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2005-01-03
H'wood's global warming - From Variety.com: Hollywood\'s global \"big bang\" theory is paying off. The notion of unleashing blockbusters day-and-date around the world with bigger print runs and mega-sized marketing and promotional budgets powered foreign grosses to new heights in 2004
2005-01-06
Woolworths blames DVD piracy for poor Christmas - From Screen Daily: DVD sales of blockbusters significantly down over crucial Christmas trading period says retailer.
2005-01-06
UCI Ireland makes E5.6m profits - From Business World: Profits at the Irish subsidiary of the UCI multiplex cinema chain rose 14pc to E5.6m in 2003, current returns to the Companies Registration Office show.
2005-01-07
Brazil Cinemas Must Show 35 Days of Brazilian Movies in 2005 - Brazilian movie theaters will have to show Brazilian films for at least 35 days this year. The decree was signed by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the Minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil, on December 30.
2005-01-08
Cinema sale likely as OFT rules on UCI deal - GUY HANDS is under pressure to sell about one in 11 of the British cinemas he bought last year after the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) raised concerns about a small number of locations, including Leicester Square and Sutton, Surrey. This story also appeared in the FT
2005-01-08
The lost world - From the Guardian: It is the film equivalent of the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb - a century ago, two entrepreneurs toured Britain capturing working-class life on camera. Ian Jack reveals how their archive has been brought back to life
2005-01-08
Cinemas and DVDs pass screen test with demanding audiences - From FT.COM: The explosion in purchases of DVDs has failed to dent the cinema industry, with record takings at the box office last year.
2005-01-07
Britons spend record £840m at the cinema - From Scotsman.com: BRITISH filmgoers pushed box-office takings to an all-time high last year as they spent almost £840 million on cinema tickets.
2005-01-06
IC INTRACOM Introduces Personal Cinema Surround Sound Headset; Eight Speakers Deliver Rich Digital Audio without Distortion - From Business Wire: TAMPA BAY, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 2005--IC INTRACOM is introducing the MANHATTAN Personal Cinema 5.1, a headset developed to enhance the experience of video conferencing, playing games and watching DVDs on computers by delivering rich, full Dolby Digital AC-3 or DTS 5.1 surround sound with no distortion, even at high volumes.
2005-01-07
Coming soon - a cinema for Swaffham - The first cinema in Swaffham for 40 years is due to open next month in a joint project by the area's Iceni Partnership and EcoTech Centre.
2005-01-07
National Meeting On Cinema This Year - From All Africa: A first national meeting on cinema will take place this year here to analyse and outline strategies to put an end to the lethargy facing the sector, the Angolan Minister of Culture, Boaventura Cardoso, announced.
2005-01-09
A Beauty Restored - f missing a finger is more serious to you than missing a telephone call, then don't even think about using your cell phone the next time you catch a movie at the new and much improved Balboa Theater in San Francisco.
2005-01-10
UK box office hits record high in 2004 - From Screen Daily: Final figures show that 2004 was best ever box office year on record; UIP the clear winner in distributor rankings; good year for independent distributors.
2005-01-10
BAFTA puts cap on membership - From Screen Daily: After a huge increase in recent years, BAFTA says it will limit membership to 6,500.
2005-01-12
TRANSPORT: Bid to run buses to leisure spots - From Peterborough Today: A DRIVE has been launched for a new bus service to run to Peterborough's Showcase Cinemas and other leisure facilities.
2005-01-16
Too many trailers? Lawmaker wants start times published - MANCHESTER, Conn. -- Coming soon to a theater near you: movie listings that print the time the previews start.
2005-01-14
Ardkeen cinema overcomes objections - From Waterford News: RESIDENTS of the Dunmore Road are to enjoy the luxury of a new eight-screen cinema which will be located adjacent to the Uluru pub, the Waterford News & Star can reveal.
2005-01-14
Pirate DVDs dealing a 'huge blow to cinemas' - South African film distributors and cinemas are losing big time because leading DVD titles are smuggled into the country and sold before they even hit the big screen here.
2005-01-14
The bfi completes £1 million restoration of Mitchell & Kenyon collection - The British Film Institute (bfi) today reveals what is probably the greatest film find of modern times – the film equivalent of Tutankhamen’s treasure and which is set to rewrite film history. (PDF file)
2005-01-16
COMING ATTRACTION: THEATER UPGRADES - The curtain rose less than a year ago on the Grand Strand's first stadium-style cinema, and existing theaters are now scrambling to compete.
2005-01-18
Cinema revamp soon to be complete - From Express & Star: The half million pound revamp of Stafford’s only cinema should finally be finished by next month, it has been revealed.
2005-01-21
City's Imax is top venue in Europe for 3D fantasy film - From the Evening Times: MORE movie-goers flocked to see a 3D family film at Glasgow's IMAX cinema than at any other giant screen in Europe.
2005-01-21
Romance on rewind - From Venturacountystar (requires free subscription): In the early 1950s, Cinerama -- a movie process that uses three synchronized projectors and stereo sound -- became the newest way for filmmakers to deliver bigger, crisper images for fans to ogle in the cinema.
2005-01-21
Cinema's future is uncertain - ELY's only cinema could be shut down because of falling ticket sales
2005-01-22
Elite Screens to Show New Ez-Cinema Portable Floor Pull-Up Projection Screens Series (21/1/2005) - From Hidden Wires: Elite Screens, a rapidly growing company specializing in a wide range of standard size projection screens in a variety of types and sizes, today announced that it will show the new ez-Cinema Portable Floor Pull-Up Projection Screen Series, perfectly suited to virtually any application, at CES, January 6-9. The new screens are light weight and easy to carry; weights vary from 12 to 20 pounds, depending on which of five models is selected.
2005-01-22
Ivor recalls Dad's Army days for TV - Ivor was a projectionist when he wasn't on duty in the Home Guard.
2005-01-23
Independents' day to fight for small cinemas - Conference to offer advice on survival. THEY are the sort of names that were once familiar in every town and city: the Regal, Plaza and Palace cinemas adorned high streets and suburban neighbourhoods across the nation.
2005-01-24
Australian box office hits record heights in 2004 - From Screendaily: Highest box office on record according to Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia figures
2005-01-24
Reel history - In this modern age of multiplex cinemas, it may be hard for some to imagine the kind of social significance communities attached to a downtown theater in the 1940s, '50s and '60s.
2005-01-24
The Sound of D-Cinema - Last month, like a T-Rex from Jurassic Park, digital cinema came thundering into theaters with its high resolution imagery and crisp multichannel audio. Currently, only 39 theaters worldwide are showing D-Cinema pictures and development is still in its infancy. As with anything new, questions abound and evolution proceeds slowly, affecting everyone from post houses to end viewers. Below, we try to shed some light on the current, ever-changing status of audio for digital cinema.
2005-01-26
Feature Films Without Wires - From Wired News: PARK CITY, Utah -- It was a film without film, a movie without moving parts. The premiere of Rize that took place last Saturday at a ski lodge here was a historic event -- the first feature film to be delivered via wireless internet technology.
2005-01-26
Cinema shuts over gaming machines - From BBC News: The owner of one of Northern Ireland's largest cinema complexes killed the lights at his own picture house in a protest over slot machines.
2005-01-27
Packed meeting sees defeat of plans to turn cinema into shop - From the Yorkshire Post: CAMPAIGNERS were celebrating yesterday after securing a surprise victory against plans to turn Beverley's only dedicated live music and arts venue into a store.
2005-01-27
Movies continue while city decides theater's fate - From Contra Costa Times: It could be a month before Central Cinema owner Mark Haskett knows the results of Tuesday's hearing on alleged safety code violations at the month-old upstart Alameda movie house. Despite city orders to the contrary, Haskett vows to keep showing near-first-run films.
2005-01-27
Glen Cinema Disaster TV Programme - BBC 1 Scotland at 22.35: New series of EX:S. On Hogmanay 1929, 71 children died in Scotland's worst cinema disaster. As Paisley commemorates the 75th anniversary of the tragedy, survivors and witnesses recall the events
2005-01-30
Modesto's State Theatre celebrates its 70th birthday - with a two-day open house, plus classic cartoons and a classic film, "It Happened One Night," winner of the Best Picture Academy Award for 1934. Admission is free to the open house. Cartoons will be playing and popcorn will be free. And, every hour on the hour, the theater staff will lead brief tours of the projectionist booth and the backstage area.
2005-01-30
Cinema attendance remains high - Irish people went to the cinema just over 17 million times in 2004.
2005-01-30
Movie body targets children's PCs - The body that represents the US movie industry has released its latest tool in its campaign to clamp down on movie file-sharing, aimed at parents.
2005-02-02
P&D wins Edward Cinema Contract - 2005 has got off to a flying start for Pearl & Dean as they announce the win of the Edward Cinemas contract in the Republic of Ireland.
2005-02-02
ITV muscles in on online DVD market - From the Guardian (free registration maybe required): ITV is following in the footsteps of Channel 4 and launching an online DVD rental service through its website, in order to get a piece of this fast-growing home entertainment market.
2005-02-02
IMAX Signs Deal for First Multiplex-Based IMAX(R) Theatre in The Netherlands - Leading Commercial Exhibitor Pathe Netherlands to Install IMAX(R) MPX(TM) Theatre System at Multiplex in Amsterdam
2005-02-03
Multiplex cinema plan in pipeline - A major riverside development close to Stafford town centre involving a multiplex cinema and other leisure schemes is in the pipeline.
2005-02-04
Imax ready to make a spectacle of itself - From the Guardian: After a series of setbacks and cliffhangers that would not be out of place in a Spielberg movie, Imax, the creator of mega-screen film, believes it has cracked it. The combination of new technology and an increasing desire among studios to get more out of their releases means Imax's time has come. At least that is what the Toronto-based company reckons.
2005-02-04
IMAX cinema takes $1.2 million for The Polar Express 3D - From londonSE1: The BFI London IMAX Cinema has now taken £636,228 in ticket sales for the 3D version of Tom Hanks's Christmas animated film The Polar Express.
2005-02-04
Parking fees pay for new cinema - From BBC News: Motorists and not movie-lovers are to pay for the building of a new cinema as part of an unusual council plan.
2005-02-06
Projectionists fading to black? - From MLive.com: Film exhibition technology changed a good deal in the last century: dangerous carbon arc lamps (which sparked a live flame inside projectors) were replaced by far safer xenon bulbs; sound was first introduced and then, eventually, went digital; film stock made from highly flammable nitrate was supplanted by "safe" film, made from polyester; computers came to control the curtains, pre-movie music, and the lights via a timer; and large, horizontally stacked "platter" systems came along, able to feed an entire film, spliced together onto one giant reel, into a projector - thus rendering the old, switch-back-and-forth-between-projectors system obsolete.
2005-02-06
Odeon up for role in front of houses - From the Scotsman: A CINEMA in the Capital which campaigners battled to save is set to be converted into a bar, restaurant and housing.
2005-02-06
Cinema sells women only seats - From IC Dunbartonshire: An Edinburgh cinema showing Ocean's 12 has reserved its three front rows for women so they can get a good eyeful of the movie's Hollywood heart-throbs.
2005-02-06
Group aims to reel in funds for 35mm films - From yaledailynews.com: Movie snob or not, Miye Bromberg '05 believes it -- 35mm films are just better.
2005-02-08
Slow birth of digital cinema - THE Hollywood Pacific theatre, built in 1927 to screen the premiere of the first motion picture with sound, still has red velvet seats, chandeliers and carved-wood ceilings. It also holds what may be the future of movies.
2005-02-08
Alpha Spacecom, Inc. Creates Four New Operational Divisions to Control Explosive Growth - From Yahoo: HONG KONG and LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alpha Spacecom, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ASPC - News), today announced that it has created four new operational divisions: Spectrum Digital Cinema Company, China Cinema Development Company, Hemisphere Entertainment Group, China, and World Satellite Link Communications Corp., to manage and control the Company's rapid expansion.
2005-02-03
CELEBRATING 21 YEARS OF PIONEERING FILM SCREENINGS - There was a surprise celebration for the audience at the recent North Cornwall Arts' screening of Ae Fond Kiss to honour 21 years of the film season. It was in 1984 that Richard Hamm and his friend Rick Costan, a Wadebridge bookshop owner, decided to bring some excitement to North Cornwall and so they started a film club with the cooperation of David Williams, owner of the Regal Cinema in the town.
2005-02-08
STRONG EMOTIONS ON FUTURE OF SITE - Strong emotions about the loss of the town cinema, combined with a need to treat all planning applications on individual merit, meant that West Devon borough councillors had a difficult job deciding the fate of the Carlton. But planning committee member James McInnes said that once all the plans had been reviewed, members had little doubt about unanimously rejecting the application to demolish the Art Deco building and build 15 two-bedroom flats in its place.
2005-02-03
GROWING SUPPORT TO SET UP A BABY CINEMA CLUB - A St Austell mother is gathering support for a "baby cinema" club in the town, enabling parents to take their newborns to the movies without disturbing other viewers.
2005-02-08
BENEFACTOR NEEDED TO SAVE OLD CINEMA - The Mayor of Okehampton has appealed for a benefactor to save the town's Art Deco cinema after plans to build 15 flats on the site were turned down.
2005-02-09
Small cinema bosses take on big guns. - From Evening Times Online: INDEPENDENT cinema bosses were meeting in Glasgow today to strengthen their position against the multiplexes.
2005-02-10
Cinema adspend hits record high - From Pearl & Dean: UK cinema advertising grew by 6.6% in 2004 to a record £159m, with drinks advertisers boosting their spend by 48.7%.
2005-02-10
Berlin celebrates European cinema - From BBC News: Organisers say this year's Berlin Film Festival, which opens on Thursday with period epic Man to Man, will celebrate a revitalised European cinema.
2005-02-04
Casino Royale is next Bond movie - From BBC News: Casino Royale, author Ian Fleming's first James Bond book, is to be the next Bond film hitting the big screen.
2005-02-11
Reeling in the face of digital revolution - From Scotsman.com: INDEPENDENT cinema owners in Scotland have five years to embrace new technology and business ideas or face going bust, a conference was told in Glasgow this week. Cinema owners from across the UK heard how two or three-screen businesses such as the Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT), the Grosvenor, or the Cameo and Dominion in Edinburgh can take on the might of the dominant multiplex screens. In Scotland alone, 120 independent cinemas generate revenue worth £5 million.
2005-02-15
Cinema deal creates ad giant - From Media Week: Carlton Screen Advertising is set to take an iron grip on the UK cinema advertising market following the merger of two of the biggest movie theatre operators.
2005-02-15
Major upheaval ahead for UK cinema advertising sector - From Screendaily: Carlton Screen Advertising set to control 80% of cinema advertising market.
2005-02-15
Disposal of Deluxe tipped to herald Rank break-up - From the Times: RANK, the leisure operator behind Mecca Bingo and Hard Rock Cafe, will next week signal its intention to demerge its Deluxe film-processing unit and seek buyers for Deluxe’s media business
2005-02-17
CSA beats Pearl to cinema deal - From Times Online: CARLTON Screen Advertising, the company behind pre-trailer adverts at the cinema, won a deal yesterday that will give it 80 per cent of the UK market.
2005-02-18
Starring role for cinema's cask list - From Scotsman.com: IT is one of the capital’s institutions, known for its tireless work in bringing low-budget movies into the limelight.
2005-02-20
Focus: Will virgin suitor burst SMG’s balloon? - From the Sunday Herald: WHEN three men met at Edinburgh Airport’s Hilton Hotel in the middle of December 2004, the battle for Virgin Radio began. Lord Waheed Alli, the media entrepreneur, and Chris Williams, a director at private equity group 3i, explained to SMG chairman Chris Masters why he should sell them Virgin for £100 million in cash
2005-02-18
CINEMA SHOWS REACH RURAL PARTS - A NIGHT at the movies is all about atmosphere, and today’s massive multiplexes are often lacking in essential charm.
2005-02-18
A sound debut for Dolby - From NYDailyNews.com: The gold standard for Hollywood sound exploded onto Wall Street yesterday - with a 35% gain for the biggest first-day splash of a public company this year.
2005-02-21
Rank exits cinema to focus on bingo - From the Independent: Rank is expected to confirm plans to demerge its Deluxe film business this week in a move that will bring down the curtain on more than 60 years of cinematic history for the leisure group.
2005-02-21
Bill introduced to change cinema listings - From Digital Spy: A member of the New York City council has introduced a bill that would force cinemas to list the start times of films as when the actual presentation starts, not when the ad reel starts rolling.
2005-02-22
DLP Cinema(TM) Projection Technology Supported Digital Flight of Miramax's Academy Award(R)-Nominated 'The Aviator' - From Arrivenet.com: DALLAS, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments (TI) DLP Cinema(TM) technology, the digital cinema projection technology deployed in movie theatres worldwide, played a supporting role during the production and post-production process for Miramax's "The Aviator." The movie, which features 395 visual effects, received the 2005 Golden Globe(R) Award for "Best Picture" and is nominated for 11 Academy Awards(R), including "Best Picture."
2005-02-24
Carlton takes centre stage as cinema undergoes power shift - From Mediaweek: Cinema advertising is in the throes of change and the big story is not just the shift in power toward Carlton Screen Advertising Ian Quinn gets to grips with the unfolding script.
2005-02-24
The love and loathing of cinema ads - From BBC News: You can be sure that the lantern-jawed stars and the tear-stained starlets, the wannabes and old movie moguls, who attend this weekend's Oscar ceremony will not have to endure the authentic cinema experience.
2005-02-24
Plaque honours historian and giant cinema - From ICCroydon: A PLAQUE commemorating one of Croydon's most important artistic assets, the Davis Theatre, was unveiled last week. The plaque will also serve as a memorial to cinema historian and lifelong Croydon resident, Tony Moss, who died suddenly at the end of last month at the age of 74.
2005-02-28
Final cut for celluloid as cinema ushers in digital age - HOLLYWOOD’S brightest stars filing into the Kodak Theatre in downtown Los Angeles last night may have been blissfully unaware that the curtain is about to come down on the golden age of celluloid.
2005-02-26
UK pioneers digital film network - The world's first digital cinema network will be established in the UK over the next 18 months.
2005-02-26
End of the line for town's cinema - Film fans were dealt a blow yesterday after Cannock's Picture House cinema, which has been in the town for 90 years, was suddenly closed down apparently without explanation.
2005-03-01
UK Film Council to digitalize cinema network - From Computer Business: In an attempt to bring the cinema network into the digital age, the UK Film Council has awarded a £11.5m contract to Arts Alliance Digital Cinema to oversee the creation of 250 digital cinemas across the country.
2005-03-03
Land reform laws used to save 1930s cinema - From the Scotsman: NEW land reform laws are to be used to stop a cinema dating back to the 1930s being converted into flats
2005-03-03
Skip the cinema ads - From SFGate.com: THE ACADEMY AWARDS on Sunday did not mention one unpleasant reality: To see any of the Oscar-winning movies, you would most likely have to sit through a bunch of ads, and then a slew of previews, before getting to the main attraction.
2005-03-06
Monsoon man with the midas touch - From the Sunday Times: Peter Simon is a proven retailer and worth £400m, but he remains a pariah in the City, reports Richard Fletcher. (Peter Simon owns the Electric Cinema, Portobello Road).
2005-03-06
Monico's Bull given Hopkins award for services to cinema - From icWales: A CINEMA owner has been given a special honour in recognition for his services to film and praised by Sir Anthony Hopkins for his work.
2005-03-06
Bringing film history to life. - From BBC Devon: A disused cinema thought to be Europe's oldest purpose-built picture house could soon be bringing back memories of the silver screen.
2005-03-09
70mm installation at Picturehouse @ Fact, Liverpool. - From uk70mm.com: Picturehouse at FACT is a four screen cinema run by City Screen LTD within the FACT center building in the heart of Liverpool.
2005-03-09
Imax projects a big year for big screen. - From Globeandmail.com: Investors in movie theatre company Imax Corp. are snug in their seats, popcorn in hand, waiting for the company to divulge its latest profit numbers Thursday. If the previews turn out to be accurate, they should get an entertaining show
2005-03-10
IMAX Corporation Reports Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2004 Financial Results - From IMAX Press Release: TORONTO, March 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - IMAX Corporation (NASDAQ: IMAX; TSX: IMX) today reported net earnings of $0.26 per diluted share for the year ended December 31, 2004, ahead of the Company's previous guidance for net earnings of $0.23 per share, both after deducting $0.02 per share in bond refinancing costs.
2005-03-12
CHRISTIE KEY PROJECTION PARTNER IN WORLD’S LARGEST DIGITAL CINEMA ROLL-OUT - FROM DCINEMA TODAY: Christie, a leading provider of visual solutions for business, entertainment and industry, today announced that the company’s CP2000 series 2K resolution Digital Cinema projector has been chosen by Arts Alliance Digital Cinema (AADC), the pioneer provider of Digital Cinema services, to be an integral part of the AADC’s winning bid to realize the World’s largest digital screen network for the UK Film Council..
2005-03-12
Box office and TV ratings boost for British Films in 2004 - FROM UK FILM COUNCIL: Harry Potter, Bridget Jones and Troy amongst top ten performers, attendances top 170 million, and more recent UK films appearing on terrestrial television
2005-03-16
The Sound of D-Cinema - From Digital Game Developer: Last month, like a T-Rex from Jurassic Park, digital cinema came thundering into theaters with its high resolution imagery and crisp multichannel audio. Currently, only 39 theaters worldwide are showing D-Cinema pictures and development is still in its infancy. As with anything new, questions abound and evolution proceeds slowly, affecting everyone from post houses to end viewers. Below, we try to shed some light on the current, ever-changing status of audio for digital cinema.
2005-03-13
Digital Film Creates New Buzz at ShoWest - From Reuters: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It may sound like a bad movie sequel when the ShoWest film industry gathering starts on Monday, but industry players promise to reveal real progress toward deploying long-delayed digital projection systems that could revolutionize the way movies are screened.
2005-03-16
Tarantino plans to be cinema manager - From Digital Spy: Quentin Tarantino has announced that he wants to manage a cinema when he stops making films.
2005-03-16
Digital Cinema Gets Top Billing With Sony, Landmark Theatres Alliance - From Yahoo: - Agreement Launches 2929 Entertainment's Plans to Roll-Out Digital Cinema in all 59 Landmark Theaters
2005-03-16
NEC Solutions America Premieres Large Screen DLP Cinema Projector; Enhances Its STARUS Digital Cinema System with the Addition of STAR*Beam iS25 Digital Cinema Projector - From Business Wire: RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 14, 2005--NEC Solutions (America), Inc. today announced the availability of the largest in its line of digital cinema projectors, the STAR*Beam(TM) iS25. An advanced large screen digital cinema projector, the STAR*Beam iS25 combines the highest resolution 2k DLP Cinema(TM) technology from Texas Instruments(R) with the brilliance of NEC's digital displays.
2005-03-16
Landmark theaters, Sony link on digital projection - From Reuters: LAS VEGAS, March 15 (Reuters) - Landmark Theaters, the art cinema chain controlled by technology pioneers Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner, on Tuesday said it will install six new digital projection systems from Sony Corp., becoming the first theater group to commit to a new technology from Sony.
2005-03-14
Singapore Enables Digital Cinema Transmission across Continents - From TMCNET: In a significant industry development, the Singapore government, and industry association SiTF Digital Media Chapter (Singapore), with the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at the University of Southern California (USA), brought together leading industry players to develop a viable model for digital delivery across continents from USA to Asia. Initial tests of the pilot, the 'Cross-Continent Digital Content Transmission' or CCTx, established a secure, reliable and cost-effective digital delivery workflow.
2005-03-15
ITV to retain Carlton Screen Advertising - From MEDIA WEEKLY: ITV has performed a major U turn over the future of one of its so-called “non-core” assets, Carlton Screen Advertising
2005-03-17
Treasury extends UK film tax aid - Chancellor Gordon Brown says he will introduce tax reliefs to benefit both low- and large-budget British films.
2005-03-17
Avica Europe launches first country-wide digital cinema network - Ireland to be world's first digital cinema nation - Avica Europe, the European arm of digital cinema technology and services leader, Avica; has announced that the first of its countrywide digital cinema networks is now underway in Ireland. This marks the first step in Ireland’s groundbreaking nationwide conversion of its cinema screens to digital format.
