January 2007
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2007-01-30
Under new management - London Merchant Securities has appointed Savills to manage The Rotunda, in Kingston. The complex, formerly managed by Donaldsons, is 160,000 sq ft, and is built over four levels. It includes a 14 screen Odeon cinema - the largest Odeon in the UK, a Megabowl, David Lloyd fitness, Frankie & Benny's, Pizza Express, Satori Sushi, Old Orleans, Tony Roma's, Cafe au Play and Finesse & Frangos.
2007-01-30
Records will be broken with sequels in 2007 - Blockbuster sequels, including Harry Potter, Spiderman and Pirates of the Caribbean, are expected to send cinema attendances to a 60-year high in 2007.
2007-01-29
"Reel" life during the war years - In theatre terms, the conversation between director and film programme manager was such a dramatic cliche - along the lines of 'let's do the show right here!' - that it would have been dismissed as improbable by any self-respecting writer.When Dukes artistic director Ian Hastings casually asked film programme manager Lesley Anne Rose if she thought enough material could be amassed about cinema-going in Lancaster during the Second World War to make a play out of it, her response: ''Yes, I've been writing it for eight years,'' took him by surprise.
2007-01-29
Cinema owner hits back at pub plan critics - THE owner of a historic picture house at Holmfirth has hit back at "vicious" criticism over plans to redevelop it as a Wetherspoons bar.
2007-01-27
Theater project delayed - WORCESTER
2007-01-27
Cinema’s all-seeing eye - Cinema chain Vue is keeping a watchful eye on audiences by using night vision goggles to catch people making illegal video copies of films on the big screen.
2007-01-27
Curtain finally comes down on central cinema - ANOTHER prominent Limerick landmark is about to face the demolition squad. The former Grand Central cinema, renamed the Central Studio in 1972, is to make way for shops and offices, designed to blend in with the new look Bedford Row.
2007-01-27
German Theaters Pull Fillms, Protesting Fox's DVD Sales - German cinema chains are pulling three 20th Century Fox movies from their distribution rosters, in an act of protest against Fox's DVD sales policies.
2007-01-27
Dolby Employees to Receive Academy Award in Scientific and Technical Category for Environmental Film Initiative - Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: DLB) announced today that three employees, Ioan Allen, Senior Vice President
2007-01-27
Digitising five centuries of UK life - further 12m investment
- JISC has announced the successful bids in a further £12m investment in the digitisation of major resources of national importance.
2007-01-25
Carmike installs digital projectors at mall - Carmike Cinemas, Inc. announces that it has completed the installation of its digital cinema projectors at its Governor's Square 10 movie theater inside the St. Bethlehem mall.
2007-01-25
Cinema memorabilia to go under the hammer - MOVIE lovers can get their hands on a little piece of cinema history - the Regal's contents is up for auction!
2007-01-25
Community cinema shows its 100th film - SAFFRON Screen hit a century when the community cinema showed its 100th film, the much talked about Borat, on Friday evening.
2007-01-25
Cineplex adds 4 screens for art films - WORCESTER
2007-01-25
Trust fears for listed cinema - Calls have been made for the owners of an historic cinema which has lain derelict for ten years to decide on its future.
2007-01-25
Kodak part of UK digital cinema rollout - Kodak has announced that its Kodak Digital Cinema content player and new Theatre Management System (TMS) will be the heart of the digital cinema solution being installed at the UK
2007-01-24
Cinema to be flat-tened - A three-storey apartment block is to be developed on the site of the former Wars cinema on Plac Nowe Miasto in Warsaw.
2007-01-24
No sale in Coventry cinema auction - Coventry's old cinema, the Theatre One, failed to sell at auction last week, although bids were made close to the asking price and a sale seems likely, according to local reports.
2007-01-24
New cinema plan "addresses concerns" - REVISED plans for a
2007-01-24
DOREMI SELECTED FOR ODEON UK DIGITAL LAUNCH - Doremi Cinema, the cinema industry's leading supplier of JPEG 2000 servers, has been selected to participate in a major UK digital cinema rollout by Odeon/UCI, the UK and Europe's largest exhibitor.
2007-01-24
New cinema screen for Chorley - Chorley's biggest ever permanent cinema screen has been unveiled.
2007-01-24
Carmike installs digital projectors at mall - Carmike Cinemas, Inc. announces that it has completed the installation of its digital cinema projectors at its Governor's Square 10 movie theater inside the St. Bethlehem mall.
