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Tom Lesinski, a former digital and home entertainment executive at Paramount, Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment, has become CEO of National CineMedia after serving on its board of directors. Since August 2018, Lesinski had been chairman of the No. 1 in-theater advertising firm. He will continue to serve on the…

National CineMedia is teaming with Disney and Sony Music on a new preshow to be rolled out nationwide this weekend in 1,700 theatres across the country. Dubbed Noovie, the initiative on 20,600 screens from AMC, Regal, Cinemark and 49 other chains replaces FirstLook and updates the first major pre-show NCMI introduced…

Get ready to take a last look at FirstLook, the pre-movie ad bundle that National CineMedia provides for more than 1,600 theaters in 187 markets. Late this year NCM will replace it with the more entertainment-focused program Noovie, the company told advertisers at an upfront presentation today. The new offering will…

Screenvision Media today will unveil a way to simplify cinema ad sales for companies that just want to buy the hits. At an upfront presentation to buyers, the firm will introduce what it calls “10 Pack” deals, enabling sponsors to just buy time ahead of what Screenvision believes will be the year’s 10 most popular…

Cinema ad sales company Screenvision says today that it has signed 11 exhibitors bringing 41 theaters with 345 screens into the fold. The venues are in 23 communities including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston, Detroit, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta and Cleveland. The deals include a 25…

Advertisers piggybacked on hits including Finding Dory, Rogue One, The Secret Life of Pets, and Deadpool last year as they spent $758.3 million to hawk their wares at movie theaters, the Cinema Advertising Council reports today. The total, up 5.8% vs. 2015, is a new high for the industry. Deals with national and…

Last year’s collection of big event movies, led by Star Wars: The Force Awakens, helped to lift movie theater ad sales last year by 13.4% to more than $716.4 million, the Cinema Advertising Council disclosed today at exhibition’s CinemaCon confab in Las Vegas. This is the first time that the industry generated more…

It sounds geeky, but this could be important for the movie theater ad sales business: The No. 1 seller, National CineMedia, plans to challenge rivals including TV in the $75 billion a year Spot market in a new deal with ad software company Strata. The Comcast-owned firm seeks to provide national advertisers with a…

This is becoming a little meta: Beginning this month moviegoers will see pre-film ads promoting online ticket buying as a result of a new relationship between Comcast’s Fandango and National CineMedia. Terms of the deal are murky — for example, there’s no word about whether any money will change hands. But Fandango…

This is the highest sales total that the Cinema Advertising Council has reported since it began keeping tabs in 2002 — and no doubt comes as a relief for the industry following a 1.2% downturn in 2012 and a 2.1% drop the year before. "This growth is a result of more new brands moving into cinema, the unique power of…

EXCLUSIVE: The partnership represents a slight change of course for movie theaters that have been trying so hard to persuade people to put their phones away. Venues that receive their pre-movie commercials from Screenvision soon will encourage patrons to take out their phones and use the Shazam app to help them take…

EXCLUSIVE: Screenvision’s trying to keep the heat on industry leader National Cinemedia in the competition to dominate cinema ad sales. The firm says that it just signed a first-time agreement with Minnesota-based Mann Theaters — and renewed existing arrangements with several chains that have footholds in the midwest…