2005-03-17
Kodak and Cinema Screen Media Choose InFocus Projectors - InFocus Corporation, the worldwide leader in digital projection technology and services, today announced it has been selected by Eastman Kodak Company and Cinema Screen Media (CSM) to provide three-chip Digital Light Processing (DLP) digital projectors to bring high-definition clarity and excitement to pre-show entertainment programming.
2005-03-14
IMAX(R) MPX(TM) Theatre System Drives Momentum for IMAX in International Markets - From IMAX Press Release: Exhibitors Around the World Embrace New System to Quickly Open Multiplex-Based IMAX(R) Theatres and Capitalize on Hollywood Releases in IMAX's Format.
2005-03-17
IMAX Expands Partnership with Leading Commercial Exhibitor in Chennai, India - From IMAX Press Release: Sathyam Cinemas to Install Two IMAX(R) MPX(TM) Theatre Systems at Top Multiplexes in Chennai.
2005-03-18
DLP Cinema(TM) Technology Helped Directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller Construct Miramax/Dimension Film's 'Sin City' in Post Production - DALLAS, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN - News) DLP Cinema(TM) technology, the digital cinema projection technology deployed in movie theatres worldwide, assisted the directors and visual effects team of Miramax's and DIMENSION FILMS' "Sin City" during post-production to achieve the desired comic-book feel of the movie. Directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller relied upon DLP Cinema(TM) projectors to ensure rich and consistent color in the movie. "Sin City" hits theatres on April 1st.
2005-03-18
Cinema company slashes movie prices - Movie tickets will cost just R14 at most Ster-Kinekor cinemas from Friday and to accommodate the new pricing structure, the company will convert its cinemas into two distinctive brands.
2005-03-21
Irish cinema 'set to go digital' - Ireland is set to become the world's first country to have digital film in every cinema.
2005-03-21
Imax 'shuns films on evolution' - From BBC News: Several Imax cinemas in the US have refused to show films referring to the theory of evolution for fear of a religious backlash, it is reported.
2005-03-21
Film studio warns of tax fallout - From BBC News: Shares in Pinewood Shepperton fell on Monday after the firm warned that first half profits would be hit by delays to key productions.
2005-03-24
Star Wars fans in tickets boost - FROM ITV.COM: Tickets for the news Star Wars film Revenge of the Sith are going on sale nearly two months before its UK release.
2005-03-23
DV Dailies - SMPTE and NAB Team Up for Digital Cinema Summit - From the Mac Observer: SMPTE has announced the line-up for the fourth annual Digital Cinema Summit being held at this year's NAB conference in April.
2005-03-24
GDC TECHNOLOGY POWERS HONG KONG ENTERTAINMENT EXPO WITH DSR™ DISPLAY MAESTRO FOR CONTENT MANAGEMENT AND DELIVERY TO THE EXPO IN-LOBBY AND IN-THEATRE DISPLAYS - From DCinema Today: GDC Technology, the leading provider of digital cinema solutions is pleased to be the content delivery and display sponsor of Asia largest entertainment event – Hong Kong Entertainment Expo.
2005-03-28
AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE MULTIPLEX. SCREENING ROOM DIGITAL CINEMAS ANNOUNCES A NETWORK OF DIGITAL BOUTIQUE ARTHOUSE CINEMAS - From DCinema Today: Screening Room Digital Cinemas has announced an e-cinema initiative designed to develop a network of 100 Digital Boutique Arthouse Cinemas over the next 12 months. Cinemas will be both company-owned and available to independent operators
2005-03-29
Loews Cineplex Entertainment Joins Screenvision's Digital Network
Deal Commits Screenvision to Digitize Loews Cineplex Entertainment's Major Market Theatres; Underpins Screenvision's 5,000 Screen National Digital Roll-out - From DCinema Today: Screenvision, the world leader in cinema advertising, today announced that it has extended its long-standing partnership with Loews Cineplex Entertainment Corporation, the premier major market movie-theatre circuit.
2005-03-29
ACCESS INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGIES DIGITALLY DELIVERS MORRISSEY CONCERT TO TEN MOVIE SCREENS THROUGHOUT THE U.S.
- Digital Cinema Technology Creates New Content Distribution Opportunity for Pillar Entertainment - From DCinema Today: Access Integrated Technologies, Inc. ("AccessIT") (AMEX: AIX) today announced the successful delivery of the digital cinema world premier of Morrissey's "Who Put the 'M' In Manchester?" concert for Pillar Entertainment ("Pillar") an alternative content provider.
2005-03-28
Sony, Disney, Warner Said Set To Roll Out Era Of Digital Cinema - From Investor's Daily News via Yahoo: The long-awaited rollout of digital cinema could begin this summer. Major Hollywood studios are said to be close to reaching an agreement on a financing plan that would find them footing a multibillion-dollar bill.
2005-03-29
AMC Entertainment Inc. and Regal Entertainment Group Announce the Formation of National CineMedia, LLC - From TMCNET: KANSAS CITY, Mo. & DENVER --(Business Wire)-- March 29, 2005 -- New National Digital Distribution and Media Company Will Reach 11,200 Screens.
2005-03-30
Travelling cinema to visit village - FROM DEVON24: RESIDENTS of Kilmington will soon be able to visit the flicks without having to travel.
2005-03-31
NEWS- Curtain time? Carmike zooms in on Waynesboro - From The Hook: How important is the presence of a movie theater to a small town? Ask Waynesboro mayor Tom Reynolds.
2005-03-31
Intercontinental Digital Cinema - From Guide to Home Theater: March 31, 2005 — Earlier this month, a new distribution system for the delivery of digital-cinema content across continents was tested between the US and Singapore. The system, called Cross-Continent Digital Content Transmission, or CCTx, is the result of collaboration between the Singapore government, an industry association called Singapore infocomm Technology Federation Digital Media Chapter (SiTF DMC), and the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at the University of Southern California. Other partners involved in the pilot program included Thomson Technicolor (consulting); GlobeCast, StarHub, and 1-Net (international and local circuit and data storage); and Christie, Dell, Texas Instruments, and XDC (technology).
2005-03-25
Digital cinema dilemma - From Daily News: LAS VEGAS -- Filmmakers George Lucas and James Cameron have often been ahead of the curve when it comes to cutting-edge movie technology.
2005-03-26
Go to the cinema and star in the film you're about to see - From The Times: QUEUEING outside what appears to be an ordinary cinema, members of the audience are invited to place their faces into a hole in the wall for a few seconds.
2005-03-31
Sony wants an 'iTunes for movies' - From BBC News: Sony is to make its top 500 films available digitally in the next year.
2005-04-01
Pinewood buys Teddington Studios - From BBC News: Pinewood Shepperton, home to the Harry Potter and James Bond films, has bought Teddington Studios, another famous name of the UK film and TV industry.
2005-03-31
UK industry to boost Indian film - From BBC News: Culture secretary Tessa Jowell has struck a deal to begin negotiations for the UK and Bollywood film industries to share their resources.
2005-04-05
Will cinema halls become extinct in Bhopal? - FROM NEW KERLA: [Entertainment India News] Bhopal, April 4 : Faced with poor turnouts, the once famed cinema theatres here are dying a slow death.
2005-04-04
Cinema pubs draw crowds with mix of movies, food and drink - From Canada.com: WESTERLY, R.I. (AP) - When Emily Steffian and Daniel Kamil moved from California with thoughts of opening their own movie theatre, they wanted to show films that were off the beaten path - they didn't expect to land there themselves.
2005-04-05
Canned Goods as Silent Caviar: Rescuing a Film on Nitrate Stock - From New York Times online: AMSTERDAM, April 3 - Even perfectly scripted Hollywood love stories can, literally, turn toxic with time.
2005-04-05
Cinema to star in £20,000 Govan revamp - From the Hearld: A run-down listed cinema building is expected to have a starring role in the regeneration of one of Scotland's most deprived areas, it was announced yesterday.
2005-04-08
Movie Theaters Try an Upgrade in Ambience - From Newsday: MAUMEE, Ohio -- Going to the movies no longer has to feel like you're riding in coach or sitting in the bleachers. But do moviegoers care?
At about a dozen National Amusements Inc. theaters around the country, some auditoriums have been fitted with extra-wide, VIP leather seats -- no arm-rest sharing here -- and private concession stands. Some other theater chains offer valet parking and fine dining -- all at a higher price.
2005-04-06
Filmmakers Lucas, Cameron Tout New 3D Films - From Reuters: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - If luminary directors George Lucas and James Cameron get their way, a new wave of three-dimensional movies may soon replace goofy, 1950s flicks like "Bwana Devil" that played to bug-eyed audiences wearing blue and red glasses.
2005-04-05
Cinema keeps rolling after trustees step in - From Cambridge Evening News Online: A STRUGGLING cinema on the verge of closure has been granted a new lease of life.
The Maltings, Ely's only cinema, was facing permanent closure until Arts Development in East Cambridgeshire (ADeC) stepped in
2005-04-05
Cinema's new image is a blast from past - From Evening Times Online: A FAMOUS Glasgow cinema has been given an unusual facelift as part of a community regeneration plan.
2005-04-05
Silver screen presents a golden opportunity for advertisers - From Media Week: Big-screen advertising can be highly effective if it’s used well and, with new technologies on the horizon, could agencies’ concerns over accountability finally be over? Mark Banham reports.
2005-04-10
Digital technology `will improve viewing quality' - From The Hindu: Today films are going increasingly digital. "Mumbai Express", which has been shot with the new technology, will be screened in the digital format wherever digital projection is available.
2005-04-10
Films and Censors - From News Today: Sleaze and violence in celluloid is not a new trend for concern. Yet, when the discourse on it is sought to be pushed into the political domain, it raises suspicions. Of course, politicians expressing angst over the film-makers' penchant to smear their creative works with a luxuriant dose of gore, flesh and pelvic thrusts should be welcomed.
2005-04-10
Opening the Mind through Cinema - From Christian News Today: HAWLER (ERBIL), KURDISTAN, IRAQ (ANS) -- An historic Kurdistan Cinema Conference with the theme of "Opening the Mind Through Cinema” will be held April 28-30 in the country’s capital city of Hawler, also known as Erbil, which is the oldest continually inhabited city in the world."
2005-04-10
Boy’s cinema job led to lifelong love affair with theatres - From Times Online: AT the age of six Paul Gregg was given his first taste of the theatre when he was taken to a show as a reward for going to the dentist.
2005-04-06
PARAMOUNT PULLING OUT OF BRITISH STUDIO - From Showbizdata: Paramount's new regime under CEO Brad Grey has decided to shut down production of its costly Watchmen feature at Pinewood Studios near London and move it to a different country.
2005-04-04
LIVE 1910 SNOW WHITE DISCOVERED IN ENGLAND - From ShowbizData: A live motion picture adaptation of Snow White, produced in 1910 and unknown to film historians, has been discovered in England among dozens of other films dating back to the 19th century, the London Daily Telegraph reported today (Monday)
2005-04-05
South African villages to get digital cinema network - From Boing Boing: Starting in September, Shout Africa will roll out 20 digital cinemas around the country where facilities are most lacking, to make the movies affordable and accessible.
2005-04-12
Technicolor, studios in d-cinema deal - From The Hollywood Reporter: Marking a significant step forward in the rollout of digital cinema, Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros. Pictures and Sony Pictures have signed a deal with Thomson's Technicolor Digital Cinema unit, which will facilitate their transition to d-cinema
2005-04-12
UK exhibitors call for cinema rentals rethink - From Screen Daily: Cinema Exhibitors' Association says cost savings arising from launch of Digital Screen Network should be shared with exhibitors.
2005-04-13
Tories launch anti-Blair cinema advert - From the Daily Telegraph: The Tories are launcing a party advert in cinemas deriding Tony Blair and his smile.
2005-04-13
Cinema couple see sad ending - From IC South London: A COUPLE who met working at The Savoy cinema more than 50 years ago will have to say goodbye to the silver screen that brought them together.
2005-04-14
Pocket Projector - From The Feature: Siemens researchers recently demonstrated a cell phone outfitted with a tiny laser that could someday turn the world into a display.
2005-04-15
Screen saver Life anew for Odeon Drive-In
- From Canoe Network: Cue the dancing hot dog. Fans of the Odeon Drive-In can look forward to another season of summer blockbusters, now that the owners have agreed to keep the reels running in .
2005-04-14
Pensioner Died after Cinema Fall - From the Scotsman: A cinema was today facing a possible prosecution for the second time after a pensioner died following a fall down stairs.
2005-04-15
Arts Alliance Media Appoints industry heavyweight as chief financial officer and President of digital cinema - From Dcinema Today: Arts Alliance Media, the pioneer provider of digital cinema services has appointed Howard Kiedaisch as chief financial officer. Kiedaisch, who joins from Universal Pictures International, will also be president of Arts Alliance Digital Cinema (AADC), the subsidiary which focuses on the development and deployment of new technologies in order to improve service to film consumers and the industry.
2005-04-17
UK Star Wars Cinema Marathon on May 16th - From the Force, which reported last month on a UK Star Wars Saga event set to take place in London on May 16th, where all 6 Star Wars movies would be screened at cinemas in Leicester Square in one day.
2005-04-18
Stella Artois Teams Up With Landmark Theatres to Bring Lost Film Genre to Life - NORWALK, Conn., April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Stella Artois(TM) -- the best selling Belgian beer in the world -- has signed a sponsorship deal with Landmark Theatres that expands its support of independent film making, as well as helps revive interest in a lost film genre, "shorts."
2005-04-13
IMAX Signs Four Theatre Deal With Largest Exhibitor in Korea - From IMAX: TORONTO, April 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - IMAX Corporation (Nasdaq: IMAX; TSX: IMX) and CJ CGV Co., Ltd, the largest commercial exhibitor in Korea, today announced an agreement to install four IMAX(R) MPX(TM) theatre systems at multiplexes in Korea in the next two years.
2005-04-05
IMAX and National Amusements Expand Relationship with New Deal for First IMAX(R) Theatre in Argentina - From IMAX Press Release: Successful Launch of Four Multiplex-Based IMAX Theatres in United States Leads To Further Signing in Buenos Aires
2005-04-21
Star Wars extravaganza hits Leicester Square - FROM YAHOO: LONDON (Hollywood Reporter) - All six episodes of the "Star Wars" saga are to be screened back-to-back for the first time on May 16 in London's Leicester Square, Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox said Tuesday.
2005-04-21
Cinema pirates to face jail under new US law - From PCPRO: People who use video cameras to record films in the cinema and then distribute them illegally could face prison under new legislation in the US.
2005-04-21
A cinema at last? - From Macclesfield Express Newspaper: CINEMA operators ARE interested in coming to Macclesfield and a multiplex will almost certainly be built in the town centre within the next three years.
2005-04-15
Sony buyout silences MGM's lion - From BBC News: It is all change in Hollywood as Metro Goldwyn Mayer releases its remake of The Amityville Horror, its first film as part of the Sony corporation.
2005-04-11
The last spin of the reel - From the Independent: George Lucas is a convert, and soon all the cinemas in Ireland will be, too. But can digital film ever replace the magic of celluloid? Wendy Grossman investigates.
2005-04-22
Cinema halls going digital! - From Rediff: Filmmaker George Lucas is a Hollywood visionary. He was the first to make use of computers in film-making and special effects in "Star Wars" and was the first to shoot motion pictures digitally with the next generation of "Star War" films.
2005-04-22
Imax Plans Big Role in 3-D Film Resurgence - From Yahoo: TORONTO - Hollywood appears to be on the cusp of a 3-D renaissance, and Imax Corp. intends to play a big part.
2005-04-22
Imax plans big role in 3-D film renaissance - From : TORONTO (Dow Jones/AP) -- Hollywood appears to be on the cusp of a 3-D renaissance, and Imax Corp. intends to play a big part.
2005-04-28
3D digital cinema gains momentum with first-ever showing at large format conference in LA - Christie, first in DLP Cinema(tm) projection, announced that the Christie CP2000 2K resolution DLP Cinema projector will be used in a demonstration of the latest generation of 3D entertainment technology using the groundbreaking single lens system.
2005-04-29
Blackstone Group cleared to take over UGC circuit in UK - From ScreenDaily: Office of Fair Trading rules that Blackstone must sell six cinemas for deal to clear.
2005-04-29
Technicolor 90th anniversary - From HollywoodReporter.com: Sir Isaac Newton is credited with establishing the theory of color, the result of his experimentations with light and prismatic glass circa 1704, but it was Herbert Kalmus who brought rainbow hues to motion pictures. With the formation of Technicolor in 1915, Kalmus launched a revolution, helping legions of filmmakers realize what had up until that point been a dream.
2005-05-07
100TH ANNIVERSARY OF VALENTINO'S BIRTH, A CINEMA PROJECT - (AGI) - Taranto, Italy, April 30 - Rudolph Valentino was born 110 years ago at Castellaneta (Taranto) on May 6, 1885 which also coincides with the 110th anniversary of cinema
2005-05-07
PROJECTION SHOW TO BE HELD IN MOSCOW ON MAY 9 TO COMMEMORATE VICTORY - MOSCOW, May 4 (RIA Novosti, Dina Zhiltsova) - The May 9 celebration at the Poklonnaya Gora WWII memorial in Moscow is to be crowned by a show of wartime pictures projected on the colonnade of the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), the show's organizers informed RIA Novosti on Wednesday.
2005-04-28
OFT considers undertakings instead of reference to the Competition Commission of cinema merger - The OFT has decided today not to refer to the Competition Commission the completed acquisition by the Blackstone Group of UGC Cinemas Holdings Limited provided that satisfactory divestment undertakings to address competition concerns are given by the parties. If the parties do not give such undertakings, then the transaction will be referred.
2005-05-01
Vue buys Ster Century - From Reuters: Vue, one of Britain's largest cinema chains, has bought Ster Century in a deal said to be worth around 50 million pounds. The deal has been backed by private equity groups Boston Ventures, Clarity Partners and L&G Ventures and will give Vue an extra 500 screens across 49 sites in the UK. Ster was sold by a consortium including the chain's management and specialist debt provider Hutton Collins.
2005-05-06
Tesco eyes film download service - FROM BBC NEWS: Retailers Tesco is planning to launch a film downloading service "as soon as possible" to build on the success it has had in the online music sector.
2005-05-10
Cinema levy call to save film industry - From the Guardian: The respected film producer Michael Kuhn last night warned that the "hour is dark" for the British film industry, accusing the lottery-funded Film Council of treating producers like "ralcalcitrant schoolboys".
2005-05-10
Is cinema still in the picture? - From Bedford Today: Multiplex ruled out but community project may be answer
2005-05-12
Thomson Showcases Technologies for the Cinema of Tomorrow At the Cannes International Film Festival - From Yahoo: The Group Demonstrates its Latest Innovations in Content Security, Film Restoration, and Digital Cinematography and is Partner of the Short Film Corner.
2005-05-12
DLP Cinema(TM) Projection a Digital Force for 'Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith' During Production, Post and Exhibition - From Yahoo: TI DLP Cinema(TM) Technology Supports Worldwide Premieres and U.S. Charity Screenings in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco
2005-05-15
'Deep Throat', the biggest porn film ever, is cleared for release - From the Independent: Deep Throat, the most infamous and lucrative porn film ever made, is to be shown in UK cinemas for the first time after a landmark decision by film censors.
2005-05-09
Ex-Beeb Gavin to become cinema boss - From Cue Entertainment (Free Registration Required): Former BBC Worldwide Chief Executive Rupert Gavin is to be the new head of Odeon and UCI Cinemas.
2005-05-12
Dream Theater back in business - Not a wake-up-screaming kind of dream, or one of those "I've always wanted to be an astronaut" kind of dreams, but an honest to goodness Dream - with a capital "D."
2005-05-16
Movie marathon for Star Wars day - From BBC News: Celebrations marking the UK premiere of the final Star Wars include a marathon showing of all six films on Monday.
2005-05-16
Hollywood Aims To Thwart Pirates - From Security Pipeline: Fighting piracy is an ongoing struggle for Hollywood, and the move to digital cinema won't eradicate the problem. Encryption can protect the digital files as they're transmitted across networks, but thieves could still sneak into a theater, surreptitiously videotape a digital movie, and then make bootleg copies and sell them.
2005-05-17
VUE APPOINTS PEARL & DEAN FOLLOWING ACQUISITION OF STER CENTURY CINEMA CIRCUIT - From Pearl and Dean Press Release: Pearl & Dean have been awarded the exclusive screen advertising rights for the Ster Century UK and Ireland cinema circuit following last week’s acquisition of the cinema chain by Vue Entertainment.
2005-05-18
Digital film revolution poised to start rolling - FROM USATODAY.COM: For the film industry, though, the movie is a reminder of what a dreamer Lucas has been about another pet project: digital cinema. A passionate advocate, Lucas predicted in 2001 that by the time Sith was released, thousands of theaters would show it using digital projectors.
2005-05-19
Publish Talks Digital Cinema & Security - From theforce.net, summarises two articles on digital cinema.
2005-05-20
Star Wars Tests The Digital Cinema Supply Chain - From Information Week: A Brooklyn, N.Y., movie theater is showing Star Wars: Episode III, Revenge Of The Sith, in its native digital format, with help from Access Integrated Technologies, a company that's working to digitize Hollywood's supply chain.
2005-05-20
Kodak digital in use at some 'Sith' shows - (May 19, 2005) — The final episode of the epic Star Wars saga is helping to launch a new era in technology for both Eastman Kodak Co. and local moviegoers.
2005-05-27
£12 million cinema-going revolution begins in UK as cinemas turn digital - From UK FILM COUNCIL PRESS RELEASE: LONDON. The choice of films on offer to UK cinema-goers is to be massively increased from later this year thanks to the creation of the world’s first ‘Digital Screen Network’ involving more than 200 cinemas across the country, the UK Film Council announced today. For a full list of the 209 cinemas click here Digital Screen Network list of cinemas 26 May 05 to download a word document listing them.
2005-05-28
Dolby Laboratories to showcase digital cinema products at Cinema Expo 2005 - Dolby Laboratories has announced that at Cinema Expo (June27–30 in Amsterdam) it will demonstrate the full Dolby Digital Cinema presentation system and its new digital cinema trailer, 'Countdown'.
2005-05-27
Cinema gets sound upgrade - From Evening Star: COUNCILLORS unanimously voted to spend more than £17,000 upgrading their town cinema by introducing a digital surround sound system for movies.
2005-05-30
Digital is the big picture - From the Guardian: If you are a buyer of lottery rather than cinema tickets you may be surprised to learn that you have helped support a scheme to bring a more diverse range of films to your local cinema.
2005-05-30
Arthouse films go digital at a cinema near you - From the Herald: THEY are usually restricted to a few screenings at arthouse cinemas, squeezed out of the multiplex schedules by the big Hollywood blockbusters.
2005-05-31
Norwich Ster Century cinema sold
- From the Business: Norwich's Ster Century multiplex has been sold to cinema group Vue Entertainment as part of a £50m deal.
Vue Entertainment is one of the UK's largest cinema groups and the acquisition of the seven-strong Ster Century chain, including Norwich, will give it a total of 496 screens in 49 sites across the country.
2005-06-03
Coming soon ... to a cinema near you - From Ealing Times: ONE of Britain's worst buildings is about to make way for a £5.2million apartment block.
2005-06-07
£3 million push to open cinema-goers eyes to wider choice of films over next three years - UK Film Council Press Release: Bids invited to run National Lottery funded scheme to boost cinema attendances and develop audiences for
new lower budget British and specialist films.
2005-06-07
P&D Picks up Vue and Bloom - Pearl & Dean Press Release: Pearl & Dean have been awarded the screen advertising rights for the Ster Century UK and Ireland cinema circuit following the aquisition of the cinema chain by Vue Entertainment.
2005-06-13
DTS Cinema Division Expands with New Key Executive Roles; Cinema Division Reorganizes Staff/Adds New Positions - From Business Wire: AGOURA HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 13, 2005--DTS, Inc. (Nasdaq:DTSI) announces the reorganization and expansion of its Cinema Division, with the promotion of several key staff and the addition of new members of the management team. DTS has promoted Susie Beiersdorf to Director, Sales, Cinema Products, Michelle Maddalena to Director, Business Development, Film Licensing, Daniel Schulz to Manager, Post Production and John Keating to Manager, Cinema Services. Bringing extensive experience in areas of pre-show, E- and D-Cinema, DTS has also hired Gerald Hensley as Director, Business Development, New Markets, and Ed Zeier as Director, Cinema Services.
