2008-05-16
Cinema chain signs lease - A NATIONAL cinema chain has signed a 25-year lease with the company behind the
2008-05-16
Cineworld confident of revenue growth - LONDON (SHARECAST) - Box office revenues at multiplex cinema operator Cineworld are up in 2008 despite a dearth of blockbuster films on release.
2008-05-16
French chain starts to go digital CGR to have 100 digital screens by July - LONDON
2008-05-16
Arsonists target disused cinema - A disused cinema has been extensively damaged by a fire which police believe was started deliberately.
2008-05-16
Dalsa Looking For A Digital Cinema Partner - Dalsa Corp. is looking for a partner to help seek out strategic partnership opportunities for its digital-cinema division.
2008-05-16
Dolby posts higher Q2 profit - May 1 (Reuters) - Audio technology licensor Dolby Laboratories Inc (DLB.N: Quote, Profile, Research) posted a better-than-expected 45 percent rise in quarterly profit, driven by strong gaming, broadcast and personal computer markets, sending its shares up 11 percent.
2008-05-16
Katzenberg says 3D films are the future - When Jeffrey Katzenberg recently stood on stage in Las Vegas before 500 of the movie industry's most influential members and theatre owners from as far away as Australia, he looked like a general motivating his troops.
2008-05-16
http://gwinnettherald.com/Articles-i-2008-04-25-171720.112113_AMC_opens_alldigital_theater_May_16.html - CUMMING
2008-05-16
New home hope for Hull Screen - HULLS only independent arthouse cinema could be transferred to a new home by the beginning of next year.
2008-05-16
Developer to start survey of Odeon site - Survey work begins this week on Bradford's Odeon cinema building, ahead of a planning application to develop the site.
2008-05-16
Mixed feelings over going digital on the big screen - Everyone agrees that digital projection is the future of cinema, but the rise of 3D films means cinemas may soon have more incentive to invest in the technology.
2008-05-16
D-Cinema Deadlock - At least 10 3-D digital features are planned for 2009, but the clock is ticking ominously when it comes to the deployment of digital theater installations. "(DreamWorks Animation CEO) Jeffrey Katzenberg has stated that he wants 5,000 3-D-ready digital-cinema screens by March," National Association of Theatre Owners president John Fithian said. "That is aggressive. We can get there, but I kind of doubt it." DWA's "Monsters vs. Aliens" is slated for release March 27
2008-05-16
XDC Official Digital Cinema Partner for Cannes Film Festival - As the Official Partner for Cannes Film Festival, XDC is providing all of the necessary equipment, as well as its know-how, to support, under the technical supervision of the French CST, all the digital screenings including the parallel sections during the May competition.
2008-05-16
Adlabs Films to operate cinema chain in Malaysia - MUMBAI, May 5 - Adlabs Films Ltd has entered a pact to acquire a controlling interest in Malaysia-based Lotus Five Star Cinemas to operate a 51-screen cinema exhibition chain in the country, an official said.
2008-05-16
IMAX Sells $18 Million Worth Of Shares - IMAX Corp. has announced that the Douglas family, its largest shareholder, is adding to its stake by buying 2.7 million shares for $18 million in a private placement. As a result of the move, the Douglas family now owns 19.9 per cent of the company.
2008-05-16
Lighthouse Cinema Re-Opens After 12 Years - The new Lighthouse Cinema, located in Smithfield Square, Dublin 7, opens its doors to the public this Friday, 9th May. IFTN chatted to co-founder of the cinema, Maretta Dillon, to find out how the cinema made its return.
2008-05-16
Cinema surveyed ahead of plans for demolition - WORK has started on surveying Bradford's Odeon cinema ahead of a controversial planning application to develop the site.
2008-05-16
Odeon sale hit by economy - PROBLEMS with the economy have been blamed for holding up negotiations to find a buyer for the former Odeon cinema in Ipswich, it emerged today.
2008-05-16
Celebrating decade of film at Tyneside Cinema - FILM lovers can join in the celebrations of 100 years of cinema on Tyneside on a new interactive website.
2008-05-16
CGR CINEMAS AND ARTS ALLIANCE MEDIA INSTALL THE FIRST ALL DIGITAL MULTIPLEX IN FRANCE AT LA ROCHELLE - Circuit George Raymond (CGR Cin
2008-05-16
The stuff of legend - THE curtain finally came down on the Odeon in Hall Gate earlier this month - but a new book records the three dates the Fab Four took the old Doncaster cinema by storm back in 1963 as Beatlemania was gripping Britain.
2008-05-16
Sussex says, - SHOALHAVEN City Council has come under pressure to abandon plans to sell the Sussex Inlet Cinema.
2008-05-16
Council backs bid to create multi-theatre venue at old cinema site - Auckland City Council is backing Auckland Theatre Company's bid to create a multi-theatre complex in the abandoned Mid City cinema complex in Queen St.
2008-05-16
DTS sells digital cinema business for $3.3 million - AGOURA HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- DTS Inc., which makes audio parts for speakers, DVD players and computers, said Monday it sold its digital cinema business to Beaufort California Inc., a member of U.K.-based Beaufort International Group PLC.
2008-05-16
Council postpones cinema decision - PITTSFIELD
2008-05-16
Cinema attendance rises by 5.8% - Cinema attendance increased in the first quarter, despite a slump in the figures in the first two months of the year, according to new figures from Carlton Screen Advertising.
2008-05-16
Warners closes troubled divisions - Warner Bros has closed down its subsidiaries Warner Independent Pictures and Picturehouse, citing a need to streamline costs and bring operations under one roof. The move had been widely expected following lukewarm results for the pair of "specialty" distributors 70 jobs will be lost. WIP rose to fame when it bought US rights to the Oscar winning French documentary March of the Penguins, but had struggled to find box office gold in the three years since then. Picturehouse, established in 2005, had successes with Pan's Labyrinth and La Vie en Rose.
2008-05-16
Lionsgate, AccessIT sign Print Fee Deal - "Digital cinema integrator Access Integrated Technologies has formalized a virtual print fee deal with Lionsgate.
2008-05-16
Lights, camera, action as cinema set to open - WORK on the fitting out of Andover's new cinema complex is progressing well with the doors now scheduled to open on 12 June.
2008-05-16
The Big Picture:A 3D Journey - One of the most highly anticipated movies in years is this summer’s Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D. The movie, from Walden Media, is the first live-action digitally captured, wide release 3D-feature film in history. I recently interviewed Cary Granat, Walden’s co-CEO about the making of the movie.
2008-05-16
Introducing Cinema Technology Emag - Cinema Technology E-MAG is an exciting online edition of the print version and provides a truly worldwide window for everybody in the business.
2008-05-16
Planning Application for the demoliation of the Derby Playhouse. -
2008-05-16
Derby Hippodrome Theatre - A petition has been raised to save the Derby Hippodrome Theatre.
Intended re-use is as a live theatre, after many years as a bingo
club and recent attempts by the current owner to demolish it.
2008-05-10
Museum puts Rare Film in the Spotlight - The Black Country Living Museum will be rolling out the red carpet on Saturday 17th May for a glittering evening performance of its latest find - a rare print of Buster Keaton's 1927 silent masterpiece - The General.
For more details press read the press release
2008-04-28
French chain starts to go digital - CGR to have 100 digital screens by July
2008-04-28
Sony Creates New Division in Support of 4k Technology - In hopes of increasing awareness of 4k projection technology, Sony Electronics has created a new business group, called the Digital Cinema Services and Solutions Division, which is located in Los Angeles. This group will install, maintain, and finance programs that deal with the digital cinema industry, primarily servicing clients of the Sony CineAlta 4k SXRD Projector, also known as the SRX-R220. Realizing that the conventional cinema market is moving to digital cinema, this recent move by Sony will be detrimental to encouraging the use of 4k, as opposed to 2k projection. Providing his management experience to the company, Michael Fidler will be senior vice president of the newly created group.
2008-04-28
Projectionist sees indie films for free, but it's a lot of work - Max Savage feels pretty lucky when he goes to work. The San Rafael native, 24, is a projectionist at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, where he gets to see some of the best independent films for free. Savage is a student at College of Marin and works at the Rafael at night.
2008-04-27
Digital Cinema 3-D dispute - NATO prexy John Fithian warned Sunday that the cinema industry is headed for “a potential train wreck” over 3-D if studios and theater owners do not settle their dispute over digital cinema fees in short order. And he noted that while heavyweights such as Jeffrey Katzenberg and James Cameron were early and ardent supporters of digital, key helmers like Steven Spielberg remain on the fence.
2008-04-27
Killer snake on loose in cinema - A DEADLY snake caused mayhem after it was found warming itself under a popcorn machine in a Northern Territory cinema - less than a metre from teenage staff.
2008-04-27
Never mind the credit crunch, have you seen the price of popcorn? - I came across a receipt the other day from a trip the cinema. It was HUGE. But it wasn' for tickets (although in most places, especially central London that receipt would be HUGE too). No, it was for popcorn and a drink. OK, it was a large popcorn (salt, only ever salt) and a medium drink. How much did that come to?
2008-04-27
Film website lands in UK - LONDON - A new film website, Screenrush.co.uk launches in the UK this week and aims to become a leading platform to promote films within Europe.
2008-04-27
Opera muscles in on the big screen - Move over, Indiana Jones. A multiplex chain more usually the home of the big-budget blockbuster is about to screen productions from one of the world's most famous opera houses.
2008-04-27
Bermondsey Square signs hotel, cinema and Sainsbury - Igloo has signed up a hotel, a cinema and a Sainsbury’s store at its Bermondsey Square development in south London.
2008-04-27
Two in race to build cinema - Two cinema operators are bidding to open in Kidderminster as part of a £38 million redevelopment of the Worcester Street area.