2007-01-24
ARTS ALLIANCE MEDIA PURCHASES DOREMI CINEMA - Arts Alliance Media (AAM), Europe
2007-01-24
79th Academy Awards - Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2006 will be presented on Sunday, February 25, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center
2007-01-24
CINEMA PARK NETWORK BRINGS FOUR-DIMENSIONAL EXPERIENCE TO SWEDEN - Stockholm, January 13, 2007
2007-01-22
ODEON SIGNS UP ARTS ALLIANCE MEDIA FOR UK COMMERCIAL DIGITAL CINEMA TRIAL - Arts Alliance Media, Europe
2007-01-22
THE Dukes Theatre and Cinema will be transformed into a 1940s Odeon in February when a new play by Lancaster writer Lesley Anne Rose opens. - Home Fires, showing from February 1 to 23, is interspersed with real archive film footage from the Second World War courtesy of The North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University.
2007-01-22
Old cinema fails to sell at auction - COVENTRY'S old Theatre One cinema failed to reach its reserve price of
2007-01-22
Seals take refuge from storm in Dutch cinema - THE HAGUE (AFP) - Sixty seals at a Dutch refuge took shelter from the devastating storm which swept across Europe in a cinema.
2007-01-22
Major UK cinema chain trials D-Cinema model - Odeon and UCI cinemas, the leading cinema chain in the UK owned by Terra Firma Capital Partners, has embarked on a beta test of D-Cinema equipment for the complete conversion of two multiplex cinemas, for a total of 18 screens. The deployments will constitute the first all digital multiplex in the UK, and each site will be managed separately as part of the test phase. Bell Theatre Services will install and maintain equipment from NEC and Kodak at Odeon multiplex in Hatfield, while Arts Alliance Media will handle installation and ongoing service provision for the Odeon site in Surrey Quays, using projectors and servers from Cinemeccanicca and Doremi respectively. Several distributors have given their backing to supply content for the test deployment, including LionsGate UK, Pathe Distribution, Universal, Twentieth Century Fox and Sony. Other distributors and content providers will also reportedly be participating in the test phase, which will last for a period of six months. The first digital film will be shown in February at Odeon Surrey Quays, where Arts Alliance have also agreed to encode and deliver digital advertising from Carlton Screen Advertising. Odeon currently has around 30 screens participating in the UK Film Council DSN project, so it already has some experience with the technology, although UCI was first involved with alternative content screenings in very early days of D-cinema (pre DCI).
2007-01-22
Theater enthusiast puts cinema on big screen - Narrafansett - William Dougherty's father once gave him a bit of advice. Don't go into the family business, he said. Running independent cinemas in a world of theater chains is risky.
2007-01-22
Celluloid Dreams Disappear in a Digital Puff - Throughout its history, celluloid film has seen many other recording formats rise and fall.
2007-01-22
U.K.'s top chain trials digital exhibition - LONDON
2007-01-22
The Odeon signs up Arts Alliance Media for UK commercial digital cinema trial. - Arts Alliance Media, Europe
2007-01-18
Celluloid dreams set to disappear in a digital puff - Before long film will be but a memory at your local cinema as reel projectors are replaced with newer, sharper digital systems
2007-01-18
Keeping the spirit of the flicks alive - Bush cinemas provide an important community service but struggle to survive, writes Garry Maddox.
2007-01-18
Barco Silex presents JPEG2000 encoder core optimized for digital cinema & broadcasting - Barco Silex, Barco's center of competence for electronic design services and Intellectual Property, has presented a new JPEG2000 encoding core, targeting single-chip FPGAs or ASICs for use in digital cinema and broadcasting applications.
2007-01-18
Worldwide Premier of Guru on Qube Cinema and Christie Digital Systems - For the first time a world premier of an Indian film was in digital format. Qube Cinema, Inc., a leading provider of end to end digital cinema solutions, and Christie, a major provider of visual solutions for entertainment, business and industry, powered the worldwide premier of acclaimed writer-director Mani Ratnam
2007-01-18
Old cinema to go under hammer - COVENTRY'S old Theatre One cinema - which closed in 1998 - is to be sold tonight (Wednesday) at auction.