2005-06-10
DIGITAL CINEMA – Pioneer XDC has already presented more than 6,000 digital screenings of Star Wars Episode III around the world. With upcoming releases like Sin City and Madagascar, XDC leads the digital race. - From DCinema Today: As well as being Official Partner of the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, XDC is proud to have been selected as the digital partner of Lucas Films for Star Wars Episode III – The Revenge of the Sith. Along with successfully executing world premieres in Cannes, Madrid and Rome, and several gala screenings from Copenhagen to Singapore, XDC has offered state of the art projections to enthusiastic movie goers. As for exhibitors, the digital screen has raised more return than the 35mm.
2005-06-12
Stelios to strike back by buying Empire from Terra Firma - From the Telegraph: Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the Greek entrepreneur and founder of the Easy brand, is in talks to buy the Empire cinema in Leicester Square from Terra Firma, the private equity group, for £6m.
2005-06-12
Projectionist is the magic behind movie
- From Rocky Mount: Squinting, rookie projectionist Adam Price grabs a reel of film and holds a length of it to the light. He's about to make a cut. Then, he'll splice the film onto the main reel where he's building a copy of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith." The film, starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, will open the next day at Premiere Theatres in Rocky Mount. It's one of three films Price will assemble before the night is out.
2005-06-15
P&D picks up Vue & Bloom - FROM P&D Release: Pearl & Dean has been awarded the screen advertising rights for the Ster Century UK and Ireland cinema circuit following the acquistion of the cinema chain Vue Entertainment.
2005-06-16
Cinema-goer attacked by snake - From Ananova: A woman was attacked by a four feet long python as she watched Mr and Mrs Smith at a cinema in the United Arab Emirates.
2005-06-17
Americans 'prefer' DVDs to cinema - From BBC News: Most Americans would now rather watch films at home than at the cinema, a poll has suggested.
2005-06-20
Screenvision Portugal contracts Unique Digital for 35mm cinema ad operation - From DCinema Today: Screenvision Portugal and Unique Digital Ltd. (UD) have signed an agreement to use Unique's back office solution for the distribution of all of its cinema adverts. The deal is the first time that Unique's Accord will be used for a traditional 35mm film print cinema advertising logistics. While Screenvision Portugal do not have any immediate plans to digitise their network of cinema partners, the systems provides full capability to switch over to complete end-to-end digital distribution and exhibition, once cinemas go digital.
2005-06-26
Cinema industry heads out to lobby - FROM NEWS RECORD: GREENSBORO -- A potential rise in the admissions tax would discourage families from taking a night out at the movies, theater owners complain.
2005-06-25
National Cinema Day on Saturday 02 July - KRS Film Distributors have pleasure in announcing the tenth annual National Cinema Day scheduled to be celebrated at all cinemas in Malta and Gozo on Saturday 2 July.
2005-06-24
Dolby Announces First Dolby Digital Cinema Installations In France - Dolby Laboratories has launched its Dolby Digital Cinema system in France at the Gaumont Champs-Elysees Marignan cinema in Paris, part of the EuroPalaces group.
2005-06-23
Eastman Kodak Deal Gives Another Push To Digital Cinema - Eastman Kodak Co. and Belgium's Barco, which develops digital-display projectors, have formed an alliance to sell digital systems and services to movie theaters. It's the second industry move this week to help make digital cinema a reality.
2005-06-23
Dolby Digital Cinema Debuts in Japan with the Release of Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith - SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 23, 2005--Dolby Laboratories (NYSE:DLB - News) announced today the commercial launch of Dolby® Digital Cinema in Japan with the release of Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith. Installed in numerous Japanese commercial cinemas, Dolby Digital Cinema was utilized for the movie's first industry screening in Japan on June 18 and will be used for the official premiere on July 2, which director George Lucas and the cast will attend.
2005-06-23
Call for European cinema to unite - From BBC News: Calls have been made for Europe's independent film-makers to come up with a joint plan to exploit the growing movie download market.
2005-06-23
New Flicks: Zapped To Digital Cinema By Access - Soon 35mm film may go the way of the silent movie. A move to change movies' format from analog to digital is afoot. The major studios have already agreed informally to such a switch, says William Relyea of investment firm H.C. Wainwright. No longer will studios use film delivered in a can. Once converted to digital, the movie is encrypted and electronically sent to the theater's server.
2005-06-24
Cinema project rolling - WORK has started on expansion to the existing Australia Cinema complex to include a fifth cinema.
2005-06-25
The business of cinema - The latest edition of the Cinefan festival of Asian films aims for greater professionalism than ever before.
2005-06-24
Kodak, Barco Ramp Up Digital Cinema Efforts - Eastman Kodak and Barco announced yesterday that the two companies are ramping up their efforts to create solutions for the digital cinema market. The two companies have formed a strategic alliance to provide products, systems, and services for digital cinema.
2005-06-26
Cinemas across India are set to go digital - THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Film spools and distribution network would soon be a thing of the past with the introduction of digital cinema in Kerala.
2005-06-26
San Francisco opens the door to the future of digital arts - SAN FRANCISCO -- A new complex that will house most of "Star Wars" creator George Lucas' empire could be the entertainment industry's most sophisticated digital arts and entertainment center.
2005-06-26
Are the movies dying? - Let me rephrase that. Are movies the way we have understood them for several generations -- as suspenseful and/or comic and/or soul-altering shadow plays shared by large audiences in theatrical settings -- in their red-star end stage?
2005-06-21
UK OFT accepts undertakings by Blackstone on purchase of UGC cinema chain - LONDON (AFX) - The Office of Fair Trading said it has accepted the undertakings offered by Blackstone LR Associates (Cayman) IV Ltd and UK subsidiary, Cineworld UK Ltd in relation to its acquisition of the UGC cinema chain.
2005-06-22
No. 2 and No. 3 Movie Theater Chains Plan to Merge - AMC Entertainment is merging with the Loews Cineplex Entertainment Corporation, in what some analysts described as a show of faith in moviegoing.
2005-06-21
Anti-piracy ad promotes cinemas - A new advertisment campaign is to tackle film piracy by promoting the benefits of visiting the cinema.
2005-06-21
Christie, Access form group to fund digital cinema - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two movie industry companies on Tuesday unveiled a plan to finance digital projectors for cinemas, offering a potential break in a stalemate between theater owners and movie studios over who will pay for the expensive new technology.
2005-06-21
Tech firms turn up the heat on global piracy. - If technology has helped put wind in the sales of the immense global network of "casual" and professional pirates who rack up what the MPAA says is "in excess of $3 billion" in lost revenue each year, then the studios likewise are using high-tech methods to fight back.
2005-06-21
Two Digital Cinema Companies Looking To Jump-Start Industry - Two backers of digital cinema projectors announced a plan Tuesday to get the devices in front of more movie screens.
2005-06-21
A Clearer Picture For Digital Cinema - Movie lovers who want high-quality visuals on the big screen in theaters are getting their wish. Movie distributor Access Integrated Technologies Inc. has formed a subsidiary, Christie/AIX, to help fund the rollout of digital cinema, an industry format for movie delivery and presentation in theaters.
2005-06-21
Newly Created Funding Vehicle, a Digital Cinema Industry Milestone, Features Minimal Cost to Exhibitors - Access Integrated Technologies and Christie Digital Systems Sign Ground-Breaking Agreement for Digital Cinema Rollout Plan Targeting 2,500 Screens Within Two Years
2005-06-22
Curtain rises on cinema merger - KANSAS CITY -- AMC Entertainment Inc., the second-largest U.S. cinema chain, announced plans yesterday to acquire Loews Cineplex Entertainment Corp. in a move that may help the company compete as Hollywood struggles to lure more movie-goers.
2005-06-22
DIGITAL CINEMA IN ACTION - Cinema EXPO International 2005, Europe's largest gathering of the Motion Picture Theatre Industry, will open its doors next week at the Amsterdam RAI (June 27-30, 2005).
2005-06-23
Cinema chain pulls food ban - Cinema chain Greater Union has scrapped a controversial policy banning externally-purchased food from being taken into its theatres.
2005-06-28
THE WALT DISNEY STUDIOS AND DOLBY BRING DISNEY DIGITAL 3-D™ TO SELECTED THEATERS NATIONWIDE WITH CHICKEN LITTLE ON DOLBY DIGITAL CINEMA - From DCinema Today: In a revolutionary collaboration with Dolby Laboratories, employing Dolby Digital Cinema combined with Industrial Light & Magic’s proprietary software technology, Walt Disney Pictures debuts new 3-D TECHNOLOGY with CHICKEN LITTLE, its first all-CGI animate.
2005-06-28
Outdoor Film Screenings at NT - Each year the National Theatre has an eleven week outdoor event and this
year there are films in conjunction with the NFT which are going to be
projected onto the massive Lyttelton flytower:
Friday 29th July: 10.30pm: Flytower film: Blood Weddings (Bodas de Sangre)
Friday 12th August: 10.15pm: Flytower film: The Threepenny Opera (Die
Dreigroschenoper)
Friday 19th August: 10.15pm: Flytower film: First A Girl
Friday 26th August: 10.15pm: Flytower film: Silent Shakespeare (1899-1911)
Friday 2nd September: 10.15pm: Flytower film: Streamboy (2004)
If you want any more information then goto www.nationaltheatre.org.uk
2005-06-28
Film revenues in decline: This season's disaster movies - From the Independent: As one mega-production after another bombs, Hollywood is suffering the worst box-office slump in a generation. Is the problem more than just a failure to produce the right films, asks Andrew Gumbel
2005-06-28
BBC to show colour film of lost era - From the Guardian: The BBC is again planning to raid the archives of the British Film Institute in an effort to tap into a growing interest in evocative silent movies from a bygone age.
2005-06-28
Projectionist keeps world going at 24 frames a second - From Sedalia Democrat: An article about the projectionist in this area.
2005-06-30
Cineplex Galaxy fund sells 4 theatre sites to RioCan, plans to raise $215M with offering - TORONTO (CP) - Cineplex Galaxy Income Fund, which recently made a $500-million deal to acquire the rival Famous Players movie-house chain from Viacom, is selling four theatre sites and raising $215 million in a bought-deal offering.
2005-06-29
UK cinema chain Vue sees gains despite new rivals - From Reuters: LONDON (Reuters) - A wave of investment in the UK cinema sector, after its biggest shake-up in decades, is expected to usher in a new era for the industry and lure Britons to theatres more often.
2005-06-30
Canada's cinema admissions drop after ten years on the increase - From Screendaily.com (subscription required): New survey says admissions dropped 4.6% in 2003/4, profit margins down.
2005-06-29
Crowe movie offers money back guarantee - From ITV.COM: A US cinema chain is offering filmgoers their money back if they don't
like Russell Crowe's new film in a bid to overcome a box office slump.
2005-06-30
Digital Dreams on the Silver Screen - From Businessweek: The push to shift cinemas from film to digital projection is picking up steam globally as a business model for the change starts to gel.
2005-06-30
Sony SRX-R110 is World's First 4K Projector - The Sony SRX-R110 conforms to the DCI (Digital Cinema Initiative) system specification standards for digital cinema picture quality and achieves 4K (4096 x 2160) image resolution. This is four times the resolution of a 2K projector.
2005-07-06
UK box office dips after disappointing second quarter - From Screen Daily (subscription required): Britain joins the European slump in cinema admissions.
2005-07-05
Cinema delayed over plans to show porn film - Dundee Contemporary Arts today scrapped controversial screenings of the pornographic film Deep Throat at its Nethergate cinema later this month, writes Steven Bell.
2005-07-06
New Film Academies for UK Film Industry - Academy Network will teach vital film business and technical skills to strengthen future filmmaking
2005-07-06
Ten suggestions to bring 'em back to the box office -
2005-07-04
Goodbye UGC, hello Cineworld - The UGC cinema at Camperdown Park, Dundee, will be rebranded Cineworld next week as part of a multi-million takeover, the cinema revealed today.
2005-07-05
Doremi Replay Marks D-Cinemea Milestone - Doremi Technologies has announced the successful playback of the Digital Cinema Initiatives, LLC (DCI) compliant Digital Cinema Package (DCP) “StEM Mini Movie – The Sequel 2K @ 24fps”.
2005-07-06
Row as second cinema closes - From Yorkshire Post: MP accuses firm of not caring for community – but owner says he runs business not charity
2005-07-06
Cleaners find dead man in city cinema - From New Zealand Herald: Ushers cleaning up after a movie at the Queen Street cinema complex yesterday discovered the body of a man.
2005-07-05
Organ sets the tone for horror - THE restored Usher Hall organ is set to ring out a symphony of terror to accompany a screening of the classic horror film Nosferatu.
2005-07-05
Digital signals the end for film projectors - George Gilby can see the writing on the silver screen. He has spent 25 years cloistered above cinema-goers running the film projectors that are destined to become yet another casualty of the digital age.
2005-07-07
New fears for future of cinema - THE future of a derelict art deco cinema could still be uncertain after an MP called for an inquiry into a decision to approve plans for a supermarket on the site.
2005-07-07
The End - THE FINAL curtain will go down at the Roxy in September and there is little hope of a new cinema being built in Oldham in the foreseeable future.
2005-07-07
British Film Institute and BT launch interactive online exploration of silent film comedy hosted by Paul Merton at www.screenonline.org.uk - A new interactive online guide to early British silent film comedy was launched today on the British Film Institute’s (bfi) educational website www.screenonline.org.uk. The new addition to the site has been developed jointly by the British Film Institute and broadband technology partner, BT.
2005-07-07
End of an era - MORE than 20 jobs and 40 years of cinematic tradition will come to an end when the Odeon cinema in Harlow town centre closes its doors for the final time next month.
2005-07-08
TIR Systems Receives Order for United Kingdom Cinema Chain - TIR Systems Ltd. a world leader in light enabling technologies for Solid State Lighting, announces that it has received a multi-location contract through its Cox Plastics distribution partner.
This contract, with Cineworld, is worth over $100,000 and is the largest single customer order placed by Cox Plastics since the distribution agreement was signed in January 2005. It marks the closure of the first of a number of opportunities that Cox Plastics has identified as suitable for TIR's products and is actively pursuing.
2005-07-08
London's showbiz shuts down - From Variety (subscription required): The entertainment biz in London shut down Thursday following terrorist attacks that left at least 40 dead and 700-plus injured. The city's legit activity ground to a halt, with performances canceled as far afield as Shakespeare's Globe toward the southeast of the capital....
2005-07-08
ABC for d&b - UK - In the heart of Northampton's Abington Square is a former art deco ABC cinema dating back to the 1930's. Designed by William Riddell Glen, the ABC house architect known for his classic cinema designs, the grade II listed building has been recently restored to its former glory after sitting empty for many years and is now a fully integrated conference centre, theatre and multi-purpose venue.
2005-07-09
CURTAIN RISES AT NEW CINEMA - Last fall, Toronto got the Camera Bar, the Atom Egoyan/Hussein Amarshi-owned 50-seat cinema and cocktail bar on King Street West. Now, another attractive art cinema space opens this week at the Al Green Theatre in the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre at Spadina Avenue and Bloor Street West. The 288-seat theatre, with Dolby sound and 35-mm film and video projection equipment, will be a showcase for films from Capri Releasing, a Toronto-based company that brings a mixture of independent, foreign and documentary films, including such titles as Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, Nobody Knows and Tarnation.
2005-07-09
Digital Projection International Introduces The World's Smallest Fully-integrated DLP Cinema Projector - Digital Projection International (DPI), a manufacturer of high-performance projection systems, announced the launch of the iS8-2K, the world's smallest fully-integrated, DC-2K based DLP Cinema projector . DPI's first formal demonstration of the Digital Projection Cinema-branded iS8-2K will be at ShoWest 2004 (March 22 to 25, Las Vegas , NV).
2005-07-09
Dolby Showcasing 5.1 Audio For High Definition At IBC [Stand No 2.210] - Dolby Laboratories will demonstrate audio for high-definition (HD) at this year's IBC exhibition, which takes place in September 2005 at the RAI Convention Centre in Amsterdam.
2005-07-09
Historic cinema on at risk register - ONE of the country's oldest cinemas has been placed on the Buildings at Risk Register in an attempt to protect its future.
2005-07-10
Movie piracy costing cinemas big box office losses - FOR the past 20 weekends, Hollywood box office revenues have been in a steady decline. But the slump does not overly worry local cinema proprietors, who say the viewing tastes of the Jamaican public differ from Americans.
2005-05-25
Dome to reopen as concert arena - The Millennium Dome hopes to be a stage for musicians such as U2 and Sir Paul McCartney when it reopens as an entertainment arena in April 2007.
2005-07-13
European cinema suffers downturn - Box office returns across Europe have slumped in line with a US downturn, according to industry figures.
2005-07-14
Cinemas set for digital revolution - Cinema is the last major entertainment industry yet to embrace the digital revolution, with movies still shot and displayed on celluloid film, but technology is finally set to change it.
2005-07-15
Digital Domination? - Thomson wants to control the tricky transition to digital cinema. But there's a line forming.
2005-07-15
COLUMBIA PICTURES' MONSTER HOUSE SCHEDULES REAL D's DIGITAL 3-D RELEASE ON MORE THAN 100 SCREENS - ImageMovers' Second "Performance Capture" Production through Sony Pictures Imageworks Debuts Nationally July 21, 2006
2005-07-18
A night at The Flick - MARBLETON -- Earlier this year, a small film crew, Flying Moon Productions, traveled to India, where mobile cinemas are popular. These canvas theaters travel around, showing movies in the dirt and dust of isolated villages.
2005-07-20
Cinema ban for mobiles in war on film pirates - MOBILE phones are to be temporarily confiscated during performances at this year's Edinburgh Film Festival in a crackdown on movie piracy.
2005-07-20
Twentieth Century Fox and Loews Theatres Team to Make Movie-Promo History, Offering Free Content from Fox's Summer Blockbusters via In-Theatre Bluetooth Technology - This summer, Twentieth Century Fox and Loews Theatres will make movie-promotion history, offering for the first time ever, free content from Fox's summer blockbusters, in select Loews theatres, via Bluetooth technology. Fox and Loews will work with WideRay Corp., the leading provider of on-location content distribution platforms, to provide the technology that will power the fast, free and simple in-theatre download stations and back-end content management system.
2005-07-21
Anger at cinema ban on closure petition - FILM fans have been venting their anger after cinema bosses ordered the removal of a petition to save the Odeon from closure.
2005-07-24
Town to lose cinema - IPSWICH'S Odeon cinema is to close next month, the Evening Star can reveal today.
2005-07-25
EasyCinema eyes West End debut - Cinemas in London's Leicester Square that regularly host red-carpet, star-studded premieres could soon face cut-price competition from an upstart with a familiar lurid orange livery.
2005-07-25
Access Integrated Technologies Digitally Delivers DreamWorks' 'The Island' to 16 Theatres Across the United States - Access Integrated Technologies, Inc. ("AccessIT") (Amex: AIX - News) today announced its media services division has delivered and projected DreamWorks SKG Studios' newest major release, "The Island," to 16 digitally equipped theaters around the country. The futuristic action thriller featuring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson opened nationally on Friday, July 22nd in both digital and analog formats.
2005-07-27
Film Studios Said to Agree on Digital Standards - From New York Times (Free Subscription Required): LOS ANGELES, July 26 - Hollywood's major film studios are expected to announce on Wednesday that they have agreed to new technical standards that will make it easier for movie theaters to show digitally produced movies, according to two studio executives apprised of the announcement.
2005-07-28
Studios agree on digital cinema specs - AP Business Writer: JUL. 27 8:45 P.M. ET After three years of study, Hollywood studios have agreed on a technical specification to deliver digital movies to theaters.
2005-07-28
Film theatre could see months of closure - MOVIE fans in Ipswich could be faced with a severely restricted choice next year if the town's film theatre closes for a major overhaul.
2005-07-28
DIGITAL CINEMA INITIATIVES (DCI) ANNOUNCES FINAL OVERALL SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR DIGITAL CINEMA: Agreement Gives Manufacturers of Digital Projectors and Theater Equipment One Universal Standard in Creating the Next Generation of Cinemas - Digital Cinema Initiatives, LLC (DCI) has completed the final overall system requirements and specifications to help theatrical projector and equipment manufacturers create uniform and compatible digital cinema equipment throughout the United States, it was announced today by Walt Ordway, Chief Technology Officer, Digital Cinema Initiatives. The specification can be downloaded from here.
2005-07-29
Coming to a digital cinema near you, although not soon - It took three years for the studios to agree on a format, and it will probably take another two years to reach the nation's 36,000 movie screens, but the all-digital cinema--long-awaited by some, long-dreaded by others--finally became a reality this week. A consortium of the major Hollywood studios announced Wednesday that the technical specifications for projecting movies not on celluloid, but from digital servers, are now in place, with testing of the new system next year, and a rollout that is expected to cost $3 billion to follow in 2007.
2005-07-29
Hollywood Comes Together on Digital Cinema Specs - Hollywood studios including Twentieth Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros. and Paramount, and directors including George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis and others, hailed the specifications as a great leap forward that is long overdue.
2005-07-29
Access Integrated Technologies Applauds Final Digital Cinema Technical Standards Set by DCI - Universal Interoperability and Security Standards Set Stage for Rapidly Accelerating Digital Cinema Rollout.
2005-07-29
Hollywood studios agree to unify digital cinema projector specs - NEW YORK — Seven Hollywood movie studios said Wednesday they have agreed to unify specifications for projectors and other theatrical equipment for digital cinemas in the United States.
2005-07-29
Sky Classic Film Nights - Heddon Street is to be transformed into an open air cinema every Tuesday throughout August. Diners in Heddon Street, Regent Street’s dining quarter, will be treated to four classic films starting on 9 August
2005-07-29
Cinema prices continue to rise - The price of cinema tickets in Switzerland has risen by 9.2 per cent over the past ten years, according to the Federal Statistics Office.
2005-07-29
Cinema saved in last-minute deal - An eleventh hour deal has saved a cinema in Leeds from closing.
2005-07-29
Studios Do Digital Dance - NEW YORK - Tech executives from every studio were congratulating each other Wednesday on the news that, after three years of work, digital cinema isn't their problem anymore.
2005-07-18
Digital Citizens: The film-maker - From blogging to podcasting, millions of ordinary people are becoming writers, journalists, broadcasters and film-makers thanks to increasingly affordable and accessible tools
2005-08-03
Screen hero who rode to the rescue - One of the country's oldest cinemas has been rescued from closure at the 11th hour. Jill Armstrong meets its saviour, Charles Morris.
2005-08-04
IFC Center Projectionist Finds His 'Voice' - Nobody is rushing to call it an official response or anything, but at least something resembling signs of life emerged from IFC Center this week in its ongoing drama with the IATSE Local 306 Projectionists Union.
2005-08-04
Art-house cinema to close - On the day the Valhalla in Glebe closed its doors, the Australian Film Institute confirmed it will shut another art-house cinema.
2005-08-04
A Dedicated onlne forum for Westcountry Cinema Discussion Opens. - Clive Polden has created an online forum at his fantastic website for discussion on cinemas in the Westcountry. This part of the site is likely to be worth keeping an eye on.
2005-08-08
Cinema group to float for £400m - VUE ENTERTAINMENT, Britain’s second-largest cinema operator, is eyeing a blockbuster stock-market flotation expected to value the business at more than £400m.
2005-08-10
3,000 British Theatre Images to go Online - Historic theatre archive to go online as
Theatres Trust is awarded grant
2005-08-10
Plan to convert cinema into casino is ditched - PLANS to turn Glasgow's Odeon cinema into a casino have been scrapped amid uncertainty about new gaming laws.
2005-08-11
VISITS TO MOVIES UP 49% - BRITONS are going to the cinema in record numbers, according to figures published yesterday.
2005-04-21
Theatrical-to-DVD on fast forward - According to The Hollywood Reporter, several of the movie industry's top executives said Wednesday that piracy is forcing them to think about radically shortening the time between when a film hits theaters and when it is released on DVD.
2005-08-11
CINEMARK SELECTS CHRISTIE PROJECTORS TO SHOWCASE PRE-SHOW ENTERTAINMENT ACROSS ENTIRE NORTH AMERICAN CIRCUIT - Christie Exclusive Projector Partner in Major Contract Covering Nearly 2,400 Cinema Screens in 33 States, Reaching Over 107 Million Patrons in the U.S.
2005-08-11
Cineplex Galaxy Income Fund Reports Second Quarter Results - TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 10, 2005--Cineplex Galaxy Income Fund (the "Fund") (TSX:CGX.UN - News) today released the financial results of Cineplex Galaxy Limited Partnership (the "Partnership"), for the second quarter of 2005.