2008-04-27
Livingstone: I will build an open-air cinema on the Thames - Ken Livingstone today pledged to build a new open-air cinema beside the Thames as he unveiled his arts manifesto.
2008-04-27
Livingstone backs BFI film centre for South Bank - Support for a new film centre with an outdoor screen on the South Bank and backing for the refurbishment of The Old Vic were two of the commitments made by Ken Livingstone at the launch of his arts and culture manifesto on Monday.
2008-04-27
EMI makes restructuring move - The reorganization of EMI into what topper Guy Hands terms "a global functional matrix organization" was completed Thursday with the announcement of regional presidents, the creation of two boards and the shift of Roger Ames from A&R to acquisitions.
2008-04-27
Preserved 1930s film posters found underneath carpet - Another discovery arrived on my desk this week from John Wragby, from Annitsford. While clearing out an old house, he discovered a set of old cinema posters being used a underlay beneath a carpet.
2008-04-27
The Exhibitionist: Film Appreciation in the Digital Age - Is film really better than digital? Or vice versa? Following the news that Steven Spielberg is allegedly to blame for the slow rollout of digital projectors into cinemas, I've been thinking about the questions all week. And I have no idea. But not because siding with Spielberg, just because he's Spielberg, is difficult when he suddenly announces a new digital 3-D project (Ghost and the Shell) he'll be producing. The reality is that I'm not technologically informed enough and, more importantly, my eyesight isn' good enough for me to really make the distinction anymore.
2008-04-27
Digital cinema in Ireland - Last week the Arts Council launched the report Digital cinema in Ireland (available from the web site), which was commissioned by the Cultural Cinema Consortium, the strategic partnership between the Arts Council and the Irish Film Board.
2008-04-27
After some hard times, drive-ins celebrate 75 years of entertainment - About two years ago, Paul Geissinger was getting ready for another night of movies at Shankweiler's drive-in movie theater in Orefield when he found a state trooper standing outside.
2008-04-27
Film portal launches in UK - A new film portal, Screenrush.co.uk, launches in the UK this week, pitched as ‘YouTube, IMDB, Odeon, Lovefilm and TimeOut all-in-one’.
2008-04-27
3D Cinema could provide new market for practitioners - With a new generation of 3D films being screened across UK cinemas, the sale of polarised spectacles could provide a new market for opticians.
2008-04-27
Qube Is Digital Cinema Partner at 2008 Tribeca Film Festival - Qube Cinema is proud to announce its partnership with the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival taking place in New York City from April 23 to May 4. This initiative is aimed at introducing and exposing independent filmmakers to Qube Cinema and the DCI JPEG2000 format - the global standard for digital cinema.
2008-04-27
The future of film education: digital media - DePaul University has pulled a neat little bit of rebranding and retooling, which went into effect yesterday. The old School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems has been transformed
2008-04-27
Insight forms 3-D consortium - LAS VEGAS -- Driven by the momentum of 3-D in digital cinema, the U.S. Display Consortium and consulting firm Insight Media launched the 3D@Home Consortium with 22 founding members Tuesday at the NAB Show in Las Vegas.
2008-04-27
Spielberg Blamed for 3-D “Train Wreck” - There’s currently a crisis in the theater industry and apparently it’s all Steven Spielberg’s fault. According to Variety coverage of Sunday’s National Association of Broadcasters Show’s Digitial Cinema Summit, the filmmaker was named as a constant obstacle in the transition to digital cinema.
2008-04-27
Plans for cinema - THERE are two applications for cinemas currently being assessed by the Whitsunday Regional Council (WRC).
2008-04-27
Battle declared over 'unforgivable' plan to destroy cinema - THE demolition of a historic cinema in Edinburgh would be "unforgivable", architectural experts have warned.
2008-04-27
Inside the old Odeon cinema, Cambridge Street, Aylesbury - In March 2008 I investigated this long closed and fast deteriorating cinema building with my brother. This is a small documentary of what we found, as shot on my digital stills camera when the battery on my camcorder proved flat.
2008-04-27
How cinema helped me to survive in Palestine - After Jerusalem became violently divided, I wondered how people could carry on going to the movies. My film offers an answer
2008-04-27
The Cinema that comes to you - And now rural communities in Stratford district are seeing the principle in motion - with the success of the Moving Pictures project that brings the cinematic experience to their doorsteps.
2008-04-27
Shuttered cinema sold in foreclosure - In describing why Streator's Northpoint Cinemas shut its doors in late February, owner Daniel Rogers listed taxes, wages, expiration of a tax break, fuel costs and other expenses as reasons for the closing.
2008-04-27
Final show at Odeon - THE curtain has finally come down on Doncaster's Odeon cinema.
2008-04-27
The Secret Projectionist Short Film -
2008-04-27
Cinema site saga is still rolling on - THE future of a former cinema site is still undecided after appeals against the refusal of two housing schemes were dismissed.
2008-04-27
Council weighs cinema funding - PITTSFIELD — To help offset the rising costs of the delayed Beacon Cinemas project, Mayor James M. Ruberto is asking the City Council to spend $1.1 million from the GE Economic Development Fund.
2008-04-27
Petition reaches 5000 signatures - Following a successful awareness event on the 19th April and an additional signature signing event held by Peter Valentine at the Thamesside Theatre in Grays the combined petition count has now reached an amazing 5000 signatures!
2008-04-16
New bid to turn former Odeon into flats - ANOTHER bid to demolish the former Odeon cinema in St Albans and replace it with a block of flats has been launched by developers Wattsdown.
2008-04-16
Digital cinema dispute in 3-D - NATO prexy John Fithian warned Sunday that the cinema industry is headed for "a potential train wreck" over 3-D if studios and theater owners do not settle their dispute over digital cinema fees in short order. And he noted that while heavyweights such as Jeffrey Katzenberg and James Cameron were early and ardent supporters of digital, key helmers like Steven Spielberg remain on the fence.
2008-04-16
Dolby SCC2000 Secure Content Creator Establishes Global Presence - LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:DLB), announced today at the 2008 NAB Show that it has expanded the global presence of its Dolby
2008-04-16
Chemical evacuation empties cinema - The cinema in Streatham High Road was evacuated this afternoon after a chemical spill.
2008-04-16
Adobe Rolls Camera on New Digital Cinema Standard - Adobe hopes to become the standard bearer in digital movie making with CinemaDNG. The format would help ease workflows and processes for digital filmmakers by serving as an across-the-board standard for RAW image files. The move has support from major camera manufacturers like Panavision.
2008-04-16
Kodak Selects intoPIX Technology for Digital Cinema - intoPIX, the leading high-performance JPEG 2000 solution provider, announces today that Kodak Digital Cinema will use the intoPIX decoder in next generations of the Kodak Content Player JMN3000. New Kodak units with intoPIX technology inside will be available later this year. The intoPIX decoder, which meets DCI specifications, will bring Kodak new flexibility in its continuing evolution of digital cinema systems that meet the industry
2008-04-16
DTS Sells Digital Images Business to Reliance Big Entertainment - DTS, Inc. today announced that the Company has completed the sale of its Digital Images business to Reliance Big Entertainment Ltd., a member of the Reliance ADA Group of India.
2008-04-16
International Datacasting's 3D Digital Cinema Product With Sensio Technology a Hit at European Satexpo Event - OTTAWA, CANADA and LAS VEGAS, NEVADA--(Marketwire - April 15, 2008) - International Datacasting Corporation (TSX:IDC - News), a global leader in providing advanced solutions for multimedia content distribution via satellite, announced the European debut of its SuperFlex Pro Cinema 3D Live product line with embedded Sensio
2008-04-16
Cinema to close - but will re-open for school hoidays - It means that the Parkes-Forbes area will be without a cinema following the closure about a month ago of the Forbes Cinema.
2008-04-16
ODEON BRINGS IN TECHNOLOGY TO SHOW NEXT-GENERATION FILMS - Derby Odeon will embrace digital technology later this year as it faces up to the extra competition from the new Showcase Cinema De Lux.
2008-04-16
1 dead, 2 cops hurt in shootout at movie theater - EL SEGUNDO, Calif. - A shootout at a movie theater has wounded two police officers and left a suspect dead.
2008-04-16
Last picture show as town cinema closes doors - MORE than seven decades of cinema history came to an end in Doncaster yesterday when the Odeon cinema closed its doors for the final time.
2008-04-16
Before your very eyes - Films in 3D are back - and poised to revolutionise the cinema. And even the new-style specs are comfortable
2008-04-16
King of clubs - NIGHTCLUB tycoon Stefan King wants to launch a multi-screen cinema in Glasgow's South Side.
2008-04-16
Many issues threaten 3-D momentum - LAS VEGAS -- Digital-cinema stakeholders said that while digital-cinema and 3-D has been widely embraced, there remain myriad unresolved technical and business issues that threaten the momentum.
2008-04-16
Beam it up: Tiny projectors magnify cell-phone cinema - LAS VEGAS Recognizing that it's not much fun to watch movies on a tiny cell phone, a number of companies are racing to develop gadgets that project what's playing on the small screen onto walls, tablecloths and other handy surfaces.
2008-04-16
Over-50s cheaper film chance - CINEMA tickets to see award-winning films are at a reduced price for the over-50s this month.
2008-04-16
Mecca Bingo Hall in Swindon is Sold Off - It has just been reported that a Mecca Bingo club in Swindon
2008-04-16
FogScreen, Inc. AV Rental Partner Program Continues Rapid Expansion With Newest Additions - SAN FRANCISCO, April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- FogScreen, Inc., creators of the world's first walk-through projection screen made of "dry" fog, today announced the newest additions to its rapidly growing AV Rental Partner Program. In the first quarter FogScreen, Inc. has added new partners domestically in the states of Arizona, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and the District of Columbia. FogScreen, Inc. is also proud to announce their first Canadian partner in British Columbia, as well as new international partners in Bahrain, Belgium, Bulgaria, Russia and Turkey.