2007-01-18
The Big Picture - A few months ago, Grand Traverse and Horizon cinemas in Traverse City ditched most of their traditional film projectors and switched over to digital projectors. The switch meant good-bye to celluloid movie film and hello to hard drives. Unlike a movie reel that must be carefully unpacked and spliced together, the projectionist simply plugs the hard drive into a projector, punches in the movie times and appropriate trailers, and voila! It
2007-01-18
A CINEMA will be coming to Southwater in March when an arts project brings films to the village. - UK
2007-01-18
Ex-cinema to be razed - BULLDOZERS could be the next big show at Auchterarder
2007-01-18
Money stolen from cinema - A ROBBER stole two bags full of money after threatening a member of staff at the Apollo Cinema in Augusta Place, Leamington.
2007-01-18
Teen charged in cinema robbery - HIGH POINT -- Police have charged a teen with robbing an employee of Carmike Cinemas last week.
2007-01-18
Article on former Odeon Manchester demolition. - I’ve made live the article on the impending demolition of Manchester’s former Odeon cinema, and why I think it’s bad news for the city.
2007-01-18
Construction date set for $30M Fraser St. complex and cinema - After three years of discussion, demolition will begin in February on a $30 million project that would bring a new residential building and a 10-screen cinema to Fraser Street.
2007-01-18
Cinema recognised in building awards - SWANSEA'S new Vue Cinema is among several new buildings which are being recognised at a special awards ceremony hosted by Welsh TV presenter Amanda Protheroe-Thomas.
2007-01-16
Cinema's outdoor ticket line short-lived - After complaints about cold, AMC says it will enclose sales windows
2007-01-16
Projectionist Andy's credits roll after 50 years - A CINEMA projectionist who arranged a private screening for Sir Sean Connery is retiring after almost 50 years in the business.
2007-01-16
Schools reeling in cinema cash - SCHOOLS are being invited to sell cinema tickets to raise funds.
2007-01-16
Projection Perfection: It's Not Just Food and Fun at Studio Movie Grill's New High-Tech Arlington Location - ARLINGTON, Texas, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- "State-of-the-art projection and sound systems" isn't just a catch phrase at Studio Movie Grill where they are the heart of every presentation at its new location. SMG utilizes an exceptional custom-assembled package producing a level of quality unsurpassed by any theater in the Southwest allowing for a truly phenomenal movie experience.
2007-01-16
World-class - THOUSANDS of cancer patients are to benefit from a
2007-01-16
Cinema Ad Group Aims High in I.P.O. - National CineMedia, the advertising network for theater chain operators, on Thursday outlined plans to offer 38 million shares at $18 to $20 apiece in a bid to raise about $722 million in its initial public offering. The planned I.P.O. raises the number of offerings set to kick off in the $500 million to $1 billion range, joining theater chain AMC Entertainment, Time Warner Cable and MetroPCS, a wireless broadband provider.
2007-01-16
Texas Instruments Wants DLP in Cinemas and in Your Phone - If you have gone to your local cineplex lately, you may have started noticing some interesting DLP splash screens being played right before all those advertisements for popcorn and soda. Texas Instruments has been on an aggressive campaign pushing the benefits as well as the potential of DLP technologies.
2007-01-16
Final curtain for Lakehurst Cinema Waukegan multiplex to be razed for motel - WAUKEGAN -- The largest cinema multiplex in America has closed its doors, and this time it appears to be for good.
2007-01-16
Real Image and Mani Ratnam's Guru - Mani Ratnam, known for his quest for perfection and quality, led him to evaluate digital cinema technologies and the quality that can be achieved with high quality digital projection and digital mastering for his 'Guru'. He chose Chennai-based Real Image to master his film after evaluating results on the QubeMaster mastering system, a part of the Qube Cinema end-to-end suite of products.
2007-01-16
Books press release:Quota Quickies The Birth of the British - David Lean, John Mills, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, and a host of other famous names from British film surprisingly began their screen careers on
2007-01-16
Movies return to museum - Film returns to Cincinnati Art Museum this month after an absence of almost two years. New partner Cincinnati World Cinema is opening big, with the local premiere of "Army of Shadows." the 1969 movie that is the most lauded film of 2006 opens the series Jan. 30-31.
2007-01-16
New action on cinema - TWO separate bids to build a new cinema in the city, including one with a housing development, could be on the table in the next few weeks nearly nine months after plans for a multiplex collapsed.