2005-08-11
Cinemark Selects Christie As It Joins Cinema Advertising Goldrush - SAN FRANCISCO -- In the latest development for the burgeoning cinema advertising market here, Cinemark USA, one of North America’s largest cinema companies, has entered into an agreement with Christie Digital Systems to outfit its nationwide network of nearly 2,400 screens with LCD projectors for the purpose of delivering pre-show digital advertising.
2005-08-11
Sky in talks to buy UGC multiplexes - From BROADCAST NOW (Subscription Required) BSkyB is plotting a move into the UK cinema market by buying six multiplex theatres.
2005-02-22
Carlton takes centre stage as cinema undergoes power shift - Cinema advertising is in the throes of change and the big story is not just the shift in power toward Carlton Screen Advertising Ian Quinn gets to grips with the unfolding script.
2005-08-10
PILLAR ENTERTAINMENT TO DELIVER “SANDY MARKS’ MANHATTAN COMEDY NIGHT” TO BROOKLYN’S PAVILION THEATRE - - AccessIT and Pillar Entertainment Utilize the Latest in Digital Cinema Technology to Present Unique Entertainment Content in Movie Theatres -
2005-08-12
Talk To Your Cinema, Via SMS - SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- A WORLD FIRST - Australian leading cinema chains launch an SMS information service that understands plain English requests sent via text.
2005-08-12
CINEMA PLANS SCRAPPED - A DISPUTE over ambitious plans for a seven-screen cinema at Manvers has led to the proposal being scrapped.
2005-08-12
Another cinema faces closure - A GROUP of filmmakers has appealed to Australian cinema lovers to seek alternatives to closing the Chauvel arthouse cinema in Sydney.
2005-08-12
Movie Distribution Income Fund Reports Second Quarter Results - TORONTO, Aug. 11 /CNW/ - Movie Distribution Income Fund (the "Fund")
today announced financial and operating results for Motion Picture
Distribution Limited Partnership (the "Partnership") for the three and six
months ended June 30, 2005.
2005-08-12
Is BSkyB into plex flexing? - Fro Variety (Subscription Required): U.K. satcaster BSkyB has played down reports that it is planning a surprise move into the exhibition business through the acquisition of six multiplex theaters from U.S. private equity outfit Blackstone Group....
2005-08-12
DISNEY EARNINGS RISE -- EXCEPT FOR STUDIO UNIT - Disney's latest quarterly report looked much like a balloon animal created by a party entertainer. Parts of the company, like TV and theme parks, expanded significantly while other parts, like movies and DVD sales, deflated.
2005-08-16
Deluxe Laboratories Selects BusinessObjects XI - North American Film Laboratory Standardizes with BusinessObjects XI for Performance Management and Reporting
2005-08-15
Landmark Not Closing For Good - A Peoria "Landmark" is not closing it's doors to movie-goers for good. Landmark Cinema's management wants to assure its customers the theatre will definitely re-open in the near future. Last night the theatre announced it was showing its last release, that evening.
2005-08-15
George Lucas Interview on the Future of - Japanese Tech-On (Nikkei Electronics) interviewed George Lucas about Digital Cinema technologies.
2005-08-15
DOLBY CHOOSES CHRISTIE 2K DIGITAL CINEMA PROJECTORS TO INSTALL IN SELECT THEATRES NATIONWIDE WITH DOLBY DIGITAL CINEMA SERVERS - Christie, first in DLP Cinema™ projection, announced that Dolby Laboratories has selected the Christie CP2000 2K resolution DLP Cinema projectors for more than 50 specially selected theatres in the U.S. market. Alongside Dolby® Digital Cinema servers, Christie’s projectors will enhance the movie-going experience by bringing more light to screens for brighter and clearer images.
2005-08-15
Historic theatre set for makeover in £3.5m deal - A HISTORIC theatre which has lain empty on Glasgow's top shopping street for eight years has been bought in a multi-million pound deal.
2005-08-16
Watch on cinema film code - CINEMAS have been put on notice to ensure they use the correct film classifications.
2005-08-15
Midnight matinees planned - FILM lovers are to enjoy a more American-style cinema-going culture after three Merseyside cinemas applied for permission to show films into the early hours of the morning.
2005-08-12
Cinema set for reel changes - Bury St Edmunds' current cinema is preparing to take on a new lease of life in November, when it ceases to be part of the Odeon chain.
2005-08-15
Now your mobile can turn you into the new Spielberg - THE first cinema-quality film to be shot using a mobile phone will be completed within the next 12 months, technology analysts have predicted.
2005-08-12
Survey feedback results in opening of Cinema at Westlake - A market survey several years ago revealed that lake-area residents wanted access to first-run movies, without having to drive to Roanoke or Lynchburg.
2005-08-13
Screens at Cinema 6 to go dark - Cinema 6, frequented by Ross County moviegoers for more than 20 years, will close its doors for good this month.
2005-08-14
Is this the future of cinema? - "Daddy, what was it like, the Great Box-Office Slump of '05?"
2005-08-20
Future of Odeon remains a mystery - IPSWICH'S Odeon cinema is to close on Sunday evening – but the future of the building and its site remains a mystery.
2005-08-21
A sound reason to shut up - SOME years ago someone bought me a pair of slippers for Christmas. Sad as it may sound I was rather chuffed, thinking their tweed tartan pattern quite becoming for a man of my maturity.
2005-08-17
Future of cinema will rock - Separate cinemas for older patrons or rock concerts on the big screen could be the answer to the downturn in movie-going.
2005-08-17
OHMSS - The Premiere & Press - On Thursday 18 December 1969, Leicester Square’s Odeon cinema played hosted to world premiere of the first 007 film with a different James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
2005-08-22
Movie Theater future in question - After a difficult month for Dreamland Theater owner Haim Zahavi, during which the historic downtown movie house was shut down for three consecutive days and he was sued by its former projectionist, Zahavi is now reconsidering his involvement with the theater.
2005-08-19
Cinema hard up for numbers - GLEN Innes' Chapel Cinema is facing a drop in numbers as cinemas around the world reflect a similar trend.
2005-08-18
European Cinema in Focus in Denmark - COPENHAGEN, Denmark - European cinema will be in focus when the Copenhagen International Film Festival kicks off for the third year Thursday, organizers said.
2005-08-22
Tehran municipality will launch 30 cinema halls - LONDON, August 20 (IranMania) - Tehran Municipality plans to inaugurate 30 amphitheaters for screening movies.
2005-08-22
Three local theaters part of latest Cineplex selloff - Three Ottawa movie houses will soon be under new ownership, as Cineplex Galaxy continues to unload properties following its acquisition of Famous Players.
2005-08-22
Cineplex Galaxy sells 27 cinemas to Empire Theatres of Stellarton, N.S. - TORONTO (CP) - Atlantic-based Empire Theatres Ltd. is primping itself for its breakout role as Canada's second-largest cinema chain after its $83-million acquisition of 27 theatres in Ontario and Western Canada from Cineplex Galaxy LP.
2005-08-22
What's Wrong With Digital Cinema? - It was big news in July when the six major movie studios said that, after three years, they'd finally agreed on a standard for the digital distribution of movies. After all, this is an industry that moves so glacially that the number of innovations over the last 100 years can be tallied on one hand
2005-08-22
I want to rule Bollywood: Tanvi Verma: - New Delhi: Yet another beauty queen promises to set the silver screen ablaze with veteran filmmaker K C Bokadia introducing former Miss Madhya Pradesh Tanvi Verma in his latest venture ''Bold''.
2005-08-23
Creator of Buffy slays them with film debut - THE big screen debut of Joss Whedon, the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival yesterday, with hundreds of fans descending on the Scottish capital for one of the most eagerly anticipated movies of the year.
2005-08-23
Cineplex Galaxy sells 27 cinemas to Empire Theatres of Stellarton, N.S - TORONTO (CP) - Atlantic-based Empire Theatres Ltd. is primping itself for its breakout role as Canada's second-largest cinema chain after its $83-million acquisition of 27 theatres in Ontario and Western Canada from Cineplex Galaxy LP.
2005-08-23
'Way cool' cinema taps Metroplex - At its hometown digs in Austin, cinema-eatery chain Alamo Drafthouse has attracted moviegoers -- and national attention -- with its first-run movies, restaurant-quality dining and wide selection of beer and wine.
2005-08-23
Intermittent Issues: Digital Projection (Finally) Gets A Standard - Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI -- http://www.dcimovies.com/), an organization that was founded in 2002 by the major Hollywood studios, released their standards document for digital cinema in late July 2005. It outlines the essential elements of a digital projection package, from post-production at the studio to controling the lights and curtains in the theater. The document can be found at: http://www.dcimovies.com/DCI_Digital_Cinema_System_Spec_v1.pdf. This article will attempt to summarize key items from the DCI document, and try to put them into the larger context of what it means for the moviegoing public.
2005-08-23
World’s first cinema network featuring ‘movie on demand’ launched with Qube Digital Cinema System - Chennai, August 23, 2005 – For the first time in the history of Digital Cinema, Movie-on-Demand has been introduced in a cinema network, designed, developed and implemented by Real Image Media Technologies, Chennai, India as the partner to Bartholomeu Digital Cinema, who conceived the basic framework for this network. Represented by its marketing agents, Gigalink, in Portugal, Real Image won this prestigious contract for the Qube platform against worldwide competition from all major digital cinema server manufacturers on the strength of its end-to-end capability to deliver a Digital Cinema Solution, as opposed to just a box solution.
2005-08-23
Stadium set for Real Madrid movie - Real Madrid's Bernabeu Stadium will be transformed into a giant cinema for the premiere of a movie about the Spanish football club.
2005-08-25
Taxpayers to subsidise new cinema - THE long-running saga over paying for the Newbury cinema took another plot twist when the district council revealed all West Berkshire taxpayers will be expected to help foot the £500,000 bill.
2005-08-25
Rhodes Shares Memories Of Local Theatre - After my articles on the Theatres in Forest, Mr. Dusty Rhodes brought me his memories of working at the various Theatres from 1950-1958. Hope you enjoy.
2005-09-05
Palace Theatre pays homage to past projectionists - A plaque recently hung on the wall in the Palace Theatre's mezzanine reveals the names of those unknown to theatergoers -- the movie projectionist.
2005-09-05
Projectionist cherishes life behind the reel - SALINA, Kan. - Gary Chrisbens considers 1939 to be the most magnificent year for movies.
2005-09-05
Irish movie fans in store for digital treat - Irish cinema-goers are set to become the first in the world to experience digital cinema.
2005-09-05
Deputy minister stresses development of national cinema - TEHRAN, Sept. 3 (MNA) -- Mohammadreza Jafari Jelveh, the newly appointed deputy minister of culture and Islamic guidance for cinematic affairs said on Saturday he would fully focus on development of national cinema.
2005-09-05
Film lovers' delight as cinema flickers back to life - SCREENS at Greenwich Cinema will re-open this month - three years after residents feared it had shut for good.
2005-09-05
Barco and Kinoton announce OEM agreement for the Digital Cinema Market - Barco and Kinoton have signed a contract to cooperate in the commercial development of an OEM digital cinema solution incorporating the 2k DLP Cinema™ technology of Texas Instruments.
2005-09-05
Odeon closure a sad day for fans of film - AN era of entertainment finally came to an end on Monday when the Odeon cinema closed for the last time after more than 40 years in Harlow town centre.
2005-08-31
Fraunhofer Digital Cinema Network looks to latest developments - At IBC, the Fraunhofer Digital Cinema Network (Hall 8, stand 221) will be presenting the latest developments in the field of Digital Cinema.
2005-08-31
Google launches cinema tool - Google users can find UK cinema showtimes using a new feature available on the web and mobile phones.
See the instructions here.
2005-08-31
CHRISTIE IS SPONSOR OF 30TH TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 8-17, 2005 - Provides Five High-Performance Digital Projectors, Including the Christie CP2000 DLP Cinema™ 2K Resolution Projector to Showcase Major Feature Films
2005-09-06
The show is over at Roxy - AS THE final credits roll on the Roxy’s last show this evening, Oldham will be saying farewell to more than just a cinema house. The contents is going to be auctioned.
More details available here.
2005-09-01
Christie Digital Systems and Access Integrated Technologies' Christie/AIX Subsidiary Advance Rollout With New Supply Agreement - AccessIT and Christie Digital Extend Digital Cinema Framework Agreement -
2005-08-31
Digital: Film villain or revolution? - Small movie theatres in regional Australia fear that the rise of digital cinema could spell the end of their businesses.
2005-08-30
DG2L Completes Installation of the First 150 Digital Cinema Systems out of 2,000 in World's Largest Digital Cinema Deployment Project - NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 30, 2005--DG2L Technologies today announces that it has completed installation of the first 150 Digital Cinema Systems awarded to DG2L in the world's largest digital cinema deployment, which encompasses 2,000 theaters, for UFO (United Film Organizers)
2005-09-06
Ster Kinekor cinema profits down 36% - Ana Monteiro - Financial results from Ster Kinekor parent Primedia show its cinema ticket price-cutting strategy has not succeeded in pulling crowds, as customer attendances declined by 2% to 16,4-m.
2005-08-31
Cinema Plans Advance - For years, Cornell students have had limited options for seeing first-run movies, but that may be about to change. If a new downtown development, the Cayuga Green project, goes through as planned, students could look forward to a new 12-screen multiplex next to The Commons opening sometime in 2006. Although the theater is just one piece of the much larger Cayuga Green project, none of the other parts are likely to have such a direct impact on Cornellians, who currently must head to the Regal Cinema at the Pyramid Mall in order to catch the hottest new movies.
2005-09-06
6-D cinema coming to a theatre near you - Slovenian company Kolosej has announced plans to roll out X6D, a 3D digital cinema system complete with motion, special effects and viewer interaction.
2005-08-29
Sky - coming soon to your cinema - BSKYB is casting an eye over six cinemas put up for sale at £30 million by American venture capital firm Blackstone.
2005-08-29
Cinema group has profit of €1.7m - Omniplex Holdings, a company controlled by the Ward Anderson cinema group, made a profit of €1.7 million last year, according to accounts just filed.
2005-08-29
Regional cinema in coma - Regional cinema going downhill is not just an Indian tragedy. Globally, the story is the same, says acclaimed filmmaker Jabbar Patel. "All over the world, regional language films are witnessing a slump be it European language or South American or African films.
2005-08-27
Projectionist's past often cinematic - WILLIAMSTOWN -- Once a prominent figure in Yugoslavia's underground political movement during the 1960s and '70s, these days Vladimir Mijanovic prefers a quieter way to raise people's social conscious: He works as a part-time projectionist at Images Cinema.
2005-09-08
Dolby Laboratories Debuts Dolby TrueHD, ''Picture-Perfect'' Sound for Next-Generation High-Definition Discs, at CEDIA Expo 2005 - INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 2005--Dolby Laboratories (NYSE:DLB - News) today announced its latest advancement in lossless audio technology, Dolby® TrueHD, which is designed to complement the recent developments in high-definition optical disc formats. With Dolby TrueHD, home theater viewers will experience audio performance equal to the highest-resolution studio masters currently available.
2005-09-08
HDFest in Fort Lauderdale showcases emerging film technology - George Lucas, James Cameron and Robert Altman have used it. It's been touted as the future of moviemaking. It's easy to use and allows a greater margin for error during shooting, not to mention creative freedom in the editing room.
2005-09-08
Highly Anticipated DLP(R) 1080p Chips for Projectors Arrive - INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments (TI) at CEDIA today announced and showcased 1080p resolution (1920 x 1080) chipsets for the front projection market. 1080 is the high-definition resolution standard for many highly anticipated content applications in the near future, including broadcast, gaming, and high-definition video players. DLP 1080p resolution chips will be made available to customers for both single-chip and 3-chip applications, enabling incredible detail for the ultimate HD viewing experience.
2005-09-09
SMG raises interim divi as it gets back on track - SMG, the Glasgow-based media company, celebrated a return to form yesterday with its first interim dividend hike since the height of the bull market five years ago.
2005-09-09
Cinemax to launch biggest multiplex in Mumbai - Mumbai-based Cinemax Cinemas will be inaugurating what will be the city’s biggest multiplex on Friday. The six-screen theatre is located at a mall in suburban Mumbai (Infiniti Mall, Versova) and will see some firsts as far as multiplexes are concerned.
2005-09-09
Are single screen theatres becoming passe? - Though stand-alone movie halls have their own charm, they seem to be fighting a losing battle.
2005-09-09
Priceless piece of cinema history unearthed - One of the most iconic costumes of cinema history has been sitting in a Hendon warehouse.
2005-09-09
Battle epic at the pictures - SCORES of cinema fans are battling to stop the curtain coming down for the last time on their beloved suburban picture house.
2005-09-09
Robbie's Berlin gig to be broadcast - Robbie Williams' comeback gig in Berlin is to be broadcast live across the UK and Republic of Ireland.
2005-09-09
£8m multiplex cinema for pleasure Beach - The owners of Yarmouth's Pleasure Beach are poised to complete a deal for an £8m development centred on a 10-screen multiplex cinema.
2005-09-09
Paramount and Universal are splitting
up UIP - From 1st Jan 07 Paramount and Universal are splitting
up UIP. UIP will no longer control 15 of the larger
markets it currently has. They are keeping Japan,
Korea and 18 other small territories where it would
not be worth Paramount or Universal opening an office.
Paramount is taking over the UK with the international
office being run from the states.
2005-09-09
Historic Sydney cinema wins protection - The art-house Valhalla Cinema at Glebe in Sydney's inner-west has been placed on the National Trust Register.
2005-09-09
Co-op may fill cinema - The closing of York Square Cinema this summer left open a prime piece of retail space on Broadway, but not all students are ready to let the convenient movie-going spot be absorbed by a new chain store or restaurant.
2005-09-10
INTERNET PIRATES COPYING FILMS EVEN BEFORE CINEMA RELEASE: EXEC - DEAUVILLE, France, Sept 10 (AFP) - Films being presented at Deauville, Venice and other festivals are no longer so exclusive: many are already available in pirated versions on line in a trend threatening the whole cinema industry, according to a French subsidiary of a major US distributor.
2005-09-12
Remember when? Try these 12 items about area moviehouses - A dozen things you might not have known about Pittsburgh moviehouses:
2005-09-13
ENTERTAINMENT GIANT NATIONAL AMUSEMENTS BRINGS “CINEMA DE LUX” TO BRISTOL - Exhibition leader, National Amusements, announced plans today to bring its revolutionary movie-going experience, known as “Cinema de Lux”, to the new Bristol Broadmead development being undertaken by the Bristol Alliance, a partnership between Land Securities Plc and Hammerson.
2005-09-13
ENTERTAINMENT LEADER NATIONAL AMUSEMENTS TO LAUNCH LEICESTER’S FIRST MULTIPLEX AT THE NEW SHIRES - Leicester’s cinema-goers will be in for the red-carpet treatment as National Amusements, a world leader in exhibition and entertainment, announced today that the city centre is to be the third UK location for its pioneering ‘Cinema de Lux’ format.
2005-09-13
Technicolor Digital Cinema Reaches Industry Milestone With Release of 100th Digital Cinema Title - Leader in Digital Cinema Services and Technologies Prepares and Distributes International Digital Version of Warner Bros. Pictures’ Summer Blockbuster Hit, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
2005-09-13
Pulling out all the stops for capital’s entertainment - The new Odeon Cosmopolis is the first multiplex cinema in Greece that promises to feature art-house films alongside the inevitable blockbuster fare. ‘We want to become identified with all that is the best of cinema, be it European, American or Greek,’ says Odeon Cineplex Manager Makis Diamantopoulos.
2005-09-13
Technicolor Digital Cinema Reaches Industry Milestone With Release of 100th Digital Cinema Title - Leader in Digital Cinema Services and Technologies Prepares and Distributes International Digital
Version of Warner Bros. Pictures' Summer Blockbuster Hit, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
2005-09-13
Henderson drive-in has last picture show - HENDERSON, Ky. -- Traffic formed long before dark as residents bade farewell this weekend to the Starlite Drive-in, which was closing after 51 years of summer entertainment.
2005-09-24
Keeping it reel - The sale of the Astor is another blow to Melbourne's once vibrant independent cinema scene, writes Julie Szego.
2005-09-24
FOSTER FIGHTS CINEMA BATTLE - JODIE FOSTER almost lost her famous cool in a cinema recently when she stood up to a woman who was upset about her young son's questions.
2005-09-23
Cinema is up for grabs - THE landmark EMD Cinema, formerly the Granada, is up for sale.
2005-09-23
Thumbs up for cinema - IT'S lights, camera and - finally - action on a new four-screen cinema for Andover.
2005-09-23
Re-developed cinema site "not for young - THE re-developed site of the Grand Cinema, in Ramsey, is unlikely to provide entertainment for young people.
2005-09-23
All-Day Forum on Digital Cinema Kicks Off SMPTE Conference - Under the programming guidance of renowned technology expert Larry Thorpe, SMPTE has just wrapped up its program and presentation selection for the SMPTE Technical Conference and Exhibition scheduled for Nov 9th through 12th, 2005 in New York City.
2005-09-23
Projecting problems continue - As in previous years, projections at the Harris Center Cinema do not always go smoothly. Films chair Chris Forster-Smith and Michael Sims offer some help, but training doesn’t seem adequate
2005-09-23
Greta Garbo Has Starring Role on U.S. Postal Stamp - NEW YORK, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- International film star Greta Garbo took center stage today on two continents when the U.S. Postal Service and Sweden Post jointly issued two commemorative postage stamps bearing her likeness. Both stamps, issued near what would have been her 100th birthday, are engravings based on a 1932 photograph of the silver screen icon taken during the film of As You Desire Me by renowned portrait photographer Clarence Sinclair Bull.
2005-09-25
Road work gives pupils film buzz - THE GROUNDS of the old Hill Top Primary School were buzzing with excitement yesterday as pupils rubbed shoulders with TV stars
2005-09-18
Steve Wiener; Forget the lazy sundae afternoon, there are cinemas to buy and fleapits to refit - Cineworld's chief tells Abigail Townsend that he'll keep the big screens coming to the UK even as hard times hit at the box office
2005-09-16
New cinema brings 40 jobs - Cineworld cinema, in Bury St Edmunds, will create around 40 jobs when it opens on November 18.
2005-09-25
Digital Projection Format for advertising - The Eden Leisure Group has introduced a revolutionary means of advertising within the cinema industry – advertising in digital projection format.
2005-09-15
The Walt Disney Studios' Distribution Arm Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Commits Content to Christie/AIX Deployment of DCI-Compliant Digital Projection Systems - BURBANK, Calif., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Walt Disney Studios' distribution arm Buena Vista Pictures Distribution (BVPD) and Access Integrated Technologies' (AccessIT) (Amex: AIX - News) Christie/AIX unit have entered into a groundbreaking non-exclusive agreement to supply feature films from Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures to DCI-compliant digital projection systems to be deployed by Christie/AIX. Christie/AIX will install between 2,500 and 4,000 systems throughout the United States and Canada over the next two years.
2005-09-17
And the Film Deal Goes to . . . an Outsider - A new crop of movie entrepreneurs tested their wares at the Toronto International Film Festival over the last week, and several had cause to be pleased with the results.
2005-09-17
Disney agrees to help finance digital distribution of movies - HOLLYWOOD - Walt Disney Co. on Thursday agreed to be the first movie studio to help finance the digital distribution of its movies, jump-starting a decade-long effort to usher the nation's theaters into the electronic age and phase out the treasured -- but expensive -- tradition of film.
2005-09-16
Disney At The Forefront Of Digital Cinem - NEW YORK - As digital cinema starts to move from technical specs to reality, The Walt Disney Co. has become the first studio to commit to providing its pictures for the new format.
2005-09-18
Cinema Purchase - Members of the Purchase College President's Club recently met for cocktails, dinner and a private screening of Sundance Film Festival and Oscar award-winning films by faculty, alumni and students from the School of the Arts Conservatory of Theater Arts and Films.
2005-09-20
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance - Conflicted directors and complicit spectators: A bloodstained century of cinema
2005-09-21
Moxie rolls out first film - As the only movie theater of its kind in town, the Moxie Cinema didn’t expect problems booking any art-house, independent film it wanted.
2005-09-22
Councillors back theatre change - Plans for the complete redevelopment of the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury have been approved by city councillors.