2008-04-15
Media Invitation to attend the RAAM 2008 UK Film Distribution and Cinema Exhibition Conference and Forward Screenings - Press Release for the above event taking place on the 29th-1st May. Follow the link for more details.
2008-04-15
Cinema Exhibitors Association launches website - The CEA today launched it's new website with large of information on the organisation and issues affecting the industry [words by editor]
2008-04-11
Old cinema to be demolished - LANCASTER'S famous old cinema building will be pulled down to be replaced by a development "more in keeping with the city centre".
2008-04-11
STRATACACHE Announces New Release of OmniCast for Digital Cinema at the NAB Show - STRATACACHE today announced the newest release of OmniCast for Digital Cinema (DC) 4.0, an updated version of the fast and highly efficient digital cinema distribution software. The 4.0 release is capable of distributing some of the movie industry
2008-04-11
STRATACACHE to Exhibit Newly Released Digital Cinema Solution at 2008 NAB Show in Booth C1247 - DAYTON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--STRATACACHE, a leading provider of scalable, high-speed data delivery solutions for the digital cinema and digital signage industries, returns to Las Vegas this month to participate in the 2008 NAB Show, April 14-17. Exhibiting in booth C1247, STRATACACHE will spotlight OmniCast for Digital Cinema, a recently upgraded solution for fast, efficient digital cinema distribution, and ActiVia for Media, its award-winning digital signage software.
2008-04-11
QuVIS Unveils Real-time JPEG2000 Mastering Options for the QuVIS Acuity - The QuVIS Acuity now offers real-time digital video mastering capabilities never before seen on a single server, providing workflow solutions that directly increase HD and Digital Cinema content production efficiencies and profitability.
2008-04-11
Hollywood Gets Depth With Digital Makeover - Hollywood studios, theater owners and others have spent more than eight years working to bring digital cinema projectors to the big screen.
2008-04-11
COMING TO A CINEMA NEAR YOU ... IT'S THE BIGGEST SCREEN IN THE MIDLANDS - When National Amusements opens the country's first luxury cinema in Derby in May, city moviegoers will be able to watch the latest blockbusters on the biggest screen in the Midlands.
2008-04-11
How Things Get Invented - The history of motion pictures is an interesting one, and I am learning more about it in the context of my present work inventing stereoscopic motion picture systems, and in connection with the work I am doing with studios and filmmakers. I am taking working with filmmakers seriously because the quality of the Real D system is judged by the content projected on our screens. I was recently appointed as the co-chair (Peter Andersen is the other co-chair) of the sub-committee of the ASC Technology Committee tasked to help figure out workflow production pipeline and stereoscopic cinematographic issues. These subjects are tentative and need to be developed and we
2008-04-11
Credits roll at town's old cinema - The curtain finally falls on the Odeon cinema in Doncaster on Thursday night - ending 74 years of entertainment.
2008-04-11
Drive-in draws curtains - This is one show that will go on no longer.
2008-04-11
Farrell pitches underground cinema plan - A NEW home for the Edinburgh International Film Festival and the Filmhouse could be built below one of the Capital's main public squares under plans drawn up by the city's design champion.
2008-04-11
Open air cinema will be back - KUCHING - The Information Ministry will reintroduce the "wayang pacak" or open air cinema which will show films by Malaysian directors in the effort to make the ministry more people-friendly.
2008-04-11
Charm of big screen no more in twin cities - Cinema houses, once a major source of entertainment in twin cities, are fast losing their appeal to people with owners thinking it advisable to turn these into commercial hubs to generate handsome profit.
2008-04-11
Last picture show for old cinema - A 101-year-old cinema is staging its last show after campaigners' hopes were dashed that it could be saved.
2008-04-11
Going, going, gone - THE number is up for the town centre's Mecca Bingo, whose members have been given only a week's notice that the doors are closing.
2008-04-11
Cinema celebrates birthday with free tickets - Rochdale's Odeon cinema celebrates its tenth birthday today, Thursday 10 April, and to celebrate they are giving away free tickets to some lucky customers.
2008-04-11
Cine-tal Develops 3D Image Processing Solution for Dolby - Cine-tal Systems announced that it has developed customized, image processing technology for Dolby Laboratories that facilitates the playback of 3D movies using a Dolby 3D Digital Cinema process while they are in production. The technology, which will be deployed under the name Cine-tal Color Processor for Dolby 3D, is aimed at movie studios and other producers of stereoscopic 3D films using a Dolby 3D Digital Cinema process for post production operations such as color grading and screenings. The system employs Dolby's advanced color processing for playback of any 3D source material that has not yet been packaged into a DCP (Digital Cinema Package). Cine-tal's solution ensures color accuracy in 3D playback, so that the playback image matches Dolby 3D Digital Cinema systems used in theaters
2008-04-11
ADAG acquires Hollywood film restorer - MUMBAI: In its first acquisition in the digital services space, ADAG
2008-04-11
£18 million funding boost for film in the regions from UK Film Council - The UK Film Council will be investing a total of £18 million over the next two years in the English regions to help them boost their local film industries and open up access for the public to our screen heritage.
2008-04-11
Cine-tal Develops 3D Image Processing Solution for Dolby - DMN Newswire--2008-4-8--Cine-tal Systems announced that it has developed customized, image processing technology for Dolby Laboratories that facilitates the playback of 3D movies using a Dolby
2008-04-11
The curtain drops - Generations of memories play on, but tonight will be Dedham cinema's final act
2008-04-11
First 5D Cinema to Open in Moscow - The first ever cinema equipped with 5D technologies will appear in Moscow in the nearest future. It will be situated inside the shopping-entertainment centre Mall of Russia of the Moscow international business-centre Moscow-City.
2008-04-11
Regal Entertainment Group Announces Two Additional Locations for Cinebarre Cinema and Eatery Concept - KNOXVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE: RGC), a leading motion picture exhibitor owning and operating the largest theatre circuit in the United States, today announced that two existing Regal Entertainment Group theatres are going to be converted into Cinebarre theatres. Under the Cinebarre brand these locations will offer first-run films, an expanded menu including fresh pizzas and burgers along with a wide selection of beer and wine. The two locations announced are in the Denver and Charleston markets.
2008-04-11
Historic cinema's - AN historic cinema is to re-open next month after a
2008-04-11
Regal expanding cinema eatery concept - Regal Entertainment Group announced today two existing theater locations will be converted to Cinebarre theaters, a
2008-04-11
Almost had a major problem with Juno - Juno came in on Thursday as usual. The projectionist took it into the booth and opened it. I was just about to leave for my class (my last.one. ever!) when he said he had bad news. Reel 3 was missing!
2008-04-11
Will the Empire strike back in the war of the cinemas? - AS Eden's leisure revolution takes hold in High Wycombe, questions remain over what will become of one of the town's other key recreational destinations.
2008-04-11
Competition Commission cancels cineworld - The Competition Commission (CC) has today formally cancelled its inquiry concerning the anticipated acquisition by CineWorld Group Plc of the cinema business at the Hollywood Green Leisure Park, Wood Green, previously operating under the Showcase brand.
2008-04-11
Odeon signs Irish management deal - Odeon & UCI Cinemas has announced a deal with Entertainment Enterprises Group (EEG) to manage and operate five multi-screen cinemas in Ireland.
2008-04-11
Barco 3D Cinema comes to NuMetro - In Fourways, Johannesurg, NuMetro Montecasino is installing a Barco 2k digital cinema projector for Questek Advanced Technologies. The D-Cine Premiere DP100 digital projector is capable of 2048 x 1080 display resolution. The system uses Texas Instruments DPL cinema technology for premium performance and reliability. According to Sobi Mokholo, general manager of Questek Advanced Technologies,
2008-04-11
Odeon, UCI to run Storm chain - LONDON
2008-04-11
Proavio to Introduce New Line of Fibre Channel Storage Products for Growing Digital Cinema Markets - Proavio, U.S.A., has announced a completely new line of 4Gb Fibre Channel storage solutions designed to accommodate the needs of growing digital cinema storage requirements.
2008-04-11
Lego to run campaign across cinemas - LONDON - Toy brand Lego is to promote its portfolio across ad cinema chain Vue for the next 12 months.
2008-04-11
Mature cinemagoers targeted by Carlton - LONDON - Carlton Screen Advertising is targeting older cinemagoers with an "Award-Winning Film Season" at Odeons across the UK as part of its Senior Screen initiative.
2008-04-11
An Open Letter to Terra Firma Capital Partners Limited - Traditionally, the cinema offered the chance for families to and young people to find entertainment in their local area at a price level their budget could afford. However, for some time now there has been a number of factors affecting the use of cinemas for entertainment.
2008-04-11
On the job - Benjamin C. Ash, Manager, West Boylston Cinema Inc., West Boylston
2008-04-11
Digital Projector - At the theater I work at we just got our first digital projector! It's so cool, we control it through a touch screen computer and instead of film the movie is on a portable hardrive. The other day at work we got it running and sat in the theater to watched some of it. The image is amazing, no scratches or little black spots. It was cool to see but at the same time it was kind of depressing because slowly the digital projectors will take over the the movie theater world and us projectionists will loose our jobs. Not that I want to be a projectionist for the rest of my life but there are a lot of die hard projectionists out there.
2008-04-11
Cinema made a - A LANDMARK cinema in Barry has been declared a
2008-04-11
UK event to address impact of D-cinema on distributors - The role of distributors in the development of digital cinema is the subject of a London conference this month, organised by analyst Screen Digest and the European Digital Cinema Forum.
