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Entertainment Solution Services Ltd
ESS offers a diverse range of solutions to services to national and international cinema & entertainment businesses.
About Entertainment Solution Services Ltd
Entertainment Solution Services Ltd. (ESS) is an international advisory group specialising in the cinema, film production, leisure, and entertainment markets. We have significant business and development experience in Africa; Middle East including UAE and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Greater China region including Taiwan; Eastern Europe and Central Asia including Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Romania, and Turkey; and in Western Europe including Germany, Portugal, United Kingdom, and Ireland. Our clients include local government, developers, investors, and operators who require growth strategy support or are new market entrants. ESS offers a diverse range of solution finding services to national and international entertainment businesses including real estate development, leisure destinations, restaurants, cinemas and theatres. ESS founders have extensive experience within the leisure sectors, and offer multi-cultural solutions to the out of home entertainment industry, government entities, leisure location based real estate sector or any other entertainment business stakeholders, to maximise income and generate new, untapped revenues. We analyse existing markets and sectors on a local, national and international basis to identify existing challenges and offer solutions, and where possible identify complementary businesses and stakeholders to form beneficial and exciting alliances and opportunities.
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Partnerships
Entertainment Solution Services Ltd co-funds a pilot launched by Regal Cinemas, the Independent Film & Television Alliance, and France's Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC) to address the admissions problem.
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Products & Services
Entertainment Solution Services Ltd confirmed that Netflix officially confirmed The Inbetweeners 3 is in production with Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, and Joe Thomas reprising their roles, Damon Beesley and Iain Morris writing and directing.
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Capital & Finance
Entertainment Solution Services Ltd notes that more than 7,000 North American screens have closed permanently since 2019.
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Capital & Finance
Entertainment Solution Services Ltd notes that gross has grown only 18% across 25 years once you strip out inflation's role in the headline number.
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Capital & Finance
Entertainment Solution Services Ltd notes that Summer 2026 will finish as one of the best North American box office seasons in over a decade.
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Capital & Finance
Entertainment Solution Services Ltd notes that Masters of the Universe ($170 million budget, $113 million worldwide), Supergirl and the live-action Moana all under-performed.
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Capital & Finance
Entertainment Solution Services Ltd notes that Markiplier's self-distributed Iron Lung ($3 million budget, $51 million gross) points the same way.
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Capital & Finance
Entertainment Solution Services Ltd notes that Cinemark's May was a record month for box office and concessions.
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Capital & Finance
Entertainment Solution Services Ltd notes that AMC Theatres posted its highest quarterly revenue in 106 years.
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Capital & Finance
Entertainment Solution Services Ltd notes that roughly 300 films reached theatres this summer, against roughly 400 in summer 2019.
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Capital & Finance
Entertainment Solution Services Ltd notes that the season-to-date gross of $4.59 billion is already running more than 27% ahead of 2025's full-season total.
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Capital & Finance
Entertainment Solution Services Ltd notes that the Obsession and Backrooms model — low budget, high word-of-mouth, festival or creator-driven discovery — is now a proven pipeline.
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Presence & Recognition
Entertainment Solution Services Ltd announced that National Cinema Weekend returns to the U.K. on 5–6 September.
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Capital & Finance
Entertainment Solution Services Ltd reported that the 2026 North American summer box office grossed $4.59 billion domestic gross season-to-date, already more than 27% ahead of 2025's full-season total of $3.60 billion, with four more days of Labor Day business still to come.
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Strategy & Corporate Development
Entertainment Solution Services Ltd noted Tom Cruise's endorsement of Paramount's 30 films a year pledge.
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