2007-01-16
Guru : 80 to 100 % collection in Bombay Circuit : Box Office Analysis - MUMBAI:Mani Ratnam's Guru released this Friday. The film with the same title was released two decades earlier by Ratnam's brother, which had Mithun Chakraborty playing the lead as a cop. In this version, Mithun plays a media magnate. Abhishek Bachchan portrays Dhirubhai Ambani while Aishwarya Rai plays his wife. The opening has been below expectations. The film is expected to do better in Mumbai, the south and overseas.
2007-01-16
Brook Highland Cinema to close - The 10-screen Brook Highland Cinema will close after its 9:50 movies tonight, leaving only one Regal Cinema in the Birmingham area.
2007-01-16
3i invests 22 mln usd in digital cinema chain - LONDON (AFX) - 3i Group PLC, the UK private equity company, said in a press release that it has invested 22 mln usd in UFO Moviez, the India-based digital cinema chain.3i has also been given the option to invest a further 3 mln usd at some point in the future
2007-01-16
Eyes down for an empty house as Gala Bingo shuts - GALA Bingo in Lancaster is to close.The art deco building in King Street first opened as an Odeon cinema in 1936 with 1,592 seats.
2007-01-16
Crunch time for cinema site - THERE'S a crunch meeting this week between councillors and a developer over the redevelopment of an historic Gwent building.
2007-01-16
Harry, Miss Potter and Atonement push film production spending in the UK to - The amount of money spent in 2006 on making films in the UK such as The Golden Age, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Atonement, and His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass jumped by 48% to
2007-01-16
DLP Cinema(R) Projector Deployment Reaches More Than 3,000 Worldwide Screens - DLP Cinema Leads in (Movie theatres) Digital Cinema ...
2007-01-16
TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING? - MOVIE-MAD Singaporeans never had it so good - a staggering 177 cinema screens serving about 4.4 million people.
2007-01-16
Cinema halls give the go-by to safety norms - VIJAYAWADA: Watching films in theatres may not be all that pleasurable given the lack of fire safety norms. According to a study by the Fire Services department, just four of the 184 cinema theatres in Krishna district have adequate fire safety norms in place.
2007-01-16
Thai cinema business likely to grow 10 per cent, says KRC - BANGKOK, Jan 15 (TNA) - The market value of Thailand's cinema business is expected to grow by 10 per cent to Bt 5.5 billion this year even though the business sector is experiencing higher risks following the New Year's Eve bombings in Bangkok and neighbouring Nonthaburi, according to the Kasikorn Research Centre.
2007-01-16
China a growing movie market - on their terms
2007-01-16
Curtain up on - A NEW cinema and restaurant complex is being planned for Haverhill - and residents have been given their first glimpse of what to expect.
2007-01-16
Why cinema had to reach for the sky - CINEMA developers maintain they have had no option other than to raise the roof on the new scheme proposed for St Albans city centre.
2007-01-16
Hall to double as cinema - THE bright lights of Hollywood come to Lubenham this month when the village hall becomes a cinema.
2007-01-16
Cinema in Bantam sold - As of Tuesday this week, Bantam's small, independent cinema changed ownership and gained new stewards who are looking to keep it running at its same high standards. The new owners, David Koch, his father, Sidney Koch and their friend Elizabeth Merz, are all Litchfield County residents who have frequented Bantam Cinema for years.
2007-01-16
"Franklin Cinema Prepares To Close" - Sunday is your last chance to catch a show at the historic Franklin Cinema. The owners decided to close after a rent increase would have gone into effect at the end of their lease. An event to try to save the cinema raised $18,000 in November, but efforts still have not panned out. The cinema will close Sunday night at the end of regular business hours, with no fanfare.
2007-01-16
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2007-01-16
Fabric firm hopes to use old cinema - THE latest plans for the old Savoy Cinema in South Molton were set to go before the town council's planning committee yesterday (Tuesday) evening.
2007-01-16
Cinema plans go on show - PLANS for a controversial
2007-01-16
Cinema evacuated - IT WAS almost a black Christmas for Cineworld in Stevenage when a fire started in a popcorn machine recently.
2007-01-16
Curtain up on - A NEW cinema and restaurant complex is being planned for Haverhill - and residents have been given their first glimpse of what to expect.
2007-01-16
Warner Brothers in talk with companies for cinema takeover - Shanghai. January 9. INTERFAX-CHINA - Warner Brothers International Cinemas says it is still in talks with several companies, including China Film Group, to take over Warner cinemas in China.