2008-04-11
Former bakery site could be transformed - It is the latest purchase by the firm which has also taken over ownership of the historic Odeon cinema on Hall Gate.
2008-04-11
- A HISTORIC North-East cinema is to reopen next month after a
2008-04-11
Cinema planned for Swan Centre - Cinema group Ward Anderson has been granted planning permission to develop a cinema on top of the Swan shopping centre in Rathmines in Dublin.
2008-04-11
What is the cinema industry's death wish? - So we went to the movies on our tenth anniversary last week. We saw an average-to-not-so-good movie. But what bothered me was the disaster that is the cinema experience these days.
2008-04-11
Network18 to get into cinemas, roll out theatre chain - Plans to nationally roll out multiplexes, with cinema screens, food courts, besides other entertainment zones; special focus on smaller cities
2008-04-11
UK screen advertiser bags two new contracts.(ADVERTISING)(Pearl and Dean Ltd. wins contracts from Vue Cinemas and Bloom... - UK screen advertiser Pearl & Dean has won two significant screen advertising contracts. After a disappointing start to the year (see 2005/59b2), Pearl & Dean has won the advertising contract for seven Ster Century sites now incorporated into Vue Cinemas (see 2005/150b3). Vue now has 49 multiplexes with 496 screens. The contract takes in Ireland-a key target for Pearl & Dean. Ireland is undergoing a second wave of multiplex growth, and Pearl & Dean is keen to expand its presence. It recently won the contract for a new nine-screen multiplex
2008-04-11
Reliance to open cinema chain in US - MUMBAI: Reliance Entertainment Pvt Ltd (REPL) is all set to start its cinema chain in the US under the brand name Big from next month. More than 200 theatres will screen Hindi as well as regional films from India.
2008-04-11
Bexhill's only cinema closes - FOLLOWING weeks of speculation it has been announced Bexhill's only cinema has closed.
2008-04-11
Cinema owner to appeal two years backpay order - A cinema owner, ordered to backpay a staff member for two years of unpaid work, says he will appeal the decision.
2008-04-11
Arthouse cinemas refuse to face final curtain - While in recent years cinema may have become dominated by the Hollywood blockbuster, according to Marcus Wan independent picture houses are not yet ready to go quietly.
2008-04-11
Picture House Joins The Dots With Online Initiative - Joiningthedots.tv, the London based online documentary initiative partnered by Mercury Media and The Independent Newspaper, which launches on April 15, has announced that an agreement to show films licensed to the site in cinema's across the UK has been reached with Picturehouse Cinemas, a leading UK independent Cinema network.
2008-04-11
Cinema man worked two years without pay - A man who worked for free for nearly two years will finally get paid after the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) ordered his employer to cough up.
2008-04-11
Independent Exhibitors Step Into the Digital Future - NATO's Cinema Buying Group Selects AccessIT to Provide Digital Cinema Equipment and Service to Over 8,000 Independent North American Screens AccessIT Offered the Winning Package of Extensive Experience, Exhibitor Choice, and Competitive Cost, Says Wayne Anderson, Managing Director of CBG- NATO
2008-04-11
Brian's back to set films rolling - GOLDEN years of the cinema will be celebrated by a Calder Valley theatre as part of its centenary celebrations.
2008-04-11
The final cut for Birmingham's Midland Arts Centre projectionists - PROJECTIONISTS Phil Fawke and John Brockington became screen stars themselves today.
2008-04-11
XDC and Luxor Make Breakthrough in Russia With Scar 3D Playing on 33 Digital Cinema Screens - Shown for the first time during the Cannes Film Festival 2007, Scar is a first-of-its kind 3D movie. Moviegoers should brace themselves for an entirely new dimension in larger-than-life horror, shot entirely with one vision: to create an amazing full 3D digital cinema experience.
2008-04-11
CBG focused on AccessIT - The Cinema Buying Group -- a buying program of the National Association of Theatre Owners for small and independent theater operators -- has inked a far-reaching deal with Access Integrated Technologies, making the digital-cinema deployer the integrator for the CBG's 600-plus members in the U.S. and Canada.
2008-04-11
Developers buy historic Odeon Cinema - DEVELOPERS Lazarus Properties have bought Doncaster's historic Odeon Cinema - and it will show its last film in a week.
2008-04-11
UK's leading cinema circuit signs up Royal Opera - In a further sign that alternative content is beginning to make in-roads into the cinema of the future, leading UK cinema circuit Odeon Cinemas and smaller circuit City Screen have agreed a deal with the Royal Opera House (ROH) for the upcoming season'\s events to be shown in its cinemas. Deal is arranged as part of wider distribution agreement between UK digital distribution company Arts Alliance Media (AAM), and Canadian DigiScreen Corp, Pillar Group and Royal Opera House'\s Opus Arte. AAM has an exclusive distribution agreement to take ROH events across Europe and will be responsible for cinema exhibitor booking negotiation, digital print services, security and tracking, live event project management and marketing/PR support. ROH plans to film 14 productions a year in HD and screen them in cinemas, beginning with The Marriage of Figaro in the autumn, although this was shot in 2006. Events will be a combination of Covent Garden'\s opera and ballet; the latter will be new for cinemas and is hoped to tap into a wider family audience. The new strategy for Covent Garden follows the acquisition of spin-off company Opus Arte, Covent Garden'\s DVD and CD sales outfit), by the ROH for £5.7m. Long-time negotiations between unions and management for new performers'\ rights deals (due to extra performaces such as these) have been concluded. In the beginning, screenings will be pre-recorded but Covent Garden aims to show live events. Initially, 13 Odeon cinemas will be involved. ROH is also looking to sell rights to these screenings in Europe and America. Ticket prices may start at £12 at Odeons, although City Screen has been charging around £25 for its previous operatic screenings and says that this is nearer the mark when a satellite transmission is involved. New York'\s Metropolitan Opera is the pioneer in this area, having agreed with cinema groups in several countries, including City Screen, to screen operas live into cinemas). Odeon has already shown three events from Glyndebourne. Both companies have reported seat occupancy of up to 90 per cent.
2008-04-11
Scrabble Entertainment Chooses Qube for Its Digital Cinema Roll out in India - Qube Cinema, Inc. Hannah Cash, +1-818-392-8155 Fax: +1-818-301-0401 www.qubecinema.com Qube Cinema's Qube XP-D digital cinema server has been chosen by Scrabble Entertainment for its digital cinema roll out in India. Scrabble Entertainment is an India based digital cinema group. Over the next 12 months, Scrabble will upgrade 350 key screens in metropolitan cities across the country and release content in the DCI JPEG2000 format. Indian feature films in multiple languages as well as Hollywood Studio films will be released on this network.
2008-04-11
'Going digital is the right step to prevent piracy' - Digital cinema infrastructure providers are bullish that in the year ahead, aggressive digitisation of cinema halls will significantly help in plugging the leak of film revenues due to piracy.
2008-04-11
ODEON TO BECOME NIGHTCLUB? OH NO! - More than 2,000 clubbers will be milling about outside the old Odeon in the early hours if plans for a nightclub go ahead, a public inquiry was told.The planning inquiry opened yesterday in the Municipal Offices in Cheltenham.
2008-04-11
Interview of Real D CEO Michael Lewis - Real D CEO Michael V. Lewis is approaching the world of 3D Cinema from a different angle, being the head of the technology company who has the biggest job in terms of convincing film directors, producers, studios as well as the theater owners and exhibitors, that 3D is a worthwhile investment and indeed the way of the future. ComingSoon.net had a chance to sit down with Lewis during ShoWest to find out more about his company's origins and how they've been using the Real D technology over the past few years and how they'll continue to provide the main foundation for digital 3D projection as more and more studios get into the act.
2008-04-11
Cinema, hotel bid for town centre - A developer wants to build a leisure and retail complex on council-owned land in an Anglesey town centre.
2008-04-11
Rivals set for cinema chain bidding war - French cinema chain UGC is understood to be preparing for a sale in a multi-million pound deal that could spark a battle between British rivals Cineworld and Odeon to buy the business and create the world's number one player.
2008-04-11
DLP to lead cinemas' metamorphosis - With hundreds of theatre screens coming up across India in 2009, Texas Instruments (TI)
2008-04-11
CSA signs up perfume brand for SATC - Carlton Screen Advertising (CSA) has lured the luxury brand Carolina Herrera 212 on board to advertise alongside Sex And The City: The Movie.
2008-04-11
Jason Brenek Promoted to Newly Created Position of Senior VP, Worldwide Digital Cinema and Cinema Programming for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures - BURBANK, Calif., April 2, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Jason Brenek, who most recently served as the Studios' vice president of Distribution Strategy, has been promoted to the newly created position of senior vice president, Worldwide Digital Cinema and Cinema Programming, it was announced today by Mark Zoradi, president, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Group.
2008-04-11
Disney reveals 3D movie line-up - Disney and Pixar are to make eight new 3D animated films over the next four years, Walt Disney has announced.
2008-04-11
Imax Signs Texas Instruments For Digital Projectors - Imax Corp. (IMAX) will use Texas Instruments Inc.'s ( TXN) DLP Cinema technology in its forthcoming digital-projection system, the companies confirmed Tuesday.
2008-04-11
Real Image - Real Image Media Technologies (RIMT), India
2008-04-11
NEC Hires Seasoned Digital media Executive As General Manager Of Digital Cinema Division - NEC Corporation of America, a premier provider of IT and network solutions and services, today announced that Jim Reisteter has joined the company as the general manager of the Digital Cinema Division. He will report to the vice president of the Solutions Business, Yuji Ichimura. Reisteter offers a diverse and successful background in sales leadership, marketing and general management of Fortune 50, mid-cap and re-start organizations.