2005-09-22
The death of film - The final credits are rolling for film, writes Fran Molloy, but there are plenty of people determined to hang on till the end.
2005-09-22
Film Archive opens its Projection Hall with screening of 'Sutarang' - The newly-built projection hall of Bangladesh Film Archive was opened recently with the screening of the popular film of the sixties 'Sutarang' which won an international award at the Frankfurt International Film Festival in 1965.
2005-09-22
Advent of cable industry brings doom to cinema - LAHORE: Increasing commercial land and film prices and the advent of the cable industry are some of the contributing factors in the closure of cinemas in Pakistan.
2005-09-21
Digital Projection International Secures Indian Cinema Contract for 500 Projectors - MANCHESTER, England, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Projection
International (DPI), an Emmy(R) Award-winning manufacturer of high-performance
projection systems announced an agreement with UFO Moviez (part of the
Valuable Media Group) for the sale and installation of 500, 3-Chip DLP
projectors in India.
2005-09-21
Picture palace reopens doors - THE curtain has finally risen at a movie house billed as a flagship venue for art house films.
2005-09-20
Movie Studios Unite To Fight Piracy - NEW YORK - The big movie studios are culling their resources for their most aggressive--and controversial--effort yet to combat piracy.
2005-09-21
Cinema volunteers celebrate - An ecstatic bunch of Arts Margaret River Cinema volunteers are celebrating last week's win of $7000 in the National Bank Volunteer Awards for Arts and Culture.
2005-09-20
Row over cinema ticket prices - A DECISION to increase some ticket prices at an Ipswich cinema has today seen a row break out amongst councillors.
2005-09-23
Cinema Exhibition and Distribution in Western Europe 2005: - Cinema Exhibition and Distribution in Western Europe is the third edition of the benchmark study of the European cinema industry. The report is a comprehensive overview of the cinema markets in 13 Western European countries.
2005-09-28
Intermission cinema issue revisited - I know the issue surrounding the intermission at the cinema has probably been beleaguered enough, and I had no intention of discussing, writing about or commenting on it.
2005-09-29
Experts say 'tipping point' has arrived for digital cinema - After years of predictions and speculation, digital cinema is finally becoming a reality say speakers at Screen International conference.
2005-09-29
Cinema was homeless man's hideout - Police investigating a break-in at a cinema in Cheltenham have found evidence that someone had been living unnoticed behind one of the screens.
2005-09-30
Cineplex Galaxy Completes Sale Of 27 Theatres To Empire Theatres Limited - TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30, 2005--Cineplex Galaxy LP (TSX:CGX.UN - News) announced today that it has completed the sale of 27 theatres with 202 screens located in Ontario and Western Canada to Empire Theatres Limited based in Stellarton, Nova Scotia. The transaction, originally announced on August 22, 2005, is valued at approximately $83 million.
2005-09-30
More on Cinema Intermission - I read with interest S. Wilson Lane’s letter concerning the cinema issue, and his/her experience at the time of the visit to the cinema. I must say I agree with this writer, as I do believe that this is an annoying practice.
2005-09-30
'Showgirls' Sex Scene Named Cinema's Worst - LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com)- England's Empire magazine has crowned Elizabeth Berkley's "Showgirls" tryst with Kyle MacLachlan as the worst sex scene in cinematic history
2005-10-01
The death of the dream palaces - Time was when Bangalore boasted of large number of cinemas. With entry of multiplexes, most of them are being relegated to history pages.
2005-10-01
Science Cinema - The Museum of the Moving Image has launched a Web site that features short films, interviews, and articles devoted to science and technology in movies. It includes streaming video of award-winning student films, a discussion of the time-travel, science-fiction movie "Primer," and articles about the movie "Kinsey" and the controversy over an "intelligent design" film. Requires a flash plug-in.
Go to: http://www.movingimage.us/science/.
2005-10-02
Battle of the brands - FOR years he was the man most associated with crises, and the worse the disaster the better it was for business. As boss of the plant hire company Aggreko, he could see the bottom line improving every time one of his generators was sent out to a disaster zone.
2005-10-03
Alice airport, drive-in cinema on heritage-listed sites - Territory Heritage Minister Marion Scrymgour has announced that two sites in Alice Springs will now be heritage-listed.
2005-10-03
Cineplex Galaxy LP cinema chain changes name to Cineplex Entertainment - TORONTO (CP) - Cineplex Galaxy LP, Canada's biggest cinema chain with 130 movie theatres in six provinces, has a new name: Cineplex Entertainment.
2005-10-04
3-D Movies Piggyback On Digital Cinema Supply Chain - Disney's "Chicken Little," sparks a boom in digital projection installations in movie theaters -- with more movies and more technology on the way.
2005-10-04
Motion Picture Distribution LP acquires Fireworks library - TORONTO, Oct. 4 /CNW/ - Motion Picture Distribution LP today announced
that it has completed the acquisition of Canadian and certain other television
library assets from Fireworks Distributing Corporation, an indirect subsidiary
of CanWest Global Communications Corp. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
2005-09-29
Walthamstow cinema up for sale - THE owners of the former EMD Cinema in Walthamstow said they put the site up for sale 'to open up all options'.
2005-10-06
Cinema company backs out - A West Virginia company has backed out of its commitment to open an eight-screen movie theater complex in Shepherdsville.
2005-10-06
Last picture show as Odeon cinema closes - BARNSLEY'S Odeon will never be a cinema again, developers have confirmed.
2005-10-06
Movie King's Game has UK's First Commercial Digital Screening on Digital Screen Network DSN at Curzon Soho Cinema in London - Today at the Curzon Soho cinema a significant event occurred in the life of Digital cinema. Political thriller “King’s Game” was shown from a digital Print as opposed to 35mm at the Curzon Soho cinema in London at a commercial matinee performance. The cinema has installed the digital projector as part of the Phase 1 roll out of the UK Film Council Digital Screen Network.
2005-10-05
Film theatre's future still in doubt - IPSWICH Film Theatre's future remains in doubt today but its supporters have been given a promise that specialist films continue to be shown somewhere in the town whatever happens at the Corn Exchange.
2005-10-06
Cineplex Entertainment Announces New Theatre in Barrhaven, Ontario - TORONTO, ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - Oct. 6, 2005) - Cineplex Entertainment (TSX:CGX.UN) and Rio Can are pleased to announce that construction is almost complete for the new Cineplex Odeon Cinema Barrhaven. The 7-screen cinema complex is located at Strandherd Rd. and Greenbank Dr. and will welcome its first guests later this month.
2005-10-07
Cinema gets first 24-hour drink licence - THE party city of Manchester has granted its first 24-hour drinking licence - to an arty cinema.
2005-10-09
Mobile movie mania - PARIS, OCT 8: A film festival for movies shot on mobile telephones opened in Paris on Saturday. It aims to give cinema a technological and creative step forward in the country that gave birth to the seventh art.
2005-10-09
Movies for the very small screen celebrated in Paris - PARIS--France is the country that gave birth to cinema, and this weekend it pushed the seventh art a creative and technological step forward by hosting a film festival dedicated to movies shot entirely with mobile telephones.
2005-10-08
Coming soon to Northglenn: 16-screen cinema - Work starts Tuesday on anchor for future urban renewal project
2005-10-07
Pillar Entertainment To Digitally Deliver G3's "Live In Tokyo" Concert DVD To Ten Movie Screens Throughout The US - Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) October 7, 2005 -- Pillar Entertainment today announced the Tuesday, October 25th theatrical release and digital cinema world premier of G3's "Live In Tokyo" concert DVD. G3 consists of world class rock guitar players Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and John Petrucci. These electrifying live performances were recorded on May 8th at the Tokyo Forum, when Satriani brought his popular G3 tour to Japan for a series of sold-out dates. Fans attending the packed-house shows were treated to individual sets by each six-stringer, followed by an evening-ending all-star jam session.
2005-10-08
The popular cinema sale - BUYERS are lining up to take over Walthamstow's EMD Cinema, the old Granada, according to campaigners.
2005-10-08
Digital cinema to benefit the film industry - For more than hundred years, the film industry has been using the same analog method of film production and projection. However, it costs Rs 60,000 per print to make a movie in an analog way. Because of its exorbitant costs, it becomes difficult to produce many prints and distribute them to all the centres at the same time.
2005-10-08
Massive fine afer cinema death fall - The owners of a city cinema are facing a massive fine after admitting they failed to carry out sufficient health and safety measures that could have prevented the death of a pensioner.
2005-10-08
For old cinema owners, an all-new screen test - With the state government deciding to convert multiplexes into tourist spots, the battle lines between single-screen cinemas and multiplexes have been drawn again.
2005-10-12
DTS Partners To Bring DCI-Compliant Encoding Technologies For D-Cinema To Market - Agoura Hills, CA – DTS, Inc. (NASDAQ: DTSI) announced today that the company’s Cinema Division will develop and market DCI-compliant JPEG2000 encoding tools for Digital Cinema and Digital Intermediate applications developed in conjunction with Dr. Michael Marcellin, a leading expert in JPEG2000 coding technologies and a major contributor of technology to the JPEG2000 standard.
2005-10-12
Nightclub plan for Odeon is backed - MOVES to transform one of Glasgow's oldest cinemas into an entertainment complex have taken a big step forward.
2005-10-12
Souk Digital appointed to develop Cineworld's website - LONDON – Cineworld has selected Souk Digital to develop its new website, which will combine existing websites for UCG Cinemas and Cineworld's Cine UK cinemas to encourage people to book tickets in advance and raise awareness of the brand.
2005-10-12
Warners to test 4K digital cinema - Warner Bros. Entertainment and its Japanese subsidiary have partnered with two Japanese companies to collaborate on the first-ever field trial of 4K digital cinema distribution and exhibition.
2005-10-12
Next-generation cinema steals iGrid spotlight - Emerging digital cinema networks promise worldwide delivery of live, full-motion video at four times the resolution of high-definition television.
2005-10-13
Irish group to buy 11 British cinemas - IRELAND’S top cinema group is to take over 11 cinemas in Britain in a landmark deal worth around €80 million, it emerged yesterday.
2005-10-13
Historic cinema 'left to rot' - AN HISTORIC Islington cinema has fallen into disrepair and is now a derelict wreck.
2005-10-13
Bar may be new cinema attraction - Film lovers could soon by enjoying a pre-movie drink at Lynn's Majestic Cinema. If approved, the area could be named the Projectionist's Bar and would be decorated to complement the cinema's distinctive architecture.
2005-10-13
Future of Douglas Cinema still unknown - The Douglas Cinema has been closed for about three weeks and it appears that it may not reopen at all.
2005-10-13
Premiere plans another cinema - Almost two years after it opened Premiere Theatres in College Township, United Entertainment Corp. announced plans Tuesday to build a nine-screen cinema in Patton Township.
2005-10-13
UPPER HOUSE SPEEDS UP PROCEDURES TO PASS BILL ON CINEMA - (AGI) - Rome, Oct. 12 - A special upper house committee has ruled to speed up the procedures to put to the vote and eventually pass a bill which includes some of the provisions previously contained in the so-called "decree on cinema". Culture Minister Rocco Bottiglione expressed his satisfaction at this decision and thanked upper house speaker Marcello Pera, the group leaders within the upper house culture committee of both the ruling majority and the opposition and its chairman Franco Asciutti "for their interest in cinema-related issues". "Now, the procedure to pass the bill will be much shorter". (AGI) -
2005-10-14
Cineplex Entertainment LP and Motion Picture Distribution LP Announce Sale of University 4 Cinemas - TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 2005--Cineplex Entertainment LP (TSX:CGX.UN - News) and Motion Picture Distribution LP (TSX:FLM.UN - News) jointly announced today the sale of the University 4 Cinemas, in Victoria, British Columbia, to Empire Theatres Ltd. of Stellarton, Nova Scotia. The transaction is expected to close October 21, 2005, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
2005-10-14
"Electric Edwardians": The early days of cinema - When the lights dim for this spectacular collection of vignettes from the earliest days of cinema, try to imagine how thrilling it must have been seeing a motion picture for the first time. Then imagine how you may have felt if you saw yourself — just an ordinary bloke coming up from the mines, taking a break from the steel mill or having a stroll by the seaside — as star of the show.
2005-10-14
Cinema row in the spotlight - THE project for a cinema in the centre of St Albans is riven with problems and disputes, critics are warning.
2005-10-14
CINEMA: ITALY CAN'T PRESENT MIDDLE EAST-SET FILM FOR THE OSCARS - Rome, 13 Oct. (AKI) - Italy's candidate for the 2006 Academy Awards, "Private" a film that explores the tensions between a Palestinian family and a group of Israeli soldiers, won't be able to take part in the competion because the film's dialogue is in Arabic, English and Hebrew, and not Italian. Italy's main film production and distribution bodies, ANICA and API, made the announcement on Thursday.
2005-10-14
Drive-in theatres refuse to fade away - New figures suggest that the drive-in movie theatre is refusing to die in the United States, despite the relentless rise of cinema multiplexes, cable television and a raft of other modern amusements.
2005-10-14
Art deco cinema to be demolished - BULLDOZERS are due to move in to Lord Street in just over three weeks to demolish the former ABC cinema.
2005-10-15
Art deco cinema to be demolished - BULLDOZERS are due to move in to Lord Street in just over three weeks to demolish the former ABC cinema.
2005-10-15
1 x Robbie Williams = 21 x Robbie Williams - On Sunday 9 October, the Robbie Williams album-launching show was broadcast live in High Definition to 21 cinemas and special venues. In a vast majority of cases the visualization was made possible by visualization specialist Barco, either with a 2k Digital Cinema projector in the theatres or an R18 projector for IMAG (Image Magnification) at the special venues.
2005-10-15
Terra Firma in £60m cinema deal - Private equity firm Terra Firma has agreed the sale of a portfolio of 11 cinemas, including the landmark UCI Empire Leicester Square, to Ireland’s Cinema Holdings for an estimated £60m.
2005-10-17
Reel trouble - During the opening of the great Chunky's Cinema cocktail experiment earlier this month, they sold 29 cosmopolitans and apple martinis.
2005-10-17
Local cinema pioneer ready for a comeback - After decades away from the movie business, local cinema pioneer Kasem Poolvoralaks, 71, is making a comeback in the field and on several other fronts.
2005-10-17
First Saudi Cinema to Screen Cartoons for Women, Children - RIYADH, 17 October 2005 — The Kingdom’s first cinema will open in Riyadh during Eid Al-Fitr holidays, but will show only cartoon films for women and children.
2005-10-17
SW Fla. sees movie-screen boom - Movie screens are seeing a rise in growth to rival the population explosion in Southwest Florida.
2005-10-18
Twentieth Century Fox to Supply Its Movies to Christie/AIX DCI-Compliant Digital Cinema Projection Systems; Christie/AIX Will Deploy up to 4,000 Systems Nationwide - LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 17, 2005--In its first long-term commitment to digital cinema, Twentieth Century Fox ("Fox") has reached an agreement to supply its feature films to digital cinema projection systems deployed by Christie/AIX, a unit of Access Integrated Technologies ("AccessIT") (AMEX:AIX). For Fox, this "first-of-a-kind" distribution arrangement to supply digital content to projection systems will include an increasing number of feature films from Twentieth Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox Animation, and Fox Searchlight Pictures production units.
2005-10-18
Minerva, Northacre to buy Odeon cinema in High Street Kensington for 24 mln. - LONDON (ShareCast (+TASAM1.MX - news) ) - Property business Northacre (LSE: NTA.L Advertisement
- news) has moved into cinema via its partnership with City-focused property developer Minerva (LSE: MNR.L - news) .
Northacre announced today that it has exchanged contracts with Odeon Cinemas for the acquisition of the Odeon, High Street Kensington for £24m.
2005-10-19
Embassy Theatre Management Sold to Leading Company - Wellington film exhibitor Kerry Robins has sold the operational management of the historic Embassy Theatre to Village SKYCITY Cinemas.
2005-10-19
Cineplex Odeon Barrhaven Cinemas Grand Opening Festivities To Support Child Find Ontario - Cineplex Entertainment (TSX:CGX.UN) is very pleased to announce the official grand opening of the new seven-screen Cineplex Odeon Barrhaven Cinemas this weekend, starting with a gala fundraiser Thursday, October 20, 2005, in support of Child Find Ontario. In attendance that night will be Ellis Jacob, President and CEO of Cineplex Entertainment; Jan Harder, Councillor for the Bell-South Nepean ward; and Kym Harley, Vice Chair of Child Find Ontario' s Ottawa Chapter; as well as numerous other local leaders and members of the Canadian film, entertainment and business communities. A cocktail reception will begin at 6:30 p.m. followed by the official opening ceremony at 7:30 p.m. Guests will then be treated to screenings of a selection of major motion pictures. The theatre will be closed to the general public for the evening.
2005-10-19
Twenty films for students cinema day - Being a student is not always such a bad deal and the fact that everyone understands your financial woes can come in handy, especially if it means watching films at half-price.
KRS Film Distributors are holding the fourth annual Students Cinema Day on October 29 with six cinemas offering a choice of 20 films.
2005-10-18
Northacre moves into cinema - LONDON (SHARECAST) - Property business Northacre has moved into cinema via its partnership with City-focused property developer Minerva.
Northacre announced today that it has exchanged contracts with Odeon Cinemas for the acquisition of the Odeon, High Street Kensington for £24m.
2005-10-20
Film delivers massive benefits, Mayor says, at start of The Times bfi 49th London Film Festival. - London Mayor Ken Livingstone is supporting The Times bfi 49th London Film Festival for the fifth year running, including the Mayor of London Gala screening (Monday October 24) of ‘Separate Lies’, directed by Oscar-winning screenwriter Julian Fellows.
2005-10-20
Lexus launches in-car cinema experience - In developing its new IS range, Lexus has pushed forward the boundaries of quality and performance in all areas. The drive to set new high standards extends to the creation of a premium audio and DVD surround sound system, unparalleled in the class.
2005-10-20
Kurt Schwenk, General Manager, Digital Cinema Division, NEC Solutions (America), talks about NECSAM's new products being introduced at ShowEast 2005 - Kurt Schwenk is the General Manager of the Digital Cinema Division at NEC Solutions (America) (NECSAM). He's appeared twice before (on March 24, 2005 and August 2, 2005) on Entertainment Technology World to talk about the latest developments in the field of digital cinema, a process which involves the creation of digital files containing all the information necessary to generate beams of light that project moving images on a screen, the secure transfer and storage of this information in theaters, and the projection of those digitally-stored images on a screen.
2005-10-20
SkyCity Cinemas takes over at Embassy - Kerry Robins is stepping away after more than a decade at Wellington's landmark Embassy Theatre, having sold the the operational management of the theatre to Village SkyCity Cinemas for an undisclosed sum.
2005-10-21
Kids wreck cinema screen - Two children have been banned from going to the movies in Dubbo after they pelted a potato through a Reading Cinemas film screen - equipment that would cost up to $50,000 to replace.
2005-10-22
Dolby To Showcase DRM Technology - To ward-off bootleggers in the motion picture industry, Dolby Laboratories Inc. is developing digital rights management software for servers used by theater owners that are swapping out celluloid for digital projector and IT networks.
2005-10-24
QuVIS Does Chicken Little Right in Mexico. - Some lucky movie goers in Mexico will get a glimpse of what 3D Digital Cinema is really about when they take their families to see Chicken Little next month.
2005-10-24
Kodak Demonstrates New Digital Cinema CineServer and Showcases Initiatives of Barco Strategic Alliance at 2005 Show East Conference - Eastman Kodak Company is demonstrating a broad array of digital cinema products and services for motion picture exhibitors from around the world here at the annual Show East Conference. Kodak products extend from pre-show systems now on 1,500 screens showing cinema advertising, to full feature solutions.
2005-10-24
‘Being a projectionist is not majorly different from how you see it in Cinema Paradiso‘ - This Life: Cath Gauld is senior projectionist at the Cameo Cinema in Edinburgh, and on her days off she likes to go to the pictures.
2005-10-24
Box-office hits will propel Q3 results - Although the third quarter is normally a slow period for cinemas, analysts expect Major Cineplex (MAJOR) to report record earnings driven by strong box office revenue and a positive performance by its other businesses. Tisco Securities expects Major to post a strong net profit of 148 million baht, which would represent growth of 27% from the second quarter and 111% from the same period a year ago.
2005-10-24
Kadokawa and Sunwah to Open Cinema Complexes in China - Oct. 24, 2005 (China Knowledge) - Hong Kong-based film distributor Sunwah Media Holdings Ltd. and Japanese firm Kadokawa Holdings Inc. announced on Oct. 20 that they will establish a joint venture to open cinema complexes in the main Chinese cities with an initial investment of HK$100 million.
2005-10-24
Cineplex Entertainment LP And Motion Picture Distribution LP Complete Sale Of University 4 Cinema
- TORONTO, ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - Oct. 24, 2005) - Cineplex Entertainment LP (TSX:CGX.UN - News) and Motion Picture Distribution LP (TSX:FLM.UN - News) jointly announced today the completion of the sale of the University 4 Cinema, in Victoria, British Columbia, to Empire Theatres Ltd. of Stellarton, Nova Scotia.
2005-10-24
ShowEast to Use Dolby Digital Cinema - SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2005--Dolby Laboratories (NYSE:DLB - News) announced today that the ShowEast 2005 convention will utilize Dolby's innovative digital cinema system, Dolby® Digital Cinema, for the presentation of key movie feature screenings in Orlando's AMC Pleasure Island 24 Theatres complex.
2005-10-25
Digi-Flicks Entertainment Changes Name to DFE Technologies - ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Digi-Flicks(R) Entertainment, a
leader in digital cinema research and technology, is officially changing its
name to DFE Technologies, effective today. Best known for its Digital Cinema
Delivery System, a complete end-to-end solution for distributing high-density
digital content, the company is rebranding itself to reflect its commitment to developing a broad range of entertainment-related technologies including leading-edge digital cinema solutions, and announcing its entry into other areas such as digital film post-production.
2005-10-25
TI DLP Cinema(R) Presence at ShowEast Highlights Advancement of Digital Cinema Industry - With Digital and 3D Screenings, and Thousands of DLP Cinema(R) Projector
Deployments Announced, Digital Cinema Heads to the Mainstream
2005-10-25
HollandAmerica.com Debuts Dynamic New Virtual Online Cinema Experience - SEATTLE, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Web surfing travelers can experience a
virtual cruise vacation with Holland America Line's new interactive Online
Cinema experience debuting now on the premium cruise leader's website at
http://www.hollandamerica.com. On the virtual cinema, the elegant ships, worldwide destinations, gracious service, sophisticated dining and enriching activities for which Holland America Line is renowned, come to life via rich media
allowing guests to view a Holland America Line vacation experience in advance of their trip.
2005-10-25
HollandAmerica.com Debuts Dynamic New Virtual Online Cinema Experience - SEATTLE, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Web surfing travelers can experience a
virtual cruise vacation with Holland America Line's new interactive Online
Cinema experience debuting now on the premium cruise leader's website at
http://www.hollandamerica.com. On the virtual cinema, the elegant ships, worldwide destinations, gracious service, sophisticated dining and enriching activities for which Holland America Line is renowned, come to life via rich media
allowing guests to view a Holland America Line vacation experience in advance of their trip.
2005-10-25
Qube Cinema, Inc. to Market Digital Cinema Systems in North America; Real Image Media Technologies Sets up US Subsidiary - SAN RAMON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2005--Real Image Media Technologies Pvt. Ltd, an India-based technology company in the Media & Entertainment space, has announced the launch of Qube Cinema, Inc., a US subsidiary. Qube Cinema, Inc. is the first step towards building a dedicated resource base to address the emerging digital cinema market needs of the US and is part of a larger initiative to bring digital cinema product offerings to the global Media & Entertainment market. With the successful implementation of its Qube XP digital cinema systems in India and Portugal, Real Image is poised to bring their product to the US Entertainment Industry, a market with an increasing need for high-quality digital cinema solutions.
2005-10-25
Cinema is reel deal in town hall - THE man bidding to turn Hornsey Town Hall into a cinema says the potential of the Grade II-listed building must be realised.
2005-10-25
Cineplex Entertainment LP And Motion Picture Distribution LP Complete Sale Of University 4 Cinema - TORONTO, ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - Oct. 24, 2005) - Cineplex Entertainment LP (TSX:CGX.UN) and Motion Picture Distribution LP (TSX:FLM.UN) jointly announced today the completion of the sale of the University 4 Cinema, in Victoria, British Columbia, to Empire Theatres Ltd. of Stellarton, Nova Scotia.
