ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NEW JERSEY, 2024 — Willy Liao, General Manager of ShowTime Cinemas will receive the “Exhibitor of the Year” Award at the CineAsia Awards Ceremony on Thursday, 12 December 2024 at the Millennium Hilton in Bangkok.
“It gives us great pleasure to present the Exhibitor of the Year award to Willy Liao and Asia’s Showtime Cinemas,” said Andrew Sunshine, President of The Film Expo Group. “For more than two decades, Showtime has been a leading cinema exhibitor in the APAC region making them an ideal candidate to earn this year’s award.”
Showtime Cinemas currently has 17 multiplex locations with 184 theaters and a seating capacity of 21,120. Showtime Cinemas is the second largest cinema chain, representing over 20% of the Regional exhibition market share and reaches 16,000,000 customers annually. Established in 2002, it currently operates cineplexes in nine different locations, including Taipei, Keelung, Chiayi, Hualien, Taichung and Taitung. Most recently, Showtime Cinemas added an additional eight ScreenX auditoriums. Showtime Cinemas Memberships boast 500,000 active users with 1,700,000 downloads and garners 5,300,000 in ticket sales annually. Parent company Showtime Group owns a multitude of shopping malls, cinemas and luxury resorts. For more information, please visit www.showtimes.com.tw.
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About CineAsia
CineAsia will take place from 9-12 December 2024 at the True Icon Hall in Bangkok. The CineAsia trade show is where cinema exhibition and distribution professionals come to do business and network. The convention will also feature product presentations and screenings of major upcoming films, exclusive sponsored events, and seminars relating to current and future trends happening across the industry.
Additional information on CineAsia can be found at www.cineasia.com.
About Film Expo Group
The Film Expo Group is the premier organizer of events in the motion picture industry. The Film Expo Group produces CineAsia, held in Bangkok; CineEurope, held in Barcelona; and ShowEast, held in Miami.
About GDC Technology Limited – Official Presenting Sponsor of CineAsia
GDC Technology Limited (‘GDC’) is a leading digital cinema solutions provider with its manufacturing facility certified with ISO 9001:2015 by SGS. GDC develops, manufactures, and sells cinema media server for both projector and LED cinema display, content storage system, cinema audio processors, cinema enterprise software including theatre management system and advanced cinema automation system for the global cinema industry. GDC is a licensee of the DTS Surround and DTS:X with IAB, the object-based immersive sound technology from DTS, Inc. for the development of its media servers and cinema audio processors. In addition, GDC also provides a suite of digital cinema products and services, including cinema projectors, LED cinema, 3D product, audio equipment, projector lamp, post-production service, and Electronic Delivery System (EDS).
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