2008-04-11
XDC and Sound Associates Announce Partnership Agreement - From its beginnings in 1958, Sound Associates has continued to provide solutions to the technical challenges for film exhibition
2008-04-06
Odeon Doncaster to close 10th April 2008 - The last day of operation as a cinema for the Odeon Doncaster will be Thursday 10th April 2008. alas the Art Deco architecture lost in the 1964 conversion.There is a book available on the 100 year history of Doncaster Cinema History included the history of the Gaumont/Odeon history with photographs. (Lets Go To The Pictures)
2008-03-28
Odeon staff payroll dispute - BECTU members working as technicians (projectionists) in Odeon Cinemas have gone into dispute with the company.
2008-03-28
Theatres Trust raises concerns as demolition contractor appears at Derby Hippodrome - On Tuesday 25 March an excavator, owned by contractor AB Demolition, appeared outside Derby Hippodrome as the deadline for its owner to carry out essential repairs ordered by Derby City Council came to an end. The Trust fears that the presence of the contractor will lead to further damage to the theatre. We hope that local people will be vigilant over the next few days and continue to report any suspect activity to the Council and to us. This is a critical time when the theatre is at its most vulnerable and faces greatest risk.
2008-03-27
Sony 4K Digital Projectors Used for First 3D HD Live-Action Simulcast of Regular Season NBA Game - DALLAS, March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Electronics 4K digital cinema projectors were used earlier this week for the first live high-definition presentation in 3D of an NBA regular season game, which was shown at a commercial movie theater.
2008-03-27
Rethink on plan for cinema - A COMPANY has revised its controversial
2008-03-27
Cinema chain plans $35 tickets - Village Roadshow Ltd., Act III, Lambert Entertainment and the Retirement Systems of Alabama pension fund are partnering to bring a luxury cinema chain to the US.
2008-03-27
Computer games to be given tough new cinema-style age ratings to protect children from violent material - Computer games will be given tough new cinema-style age ratings under proposals to protect children from violent material.
2008-03-27
Grand Cinema redevelopment - latest - THE steel frame is taking shape for an exciting multi-million pounds arts, community and enterprise (ACE) Centre in the heart of Nelson.
2008-03-27
DTS Digital Images Fine Tunes - BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DTS Digital Images, Inc. has provided custom image processing services for New Line Cinema and Walden Media
2008-03-27
SONY 4K DIGITAL PROJECTORS USED FOR FIRST 3D HD LIVE-ACTION SIMULCAST OF REGULAR SEASON NBA GAME - Sony Electronics
2008-03-27
Real Image - Real Image Media Technologies (RIMT), India
2008-03-27
Imax to add 31 projection systems at Regal theatres - TORONTO
2008-03-27
Worlds Smallest Movie Premiere Hits ODEON in Leicester Square, London, England - Its April Fools day, but this is no joke. The Odeon West End, which sees some of the worlds biggest premieres is hosting the worlds smallest. The worlds first one-man movie. Madness in the First Degree. A record breaking movie event.
2008-03-27
Talks on plan for old cinema - application for a premises licence for the Empress Cinema at Chatteris is due to be discussed by district councillors on April 1.
2008-03-27
Cinema moguls buy into toilet business - CINEMA moguls, the Ward and Anderson families, have emerged as major shareholders in John OLoughlins Qualceram Plc, which received a preliminary takeover approach last week.
2008-03-27
Railways to set up cinema halls at stations - New Delhi, Mar 21: Indian Railways public-private-partnership (PPP) now extends to entertainment business. The public sector behemoth has chalked out an ambitious plan to set up about a dozen cinema halls at various railway stations in metros. The development would be part of Railways larger plan to utilise its surplus land and existing prime space at stations. It also plans to privatise 44 yatri niwas and the National Rail Museum cafeteria
2008-03-27
Paranoid Park - I worked for years as a projectionist in archival screening venues that handle films of all kinds from all eras. These venues, the Walker counted among them, are typically equipped to handle just about anything that comes in the door, often via the octagonal shipping cans like those pictured on the left. As most projectionists can attest, it is not uncommon to receive a print that is not marked with the film
2008-03-27
The Projection Dilemma - I will now take you, reader, on a journey involving both technology and aesthetics intermingled with projection practices that are a century old and how the ways that the digital cinema revolution impacts this, combined with concerns about stereoscopy. Stick with me and it may all make sense by the end. Along the way I
2008-03-27
10,000 More Cinemas To Go Digital - Access Integrated Technologies, the US based digital cinema supplier, has commitments from four major film studios, including Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures, to continue to pay virtual print fees whilst actually providing movies digitally.
2008-03-27
India to become major D-Cinema territory - The Indian film industry has so far opted for e-cinema technology (a cheaper lower-quality alternative to high-end D-Cinema systems) that meets the requirements of its strong local film sector, but there are now signs that D-Cinema will also feature prominently, following several new deals in the territory.
2008-03-27
Kodak enters North American market as D-Cinema facilitator - Eastman Kodak has signed up two mid-sized cinema operators in the US market for entire circuit-wide conversion of their screens to digital. The first major signing was Santikos Theatres with 126 screens in Texas. The first installations of which have already been completed in the newly opened Silverado Houston multiplex, and will be followed by a complete conversion to an all digital circuit. The second signing was Goodrich Quality Theatres which operates 280 screens in 32 venues across the USA. The deployments will begin in 2008, although it is not known how many will be completed during the first phase of the roll-out.
2008-03-27
Digital cinema player Christie eyes India signs multiplexes - Mumbai: Global digital cinema leader Christie has signed an exclusive contract with Scrabble Entertainment to supply 200 Christie DLP Cinema projectors for Indias largest single digital cinema deployment.
2008-03-27
Businesswoman sells cinema for - THE businesswoman who ensured cinema returned to Winchester has sold her company for
2008-03-27
Live opera and ballet shown in cinemas - Live ballet and opera performances are to be shown in cinemas across Britain from later this year for just
2008-03-27
SUNDANCE SPECTACULAR - At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Dolby technologies, products and services converged in perfect harmony for the world premiere of the critically lauded U2 3D, a new concert film featuring the world-renowned Irish rock band shot during the “Vertigo” tour throughout South America. The film, produced by 3ality Digital Entertainment and distributed in the U.S. by National Geographic, was shown on Jan. 19 at the Eccles Theatre in Park City, Utah.
2008-03-27
FSN Southwest to Televise First Ever Regular-Season NBA Game in 3D HD - FSN Southwest and the Dallas Mavericks will provide a look into the future of sports television on March 25 when they team with PACE, the leader in digital 3D productions, to produce the first-ever NBA regular-season game live in 3D HD secured through PACE Fusion 3D and the third ever live sporting event presented in the innovative format.
2008-03-27
IMAX to now use DLP projectors - Texas Instruments DLP Cinema has announced that IMAX will now be using DLP Cinema projectors.
2008-03-27
Cineworld profits, revenue rise - LONDON — U.K. exhibitor Cineworld’s operating profits for 2007 rose 62% against the previous year to $61.3 million (£30.4 million); revenues rose 7.8% to $575.5 million.
2008-03-27
ARTS ALLIANCE MEDIA RANKED IN TOP 50 FASTEST GROWING DIGITAL MEDIA COMPANIES IN THE UK - The Media Momentum Awards 2008 today announces the fastest growing digital media companies. The prestigious invitation-only Media Momentum Awards organised by investment bank GP Bullhound, presents accolades to just five companies selected from an elite pool of fifty, all outstanding achievers and expanding rapidly in their field.
2008-03-27
Save The Chester Odeon Campaign - 793 signatures so far... - We would like to draw your attention to the fact that Brook Leisure has submitted a planning application and an application for Listed Building Consent to Chester City Council for the demolition of part of the rear of the Odeon building and the construction of a three-storey extension on land that is presently used for car-parking.
2008-03-26
Listed building status for Odeon is rejected - AN application to grant listed status to a Bradford building at the centre of a major planning row has been turned down
2008-03-26
Lenny Lipton Blog - News & Archives along my 3D Journey
2008-03-26
Cash boost for Cumbria's arts and cinema - NORTHWEST Vision and Media, which works on behalf of the region's film, TV and digital content industries, is to distribute almost
2008-03-26
Revised plans for cinema revealed - PLANS have been revealed to transform a former Yorkshire cinema into a mixed-use development featuring retail and office space.
2008-03-26
Odeon Staff Forum - The staff forum which offline a few weeks ago has been relaunched
2008-03-26
HARINGEY: Cinema sale threat to cheap ticket prices - The proposed takeover of a Wood Green cinema has been referred to the Competition Commission (CC) over fears it would create an unfair monopoly in the area.
2008-03-26
Revised cinema project unveiled - property development finance - New plans have been unveiled for the commercial re-use of a former cinema in Leeds.
2008-03-26
Power cut pulls plug on film fun - FILM fans were left disappointed today as Glasgow city centre's biggest cinema was hit by a power cut.
2008-03-26
Well give Odeon plan six months - Campaigners fighting to save the former Odeon cinema building in Bradford city centre from demolition have given themselves a deadline of six months to push through their scheme for its restoration - or they will then throw in the towel.
2008-03-26
Scrabble Entertainment Chooses Qube for Its Digital Cinema Roll out in India - NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Qube Cinema
2008-03-26
3D movies taking cinemas by storm in digital age - LAS VEGAS - Now is the time to put on your glasses. Once known as a headache-inducing screen gimmick of the 1950s, 3D is roaring back into movie theaters - thanks to new digital-cinema technology and Hollywood studios eager to exploit the format.
2008-03-26
Imax adds 31 screens to U.S. deal with Regal - Imax Corp. is expanding the screen-count of its joint venture deal with Regal Cinemas to install another 31 Imax digital projection systems at Regal locations in 20 cities in the United States.
