Constantin Film Holding

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Headquarters of Constantin Film-Holding in Vienna

The Constantin Film Holding GmbH was a subsidiary of the German movie rental company Constantin Film and belongs since 2002 an Austrian private foundation . Constantin Film-Holding is Austria's largest cinema operator and the largest Austrian film distributor . Among other things, it owns the only cinema chain Cineplexx represented throughout Austria . According to its own information, Constantin Film-Holding employed around 800 people in 2007 and achieved sales of 80 million euros.

history

Cinema success of the films awarded
in Austria
year Movies Cinema visits Market share
2004 61 2,921,902 15.90%
2005 51 1,345,806 8.93%
2006 44 2,055,456 12.30%
2007 24 1,004,859 6.80%
2008 29 1,485,357 10.00%
2009 27 2,351,896 13.00%
2010 40 2,367,743 14.40%

In 1951 Constantin Film founded the Austrian subsidiary Constantin Film-Holding GmbH . In 1992 the Kirch Group bought 76.67 percent of the shares - the Langhammer Private Foundation acquired additional shares. In 1992 the Constantin Holding founded the joint cinema construction and operating company Cineinvest together with the Austrian market leader in the cinema market at the time, the Viennese Kiba . In 1993, Cineplexx Kinobetriebe GmbH was founded as the operating company for the Cineplexx multiplex cinemas , which Cineinvest has built since then. This also made the Apollo Kino in December 1993 Vienna's second and up to then largest multiplex cinema and also began building up the Cineplexx chain.

In 1999, Kiba was privatized and the shares in Cineinvest, i.e. in the Apollo, Gartenbau and other cinemas in Vienna and in the Cineplexx chain, went to Constantin Holding.

In March 2001 Constantin took over the multiplex cinema in Auhof opened by the Loews Group in 1999 and in December 2002 the cinema in the Vienna Twin Towers from the German Cinestar Group. In 2004 Constantin also took over the multiplex cinema opened in 1999 in the Donauzentrum.

In 2002 the Kirch Group sold its shares to the Langhammer Private Foundation, which has since owned 98.42 percent of the shares. At that time, Constantin Film Holding operated 128 cinemas - including the Cineplexx chain - and programmed a further 73 private cinemas. The market share was estimated at around 37 percent - the market share is also high in film distribution. In 2002 Constantin Film Holding, which also dominates as a film distributor, was accused by competing cinema operators of delivery boycotts, stipulating discriminatory and restrictive conditions as well as offsetting excessive rental rents that are unusual in the industry, "sometimes with the corresponding pressure" such as "threat of delivery boycott, short-term announcement of conditions", and a lawsuit was filed . The Vienna Cartel Court concluded the proceedings in 2005 by imposing a fine of 150,000 euros on Constantin Film. The judgment, which established "systematic continued abuse as part of a targeted corporate strategy" at Constantin Film, was confirmed in the summer of 2006 in the second and last instance. Contrary to the wishes of the plaintiffs "Hueber" (Hollywood Megaplex cinema chain) , "Cinestar" and "City Cinemas", Constantin did not have to surrender his cinemas.

In 2002, Constantin Film-Holding achieved a profit of around EUR 6 million on sales of EUR 73 million. In 2003, profits fell from EUR 64 million to EUR 0.2 million. In 2004 sales were around 80 million euros and profits 3 million euros. Most recently, a turnover of 80 million euros was given for 2007.

Cinemas and distribution program

With the Cineplexx chain, Constantin Film-Holding has 20 multiplex cinema centers. A further 10 cinemas are operated by a company affiliated with Cineplexx. In addition, Constantin Austria programs around 80 other third-party cinemas.

Constantin Film-Holding's distribution program mainly comprises US and German commercially oriented film productions. Constantin Film-Holding is one of the five major film distributors in Austria , surrounded by the major US major distributors Disney , UPI , Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Cineplexx brings IMAX (R) back to Austria. OTS , October 7, 2008 (accessed January 14, 2009)
  2. ↑ Film Industry Report 2006, facts + figures 2004 (PDF) , Austrian Film Institute , distribution information according to Nielsen EDI , June 2006, p. 29 (page accessed on February 23, 2009)
  3. ↑ Film Industry Report 2007, facts + figures 2005 (PDF) , Austrian Film Institute, distribution information according to Nielsen EDI, June 2007, p. 31 (page accessed on February 23, 2009)
  4. ↑ Film Industry Report 2007, facts + figures 2006 (PDF) , Austrian Film Institute, distribution information according to Nielsen EDI, December 2007, p. 31 (page accessed on February 23, 2009)
  5. ↑ Film Industry Report 2008, facts + figures 2007 (PDF) , Austrian Film Institute, distribution information according to Nielsen EDI, August 2008, p. 29 (page accessed on February 23, 2009)
  6. ↑ Filmwirtschaftsbericht 2009, facts + figures 2008 (PDF) , Austrian Film Institute, distribution information according to Nielsen EDI, December 2009, p. 30 (page accessed on January 8, 2010)
  7. ↑ Film Industry Report 2010, facts + figures 2009 (PDF) , Austrian Film Institute, distribution information according to Rentrak, December 2010, p. 33 (page accessed on January 6, 2011)
  8. ↑ Film Industry Report 2011, facts + figures 2010 (PDF) , Austrian Film Institute (page accessed on March 27, 2012)
  9. ↑ a b Irina Frühmann, Thomas Meickl: Grosskinos: Chronik. ( Memento of September 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Wirtschaftsblatt, July 23, 2005 (accessed on January 15, 2009)
  10. ↑ On the situation of Austrian film in a changed cinema market ( Memento of January 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) , Andreas Ungerböck, Österreichisches Filminstitut , undated, pp. 8–9 (accessed on June 16, 2007)
  11. ^ The Langhammer family takes over Constantin Film-Holding , Erwin Schotzger, Pressetext Austria, undated (accessed on June 16, 2007)
  12. ↑ Judgments of the Federal Competition Authority in the annual report 2005/2006 (English) ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bwb.gv.at
  13. ↑ Confirmation of the 2006 judgment (German) ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bwb.gv.at
  14. ↑ Report on filing a lawsuit in the press review of the Hollywood Megaplex chain (German)
  15. ↑ Gugerbauer & Partner, Commercial Law: Current Judgments - Cartel Law: OGH 16 Ok 3/06, June 26, 2006 ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wirtschaftsrecht.at archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on January 15, 2009)

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