2005-10-25
Regal Entertainment Group Partners with REAL D for Rollout of Digital 3-D Cinema - Regal Theatres will Present Disney's ''Chicken Little'' in REAL D Cinema on 17 Screens Starting Nov. 4
2005-10-26
First High Definition Broadcast Of A Live Concert In DTS Surround Sound - Robbie Williams’ Album-Launching Show Screened Live in DTS 5.1-Channel Sound in Nine Venues in the UK and Europe .
2005-10-26
REAL D ANNOUNCES LARGEST EVER NORTH AMERICAN DEPLOYMENT OF DIGITAL 3 D CINEMA. - Top Theater Circuits in United States, Canada and Mexico Commit to REAL D Cinema Platform.
2005-10-26
REGAL ENTERTAINMENT GROUP PARTNERS WITH REAL D FOR ROLLOUT OF DIGITAL 3 D CINEMA - Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE: RGC), a leading motion picture exhibitor owning and operating the largest theatre circuit in the United States under the Regal Cinemas, United Artists Theatres and Edwards Theatres brands, and REAL D, the leader in the delivery of premium 3-D experiences, announced today that the companies have entered an agreement to rollout digital 3-D cinema in Regal brand theatres. Regal will install REAL D Cinema systems on 17 screens in theatres in the top markets for the presentation of digital 3-D content.
2005-10-26
SONY UNVEILS MARKET-READY SXRD 4K RESOLUTION PROJECTOR FOR NEW ERA OF DIGITAL CINEMA - Sony is heading into the ShowEast convention in Orlando following a successful unveiling of the market-ready version of its digital cinema SXRD™ (Silicon X-tal Reflective Display) 4K projector.
2005-10-26
NEC Solutions America Unveils Next Generation of Large Screen DLP Cinema Projector; New Starus NC2500S Digital Cinema Projector Boasts Industry-First Features. - NEC Solutions (America), Inc. today announced the availability of the largest in its line of Starus(TM) Digital Cinema projectors, the NC2500S. An advanced large screen digital cinema projector, the Starus NC2500S combines the highest resolution 2k DLP Cinema(R) technology from Texas Instruments with the brilliance of NEC's digital displays.
2005-10-26
Court asks owners to submit plan to convert the cinema land freeho - New Delhi: Refusing to reopen the cinema hall, Delhi High Court today asked the owners to submit the plan to convert the Rachna Cinema hall land from leasehold to freehold by paying the money as demanded by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) Justice Swatanter Kumar asked all the partners -- both Aggrawals and Suris -- to submit a note mentioning the procedure to convert the land to freehold from leasehold, the compensation package to 23 employees and the statements of accounts of six weeks running of the film.
2005-10-26
Cinema reels in night owls - CINEMA buffs can look forward to a new late-night film fixture at an Edinburgh cinema from next month.
2005-10-26
Top Korean exhibitors to digitise cinema chains - (Subscription required): Megabox Cineplex and CGV announce plans to completely digitise their chains in early 2006.
2005-10-26
Korea and QuVIS Provide Another Digital Cinema First - QuVIS, Inc. announces that MegaBox Cineplex Inc., Korea's premier motion picture exhibitor, will be installing 50 QuVIS Cinema Players into Digital Cinema theatres throughout Seoul, Korea. The QuVIS server, supporting DCI JPEG-2000 with an upgrade path to 4K, is part of a partnership project of MegaBox Cineplex Inc. and Dong Young iTech, which will debut at the end of this year. The installation will be the world's first multi-screen deployment of JPEG2000 servers with network delivery and remote theatre systems.
2005-10-26
Reel changes for cinema welcomed - Within 10 years all cinemas throughout Australia will use digital projectors according to Merimbula cinema owner and operator Denis Parkes, of the Picture Show Man.
2005-10-26
Reopening hopes for old cinema - The curtain is expected to rise again at one of the oldest cinemas in Wales.
2005-10-27
Sony and QuVIS Team to Deliver 4K Digital Cinema Projection System - Combination of Sony SXRD 4K Projector and QuVIS 4K Capable Server Offers Exhibitors the Core Infrastructure Necessary for a New Era of Cinema Technology
2005-10-27
DISNEY MOVES FORWARD ON DIGITAL CINEMA - BURBANK, CA - In a long-awaited move, Disney has become the first of the six major Hollywood studios to move forward with a digital cinema effort.
2005-10-28
NATIONAL AMUSEMENTS AND W/S DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES ANNOUNCE PLANS FOR PREMIER LIFESTYLE CENTER IN DEDHAM, MA - [October 27, 2005, Dedham, MA and Chestnut Hill, MA]—National Amusements, Inc. and W/S Development Associates LLC announced plans today for a retail, entertainment, and office development project in Dedham, MA. The lifestyle center project will be among the finest in New England featuring a combination of upscale shops and boutiques, a variety of dining options, a 16-screen “Cinema de Lux” as well as a new office complex that will serve as the world headquarters for National Amusements
2005-10-28
Cinema squabble drags on - SQUABBLING continues over the collapse of cinema company Curzon's bid to operate in St Albans.
2005-10-28
Shringar Cinemas enlarging the screen - KOLKATA: Shringar Cinemas is in expansion mode. It has chalked out a proposal to invest Rs 220 crore over three years to set up 36 properties and 161 screens across 20 cities. The expansion will be funded through a 1:1 debt equity ratio, a Rs 50-crore IPO and internal accruals.
2005-10-28
Cinemas face an uncertain future - The future of two longtime Lafayette cinemas is uncertain after a report from Regal Entertainment Group, which owns Northgate 8 and Ambassador 10, stated that operations would cease in early November.
2005-10-28
Parents unhappy with cinema bar opening in city - REVERE - Showcase Cinemas is opening a Chatters Bar and Grill in its theater complex after opponents questioned the wisdom of serving alcohol in a popular location for children.
2005-10-31
Big Screen Entertainment to Showcase Star Studded List of Films at the American Film Market and Regal Entertainment Reports Results for Q3 2005 and Declares Quarterly Dividend - City of Industry, CA --(www.FinancialNewsUSA.com)-- 10/28/2005 - Movie Production industry news provided by Financial News USA (OTC: FNWU) Big Screen Entertainment Group’s (OTC: BSEG) CEO, Kimberley Kates, has announced the list of projects the company will be showcasing to over 7,000 leaders in motion picture production and distribution industries present at the American Film Market (AFM) November 2-9, 2005. Eli Roth's HOSTEL, a Screen Gems production, will be released in theaters stateside December 21, 2005 by Lions Gate Films, the motion picture acquisition, production and distribution arm of Lions Gate Entertainment (NYSE: LGF), it was announced today jointly by Tom Ortenberg, President, Lions Gate Films Releasing, and Clint Culpepper, President, Screen Gems.
2005-10-31
‘The Polar Express’ is back at bfi London IMAX - Back by popular demand, ‘The Polar Express’ An IMAX 3D Experience returns to the bfi London IMAX Cinema on 4 November after its astounding, record-breaking success last year, when over 75,000 people came to experience the film on the South Bank.
2005-10-31
Rachna Cinema ordered to close permanently - New Delhi: The Rachna Cinema which started with a bang showing Amitabh Bachchan starrer ''Kabhie Kabhie'' in 1976, was today ordered by the Delhi High Court to close permanently.
2005-10-31
T-Systems sets up Europe-wide distribution network for digital cinema - German IT services provider T-Systems and satellite company SES Astra have signed a contract for the distribution of digital movies via Astra satellites. The business customer division of Deutsche Telekom is creating the first Europe-wide distribution network for digital cinema.
2005-10-31
State cinema is back in business - PETALING JAYA: After lying idle for over a decade, the curtain rises again for State Cinema today.
2005-10-31
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2005-10-31
Police called over cinema sit-in - Police were called to a cinema when customers staged a sit-in after the film they wanted to see was cancelled.
2005-10-31
Digital revolution set to sweep "Bollywood" - Bangalore, Oct 29 Digital cinema is about to take off in India, home of the world's most prolific film industry, but not without some twists and turns worthy of a "Bollywood" melodrama.
2005-10-31
India's Bollywood Opts for Low-Cost Digital Cinema - Makarand writes "While Hollywood is yet to figure out who will pay for the costly $100,000 digital projectors required for the digital roll-out of films, the Mumbai (India) based film Industry (called Bollywood) is settling for cheaper projectors of a bit lesser quality available at one-third the price, to proceed with their digital roll-out. Industry officials call this cheaper version of the digital cinema the 'E-Cinema', in contrast to the 'D-Cinema' which Hollywood is waiting for.
2005-10-31
IP's Cinema 6 back in the movie biz - Imperial Palace joins the ranks of reopened movie theaters when it's Cinema 6 springs to life again today with first-run movies on all screens. The ticket office opens at 12:30 p.m.; more info at the Web site, www.ipbiloxi.com.
2005-10-31
French cinema, at home in Gehry building - PARIS For the better part of a decade, this city's only Frank Gehry building has been standing abandoned, a sad monument to a failed American dream. It was planned as a new headquarters for the American Center of Paris, which was founded in 1931 and had long drawn crowds to its rambling Left Bank home as a place to discover American culture and to learn English.
2005-10-31
Warning over needles hoax cinema e-mail - POLICE have issued a warning after a hoax e-mail claiming HIV-infected needles have been deliberately buried in cinema seats was found to be circulating in the city.
2005-10-31
Regal Entertainment Reports 38% Drop in Quarterly Profit - The cinema operator blames an industrywide box-office slump. Its CEO is looking forward to holiday-season films.
2005-10-31
Cinema banks on the classics - Little-known theater's unusual location just part of the fun of seeing films from vault.
2005-11-01
Ward Anderson given go-ahead for €80m takeover of cinema chain - COMPETITION watchdogs have given the go-ahead to the Ward Anderson group’s €80 million takeover of a chain of 11 cinemas in Britain.
2005-11-01
Universal Pictures Agrees to Provide Digital Feature Films to Exhibitors, Joining Christie/AIX's 4,000-Screen Digital Cinema Rollout - LOS ANGELES, Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Pictures today announced it will make its future feature films available to the DCI-compliant digital projection systems deployed by Christie/AIX, the subsidiary of Access Integrated Technologies, Inc. (AccessIT) (Amex: AIX - News) which is launching a nation-wide rollout of 4,000 systems.
2005-11-01
DISNEY’S FIRST CG FEATURE, “CHICKEN LITTLE,” TO DEBUT IN DISNEY DIGITAL 3D™ IN SELECT THEATRES NATIONWIDE ON NOV. 4TH; REVOLUTIONARY NEW SYSTEM OFFERS SUPERIOR 3D MOTION PICTURE EXPERIENCE - Walt Disney Pictures offers moviegoers a glimpse into the future of theatrical exhibition with the November 4th debut of “Chicken Little” in Disney Digital 3DTM. Disney Digital 3D, presented exclusively in Dolby® Digital Cinema, is a brand new state-of-the-art technology that provides the first true three-dimensional digital experience in movie theatres. In collaboration with Disney, Dolby Laboratories is overseeing the rollout of its Dolby Digital Cinema systems in a total of 84 specially-selected, high-profile theatres in 25 top markets. Visual effects giant Industrial Light & Magic (a Lucasfilm Ltd. company) rendered the movie in 3D.
2005-11-02
Cineplex Entertainment Creates New Cinema Media Division - TORONTO, ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - Nov. 1, 2005) - Ellis Jacob, President and CEO, Cineplex Entertainment (TSX:CGX.UN) today announced the formation of Cineplex Media (CM), a division of Cineplex Entertainment. This division has been formed through the combination of Cineplex Entertainment's CineMarketing Sales division and Famous Players Media Inc (FP Media). Cineplex Entertainment has also purchased Famous Magazines, which includes the three Famous branded entertainment magazines -- Famous Magazine, Le Magazine Famous Quebec and Famous Kids. These publications are available in Famous Players and Alliance Atlantis theatres across Canada.
2005-11-02
South Korea locked in movie quota war - When the movie Fatal Attraction premiered in South Korea in 1988, the loudest screams came not when the jilted lover played by Glenn Close popped out with a butcher knife but when live snakes slithered under the feet of moviegoers.
2005-11-03
Reel chance for a new cinema - THREE decades after the last of the town's two cinemas closed its doors to the public, Saffron Walden is about to move back into the movies age.
2005-11-03
Disney, Fox, UA push digital cinema rollout - Access Integrated Technologies Inc. and Christie Digital Systems on Wednesday said they'll meet their target for installing the first 150 digital cinema projection systems under their 4,000-screen goal is on schedule to complete by Dec. 31.
There are about 250 digital cinema-ready screens out of approximately 105,000 worldwide, and most are not compliant with industry standard Digital Cinema Initiative specifications, said Bud Mayo, chairman and CEO of AccessIT. "This is only the beginning, and we have the studios' support," he said. "There are about 36,000 screens in the U.S. and Canada."
2005-11-04
Completed acquisition by Vue Entertainment Holdings (UK) Limited of A3 Cinema Limited (including its subsidiary, Ster Century (UK) Limited - The OFT's decision on reference under section 22 given on 23 September 2005. Full text of decision published on 30 September 2005.
2005-11-04
New German cinema at MoMA - Every year for the last quarter century, New York's Museum of Modern Art has run Kino!, a short, thorough program of recent German cinema; the 2005 edition has just begun. Scheduled to run through November 10, the series manages to cover an incredible amount of ground across only eight features and a single program of shorts.
2005-11-04
REAL D Cinema to Offer Moviegoers 3-D So Believable It's Unbelievable When Disney's ``Chicken Little'' Opens in REAL D Cinema Format - LOS ANGELES, CA, (NAMC) - REAL D, the leader in the delivery of premium 3-D experiences, announced theater locations that will present Disney's Chicken Little in REAL D Cinema format. Disney's Chicken Little is the first-ever feature presentation in REAL D Cinema format and will open on 88 REAL D Cinema screens in top markets in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
2005-11-04
Who Will SMPTE Honor This Year? - SMPTE has announced the award winners for outstanding achievement in the motion imaging industry. The Annual Honors and Awards ceremony and reception will be held Thursday, November 10, 2005 at the Hilton, New York.
2005-11-04
Cineplex Galaxy Income Fund Reports Third Quarter Results - TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 2005--Cineplex Galaxy Income Fund (the "Fund") (TSX:CGX.UN - News) today released the financial results of Cineplex Entertainment Limited Partnership (the "Partnership"), for the third quarter of 2005.
2005-11-04
Cinema houses agree on prices - Ster-Kinekor on Friday said it had reached an agreement with Nu-Metro Film Distribution over its new pricing strategy.
2005-11-04
FotoKem, Doremi And Christie Reach Digital Cinema Milestone - FotoKem, Doremi Labs and Christie Digital Systems, USA, Inc., have produced the first Digital Cinema Distribution Master (DCDM) of a major motion picture that conforms to the specifications of the Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI). The DCDM was then used to generate a Digital Cinema Package (DCP), ready for distribution.
2005-11-04
Telephonetics wins Irish cinema deal - LONDON (ShareCast) - Speech recognition telephony firm Telephonetics announced today that it has won a six-year contract with Irish cinema chain UCI Ireland.
2005-11-07
Centennial film industry faces logjam - They used to make a spectacular scene. About once a month, peasants from all nearby villages would flock to a mobile cinema for a black-and-white film. The early birds would sit comfortably on a stool or a brick, latecomers would have to stand on their tiptoes or climb up a tree.
2005-11-07
CineStar Cinemas opens at Mall of the Emirates - CineStar launched its fourth multi-screen cinema in the UAE at Mall of the Emirates- Dubai on November 2, 2005.
2005-11-07
Fire forces evacuation of cinemas in Malaysia's landmark Petronas Twin Towers - A fire in a cinema complex in Malaysia's landmark Petronas Twin Towers sent panicked patrons rushing out screaming and coughing in blinding smoke Friday night, witnesses said. No casualties were immediately reported.
2005-11-07
Odeon showpiece to join Liverpool One - THE owners of the Odeon chain are to build a 14-screen cinema complex as part of the Paradise Street redevelopment.
2005-11-07
GSC confident of record performance - MALAYSIA’S leading and largest cinema operator for the past eight consecutive years, Golden Screen Cinemas Sdn Bhd (GSC), sees 10 per cent growth in the number of patrons to its cinemas this year as well as double-digit revenue growth.
2005-11-07
Gravesend cinema saga almost identical to EMD - JUST weeks after the EMD Cinema was put up for sale, we can reveal that its owner, the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), has left similar premises in Gravesend.
2005-11-08
Microspace Beams Chicken Little from the Sky to Theaters for Walt Disney Pictures - Microspace Communications Corporation (Microspace), the leading provider of point-to-multipoint satellite services, today announced that it provided digital delivery for Disney’s Chicken Little on November 4th, via its VELOCITY® satellite service and Kodak digital CineServers. Microspace distributed the feature presentation to the Galaxy Cineplex in Ontario, Canada.
2005-11-08
Now Hear This: Films Captioned For The Deaf - Showcase Cinemas Buckland Hills in Manchester has started offering closed captions all day, everyday in one of its theaters. "Chicken Little" is playing there now, and multiplex owner National Amusements plans to use that auditorium almost exclusively for new releases.
2005-11-08
SMG axes jobs in cinema and outdoor advertising - Scottish Media Group has made a string of redundancies in its cinema and outdoor advertising operations. The company has laid off about 10 staff across Pearl & Dean and Primesight in marketing, creative content and production departments.
2005-11-09
Universal Pictures debuts digital cinema specs flick - A movie called "Serenity" created an unusual buzz in Hollywood Monday night. It was Universal Pictures debut of the first movie created and distributed based on Digital Cinema Initiative LLC technical specifications, a collaborative effort between the seven major studios to distribute digital movies to theatres.
2005-11-14
Man dies after 50 Cent screening - Hip-hop star 50 Cent has said he is "saddened" after a fatal shooting at a Pennsylvania cinema where his film Get Rich Or Die Tryin' was screening.
2005-11-14
Thomson Secures Wide-Ranging Hollywood Studio Support For Significant Digital Cinema Rollout - DreamWorks, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. Sign Agreements to Utilize Digital Projection Systems from Technicolor Digital Cinema in 5,000 Screens in the United States and Canada; Twentieth Century Fox, New Line Cinema and Weinstein Comp
2005-11-14
Wrecking ball for cinema:Lakehurst multiplex: Site eyed for major hotel chain - WAUKEGAN — Once touted as having the most movie screens under one roof in the U.S., Lakehurst Cinema appears to be on its last legs after the City Council gave the go-ahead Monday on negotiations to raze the theater and clear space for a hotel.
2005-11-14
Lovell theater back in business after 12 years of darkness - LOVELL, Wyo. (AP) -- The movie showing this weekend at Lovell's Hyart Theater is "Rebound," which could also describe the fate of the 975-seat movie palace over the past year.
2005-11-14
Pixar Hits All-Time High on Earnings Report - Pixar Animation Studios (Nasdaq: PIXR) surged to an all-time high yesterday after the company's per-share earnings ended up doubling the projection of analysts, thanks to unexpected proceeds from its film library.
2005-11-14
Universal Pictures Debuts Flick Based On Digital Specs - The movie, called "Serenity," was the studio's first to be created and distributed based on the Digital Cinema Initiative LLC technical specifications.
2005-11-14
Bahrain Cinema Company announces 96% rise in third quarter profits - Bahrain Cinema Company (CINECO) announced a huge 96% increase in their net profits for the third quarter of 2005.
2005-11-14
Thomson sees significant opportunities from Analog-to-Digital Cinema Transition - Boulogne--(MARKET WIRE)--Nov 10, 2005 -- PARIS, France and BURBANK, Calif., — November 10, 2005 —Thomson (Euronext 18453; NYSE: TMS) today announced that its Services division has reached digital cinema usage agreements with DreamWorks, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros. to accelerate the deployment of digital cinema systems in North America. In addition, the company is in late stage negotiations with Twentieth Century Fox, New Line Cinema, and The Weinstein Company and expects these studios to be part of the initial deployment. The agreements reinforce Thomson's global leadership in the provision of electronic delivery services and technologies to the world of content producers and distributors.
2005-11-14
Cinema company profit climbs to BD4 million - MANAMA: Bahrain Cinema Company (CINECO) made a net profit of nearly BD4 million during the first nine months of this year, it was revealed yesterday.
2005-11-14
Duck! It's Andrew Lloyd Webber in 3-D - WHEN the Lumière brothers first showed the film "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat" in Paris more than a century ago, the shot of a locomotive pulling into a station was supposedly so startling that much of the audience jumped back from the screen in fright. Simon Lee probably has a good idea of how they felt. He was conducting the orchestra in London for "The Woman in White" - the new $8.5 million Andrew Lloyd Webber musical - when he first saw the show's computer-animated train barreling toward him from a dark tunnel, its wheels rumbling and whistle screaming. He ducked.
2005-11-14
Plan to turn Tarantino’s top cinema into a big bar - It is said, by no less an authority than Quentin Tarantino, to be the best arthouse cinema in the world. But it appears that reputation alone will not save Edinburgh's Cameo from losing more than 200 seats as its main auditorium becomes a bar.
2005-11-14
Digital Cinema To Transform Theaters Into Art Centers - Bud Mayo, the chairman and CEO of Access Integrated Technologies Inc., has a vision. Digital cinema will enable every movie theater to transform into a performing arts center within the next four to five years. Digital cinema is the process of distributing movies and media content to theaters in bits and bytes rather than celluloid.
2005-11-14
Fears raised that capital's oldest cinema will become a 'super-pub' - Nightclub owner linked to plans to revamp Cameo. EDINBURGH's oldest cinema is to be transformed in a multi-million pound deal that will see it lose more than half its seats to make way for a huge pub.
Also at: Scotsman and also here.
2005-11-14
The Reel Is Gone - Say goodbye to scratch and hiss. Digital technology is set to transform the way we watch movies.
2005-11-14
Thomson eyes India's entertainment pie - Consumer electronics major Thomson is scouting for Indian partners through which to enter the post-production business in the country's entertainment market, said Olivier Lafaye, president of its Asian operations. The company is open to equity participation, a takeover or a joint venture for its Indian operations, he added.
2005-11-14
Technicolor to Finance Digital Film Systems - A plan to help theaters upgrade distribution and projection gear is similar to an effort by rival industry players.
2005-11-14
Thomson lands role in Hollywood digital movie deal - PARIS (Reuters) - Thomson on Thursday unveiled a deal with Hollywood studios to accelerate the deployment of digital cinema systems in North America.
2005-11-14
You Ought to Be in Pictures: Sanmina Scores Digital Cinema Order - SAN JOSE -- Sanmina-SCI has signed a manufacturing services agreement to build digital cinema products for QuVIS Inc.
2005-11-14
Old or new: it's up to you - A battle of the silver screen is set to rage between two cinemas in Bury St Edmunds – which are opening on the same night with the same film.
2005-11-15
CSA dominates in cinema's changing advertising market - Tony Lithgow reports on why media buyers are showing concern about recent developments in the cinema world.
2005-11-15
Korea & QuVIS Provide Another Digital Cinema First - MegaBox Cineplex Inc., Korea's premier motion picture exhibitor, is to install 50 QuVIS Cinema Players into Digital Cinema theatres throughout Seoul, Korea.
2005-11-15
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The Imax Experience to Open In Record Number of IMAX(R) Theatres on November 18th - LOS ANGELES, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Adventure Continues in
IMAX! Warner Bros. Pictures will release Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire:
The IMAX Experience in select IMAX theatres beginning November 18th,
concurrent with the 35mm release. The film is expected to debut in a record
72 IMAX theatres with an additional 18 to open in weeks following, eclipsing
the mark set by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The IMAX Experience this summer. Of the 72 IMAX theatres opening day and date, 66 of the locations are domestic, which is significantly more than the 49 domestic IMAX screens that Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: The IMAX Experience opened in June 2004.
2005-11-15
Film producer joins battle to save Cameo's big screen - A LEADING film producer has warned that a "true cultural gem" in the city is under threat unless a campaign to save the Cameo's big screen is successful.
2005-11-15
Sale makes Rank a takeover target - LEISURE group Rank could receive a £2bn takeover bid within weeks after agreeing the sale of one of its subsidiaries, it has been reported.
2005-11-16
Odeon showpiece to join Liverpool One - THE owners of the Odeon chain are to build a 14-screen cinema complex as part of the Paradise Street redevelopment.