2008-03-26
Digital Projection Changing the Face of Cinema - Since the advent of projection technology there have been various advances in cinema, primarily in the way a creative team develops a motion picture, and how we view the finished product. The various improvements that have been made are due to the ever-growing need for inspiring movies that can touch the hearts of millions and allow the industry to remain active. This digital change is not lacking a future as experts predict the market will grow exponentially with screens making the transition to digital cinema in 2009, some even to three dimensional cinema for specific films.
2008-03-26
CST installs Kodak Digital Cinema in Paris theatre - Mumbai: The Commission Superieure Technique (CST), the French organization charged with evaluating new systems for television and the cinema, has purchased a Kodak Theatre Management System (TMS) as well as a Kodak Content Player JMN3000 for use in Espace Pierre Cardin in Paris. The system will be installed by Kodak.
2008-03-19
Cineworld posts $25 mil pretax profits - LONDON -- U.K. exhibition group Cineworld Group climbed into the black Tuesday posting its maiden results as a publicly listed company on the stock exchange here.
2008-03-19
Cleaners in protest - SACKED cleaners at Middlesbrough
2008-03-19
Petition Reaches 1700 Signatures for the State Grays Cinema - Following some fantastic coverage by the Thurrock Gazette and general word of mouth the online petition has now received over 1700 signatures and is continuing to receive a large number of signatures each day. We will also be looking to have a paper petition available for written signatures at the awareness day on Saturday 15th March.
2008-03-19
Belgium to reassess Kinepolis competition rules - BRUSSELS, March 18 (Reuters) - Belgian cinema operator Kinepolis (KIPO.BR: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday Belgiums competition agency would reassess its decision to cancel specific competition rules which limited the groups development there.
2008-03-19
There is more to the cinema than just movies - GET your own slice of paradise and celebrate the everlasting magic of the movies at Paradiso
2008-03-19
SkyCity CEO sees cinema sale within 3 months - SkyCity Entertainment Groups new boss hopes to wrap up the protracted sale of the casino operators struggling cinema business within three months.
2008-03-19
The Popcorn Investing Strategy - There are many good businesses trading at attractive levels at the moment. One such example could be Cineworld (LSE: CINE) . Todays results show a business with a P/E of less than 9 and a yield of over 7%.
2008-03-19
NEC Corporation of America Hires Seasoned Digital Media Executive as General Manager of Digital Cinema Division - NEC Corporation of America, a premier provider of IT and network solutions and services, today announced that Jim Reisteter has joined the company as the general manager of the Digital Cinema Division. He will report to the vice president of the Solutions Business, Yuji Ichimura. Reisteter offers a diverse and successful background in sales leadership, marketing and general management of Fortune 50, mid-cap and re-start organizations.
2008-03-19
Major cinema chain restores raunchy trailers - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In a move that will allow movie studios to inject racy jokes into the trailers they use to promote their more adult-oriented films, the nations largest cinema chain has decided to permit restricted, "red band" trailers in its multiplexes.
2008-03-19
Planetariums real-time show - A planetarium incorporating some of the worlds most advanced digital projection technology is due to open in the south of England in March.
2008-03-19
BFI reels in the years - A list of the Top Ten most-watched films in the British Film Institutes archive has been compiled by curators.
2008-03-19
North London cinema merger - The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has referred the anticipated acquisition by CineWorld Group Plc of the cinema business at the Hollywood Green Leisure Park, Wood Green, previously operating under the Showcase brand to the Competition Commission (CC).
2008-03-19
RealD 3D Biggest and Brightest at ShoWest - 3D Cinema Leader RealD Uses RealD XL Technology to Bring Digital 3D to Larger Screens Than Ever Before
2008-03-17
Reel protest at threatened cinema - Campaigners who want to save a 100-year-old cinema wrapped a mock film reel around the building to highlight their fight to keep it open.
2008-03-16
Thomson and Cineplex Entertainment Pact for Digital Cinema Test at Flagship Toronto Theatre - Technicolor Digital Cinema to Install Digital Projection Systems at Scotiabank Theatre in Downtown Toronto
2008-03-16
Electrosonic showcases MS9600 2K Digital Cinema Player - If youve been wishing that those double digit theater prices would actually net your local hot spot an upgrade, heres an idea you can certainly nudge their way. Showing off at ShoWest 2008 in Las Vegas, the Electrosonic MS9600 is hailed as a "high-performance JPEG2000 appliance," which plays back unencrypted JPEG2000 content at 2K, 1080p and 720p resolutions. Designed specifically for digital cinema, post production and show control applications, this unit also touts dual HD-SDI / dual DVI-I video outputs and 16-channels of broadcast quality digital audio. Furthermore, it even supports 48fps 3D playback, but unfortunately, weve no idea how soon its destined to hit cinemas of any kind.
2008-03-16
Classic Cinemas Adopts DTS Digital Booking System(TM) - LAS VEGAS
2008-03-16
Dolby Spotlights Collection of Digital Cinema Solutions at ShoWest 2008 - LAS VEGAS, BUSINESS WIRE -- At ShoWest 2008 today, Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: DLB) highlighted how its digital cinema solutions address the unique needs of exhibitors and create an efficient digital cinema environment. The comprehensive families of products, designed to work together to streamline business processes, make it easier for exhibitors to transition to digital cinema.
2008-03-16
Dolby Expands Footprint in Asia with Digital Cinema, 3D Digital Cinema Solutions - LAS VEGAS, BUSINESS WIRE -- Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: DLB) announced today at ShoWest 2008 that Shanghai Film Group Corporation (SFG) and UFO India Limited have selected Dolby Laboratories to bring more digital cinema systems to China and India.
2008-03-16
Imax focuses on DLP chips - Imax, which is on the verge of entering the digital era, is in negotiations with Texas Instruments to use TIs Digital Light Processing technology as part of Imaxs proprietary system.
2008-03-16
Theaters, studios see $1.1 billion upgrade deal in Q2 - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Several theater chains and studios are nearing an estimated $1.1 billion financing deal to deploy in cinemas digital technology that promises to boost attendance and save Hollywood billions of dollars in annual print and delivery costs, industry officials said on Sunday.
2008-03-16
Fresh plans for Chester - OWNERS of the former Chester Odeon are pressing ahead with plans to build a three-storey extension to serve a new single screen cinema.
2008-03-16
NEW CITY CINEMA TO OPEN IN MAY - A new era of movie-watching in Derby will get under way when a new luxury cinema opens in May.
2008-03-16
Lit missile sparks cinema blaze - A small fire broke out at a cinema and retail complex after two teenagers threw a lit candle into its entrance.
2008-03-16
Technical Services for Cinema & Television is a Comprehensive Evaluation of the French Market - This revised and updated 2008 edition analyses the financial performance of each of the companies important to the success of your business. Using the most up to date information available, the analysis is ideal both as a tool to benchmark your own companys results and to study the market in more depth. Aimed at the busy manager, Technical Services For Cinema & Television is both quick and easy to use thanks to the unique visual layout. Technical Services For Cinema & Television is both quick and easy to use thanks to the unique visual layout. Technical Services For Cinema & Television lays bare the performance of each company highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. Do you know which Technical Services For Cinema & Television companies are best to do business with? Do you know which companies are selling at a loss and whose profit margins are plummeting? Find out the answers to all these questions and more with the newly published Technical Services For Cinema & Television.
2008-03-16
Thomson and Marcus Theatres Pact for Digital Cinema Test in Milwaukee Market - Thomson (Paris:18453)(NYSE:TMS), through its Technicolor Digital Cinema business, announced today it will install digital cinema projection systems with Milwaukee, Wis.-based Marcus Theatres(R) at the Cinema At The Renaissance 13-plex in Sturtevant, Wisconsin.
2008-03-16
Access IT, Studios to Add 10,000 Digital Cinema Screens - Morristown, N.J. - Access Integrated Technologies (Access IT) (NASD: AIXD), a provider of digital cinema projection systems for movie theaters, announced on Tuesday a massive deal with four major movies studios, to provide movies to up to 10,000 digital cinema systems in the U.S. and Canada.
2008-03-16
UPDATE: Imax Signs Texas Instruments For Digital Projectors - TORONTO -(Dow Jones)- Imax Corp. (IMAX) will use Texas Instruments Inc.s ( TXN) DLP Cinema technology in its forthcoming digital-projection system, the companies confirmed Tuesday.
2008-03-16
Time running out for the Cinema Museum - As was reported a few months ago on The Bioscope, the Cinema Museum in south London comes to the end of its lease this month, and has no new home to move to. Its current home is a former Lambeth workhouse (the same one that once incarcerated Charlie Chaplin
2008-03-16
Cinema buff may lose his Paradiso - When Ronald Grant was ten he fell in love with films, helping out the projectionist at a village hall in rural Scotland.
2008-03-16
Studios Announce a Deal to Help Cinemas Go 3-D - LAS VEGAS
2008-03-16
Dr Who - TELEVISION viewers have attacked the BBC for spending up to
2008-03-16
Cinema one of the most expensive in London - FILM-LOVERS have attacked Islingtons biggest cinema for being one of the most expensive in London.
2008-03-16
RealD 3D Biggest and Brightest at ShoWest - 3D Cinema Leader RealD Uses RealD XL Technology to Bring Digital 3D to Larger Screens Than Ever Before
2008-03-16
XPAND Acquires Assets of NuVision Technologies, Securing its Leading Position in 3D Digital Technology - X6D Limited, a European company whose products and services are marketed under the XPAND brand name, formally announced today that the active 3D cinema glasses assets of NuVision Technologies LLC, a widely recognized manufacturer of superior stereoscopic delivery systems with production facilities in Oregon, have been acquired by an Oregon corporation controlled by X6D Limited. Subsequently, all of NuVisions 3D cinema products will now be produced under the XPAND brand name.
