Report-Breaking July: CJ 4DPLEX Achieves Historic $49 Million Field Workplace Efficiency Amid North American Decline

[서울=뉴스핌] Reporter Yang Jin-young = CJ CGV introduced on the twenty first that its subsidiary CJ 4DPLEX achieved its highest efficiency ever in July.

CJ 4DPLEX has introduced in $49 million on the international field workplace in July, its highest efficiency ever. In keeping with Field Workplace Mojo, the North American market in July was down 13% in comparison with the identical month final 12 months, whereas ScreenX grew 84% and 4DX grew 189% in the identical interval. Particularly, ScreenX recorded income of $12 million, reaching its highest month-to-month efficiency ever. That is much more encouraging as a result of it was achieved in opposition to the backdrop of a decline in your entire North American market in July.

That is interpreted as the results of the craze for particular theater viewing for main movies akin to “Despicable Me 4,” “Deadpool & Wolverine,” and “Twisters” in July. “Twisters” grossed $3.8 million, its highest ever in its first week of launch in North America on 4DX, and “Deadpool & Wolverine” had its highest opening weekend of all time on each ScreenX and 4DX in North America.

The movie ‘Twisters’, which was launched in Korea on the 14th, is receiving an excellent response, recording a participation charge of over 50% in 4DX and ULTRA 4DX. Within the second half of this 12 months, ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’, ‘Gladiator 2’ and ‘Depraved: Half 1’ are scheduled to be launched by way of ScreenX and 4DX.

With this, CJ 4DPLEX opened 12 new ScreenX theaters in Japan, Taiwan and the USA final month. ScreenX opened in Toho Ikebukuro, Japan, providing a differentiated screening service with a Dolby combo theater. The native Japanese launch ‘Kingdom 4’ has obtained robust response, with a median attendance charge of 30% since ScreenX opened. In Taiwan, Showtime opened 4 ScreenX theaters for the primary time and had a median attendance charge of 53% on the opening weekend of ‘Deadpool and Wolverine.’ In the USA, we opened a brand new theater in partnership with MJR Waterford Theatre Firm and are seeing a cumulative common attendance charge of 58%.

CJ 4DPLEX Content material Division Head Jun-sik Bang stated, “CJ 4DPLEX recorded its highest-ever efficiency in July based mostly on robust efficiency in North America and is accelerating international development by opening 12 new ScreenX theaters in Japan, Taiwan and the USA.” “Going ahead, CJ 4DPLEX will proceed to try to deliver audiences the pleasure that may solely be skilled in film theaters via specialty theaters akin to ScreenX, 4DX and ULTRA 4DX,” he stated.

In the meantime, CJ 4DPLEX operates 407 ScreenX and 792 4DX theaters in 75 international locations around the globe, together with ScreenX, 4DX and ULTRA 4DX, ranging from July 2024. On this foundation, based mostly on the worldwide field workplace, it has grown yearly, recording $213.55 million in 2021, $374.74 million in 2022 and $402.05 million in 2023.

jyyang@newspim.com