Gulf Business Magazine Subscribe to Gulf Business and receive 1,000 FREE Skywards Miles, and the chance to win a further 100,000 in our quarterly draw. Charles Schwab delayed by 20 mins. The words MAF Greater Union may not mean much to celluloid junkies for now, but if Rogers has his way, they will soon be synonymous with a veritable cornucopia of film, old and new, showing at a Gulf cinema near you.
World cinema is on a roll.
Following a bleak few years in the 1980s, when alternative media took audiences away in droves, a revolution took place in the way cinema presented itself to its customers. The age of the art house is dead. Long live the total destination. So much so that they almost died out. But after a while they realised that they are at the very high end of the food chain.