2008-03-16
Scrabble Entertainment Contracts Christie for Indias Largest Digital Cinema Roll-Out - Christie, a global leader in Digital Cinema, is pleased to announce it has secured an exclusive contract with Scrabble Entertainment (SE) to supply 200 Christie DLP Cinema(r) projectors for India
2008-03-16
Barco to expand Digital Cinema team in the US. - Barco, a world leader in Digital Cinema, increases its commitment to the digital cinema market, and announces the appointment of Todd Hoddick as new Vice President for Barco Media & Entertainment
2008-03-16
Empire Theatres Limited Chooses Kodak to Expand Digital Installations - Canadian exhibitor extends working relationship with Kodak to 15 sites
2008-03-16
Texas Instruments Announces IMAX Digital Projection System to be Powered by DLP Cinema - 2008 marks the 10th Anniversary of digital cinema led by DLP Cinema
2008-03-16
Sony Digital Cinema Group to Offer Integrated Solutions for Exhibitors - Sony Electronics has formed a new integrated business group that will provide movie theater owners with a variety of tools to support the sales and marketing of 4K CineAlta
2008-03-16
Empire Theatres Selects Christie DLP Cinema Projectors to Meet Surging Demand for 3D Movies - Christie, a global leader in Digital Cinema, announced that Empire Theatres, Canada
2008-03-16
Christie Offers Expanded Family of Cinema Solutions with More Choice and Higher Brightness - Christie, a global leader in Digital Cinema, with over 4,600 Digital Cinema systems installed worldwide, continues to set the pace in the industry with an expanded family of Digital Cinema products perfectly tailored to meet the needs of the exhibitor. At the 2008 ShoWest convention in Las Vegas, the company will showcase its latest CP2000 series product line, including projectors with three new brightness levels and a new dual projector 3D system.
2008-03-16
XPAND Climbs to Higher Ranks as International Leader in 3D with O - Making great strides in the research and development of 3D technology during the past year, XPAND has wisely incorporated Active 3D delivery as their primary product for the digital cinema marketplace. In a strategic move to position the company as a dominant player in 3D, XPAND joined forces with NuVision Technologies (Portland, OR), creating a compelling business model that will support existing and future XPAND digital theaters.
2008-03-16
New Christie CP2000-M DLP Cinema Projector Is Worlds Best "Lightweight Contender" - At 95 Pounds, Delivers Powerful "One-Two" Punch of Brightness and Lowest Cost of Ownership
2008-03-16
DTS Digital Cinema Installs FilmStore - DTS Digital Cinema has announced the installation of its FilmStore
2008-03-16
Goodrich Quality Theaters Selects Kodak for Circuit-Wide Digital Conversion - Proven Kodak feature solution brings new capability to quality-minded circuit
2008-03-16
Universal Cinema Services Keeps Rave Motion Pictures On The Cutting Edge With Harman Pro Cinema Group Companies JBL Professional And Crown - Universal Cinema Services, one of the most successful cinema system consulting and installation firms in the United States, has enjoyed continued success with Harman Pro Cinema Group products, as evidenced by its installation of JBL Professional ScreenArray
2008-03-16
Dolby Expands Footprint in Asia with Digital Cinema, 3D Digital Cinema Solutions Shanghai Film Group and UFO India Limited select Dolby - Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: DLB) announced today at ShoWest 2008 that Shanghai Film Group Corporation (SFG) and UFO India Limited have selected Dolby Laboratories to bring more digital cinema systems to China and India.
2008-03-16
Cineplex Entertainment Selects Christie For Rollout Of 25 Digitally Equipped 3D Theatres Across Canada - Christie, a global leader in Digital Cinema, announced that Cineplex Entertainment (TSX:CGX.UN), Canada
2008-03-09
Cinema workers stole over $22,000 - Three Nelson teenagers stole more than $22,000 by refunding tickets sold to non-existent customers while working at a cinema.
2008-03-09
Everyman Media acquires Screen Cinemas - Independent cinema group Everyman Media will this week announce that it has acquired the chain of Screen Cinemas in London and the South East.
2008-03-09
Glenelg Cinema up for sale - Glenelg Cinema, on Jetty Road in Adelaide's south-west, has been put on the market for $7 million.
2008-03-09
Electrosonic's New Digital Cinema Player Available at Showest - DMN Newswire--2008-3-7--Audio-video manufacturing, design, installation and servicing giant Electrosonic Systems, fast making inroads into the cinema market, will be displaying the newly-launched MS9600 JPEG2000 server at ShoWest 2008 in Las Vegas.
2008-03-09
Cinema magic in Gig Harbor - Gig Harbor’s 10-screen movie theater opens to long lines and eager moviegoers whose only other theater closed in January.
2008-03-09
U.S. CINEMA EARNINGS BREAK RECORDS - North American box office earnings hit a record high in 2007 - despite the Hollywood writers strike and ongoing economic concerns. In the U.S. and Canada, theatres took in more than $9.6 billion (GBP4.8 billion), climbing 5.4 per cent from the previous year (06), due in part to increased ticket prices throughout the continent
2008-03-09
Cineworld, Odeon embark on ad venture - LONDON
2008-03-09
Not coming to a screen near you - Want to go see Rambo? Not at the Odeon you can't. Owen Gibson looks at the push-me pull-you relationship between film distributors and cinemas
2008-03-09
Carlton Screen Advertising sold for - ITV has sold Carlton Screen Advertising to a joint venture between Cineworld and Odeon Cinemas for
2008-03-09
Clayton projectionist keeps a dying art alive - As the Clayton Theatre projectionist, Thorns said he was 8 years old when his father let him show that first film at the family-owned movie theater in Virginia. Since then, he said, he's watched thousands of films through a little hole in the wall of projectionist booths in various community movie theaters across the Eastern shore.Rest
2008-03-09
US cinema takings hit record high - North American box office takings hit a record high in 2007 with global box office receipts also on the up.
2008-03-09
Carlton Screen Advertising sold to joint venture for - LONDON - ITV has sold Carlton Screen Advertising, the UK's largest cinema advertising sales house, to a joint venture between Cineworld and Odeon Cinemas for
2008-03-09
NEW CHRISTIE DUAL PROJECTOR SYSTEM FOR 3D CINEMA OFFERS BEST VALUE IN THE INDUSTRY - Christie, a global leader in Digital Cinema now offers the industry
2008-03-09
European Digital Cinema Security Whitebook is Online - This book results from the work of the Enhanced Digital Cinema (EDcine) project established by the European Commission in the context of the Networked Audio Visual line of the 6th framework of IST (Information Society and Technology). The world of digital cinema has been led by Hollywood initiatives. The Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI) is under standardisation by a subgroup of the Society of Moving Pictures and Television Engineers, namely the DC28. EDcine was launched in this environment to maintain the European industrial leading edge in the field and to develop new tools and best practices beyond the Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI). Economic, cultural and technical aspects are more complex in Europe. There is a clear need to go beyond DCI. In its initial functional analysis, EDcine included end-user groups, such as small production studios, local post-production
2008-03-09
ArcLight glows with d-cinema - Technicolor Digital Cinema signed an agreement with Hollywood's ArcLight Cinemas to provide digital projection systems at its complex. The deal encompasses ArcLight's Cinerama Dome, where Technicolor has previously been testing its systems.
2008-03-07
Pan-European digital cinema pilot project to launch in autumn - France's MK2, Hungary's Szimpla Film, Denmark's Nordisk Film and Belgium's Kinepolis Group are supporting a European "Cinema on demand" film digitisation project entitled Europe's Finest which is being launched this autumn by Cologne-based reelport to digitise and distribute 30-40 European films.
2008-03-07
ITV offloads cinema advertising assets - ITV has sold part of its cinema advertising subsidiary Carlton Screen Advertising to a new joint venture company owned by Odeon Cinemas and Cineworld Group in a deal worth £500,000 in cash to the broadcaster.
2008-03-03
Back in the picture with The Movieum - For years, London has been without a film museum. Now it has one, the Movieum, which opened its doors at County Hall last week. But is it the collection that the capital needs?
The Movieum website can be found at: http://www.themovieum.com/.
2008-03-01
Vue creates new marketing role - Cinema exhibitor Vue Entertainment is on the hunt to fill the new position of head of marketing.
2008-03-01
Cinema evacuated after blaze - CINEWORLD in Ipswich was evacuated this evening after a small fire in a light fitting.
2008-03-01
BBC Trials Live 3D Rugby by Satelitte - "The BBC is to test screen the Rugby Six Nations match between Scotland and England live and in 3D HD to a select audience. The event is a joint venture between BBC Sport and the3DFirm, a consortium comprising media communications firm Can Communicate, 3D specialist Inition and hire and post production house Axis Films, writes Adrian Pennington.
2008-03-01
3D Movies Arrive at SilverCity Ancaster Cinemas - CINEPLEX ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES 25 THEATRES IN CANADA TO BE EQUIPPED WITH DIGITAL 3D PROJECTORS AND PREMIERES WITH HANNA MONTANA & MILEY CYRUS: BEST OF BOTH WORLDS CONCERT
2008-03-01
DTS 4Q Loss Grows on Write-Down - NEW YORK (Associated Press) - DTS Inc. posted a much wider fourth-quarter loss on Thursday due to a write-down on the value of its discontinued digital cinema and images businesses, which it might sell.
2008-03-01
It's curtains for Showcase Cinemas - The final curtain will drop on the eight-screen Showcase Cinemas in Orange after the last show Sunday, because the business is "no longer financially viable," according to its owners, National Amusements Inc. of Dedham, Massachusetts.
2008-03-01
New luxury Silverado IMAX opens today near Tomball - These are not the best of times for the movie-theater business. Netflix, cable television, pay-per-view and competition from the Internet and video games are cutting into box-office revenue.
