and integration, operator training, installation and support, and content management and delivery.
- In February 2005, Arts Alliance Digital Cinema won the UK Film Council contract to install and operate 240 digital screens, the world’s first 2k digital cinema network. To date, since October 2005, 82 screens have been installed and 55 titles and 12,250 digital shows have been played on AAM’s UK network. In April 2006, AAM expanded its digital cinema network into Europe, beginning with a 10-screen trial rollout in Norway.
For more information, visit: www.artsalliancemedia.com
About The Phoenix Cinema
The Phoenix is the oldest purpose-built cinema in constant operation in the country. It shows a range of great films from around the world, as well as holding events with directors, producers, writers and actors. It also have a busy education programme for all ages.