2007-01-16
Prices cut to attract public to cinema - FILMGOERS are being offered a cut-price start to the new year.
2007-01-16
BroadMotion's JPEG2000 Surpasses 75 MB/s Benchmark - LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- BroadMotion today announced new performance benchmarks for its JPEG2000 compression/decompression (codec) technology for an embedded co-processing platform that combines a Texas Instruments (TI) TMS320C64x(TM) digital signal processor (DSP) or TMS320DM64x(TM) DSP-based digital media processor with an Altera Cyclone(TM) II FPGA. The new platform achieves a throughput of 75 megabytes per second (MB/s).
2007-01-16
BAFTA Nominations - The BAFTA nominations have been announced. Follow the link for full details.
2007-01-16
ACCESS INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGIES TO ACQUIRE THE BIGGER PICTURE - Access Integrated Technologies, Inc. ("AccessIT") (NASDAQ:AIXD) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire alternative content provider The Bigger Picture, a subsidiary of privately held Sabella Dern Entertainment. The acquisition is expected to close on or before January 15, 2007 and is subject to customary closing conditions.
2007-01-16
QUBE CINEMA AND CHRISTIE DIGITAL SYSTEMS HELP BOLLYWOOD BLAZE NEW DIGITAL CINEMA FRONTIER - World Premiere of Mani Ratnam’s “Guru” in Toronto is First Indian Feature Film to Be Mastered and Screened Digitally in JPEG2000 Format
2007-01-16
XDC presents its open network for digital cinema and achieves 100th installation in Germany. - On the occasion of annual Munich Filmweek, XDC - the digital cinema service company - announced not only passing of the 100 mark with its digital cinema installations in Germany (about 300 digital screens in Europe), but also its new business model for an open network for Digital Cinema. This enables content providers to prepare and manage their content via the experienced XDC Content Servicing Laboratory or to use another service company.
2007-01-04
Cinema goes back for the future - Cinema is on the ropes. So much so that a cabal of top Hollywood moguls are putting their faith in a very old idea -- one usually dismissed as a fad -- to save the day.
2007-01-04
Historian, author buys Times Cinema - Theater historian and author Larry Widen is the new owner of the Times Cinema, which was sold by Millennium Entertainment L.L.C. of Wauwatosa after owning it for just 19 months.
2007-01-04
Child left alone at cinema - The Children's Commissioner is warning people not to jump to conclusions over a young boy being left alone at a Hastings cinema.
2007-01-04
Bantam Cinema has new owner - -- After devoting a career to investment banking, part-time Litchfield resident Syndey Koch returned to a love of theater and the arts when he and a friend bought Bantam Cinema Tuesday as Spinning Reels LLC for an undisclosed price.
2007-01-04
Cinema Evacuated - IT WAS almost a black Christmas for Cineworld in Stevenage when a fire started in a popcorn machine recently.
2007-01-04
Thousands Experience the MET Opera on the Giant Screen with Sell-Out Audiences in Theatres Across Canada - The curtains rose for the first time on December 30th exclusively at 28 Cineplex Entertainment theatres in Canada as opera fans enjoyed Mozart's Magic Flute in the comfort of their local theatre as the first of six Metropolitan Opera performances was broadcast live via satellite in HD from Lincoln Center in New York.
2007-01-02
The Curtain Rises on Sony's New SXRD 4k Digital Cinema Projector - ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony is expanding its line-up of 4K Silicon X-tal Reflective Display (SXRD(TM)) digital cinema technologies with a new 18,000-lumen* projector here at ShowEast this week.
2007-01-02
Carmike Cinemas going digital - a company-wide conversion to high tech digital projectors from the familiar 35 mm film may lead Hurst to spend more time in the theaters. The digital projector upgrade at Dalton’s Carmike Cinemas 9 in Walnut Square Mall is among 2,300 planned during a 22-month period. Hurst said the company won’t raise ticket prices to offset the new projectors.
2007-01-02
Pictures show real state of Odeon - The Telegraph & Argus has received new evidence that someone entered the former Odeon cinema "unlawfully" to take pictures supporting the case against demolition.
