Vivendi to Open Four CanalOlympia Venues in Africa in January and February 2017
January 10 2017 - 10:01AM
Business Wire
Regulatory News:
Vivendi (Paris:VIV) will open four CanalOlympia venues in Africa
this January and February in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Guinea and
Niger. These cinema and entertainment venues are part of a network
of several dozen such venues to be deployed progressively in
Central and Western Africa.
On January 11, 2017, CanalOlympia opens its doors in Conakry
(Guinea), quickly followed by the opening of the venues in Douala
(Cameroon) on January 18, Niamey (Niger) on February 1 and
Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) on February 25, starting day of Fespaco,
the pan-African cinema and television festival of which Canal+
Group is one of the main sponsors.
Additional venues are due to be opened in other African
countries over the course of 2017.
CanalOlympia’s offer includes 18 movie showings per week, 6 days
a week, with a movie line-up usually coinciding with the French
premieres. Every week, three screening sessions are reserved for
movies intended for a young audience and each month a day is
dedicated to the African cinema and Nollywood. Concerts by African
and international artists will be organized at a later stage.
Several Vivendi group have been actively involved in the
CanalOlympia launch. The venues benefit from Canal+’s historical
presence and stellar reputation in Africa. Studiocanal, Europe’s
leading studio in the production and distribution of films and TV
series, is a major contributor to CanalOlympia’s programming.
Canal+ Overseas participates in the programming of African films,
in particular Nigerian movies branded as Nollywood TV. Its
advertising arm, Canal+ Advertising, handles the sale of commercial
spots during the screenings. Digitick, a leading player in
ticketing in France, has designed a simple system suited for the
African market. Universal Music Group will bring its expertise to
concert organization in the future.
The CanalOlympia venues aim to facilitate access to culture and
entertainment in countries that are often lacking such facilities
and to stimulate talent development in Africa. They have a unique
architectural design which permits them to accommodate 300 people
indoors and several thousand outdoors. The premises are outfitted
with state-of-the-art digital projection and sound equipment. They
use solar panels and storage batteries, allowing each location to
be energy self-sufficient.
About VivendiVivendi is an integrated media and content
group. The company operates businesses throughout the media value
chain, from talent discovery to the creation, production and
distribution of content. The main subsidiaries of Vivendi comprise
Canal+ Group and Universal Music Group. Canal+ Group is the leading
pay-TV operator in France, and also serves markets in Africa,
Poland and Vietnam. Canal+ Group operations also include
Studiocanal, a leading European player in production, sales and
distribution of film and TV series. Universal Music Group is the
world leader in recorded music, music publishing and merchandising,
with more than 50 labels covering all genres. A separate division,
Vivendi Village, brings together Vivendi Ticketing (ticketing in
the UK, the U.S and France), MyBestPro (experts counseling),
Watchever (subscription video-on-demand), Radionomy (digital
radio), Olympia Production, the L’Olympia and the Theâtre de
L‘Oeuvre venues in Paris and the CanalOlympia venues in Africa.
With 3.5 billion videos viewed each month, Dailymotion is one of
the biggest video content aggregation and distribution platforms in
the world. Gameloft is a worldwide leading video games on mobile,
with 2 million games downloaded per
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