2008-03-01
Goodbye New Line Cinema
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New Line Cinema has long been a subsidiary of Time Warner and closely allied to Warner Bros, but today it has been announced that the formerly indie studio is being folded into its larger partner, where the name will remain as a genre arm, making comedies, horrors and what the Americans persist in calling "urban" films. In short, it's goodbye New Line as we know it.
2008-03-01
Pearl and Dean looks to merge with Carlton - Industry speculation has suggested that SMG-owned cinema advertising firm Pearl & Dean is set to be subject to a bid by an Australian venture capital firm.
2008-03-01
Former Odeon in line for sale - AFTER a three-year search, a buyer may have finally been found for Ipswich's former Odeon cinema, it emerged today.
2008-03-01
The Vic's screen goes dark tonight - The closing credits will roll tonight at the Vic, downtown Victoria's last single-screen movie house.
2008-03-01
Odeon: fanatical about film, unless that film is Rambo - Cinemagoers should be able to decide for themselves what to watch, without being punished for the petty feuds of big business
2008-03-01
Rambo fails to top UK box office - Sylvester Stallone's latest Rambo movie has failed to top the UK box office.
2008-03-01
Cinema revamp may spark ‘York prosperity’ - THE redevelopment of York's Odeon cinema could serve as a "launch pad" for a wider economic boom, according to a local councillor.
2008-03-01
MP slams 'extortionate' cinema sweet prices - A family of four face a £22 bill for sweets, drinks and popcorn at Boldon Cinema – and that is before the price of a ticket.
2008-03-01
Thousands taken in cinema hole-in-the-wall raid - INVERNESS police are awaiting results of forensic tests taken at the scene of a robbery — believed to have involved the theft of thousands of pounds — from a cash machine at the city's Vue cinema.
2008-03-01
Sounding the Alarm on DTS Inc. - DTS Inc. (DTSI) is a provider of digital multi-channel audio, or surround sound, to the consumer electronics market and Hollywood. The market is a duopoly for audio codecs, with Dolby (DLB) dominating the market. The “duopoly” is more like a monopoly with a second standard for the sake of competition (think Intel (INTC) and AMD (AMD)).
2008-03-01
Rambo shot down - by UK cinema chain - Pity Sylvester Stallone. Over the past year he's battled the heavyweight champion of the world at the age of 60, and taken on an evil military junta in the jungles of Burma - to say nothing of his off-screen tussles with Australian customs. But his latest battle, with the UK cinema chain Odeon, appears to have been lost.
2008-03-01
LOTTERY BOOST FOR REVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY IN SUPPORTING UK RELEASE OF U2 3D - The UK Film Council’s Prints & Advertising Fund is backing U2 3D, the first-ever feature length live action film shot and exhibited in breakthrough digital 3D. Released on Friday 22 February by Revolver Entertainment, the film documents the band’s 2006 Buenos Aires concert in the Vertigo tour and is an exciting and immersive cinema-going experience unlike anything seen in cinema before.
2008-03-01
JPEG 2000 a great step forward for the archival community - The Digital Preservation Coalition has examined JPEG 2000 in a report published today. The report concludes that JPEG 2000 represents a great stride forward for the archival community. The format now allows for greater compression rates and a recompression rate that is visually lossless.
2008-03-01
The Makeup of Digital Cinema Server Systems - Digital Cinema server systems, in production for several years now, are reaching hundreds of placements in cinemas around the world. Digital Cinema harnesses disk based post-production, compilation, transport, distribution, and play-out technologies into an end-to-end solution.
2008-03-01
Schneider Optics Appoints D. Scott Dewald to Director of Product Development - Van Nuys, CA (PRWEB) February 27, 2008 -- Schneider Optics, Inc., the well-known lens and professional filter manufacturer, has announced the hiring of D. Scott Dewald as Director of Product Development. He will lead Schneider's international team on Digital Cinema development while simultaneously helping to expand and improve Schneider's entire optical product line.
2008-03-01
SMPTE Announces Call for Papers for the 2008 Technical Conference and Exhibition - The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) is seeking proposals for technical papers and tutorials for presentation during the 2008 SMPTE Technical Conference & Exhibition. Proposed papers are to be informational in nature and must address technical theory, application or practice associated with technologies relevant to the Motion Imaging Industry.
2008-03-01
Government offers lukewarm support for South Bank film centre
- The Government's long-awaited culture green paper published last week has offered cautious support for the British Film Institute's proposed Film Centre on the South Bank.
2008-03-01
MEL GIBSON - GIBSON BUYS AUSSIE CINEMA CHAIN - Hollywood star MEL GIBSON has completed a $19.44 million (GBP9.72 million) deal for his company Icon Film Distribution to takeover a popular cinema chain in Australia and New Zealand. Gibson and his business partner Bruce Davey have purchased the Dendy Cinema chain and distribution business via their Icon firm, making them owners of theatres in cities like Canberra, Brisbane and Melbourne. Warwick Syphers, the managing director of Dendy Cinema's previous owners Prime Media Group, said Icon's offer was attractive "on various parameters, including value, timing and transaction certainty." He adds, "They're fellows (at Icon) who I think are in the business very strongly in the distribution side. It would appear sensible and logical that if you're in that side of the business, it really helps to have a cinema distribution platform." Icon Film Distribution has recently experienced success with the Oscar-nominated movies I'm Not There and The Diving Bell And The Butterfly.
2008-03-01
FogScreen, Inc. Unveils Interactive Walk-Through Branding - SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- FogScreen, Inc., creators of the world's first walk-through projection screen made of "dry" fog, will be debuting new opportunities for nightclubs, bars and brands at the 2008 Nightclub & Bar Convention and Trade Show. The FogScreen(TM) Inia projection screen will be featured on the showroom floor to offer attendees a glimpse at the future of bar and nightclub branding and entertainment.
2008-03-01
Maplin intros virtual laser keyboard, type on any flat surface - Maplin has announced the availability of its Bluetooth Laser Key Projection Keyboard, a gadget that will project a keyboard onto any flat, non-reflective surface and allow you to type. It works by optically tracking finger movements, and incorporates both keyboard and mouse functions.
2008-03-01
Man robbed at knifepoint at Circle Cinema - Brookline - A Dorchester man, who allegedly held up a moviegoer at knifepoint in the parking lot of the Circle Cinema and led police on a foot chase, was arrested on drug and robbery charges last week.
2008-03-01
Cinema regeneration architect winners revealed - An architectural practice was chosen this morning to provide concept designs for the site of a former cinema in the centre of Royal Tunbridge Wells.
2008-03-01
Great Glasgow blaze probe continues - Investigations are continuing into a fire which damaged a restaurant, three bars and a historic cinema in a well-known area of Glasgow.
2008-03-01
Telephonetics signs 3-year cinema line call traffic deal with Kcom
- LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Telephonetics PLC said it has signed a three year deal with Kcom Group PLC to support cinema line call traffic.
2008-03-01
Hollywood star pays tribute to tiny cinema’s closing scene - A TOUCH of Hollywood glamour was brought to a quiet Welsh street at the weekend when one of the smallest cinemas in the world closed its doors for the last time.
2008-03-01
Fishing for revenues - GERMANY: A group of digital cinema suppliers have set up a project designed to look for new sources of cinema revenue.
2008-03-01
GE Provides $55 Million in Financing to Cinema Circuit Owner-Operator Reading International - NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Commercial Finance’s Media, Communications & Entertainment business has provided $55 million in financing to Reading International (AMEX:RDI), a Commerce, Calif.-based cinema exhibition and real estate company. The financing will support Reading International’s acquisition of a number of cinemas in California and Hawaii, operated by Pacific Theatres Exhibition Corp. Reading International currently owns and operates a majority of leasehold assets in Australia and New Zealand making this acquisition a key component for its plans to expand its presence in the United States.
2008-03-01
Cinema gets revamp and hosts festival - AN historic cinema in Tenbury Wells has been selected as a venue for Britain's largest rural film festival, just months after it was devastated by flood water.
2008-03-01
Starry last night for tiny cinema - The smallest cinema in Wales - a 23-seat former railway carriage in a Swansea back garden - has been given a star-studded farewell.
2008-03-01
Death of Bob Webb, DSM - Following his demob, Bob returned to his job at the Regal cinema, before later transferring to the Clifton as head projectionist. He became expert at the operation of the projection equipment, and prided himself on the speed at which he could repair a broken film against a background of boos and catcalls from the auditorium.
2008-03-01
Bligh to enact never-used powers to save Regent theatre - EXTRAORDINARY but never used powers held by the State Government will be exploited as part of a bid to save Brisbane's historic Regent theatre.
2008-03-01
Curtain raised on lost picture palaces - It was September 22, 1937, and the gamine young actress had been pressed into opening the new Granada cinema with her husband Sonny Hale.
2008-03-01
Renovation Plans Proceeding for Theater - THE Pelham Picture House’s third annual gala, held earlier this month at the Hilton Rye Town in Rye, brought the historic theater another step and half a million dollars closer to fulfilling its mission of becoming a hub for independent film in southern Westchester. The goal of the event, said Jennifer S. Christman, the theater’s executive director, was to ensure a significant percentage of the capital needed for the Campaign for Renewal, which encompasses the restoration and expansion of the theater.
2008-03-01
The movie starting on platform six - Kneehigh's lively version of Noel Coward's classic brings the dreariness of pre-war Britain to life
2008-03-01
Film fan thrown out of cinema for bringing own sweets - A cinema sweet price row has started after a film fan was stopped and searched - because he had brought his own bag of sweets.
2008-03-01
Mum may sue cinema after her daughter falls 14ft - A MUM has said she is considering legal action against a cinema operator after her da