2005-11-16
Dolby Celebrates Success of Digital Cinema Rollout - After installing 84 Dolby® Digital Cinema systems in theatres across the US, exhibitors declare Dolby Laboratories’ (NYSE: DLB) completion of the largest single digital cinema rollout a success. Exhibitors’ reports, after the latest run of Dolby Digital Cinema with Disney's Chicken Little in 3-D, commend the system’s smooth installation and the ease of use and performance.
2005-11-16
12 killed in Mogadishu over sinful cinema houses - Some12 Somalis were at least killed and other 21 injured in the most recent wave of fighting overwhelming the capital Mogadishu, over differences on closing several cinema houses and entertaining centers.
2005-11-16
Cinema sale would be a terrible scene - SOME of my fondest, warmest and fuzziest childhood memories of Edinburgh revolve around the sheer excitement of trips to the cinema.
2005-11-16
12 killed in Mogadishu over sinful cinema houses - Some12 Somalis were at least killed and other 21 injured in the most recent wave of fighting overwhelming the capital Mogadishu, over differences on closing several cinema houses and entertaining centers.
2005-11-16
Cinema sale would be a terrible scene - SOME of my fondest, warmest and fuzziest childhood memories of Edinburgh revolve around the sheer excitement of trips to the cinema.
2005-11-16
Spy specs to end fake dvds - Cinema staff in the Black Country and Staffordshire are being issued with night-vision goggles in a bid to stamp out piracy of the new Harry Potter film.
2005-11-17
Technicolor to Include Sony 4K SXRD Projection System in Its Upcoming Digital Cinema Beta Test - Furthering the industry appreciation of 4K resolution as the ultimate in digital projection technology, Technicolor, part of the Services division of Thomson, SA, is including Sony's SXRD(TM) (Silicon X-tal Reflective Display) 4K digital projection system in its digital cinema beta test in early 2006.
2005-11-17
Digital landmark - Warner Bros has made film history after successfully completing a digital transmission of a film from California to Japanese theaters via fibre optics.
2005-11-17
HDFEST World's Only High-Definition Film Festival Presented by Intel - (PRWEB) - Los Angeles, CA. (PRWEB) November 16, 2005 -- The schedule for HDFEST, the world's only high definition film festival, was released today. Staged at the ETC Digital Cinema Lab at the Hollywood Pacific Theatre and the Dolby Laboratories' Larry Umlang Presentation Theatre II in Burbank, the festival will include screenings of High-Def movies, panels on High-Def filmmaking, festival parties and the HDFEST 2005 Deffie Award Ceremony.
2005-11-17
Goblet of Fire's going to be a giant Imax success - HARRY Potter mania is set to sweep Glasgow as the wizard's new movie is released on Friday.
2005-11-17
HDFEST World's Only High-Definition Film Festival Presented by Intel - (PRWEB) - Los Angeles, CA. (PRWEB) November 16, 2005 -- The schedule for HDFEST, the world's only high definition film festival, was released today. Staged at the ETC Digital Cinema Lab at the Hollywood Pacific Theatre and the Dolby Laboratories' Larry Umlang Presentation Theatre II in Burbank, the festival will include screenings of High-Def movies, panels on High-Def filmmaking, festival parties and the HDFEST 2005 Deffie Award Ceremony.
2005-11-17
Goblet of Fire's going to be a giant Imax success - HARRY Potter mania is set to sweep Glasgow as the wizard's new movie is released on Friday.
2005-11-17
Royal to be cinema again - THE glamour of going to the cinema in the city centre and emerging after the film into the buzz of urban streets is set to become a reality for Limerick in the very near future.
2005-11-17
Planning board complicates plans for Milford cinema - MILFORD — Plans for Chunky’s Cinema Pub to move into the empty Ames Department store in Granite Plaza were sidetracked last night when the planning board turned down the company’s request to waive a site plan review.
2005-11-21
New Galaxy Cinema Planned for Collingwood, Ontario To Open in Fall 2006 - TORONTO, ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - Nov. 17, 2005) - Cineplex Entertainment (TSX:CGX.UN) announced today the development of a seven screen entertainment complex at First Street and Highway 26 in Collingwood, Ontario. The 26,000 square foot state-of-the-art Galaxy Cinema will start construction in the spring of 2006 and will open to the public in the Fall of 2006. Galaxy Cinemas are huge community supporters and are very involved in their local communities raising money for various charities on an on-going basis. It is this local focus which distinguishes the Galaxy brand from others.
2005-11-21
Lights, camera, action - A full moon shone on hundreds of guests as they walked along a red carpet to the grand opening of Bury St Edmunds' cinema multiplex on Wednesday evening.
2005-11-21
Disney changes cinema experience - Chicken Little may be revolutionizing the way America watches movies. Maybe not Chicken Little himself, but Disney's new computer-animated movie, Chicken Little, may incite a spread of digital cinema technology throughout American movie theaters.
2005-11-21
Second Act - They came in droves, each clutching a nickel to see the latest thing in technology -- moving pictures. When the first ever movie theater opened in June 1905, about 7,000 people a day lined up to pay 5 cents to see something they'd never seen before. The theater, located on Smithfield Street in Pittsburgh and owned by Harry Davis and John P. Harris, was named "nickelodeon," after the price of admission and Odeon, the ancient name of Greek theaters.
2005-11-21
SkyCity has eyes for 3D cinema technology - SkyCity Leisure is looking at installing digital 3D in its cinemas next year as American trials suggest huge potential for the new technology.
2005-11-21
Technicolor to Include Sony 4K SXRD Projection System in Its Upcoming Digital Cinema Beta Test - PARK RIDGE, N.J., Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Furthering the industry appreciation of 4K resolution as the ultimate in digital projection technology, Technicolor, part of the Services division of Thomson, SA, is including Sony's SXRD(TM) (Silicon X-tal Reflective Display) 4K digital projection system in its digital cinema beta test in early 2006.
2005-11-21
Celebrations as cinema opens for Bury - A DECADE-long battle to provide one of Suffolk's most historic market towns with a state-of-the-art cinema multiplex last night came to an end as the red carpet was rolled out during gala opening celebrations.
2005-11-21
Planning board complicates plans for Milford cinema - MILFORD — Plans for Chunky’s Cinema Pub to move into the empty Ames Department store in Granite Plaza were sidetracked last night when the planning board turned down the company’s request to waive a site plan review.
2005-11-21
Celebrations as cinema opens for Bury - A DECADE-long battle to provide one of Suffolk's most historic market towns with a state-of-the-art cinema multiplex last night came to an end as the red carpet was rolled out during gala opening celebrations.
2005-11-21
Planning board complicates plans for Milford cinema - MILFORD — Plans for Chunky’s Cinema Pub to move into the empty Ames Department store in Granite Plaza were sidetracked last night when the planning board turned down the company’s request to waive a site plan review.
2005-11-21
'Trojan Horse' superpub fears at Cameo Cinema - CITY leaders today entered the row over the closure-threatened Cameo Cinema by warning they would oppose any plans to transform it into a "superpub".
2005-11-21
Flame of Mexican cinema is burning brightly once more - Luis Mandoki’s ‘Voces inocentes’ (2004) examines the civil war in El Salvador. New filmmakers are presenting incisive work.
2005-11-21
Theater owners lack focus - AMC Theatres controls 3,475 movie screens worldwide. Perhaps the one at Tampa's Veterans 24, where a recent showing of Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang was spoiled for 14 minutes, is the only one with projection problems and a staff that can't immediately handle them.
2005-11-21
Dolby Laboratories Reports FY 2005 Fourth Quarter and Year-End Results - SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 2005--Dolby Laboratories (NYSE:DLB - News) today announced the Company's financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended September 30, 2005.
2005-11-21
Theater owners lack focus - AMC Theatres controls 3,475 movie screens worldwide. Perhaps the one at Tampa's Veterans 24, where a recent showing of Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang was spoiled for 14 minutes, is the only one with projection problems and a staff that can't immediately handle them.
2005-11-21
Dolby Laboratories Reports FY 2005 Fourth Quarter and Year-End Results - SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 2005--Dolby Laboratories (NYSE:DLB - News) today announced the Company's financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended September 30, 2005.
2005-11-21
Movie fans can ‘Walk the Line' to cinema on Friday - ORANGE - Another one of Hurricane Rita's many casualties is readying to reopen this weekend. The staff and workers at the Orange Cinema are putting the finishing touches on everything as they prepare for their first post-Rita day back in business.
2005-11-21
France proposes 'European cinema weeks' to fight Hollywood domination - BUDAPEST (AFP) - The European Union should establish a programme of "European cinema weeks" to combat the domination of Hollywood movies in theatres, France suggested to a gathering here of EU culture ministers.
2005-11-21
Theater tax drama plays out to happy ending - Patrons of the Ruskin Drive-In Theatre heed the owner's cry for support, and appraisers lower a quadrupled assessment.
2005-11-21
Thomson sees digital cinema deals in Europe - BARCELONA (Reuters) - French media technology firm Thomson expects to roll out digital cinema systems in France, Britain and Belgium when it expands the new service outside the United States, its chief executive said on Friday.
2005-11-21
Theater tax drama plays out to happy ending - Patrons of the Ruskin Drive-In Theatre heed the owner's cry for support, and appraisers lower a quadrupled assessment.
2005-11-21
Thomson sees digital cinema deals in Europe - BARCELONA (Reuters) - French media technology firm Thomson expects to roll out digital cinema systems in France, Britain and Belgium when it expands the new service outside the United States, its chief executive said on Friday.
2005-11-21
Curtain could fall on Encinitas cinema - ENCINITAS ---- The curtain could be coming down soon on the AMC Encinitas 8 Theatres, the only multiscreen cinema in the city and one of the first in coastal North County.
2005-11-21
Second Act - They came in droves, each clutching a nickel to see the latest thing in technology -- moving pictures.
2005-11-21
A Sunday sampler - Regulators put ticket resale prices on the line -- if it rains on your wedding day, your rings may be free -- and 'Chicken Little' scores hit in digital 3-D
2005-11-21
It will reduce film piracy - Digital cinema or as some in the industry refer to as e-cinema is the latest concept in cinema distribution and exhibition in India and globally. The term digital cinema is the combination of three phases - digital production or post-production, digital delivery and digital projection combined into a system or chain that offers a higher or enhanced movie-viewing experience to audiences.
2005-11-22
The multiplex market - Since 1997, when Village Roadshow opened its first cinema multiplex in Maroussi with 10 screens, Athens has acquired six such multiplexes totaling 65 screens, while traditional cinemas have also developed and modernized with better seats, more screens and new sound systems.
2005-11-23
New Sony Pictures Agreement with Christie/AIX Supports Digital Cinema Transition - Sony Pictures’ Commitment Will Further Speed Exhibitor Adoption of Digital Cinema - - Moving aggressively to accelerate the transition to digital cinema, Christie/AIX, a unit of Access Integrated Technologies (“AccessIT”), (AMEX:AIX) today announced an agreement with Sony Pictures Entertainment whereby Sony Pictures will supply its upcoming films in DCI-compliant format to the 4,000 digital projection systems Christie/AIX intends to install in movie theaters in the U.S. and Canada over the next two years.
2005-11-22
Cineplex Entertainment is Expanding its' JUMP! Online Ticketing Service to its' Famous Players Theatres Across Canada - TORONTO, ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - Nov. 22, 2005) - Cineplex Entertainment (TSX:CGX.UN) is pleased to announce the expansion of its "JUMP!" private label on-line ticketing program to its recently acquired circuit of Famous Players theatres across Canada. JUMP! is currently available in 62 Cineplex Odeon and Galaxy Cinemas across Canada and will add the service to 57 Famous Players brand theatres expanding the offering to Cineplex Entertainment's full complement of theatres across Canada. Two sites will be added before the end of the year and the balance of the installations will occur in the first six months of 2006.
2005-11-23
Revlon boss a front-runner for Rank's Deluxe Film - RON PERELMAN, the billionaire American owner of Revlon, the cosmetics giant, is among the frontrunners to acquire Rank Group’s Deluxe Film Services division for about $800 million (£465 million), The Times has learnt.
2005-11-23
Trailers released for new Cameo - PICTURES of what Edinburgh's oldest cinema will look like under plans to transform the main auditorium were unveiled today.
2005-11-23
DALSA Digital Cinema to Award HDFEST Deffie Award Winner with Origin® Package - HDFEST and DALSA Digital Cinema announced today that the winner of the HDFEST Deffie Award for Best Short Film will receive a special awards package from DALSA Digital Cinema. The award winners will be announced Sunday December 4th at the conclusion of the HDFEST 2005 Los Angeles event.
2005-11-23
UFO Moviez to invest Rs 300 cr for digital cinema expansion - Digital Cinema Network launched by Valuable Media Private Limited, 'UFO Moviez', will invest Rs 300 crore to convert 2,000 cinema halls across the country into digital cinema houses by the end of 2007.
2005-11-23
DALSA Digital Cinema to Award HDFEST Deffie Award Winner with Origin® Package - HDFEST and DALSA Digital Cinema announced today that the winner of the HDFEST Deffie Award for Best Short Film will receive a special awards package from DALSA Digital Cinema. The award winners will be announced Sunday December 4th at the conclusion of the HDFEST 2005 Los Angeles event.
2005-11-23
UFO Moviez to invest Rs 300 cr for digital cinema expansion - Digital Cinema Network launched by Valuable Media Private Limited, 'UFO Moviez', will invest Rs 300 crore to convert 2,000 cinema halls across the country into digital cinema houses by the end of 2007.
2005-11-23
Download 20th Century Fox Movies, More - MovieLink has just announced a deal with 20th Century Fox, meaning that now MovieLink users can download movies from 20th Century Fox, Universal, MGM, Paramount, Warner Bros., Sony, Sundance, and the BBC, to name just a few.
2005-11-24
Treasured Odeon memories - THE LETTER about Dundee cinemas in the 50s sparked off many treasured memories for my twin brother, David, and I, as we both worked at the Odeon Cinema in 1941/42.
2005-11-24
Magic! British cinema flies to record takings - The magic of Harry Potter has rubbed off on the UK box office, which has enjoyed its highest ticket sales in 20 years thanks to the celluloid adventures of the young wizard.
2005-11-25
Cameo's International rescuer - EDINBURGH'S world-famous International Film Festival has stepped in to help rescue the Cameo Cinema from closure.
2005-11-25
Media Analysis: Big screen, little growth - If cinema is to recover from a box-office slump, it must look beyond the mainstream family movie, writes Jeremy Lee.
2005-11-25
Film festival backs moves to save historic Cameo cinema - THE Edinburgh International Film Festival is backing moves to save the city's historic Cameo Cinema.
2005-11-25
Upgrade to IMAX for first-class movie viewing - Paychecks that top $25 million. Production budgets that surpass the GNP of some small countries. Hollywood loves to spend money. So why did it take so long for Hollywood to buy into IMAX technology?
2005-11-25
Offers to buy the EMD cinema - OFFERS have been made to bring the former EMD Cinema back into use.
2005-11-25
shops plan at former cinema go on show - THE first images of the planned transformation of a former Wrexham cinema have been unveiled
2005-11-27
Children's films help to break box-office record - Children's films are fuelling the boom at the box office as more Britons than ever before flock to the cinema.
2005-11-27
Foul play whiff in dawn fire at cinema - Police have started a probe into the Friday morning fire at Gem cinema, at 159, AJC Bose Road, on the basis of a complaint by fire services officials.
2005-11-27
Celluloid magic carpet ride: Silver Screen Classic Movies series unveils roster of upcoming features - The click and whir of the projector and the flicker of classic movie images are alive and well in Auburn, with the reels being readied for another Silver Screen Classic Movies series.
2005-11-27
Projectionist told to clean up - Saanich council had tough words for Ronald Meuse on Monday night, giving the Saanich resident 60 days to clean up his yard of boxes and electronic components on 1328 Dunsterville Ave., near Interurban Road.
2005-11-27
Silver Screen Dreams - Once upon a time, North Adams had at least two movie theaters on Main Street. Ticket lines would stretch around and down Eagle Street when blockbusters such as "Jaws" and "The Towering Inferno" played at the Mohawk.
2005-11-27
Media Analysis: Big screen, little growth - If cinema is to recover from a box-office slump, it must look beyond the mainstream family movie, writes Jeremy Lee.
2005-11-27
This Report is the Essential Tool for Understanding the Greatest Challenge to Face the Cinema Industry in Its 100-Year History - Digital - DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 26, 2005--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c28072) has announced the addition of Digital Cinema Business Models to their offering
2005-11-27
Welcome to the home-page of the Vue Entertainment Holdings (UK) Limited / A3 Cinema Limited Inquiry. - Lots of information on the inquiry.
2005-11-28
Impasse on at Metro Cinema - There is little hope that Metro Cinema, one of the oldest movie theatres in the city, will see good times in the near future.
2005-11-29
PS2 Tournament To Be Held At Empire Cinema - Bandar Seri Begawan – A pro Evolution Soccer 5 P1ayStation®2 tournament will be held from December 2 to December 4 at the Empire Cinema.
2005-11-29
Thomson Conjures Up Visual Effects, Postproduction, Film Printing, and Digital Cinema Services for Warner Bros.' Blockbuster, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Thomson (Euronext Paris:18453)(NYSE:TMS) today announced that its Services division, through its Technicolor business, provided a wide range of visual effects, postproduction, film printing, and digital cinema support for the theatrical release of Warner Bros.' holiday blockbuster, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
2005-11-29
Cameo owners to face public over pub plan - CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save the Cameo will get the chance to quiz the historic cinema's owners at a public meeting tomorrow.
2005-11-29
Egyptian’s last weekend a hit - If all went according to schedule, shortly before 11 p.m. Sunday, a projectionist at The Egyptian Theatre in Coos Bay rewound the reel-to-reel film that contained the horror film “Saw II,” packed it in its platter and called it a night.
2005-11-29
Cameo owners to face public over pub plan - CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save the Cameo will get the chance to quiz the historic cinema's owners at a public meeting tomorrow.
2005-11-29
Egyptian’s last weekend a hit - If all went according to schedule, shortly before 11 p.m. Sunday, a projectionist at The Egyptian Theatre in Coos Bay rewound the reel-to-reel film that contained the horror film “Saw II,” packed it in its platter and called it a night.
2005-11-29
Touch-enabled projection screen incorporating vibration sensors - The present invention provides a rear projection screen that has a light directing element coupled to a support layer. The light directing element directs an image toward a viewer position. The support layer provides the front surface of the projection screen, accessible to a user. Vibration sensors are mechanically coupled to the support layer to sense vibrations indicative of a touch to the front surface. The sensed vibrations are converted into signals that can be communicated to controller electronics to determine information related to the touch input, such as touch input location, touch force, touch implement type, and so forth.
2005-11-29
Unaxis Optics Announces Licensing of Its Patented ColorWheels(TM) With Premier - Unaxis Optics, the world-wide leading manufacturer of ColorWheels(TM), has entered into a licensing agreement with Premier Image Technology Corp., Taiwan, for the exploitation of its patented ColorWheel(TM) technology for DLP(TM) based projection display applications.
2005-11-30
Showcase Cinemas West to be rebuilt - The owner of Showcase Cinemas West in Robinson plans to demolish the building and replace it with a 16-screen theater featuring stadium seating for 3,200 customers, digital sound, expanded concessions and wall-to-wall curved screens.
2005-12-01
Harry Potter to star in cinema unveiling - A CURTAIN will be raised at Richmond Regent cinema tomorrow morning, on screen and off.
2005-12-01
Cinema chiefs announce a pub U-turn - THE owners of the Cameo have staged a dramatic U-turn after plans to turn it into a pub and restaurant sparked a storm of protest.
2005-12-01
DREAMWORKS IS NEWEST STUDIO TO SUPPORT CHRISTIE/AIX’S DIGITAL CINEMA FUNDING PLAN. Studio Makes Its Films Available to DCI-Compliant Digital Systems - Access Integrated Technologies, Inc. ("AccessIT") (AMEX:AIX) and DreamWorks SKG (“DreamWorks”) said today DreamWorks will give full support to exhibitors participating in Christie/AIX’s digital cinema rollout by releasing future films in digital format. DreamWorks is the fifth and latest studio agreeing to provide its content for digital distribution and projection and to fund exhibitor adoption of DCI-compliant hardware. The studio’s productions will be made available to all exhibitors currently deploying systems under the Christie/AIX’s 4,000-screen national rollout plan, starting with the first 150 digital cinema projection systems expected to be installed by December 31, 2005.
2005-12-01
Christie, FotoKem, and Doremi produce first DCDM - LOS ANGELES -- FotoKem, Doremi Labs and Christie Digital Systems, USA, Inc., have produced the first Digital Cinema Distribution Master (DCDM) of a major motion picture that conforms to the specifications of the Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI). The DCDM was then used to generate a Digital Cinema Package (DCP), ready for distribution.
2005-12-02
£180m plans for market revealed - New shopping complex aimed at breathing new life into town is part of council's private partnership with developers
2005-12-02
Complaints can create change - The column described an advance screening of Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang spoiled for 14 minutes by a grotesquely distorted screen image and bad framing. It would have been spotted and corrected by an attentive projectionist within seconds. Two trips to the lobby to alert the management didn't help because neither employee knew how to handle the problem, nor hustled to find anyone who could.
2005-12-02
Save the Lonsdale - CARLISLE-BORN Hollywood director Mike Figgis and the Prince of Wales are being called upon to help save the city’s Lonsdale cinema, which is threatened with closure.
2005-12-02
1st private digital cinema chain starts up - BEIJING, Dec. 2 -- China's digital movie market is going to see a boom as the country's first entirely privately-funded digital cinema chain has been given the go-ahead from the state administrative authority. The chain expects to attract more movie fans back to the cine ma.
2005-12-02
POP SOUND CREATES 5.1 MIX FOR EA GAMES' NEW CINEMA SPOT - SANTA MONICA, CA - Peter Rincon of POP Sound (www.popsound.com) recently prepared a 5.1 surround sound mix for a cinema spot launching EA Games’ new video game, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Wieden & Kennedy, Portland created the ad, which is being shown in movie theaters nationwide prior to screenings of the new film of the same name.
2005-12-05
Shops plan at former cinema go on show - THE first images of the planned transformation of a former Wrexham cinema have been unveiled
2005-12-05
The Orchestra Pit Is a World of Its Own - NEW YORK - Paul Garment wants to see "The Woman in White."
He likes the music. He's heard interesting things about the production and its use of projection as opposed to an actual set. He knows the show's leading lady, Maria Friedman, recently had breast cancer surgery but still made it back for the musical's opening night on Broadway.
2005-12-05
PVR to open digital cinema houses in Aurangabad, Latur - PVR Cinema is all set to open three new digital multiplex cinema in Aurangabad and Latur.
2005-12-05
Developers pitch shopping center at Showcase - DEDHAM -- Developers last week unveiled plans for a new outdoor retail and restaurant bazaar and state-of-the-art deluxe movie complex at the site of the Showcase Cinemas on Providence Highway near Rte. 128.
2005-12-05
PVR to open digital cinema houses in Aurangabad, Latur - PVR Cinema is all set to open three new digital multiplex cinema in Aurangabad and Latur.
2005-12-05
Developers pitch shopping center at Showcase - DEDHAM -- Developers last week unveiled plans for a new outdoor retail and restaurant bazaar and state-of-the-art deluxe movie complex at the site of the Showcase Cinemas on Providence Highway near Rte. 128.
2005-12-06
Digital Cinemas Make Low Film Tickets Possible - Turned off by expensive film tickets, millions of Chinese movie fans have long abandoned the habit of going to the cinema. They often resort to watching movies on DVD players. Now the introduction of digital cinemas may bring people back to the cinemas. And their slogan is "5 Yuan to see a big-budget film". Our reporter Zhou Jing has the story.
2005-12-06
Odeon Cinema due to close in four weeks - THE curtain will finally come down on one of Glasgow's oldest cinemas in only four weeks' time.
2005-12-06
Cineplex, retail lay down tracks to Santa Fe Railyard - It's been a slow train a comin,' but after 10 years of planning, the first commercial development in the Santa Fe Railyard has cleared its design review process and construction on the $30 million project should begin by March.
The mixed-use development, called the Market Station at the Railyards, located in the 500 block of North Guadalupe Street, will have approximately 78,000 square feet of retail and office space, in addition to a 38,000-square-foot, 10-screen cineplex.