2007-01-02
More cinema revamp detail - KINGSTON - Tuesday evening, Independence Mall Manager Mark Wagner briefed selectmen on the mall’s plans for expanding the cinema. He said the mall hoped to increase the size by 13 percent, adding more than 1,200 seats to the movie theater.
2007-01-02
Cinema campaigners given hope - RESIDENTS hoping to save the Odeon cinema from demolition say they are relieved after the building was given a stay of execution.
2007-01-02
Cinema plans given all-clear - ANY doubts over whether Worksop will get a £30 million leisure complex and Tesco superstore were erased this week as Bassetlaw Council was told its decision to grant the proposal will not be overruled by the Government.
2007-01-02
The Klein revamps for a new era - A dusty 78 RPM record of Nelson Eddy's "America, My Country'Tis of Thee" sits on an old turntable in the projectionist's booth at Bridgeport's imposing municipal auditorium, a few feet from a Peerless Magnarc high-intensity lamp.
2007-01-02
IMAX turns 30, and still amazes - IMAX films think big. Really big. Their images contain 10 times the amount of information of a standard 35 millimeter print.
2007-01-02
Opera at the cinema a magical experience - Televised opera has had some successes over the years, but seldom at the level on display this weekend at the CineMark 20 theater in Moosic.
2007-01-02
Last days of cinematic landmark released on film - A DOCUMENTARY history of Waltham Forest's troubled EMD Cinema has been released.
2007-01-02
WARNER BROS AND ARTS ALLIANCE MEDIA ANNOUNCE ELECTRONIC SELL-THROUGH (EST) DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION DEAL - Warner Bros Entertainment UK and Arts Alliance Media, Europe’s leading provider of digital film distribution services, have signed an electronic sell-through digital distribution agreement to allow consumers to download Warner Bros movies and TV series.
2007-01-02
Reel keen on rolling the flicks - AS he bounds up the stairs two at a time to the projection room of the Port Fairy cinema, it's hard to imagine John Brown is the oldest active projectionist in Australia.
2007-01-02
Lights, Camera, Movies-Year of darkness ends as cinema reopens under new ownership - Nearly seven months into repairing and remodeling the old double-screened cinema, adding a better sound system and a lamp house, the owners of The Box have cranked up the projectors and are now showing movies again in Douglas.
2007-01-02
Yorks cinema where all the movies make it big - IF you like your movie-going experience on the large side, then the answer is at Yorkshire's only IMAX cinema from December 27.
2007-01-02
Visits to Cinema Enhanced for People with Sensory Disabilities in Scotland - Deaf, hard of hearing and visually impaired people will be able to enjoy more trips to the cinema thanks to a new programme launched today by Scottish Screen and the Scottish Arts Council.
2007-01-02
Cinema joy for sick kids - THE biggest stars in Hollywood will soon be entertaining youngsters at Yorkhill Hospital For Sick Children after the completion of a dream that was four years in the making.
2007-01-02
Straighten out cinema funding - The funding package for the six-screen Beacon Cinemas project on North Street in Pittsfield is a complex one, with the various parts dependent upon one another to a degree, which makes the uncertainty about the Legislature's $1 million portion particularly worrisome. The funds may or may not have been included in the thoughtless $425 million in cuts Governor Romney decided to make last month, and we expect our legislators to determine the status of the money as soon as possible. If the money was cut, we assume the Berkshires'legislative delegation will make its restoration a high priority as soon it moves back into session in January. With the swearing-in of a new governor, Deval Patrick, who is attuned to the Berkshires and realizes the need for communities to rebuild their downtowns by attracting people to them, it should be easy for the legislators to make the case for the project.
2007-01-02
The Popcorn Palace Economy - Once upon a time, the movie studios and the movie theaters were in the same business. The studios made films for theater chains that they either owned or controlled, and they harvested almost all of their revenue from ticket sales. Nowadays, the two are in very different businesses. Theater chains, in fact, are in three different businesses.
2007-01-02
£60,000 CONFISCATION ORDER AGAINST FILM PIRATE - Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with Essex County Council Trading Standards, Cambridge County Council Trading Standards, Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) and British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and have secured a Confiscation Order worth £60,681 against Peter William Axford of Kilmartin Road, Ilford, Essex, who is a convicted counterfeiter.
2007-01-02
Curtain falls on bid to reopen Odeon so owners plan hotel - THE owners of the former Odeon cinema plan to turn it into a hotel after the collapse of a bid to reopen it as a cinema and arts centre.
2007-01-02
Help Needed To Run New Cinema - FILM buffs are being sought by West Craven Together to help run a new community cinema.
2007-01-02
Marcus Corp. closes on sale of Westown property for $8.9M - The Marcus Corp. sold the Westown cinema property in Waukesha to a Minnesota developer of retail properties for $8.9 million.
2007-01-02
Save John Lennon's Cinema! - Woolton Cinema in Liverpool is an historical landmark which first opened to the public in 1927. It was frequented by John Lennon and was also the scene of some early Beatles'wooing of local ladies and features on the Magical Mystery Tour. It is loved by Liverpudlians, but it is in danger of bei ng lost through demolition, despite a community campaign in the city to save it.
2007-01-02
Old Style Cinema - This cinema has been built to look like the original theatres of the famous. Kings cinema chain. Kings built many art deco style cinemas in the Sydney suburbs in the 1930's.
2007-01-02
Cinema Screen Media Bows Interactive Pre-Movie Ads - Cinema Screen Media has announced a new technology that will enable advertisers to incorporate messaging features into their pre-movie ads, and is testing it in the Phoenix market.
2007-01-02
Cinema for flats - THE PALACE Cinema in Aspatria may be demolished and replaced with flats.
2007-01-02
Two towers theme in new cinema plan - NEW cinema plans unveiled yesterday (Wednesday) reveal that the development will be even higher than the previous rejected scheme.
2007-01-02
Sequels dominate cinema calendar - As Hollywood prepares to unveil its latest raft of big budget sequels, cinemagoers can expect to feel a sense of deja vu once again in 2007.
2007-01-02
Birmingham to lead the UK in Digital Media - Birmingham City Council today launched its ambitious plans to make the City the most advanced UK digital media hub, bringing together the public, private and voluntary sectors.
2007-01-02
Chennai multiplexes now offer pre-paid cards - Chennai, Dec 25 (IANS) The cinema crazy crowd of Tamil Nadu could not have it better. Not only have the fares in cinema halls fallen but multiplexes here are issuing pre-paid cards to keep your seat booked in the hall for a year.
2007-01-02
60 Seconds of Fame - Orange have teamed up with BAFTA to invite aspiring film makers to submit a 60 second short film around the theme of'Celebrate'. The winning film will be featured during the BBC One coverage of The Orange British Academy Film Awards ceremony on the 11 February 2007
2007-01-02
Barco achieves 1000th Digital Cinema projector milestone - Barco is delighted to announce that it has reached its 1000th 2K Digital Cinema projector milestone further reinforcing its position as a worldwide industry leader in the Digital Cinema Market. Barco now holds more than 55% market share in Europe and 65% in the Asian Pacific region and is currently enjoying, in the US, its fastest growth of any single region. The digital cinema revolution has truly begun and in order to meet the expected upsurge in demand, Barco is increasing its capacity from the current 300 units a month to 500 a month in 2007.
2007-01-02
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC FILMS TO RELEASE ON THE REAL D 3-D PLATFORM - REAL D will make 3-D films produced by National Geographic available to its exhibition partners, it was announced jointly today by Lisa Truitt, president of National Geographic Giant Screen Films and Special Projects, and Michael V. Lewis, chairman and CEO of REAL D. The arrangement will help expand the presence of National Geographic’s 3-D films outside traditional museum, science center and other specialty venues.
2007-01-02
Dolby Introduces Advanced JPEG 2000 Digital Cinema Mastering Solution - Dolby SCC2000 Secure Content Creator delivers reliable, efficient encoding and encryption for digital content
2007-01-02
Night at the Museum – Twentieth Century Fox International presents digital cinema version of movie in a dozen of XDC JPEG2000 Cinemas in Germany. - With the German release of Night at the Museum, a dozen of cinemas in Germany will present the digital cinema version of this Ben Stiller starrer.
2007-01-02
Orange adds its internet users to cinema deal - Orange will today reinforce its support for British cinemagoers by renewing its "Orange Wednesdays" promotion.
2007-01-02
PP blame piracy for falling cinema numbers in Spain - The Partido Popular have blamed internet and other piracy for the fall in spectator numbers at Spanish cinemas this year.
2007-01-02
UK Film Council consults on future funding and policy priorities - The UK Film Council is seeking views on its policy and funding priorities over the next three years in a consultation document published today - Film in the Digital Age.