2005-12-06
Movie theatres agree to improve facilities for blind and hearing impaired - NEW YORK - The National Centre for Accessible Media, a non-profit group that works to make theatres more user friendly, says that many centers across America are making their facilities more comfortable for use by the blind and the hearing impaired.
2005-12-06
Curtain to fall at arthouse cinema - THE curtain will fall on an arthouse cinema in Hull at the end of the month.
Hull Screen's last film to be shown at its Albion Street home on December 23 is Nick Park's The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
2005-12-07
Disney to Release Newest Animated Feature in REAL D Cinema Following Historic Success of “Chicken Little” in 3-D - REAL D Cinema Presentation of “Chicken Little” Gains Momentum with Cumulative 3-D Box Office Surpassing $7 Million Thanksgiving Weekend.
2005-12-07
Poor attendance forces closure of Palace's Portmore cinema - Douglas Graham's Palace Amusement Company has closed its Portmore cinema, following a precipitous decline in revenue - that was more than twice the decline reported by the other cinemas in the group during the September quarter.
2005-12-07
Rank makes progress with Deluxe sale - LONDON (Reuters) - Leisure conglomerate Rank said on Tuesday that profit for 2005 would be down slightly and said it had chosen a preferred bidder to buy each of its Deluxe units.
2005-12-07
Cinema Closure is Shocking - The possible closure of the Lonsdale Cinema is unjust, shocking and will damage Carlisle.
2005-12-07
Rank makes progress with Deluxe sale - LONDON (Reuters) - Leisure conglomerate Rank said on Tuesday that profit for 2005 would be down slightly and said it had chosen a preferred bidder to buy each of its Deluxe units.
2005-12-07
Cinema Closure is Shocking - The possible closure of the Lonsdale Cinema is unjust, shocking and will damage Carlisle.
2005-12-07
Canadian cinema puts sexy angels under wraps - OTTAWA (Reuters) - One of Canada's leading cinema chains has stopped handing out Christmas wrapping paper to its patrons after parents complained it featured angels fondling each other suggestively, newspapers reported on Tuesday.
2005-12-07
PVR IPO to fund multiplexes, will add 82 screens - PVR Limited, which runs a chain of multiplexes, will utilise the proceeds up to Rs 185 crore from its forthcoming IPO for launching 82 screens in 18 multiplexes by 2008, including a couple of low-cost digital cinemas which will reduce prices of tickets by half. A small part of the proceeds will also be pumped in for film distribution by a subsidiary of PVR Limited.
2005-12-07
AUSTRALIAN REGULATOR APPROVES HOYTS AND GREATER UNION JV SPLIT - SYDNEY, Dec 7 Asia Pulse - The competition regulator has cleared the way for joint venture arrangements between cinema operators Hoyts and Greater Union to be unwound.
2005-12-07
New £4.5m cinema on way - Movie buffs will soon be able to watch the latest big screen classic in the comfort of a new £4.5 milliom cinema in Preston.
2005-12-07
Thomson Signs Strategic Agreement With Twentieth Century Fox to Advance Digital Cinema Rollout Plans in North America - Further demonstrating its industry leadership in the provision of digital cinema services and technologies to major film studios, Thomson (Euronext: 18453) (NYSE: TMS - News) today announced that its Services division, through its Technicolor Digital Cinema business, has reached a long-term digital cinema equipment usage agreement with Twentieth Century Fox to advance Thomson's groundbreaking plans for the distribution of digital cinema content and systems throughout North America. The accord follows the company's recently announced agreements with DreamWorks SKG, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros.
2005-12-08
AccessIT To Meet Asian Exhibitors, Push Asian Digital Cinema Market Development - Company to Confer With Leading Exhibitors, Distributors in Region to Detail Digital Product and Service Capabilities
2005-12-08
Celluloid's digital face - Ever wondered why popular movies like Garam Masala or Apharan are released in cities like Panipat, Rajkot or Pathankot a week later than they are screened in Delhi and other metros? The reason is money -- or rather, the lack of it.
2005-12-08
AccessIT to Meet Asian Exhibitors, Push Asian Digital Cinema Market Development - Company to Confer With Leading Exhibitors, Distributors in Region to Detail
Digital Product and Service Capabilities
2005-12-08
More multiplex cinemas planned for Argentina - With the Argentinean economy recovering cinema attendance is now up by 50% in the last two years.
2005-12-08
Rank predicts slight fall in profits for 2005 - LONDON: Leisure company Rank Group Plc. said it expects a slight fall in its profits for 2005. In an update ahead of its annual results in February, the company, which owns the Grosvenor casino, Mecca Bingo hall and Hard Rock Cafe themed-restaurant chains, said there will be a decline in the underlying profit before tax. Analysts had forecast a 4 per cent decline in full-year earnings, which will be around 159 million pounds.
2005-12-08
Film finance boom heralds rise of Indian multiplex - MUMBAI (Reuters) - If a new generation of Indian movie theatre owners has its way, the country's stately but often neglected cinemas will be replaced by slick and efficient multiplexes.
2005-12-08
Theater owners look for life support in advertising - As we've been discussing ad nauseum for the past twelve months, you are not going to the movies anymore. You'd think that theater owners, knowing this, would be going out of their way to appease customers. So what genius plan have they come up with? You got it - more ads! According to an article in USA Today, theater owners have spent an estimated $150 million on attracting more pre-show advertisers.
2005-12-09
Mystery delays stalling Odeon scheme - MYSTERY surrounds delays to work on a major housing development in Gants Hill.
2005-12-09
Caldwell's Lone Movie Theater To Close; City Wants New One In Downtown - CALDWELL -
Caldwell loses a movie theater that has been a part of the city for 25 years to make way for a retail and wholesale business, according to the theater's owner. The Linden 3 Theatre couldn't survive in the world of modern movies and the changes in technology.
2005-12-09
A new chapter in history of Scots cinema - A NEW book which charts the history of Scottish cinema has been published by Edinburgh College of Art and Scottish Screen.
2005-12-09
Doremi Labs secures digital cinema order from Christie - BURBANK, Calif. -- Doremi Cinema LLC is pleased to announce that Christie Digital Systems, Inc. has ordered 200 Doremi DCP-2000 digital cinema servers.
Doremi's cinema server will be part of a DCI-Compliant digital cinema system featuring Christie DLP Cinema® projectors and related hardware and software including Access Integrated Technologies' (AccessIT) Theater Command Center. The system will be deployed by Christie/AIX, a unit of AccessIT. Installation of 150 systems throughout the USA is anticipated by December 31, 2005.
2005-12-08
Downtown, the Low-Income Community
Is the tax credit that may have saved the cinema project based on outdated assumptions? - The cinema project got the go-ahead this week in the form of a final tax credit that fills a $1.75 million funding gap. Many supporters of the promising project heaved a sigh of relief. The idea of building a cinema downtown as part of a public-private partnership has been in the works for years, with significant public participation to get it past the unusual challenges of building a cineplex in a downtown, but the uncertainty about this final piece of the puzzle was cause for some anxiety this fall.
2005-12-08
Welcome to the new world of digital cinema - We are on the brink of breaking through to the new world of digital cinema (D-Cinema). The key to unlocking this potential is data compression and researchers are set to have a starring role.
2005-12-09
Deluxe to Open EFILM(R) Facility at Industrial Light & Magic - Company to Locate at New Lucasfilm Campus in San Francisco's Presidio
2005-12-09
MPAA pushes for tougher bootlegging laws - NEW YORK — Every evening rush hour, hustlers lugging bags full of bootlegged movies walk the subway train aisles, calling "two for five dollars!" as brazenly as if they were selling hot dogs at Yankee Stadium. At those prices, the DVDs, often of current Hollywood blockbusters, sell well, despite laughable sound and picture quality. Few customers seem to care the copies were made illegally.
2005-12-09
Art films to get airing in Hollywood-fixated Dubai - DUBAI (Reuters) - The Gulf Arab city of Dubai hosts its second international film festival on Sunday, bringing a refreshing cloudburst of world cinema to a region often seen as a cultural desert.
2005-12-09
Discount Cinema Shutting Down - DECEMBER 8, 2005 -- Six quarters can get you in to see a movie at Carmike Cinemas 6 in Wilmington, but that's coming to an end. The city's only discount cinema will close for good after the last movie is played Thursday night.
2005-12-09
Art films to get airing in Hollywood-fixated Dubai - DUBAI (Reuters) - The Gulf Arab city of Dubai hosts its second international film festival on Sunday, bringing a refreshing cloudburst of world cinema to a region often seen as a cultural desert.
2005-12-09
Discount Cinema Shutting Down - DECEMBER 8, 2005 -- Six quarters can get you in to see a movie at Carmike Cinemas 6 in Wilmington, but that's coming to an end. The city's only discount cinema will close for good after the last movie is played Thursday night.
2005-12-09
Government lobbied over cinema - THE Cinema Theatre Association has been lobbying the Government to save the former ABC cinema (formerly The Palace Cinema) on Lord Street.
2005-12-09
A Cinema In Every Town Plan By Ministry
- KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 8 (Bernama) -- The government proposes to build a cinema in every town that does not have one as a step to boost the national film industry.
2005-12-12
Paramount to buy Dreamworks - Dreamworks, the film studio co-founded a decade ago by Steven Spielberg, is about to be sold to rival Hollywood film-maker Paramount Pictures, according to weekend reports.
2005-12-12
Officials excited by steady progress of downtown's redevelopment - OCEANSIDE – After years of hearing talk about downtown redevelopment but enjoying only a few of its fruits, such as a 16-screen movie complex, residents are beginning to see evidence of it all over the place.
2005-12-12
What it's like to be a projectionist - "I used to work at a payroll company and The Neon was one of my clients. When I left to go back to school, I called and someone had just quit.
"It was pretty easy for me to learn. I practiced for a few days and shadowed another projectionist.
2005-12-12
Let's go to the pictures! - What would you choose as your favourite family film? Peter Bradshaw celebrates a genre that has come of age
2005-12-12
What it's like to be a projectionist - "I used to work at a payroll company and The Neon was one of my clients. When I left to go back to school, I called and someone had just quit.
"It was pretty easy for me to learn. I practiced for a few days and shadowed another projectionist.
2005-12-12
Let's go to the pictures! - What would you choose as your favourite family film? Peter Bradshaw celebrates a genre that has come of age
2005-12-12
Cinema gunmen hit valley theaters - A recent armed robbery at Movie 5 in Woodland could be linked to a string of Sacramento-area cinema heists, the most serious of which occurred Thursday.
2005-12-12
Developers slammed after cinema blaze - COMMUNITY leaders claim a fire at a derelict cinema would never have happened if developers had 'got their act together'.
2005-12-12
Honouring excellence in Cinema and TV - The Apsara Awards will be held on Jan 31, 2006.The Film and Television Producers’ Guild of India have announced the second Apsara Film and Television Producers’ Guild Awards that will be held at Jamshed Bhabha Hall, NCPA on January 31, 2006.
Present at the announcement of the second Apsara Award were Farhan Akhtar, Ashutosh Gowatrikar, Ramesh Sippy, Madhur Bhandarkar, Anupam Kher, Mukesh Bhatt, Vinta Nanda, Yash Chopra, Boney Kapoor, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Prem Sagar, Vipul Shah, Raj Tilak, Aakash Khurana, Manmohan Shetty, Shakti Samanta, Dheeraj Kumar, Ravi Rai, Vashu Bhagnanani, Vivek Sanghania, Ravi Chopra, Govind Nihalani, Kiran Juneja, Ramesh Taurani, Kiran Shantaram, B Krishna, Basu Chetterjee, Kunal Das Gupta, Harish Chawani, Ganesh Jain, Ashok Thakalia, Vinod Pandey and Susheel Kumar Agarwal.
The Apsara Film and Television Producers Guild Awards is a distinct achievement in Cinema and Television award of the industry by the industry and for the industry. The Film and Television Producers’ Guild of India, the definitive and representative body of the Indian Film entertainment industry, has instituted the Apsara Awards to felicitate members of the Film and Television fraternity through its own vote and to promote and support talent in the Indian Film and Television industry.
2005-12-12
Where It's Really the Last Picture Show - When Manhattanites gripe about their local cinema closing, it can seem like whining. The borough is so flooded with theaters, to complain about the loss of one would be like bemoaning the closing of a local Starbucks or the breakup of a Brooklyn band.
2005-12-12
Cinema reopening - ROGERSVILLE—After closing its doors suddenly in October Cinema 4, Rogersville’s only movie theater, is under new ownership and will reopen soon.
2005-12-12
Robbers strike at theater - As they prepared to leave the late show of "Walk the Line" early Thursday morning, moviegoers at an Ethan Way cinema met a masked gunman who told them to empty their pockets, wallets and purses, and hand over their jewelry.
2005-12-12
New theater under way, finally, but some things never change - In case you were wondering, construction indeed is under way on the Regal Cinema 14-screen movie theater just north of Mesa Mall.
2005-12-12
A SILVER-SCREEN STANDOUT - With a milestone approaching, Beach Cinema in Bradley Beach remains a unique movie theater
2005-12-12
Deluxe to Open EFILM Facility at Industrial Light & Magic - Deluxe Laboratories today announced an agreement with Industrial Light & Magic, a Lucasfilm Ltd. company, to open an EFILM Digital Laboratory at the new Letterman Digital Arts Center (LDAC) located in San Francisco's historic Presidio. LDAC serves as headquarters for Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). This pairing of the industry's leading visual effects company and the industry's leading digital lab on one campus presents outstanding digital filmmaking solutions for studios and directors.
2005-12-12
Dublin cinema returns to profit after two years of losses - Turnover at Cineworld, the 17-screen cinema on Parnell Street in Dublin, jumped by almost 70 per cent last year.
2005-12-12
Deluxe to Open EFILM Facility at Industrial Light & Magic - Deluxe Laboratories today announced an agreement with Industrial Light & Magic, a Lucasfilm Ltd. company, to open an EFILM Digital Laboratory at the new Letterman Digital Arts Center (LDAC) located in San Francisco's historic Presidio. LDAC serves as headquarters for Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). This pairing of the industry's leading visual effects company and the industry's leading digital lab on one campus presents outstanding digital filmmaking solutions for studios and directors.
2005-12-12
Dublin cinema returns to profit after two years of losses - Turnover at Cineworld, the 17-screen cinema on Parnell Street in Dublin, jumped by almost 70 per cent last year.
2005-12-13
KODAK DIGITAL CINEMA HD PRE-SHOW SYSTEMS FEATURE SRS CIRCLE SURROUND SRS Labs Expands its Technology and Brand Reach into Theaters - SRS Labs, Inc. (NASDAQ: SRSL), a leading provider of audio technology solutions, announced today that Kodak Digital Cinema has selected SRS Circle Surround for their digital cinema pre-show high definition systems. Kodak is currently the world's leading independent supplier of digital pre-show solutions, supplying more than a dozen exhibition chains in the US, Canada, and Japan. Digital cinema pre-show packages encoded and delivered in SRS Circle Surround will begin with an animated SRS logo/trailer, expanding SRS Labs brand reach from television, radio, and millions of consumer electronics products into theaters.
2005-12-13
AccessIT Pioneers Presentation of Disney and Walden Media’s “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” In JPEG2000 Digital Format - First Commercial Release of a JPEG 2000 Digital Cinema Feature Compatible with the DCI Specifications At Company’s Pavilion Digital Showcase Theatre.
2005-12-13
ACCC green light for Hoyts purchase of Cinema City stake - The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has given its blessing to national cinema giant Hoyts' planned purchase of rival Greater Union's 45 per cent interest in the Cinema City joint venture.
This follows the ACCC forming the view that it will not oppose cinema transactions between Hoyts and Greater Union which have several joint venture arrangements.
2005-12-13
Cinema Next Conference - New digital business models for film production and distribution.
2005-12-14
Cinema standards
- THX Ltd has reconfirmed Eden Leisure Group's cinema 16 as the only THX certified cinema screen on the island.
2005-12-14
Italian Multiplex Installs Five Dolby Digital Cinema Systems; Largest Digital Cinema Installation in Europe in a Single Theatre - WOOTTON BASSETT, England --(Business Wire)-- Dec. 14, 2005 -- Dolby Laboratories (NYSE:DLB) today announced that The Furlan Group's CineCity in Padova, Italy, installed five Dolby(R) Digital Cinema systems and Cinemeccanica digital projectors at its brand-new multiplex. With five screens fully installed, CineCity is the largest European installation of digital cinema systems in a single theatre.
2005-12-14
Hoyts move in for Cinema City deal - The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has given its blessing to national cinema giant Hoyts’ planned purchase of rival Greater Union’s 45 per cent interest in the Cinema City joint venture.
2005-12-15
Movie business is all about the big picture - The man who has arguably worked the hardest to open the new 14-screen theater in downtown Salinas has yet to watch a film from start to finish at the cineplex.
2005-12-16
National CineMedia to Work with AMC Entertainment Inc., Cinemark USA, Regal Entertainment Group and Other Exhibitors on Digital Cinema Deployment - DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 15, 2005--National CineMedia (NCM), a joint venture of AMC Entertainment Inc., Cinemark USA, Inc. and Regal Entertainment Group (REG, NYSE: RGC), has reached an agreement with each of its founding partners to work on the development of a digital cinema business plan. The announcement was made today by Kurt Hall, chairman and chief executive officer of NCM. The plan will be open to all industry exhibitors, in addition to NCM's founding partners.
2005-12-16
Top exhibitors roll out blueprint for d-cinema - In a move that constitutes the largest exhibitor commitment yet to digital cinema, Regal Entertainment Group, AMC Entertainment Inc. and Cinemark USA have partnered to work on the development of a digital cinema business plan. National CineMedia, the joint venture owned by the three companies that was founded to create a national digital preshow advertising network, will manage the process under the guidance of NCM chairman and CEO Kurt Hall.
2005-12-16
Birt flies from blue skies to Terra Firma - Lord Birt has quit as Tony Blair's "blue skies" policy adviser to take a job in the private sector, Downing Street announced yesterday.
2005-12-16
Cobb Theater Opens in Lakeside Village - It was lights, camera, action at the opening of the new Cobb Theater Lakeside 18 on Wednesday evening. Although there were no red carpets rolled out for the low-key event, moviegoers were greeted at the doors by tuxedoed ushers and short lines.
2005-12-16
TAAL Cinema Marketing of the year Award for PVR - In a first-of-its-kind event held in Asia, an international convention on theatre, audio-visual, acoustics and lighting, called TAAL 2005, was held in Chennai. Five exhibition Companies were selected for the same which were, PVR Cinemas, Fame Cinemas, Inox Leisure, Adlabs and E City.
2005-12-16
Top theaters on path to digital films - A group of major theater owners, representing more than a third of the screens in the United States, said Thursday that they will join forces to upgrade their theaters to new digital projection technology.
2005-12-16
National CineMedia announces digital cinema business plan - National CineMedia announced Thursday it would develop a digital cinema business plan to help with the financing of equipment.
2005-12-19
Pressure increases on Lower Hudson neighborhood moviehouses - If the three-screen theater on Palmer Avenue were ever to close, it would hit Genny Kersh's social life pretty hard. "This place is only a five-minute walk from my house. I don't have to ask my mom to drop us off or find out when the movie ends for her to pick us up. It's just not an ordeal and we can get here ourselves," said Kersh, 16, said on a recent Friday amid the dusty chandeliers and black gum spots at the Larchmont Playhouse where she and two friends watched the movie "Rent."
2005-12-19
Is Mark Cuban Missing the Big Picture? - MARK CUBAN is known to many in the sports world as the madcap-billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, the one who relishes every opportunity to defy propriety. Less well known is Mr. Cuban's day job as co-owner, with Todd R. Wagner, of 2929 Entertainment, a holding company encompassing a movie production and distribution complex that is moving toward all-digital delivery.
2005-12-19
Filmhouse projectionists win industry 'Oscar' - A PROJECTION team from a Capital art-house cinema has scooped a top industry award.
2005-12-19
Rank merger blocked by Wm Hill board - THE board of William Hill, Britain’s second-biggest bookmaker, has blocked a £4 billion all-share merger with Rank Group, the bingo and casino giant.
2005-12-19
Theater Companies Join To Speed Digital Cinema - Theaters stand to gain from the move to digitization in two ways: by attracting more moviegoers with better quality projection and by incurring lower distribution expenses, said Yankee Group senior analyst Mike Goodman. However, the costs of upgrading may outweigh the benefits, he noted.
2005-12-19
AMC, partners plan for transition to digital - AMC Entertainment Inc. and two other movie theater exhibitors have started working on a business plan to help the industry make the transition to digital cinema.
2005-12-19
National CineMedia announces digital cinema business plan - National CineMedia announced Thursday it would develop a digital cinema business plan to help with the financing of equipment.
2005-12-19
Kodak Digital Cinema HD Pre-Show Systems Feature SRS Circle Surround - Santa Ana, CA - SRS Labs, Inc. announcedthat Kodak Digital Cinema has selected SRS Circle Surround for their digital cinema pre-show high definition systems. Kodak is currently a leading independent supplier of digital pre-show solutions, supplying more than a dozen exhibition chains in the US, Canada, and Japan. Digital cinema pre-show packages encoded and delivered in SRS Circle Surround will begin with an animated SRS logo/trailer, expanding SRS Labs brand reach from television, radio, and millions of consumer electronics products into theaters.
2005-12-19
Top theaters on path to digital films - A group of major theater owners, representing more than a third of the screens in the United States, said Thursday that they will join forces to upgrade their theaters to new digital projection technology.
2005-12-19
Kodak and REAL D to Deliver Digital 3-D Cinema in Australia; Strategic Alliance Provides Exhibitors with a Complete Digital 3-D Cinema Solution - LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 19, 2005--KODAK Digital Cinema and REAL D announced today that the companies have formed a strategic alliance to roll out digital 3-D cinema throughout Australia. Installation of digital 3-D cinema systems will be complete in time for the country's upcoming premiere of Disney's "Chicken Little" in 3-D starting January 1, 2006.
2005-12-19
Marquee Cinemas axes Shops at Wiregrass plans - Insiders speculate an announcement that AMC Theaters will be building nearby prompted the withdrawal.
2005-12-19
SOS FOR CINEMA - HOPES that Carlisle’s Lonsdale Cinema may be saved from demolition are fading after city councillors decided against serving a building preservation notice on it.
2005-12-19
The new world of digital cinema - physorg.com: We are on the brink of breaking through to the new world of digital cinema (D-Cinema). The key to unlocking this potential is data compression and researchers are set to have a starring role.
2005-12-20
Move over Bollywood, here's Bhojpuri - Bollywood is having to take a backseat as the hitherto little-known regional Bhojpuri film industry steals the show in India.
2005-12-20
Jackson's King Kong Is Slow Starter At Box Office - LONDON - Ape hit? Comparing the cinematography of the 1933 version of King Kong with the 2005 remake--let's ignore the risible man-in-a-gorilla-suit 1976 version for now--is a worthless exercise. Peter Jackson serves up some of the best tasting eye candy your goggles are ever likely to experience, which knocks the worthy rear projection techniques, miniature 18-inch models and trick photography of the original into a cocked hat. Assessing the impact of each film on its audience is a fairer comparison.
2005-12-20
Cinemas hope to ‘Kong’-quer DVDs with monster effects - “King Kong” is a movie that begs to be seen on the big screen.
Which is exactly what Hollywood hopes will ultimately revive the industry after a lackluster year that has seen box-office grosses slump from beginning to end by 7 percent from last year’s record receipts.
The industry literally is banking on special-effects blockbusters such as “Kong” to give audiences a reason to go to the movies rather than waiting to see it at home on DVD.
2005-12-20
Vyvx Continues Aggressive Domestic Media Distribution Network Expansion - Provides 100 Percent Coverage in Top 100 DMAs for Standard, HDTV Content Delivery
2005-12-20
Digimarc and Thomson Sign Digital Watermarking Patent Licensing Agreement - License of Digimarc Intellectual Property Supports Thomson's Efforts to Deliver Digital Cinema, Forensic Tracking, and Other Audiovisual Watermarking Solutions to the Media and Entertainment Market.
2005-12-20
Kodak, REAL D to Roll Out Digital 3-D Cinema in Australia - Kodak Digital Cinema and REAL D have formed an alliance to roll out digital 3-D cinema throughout Australia. The companies expect to complete the installation of digital 3-D cinema systems in time for the country's upcoming premiere of Disney's "Chicken Little" in 3-D starting January 1, 2006.
2005-12-20
Digimarc and Thomson Sign Digital Watermarking Patent Licensing Agreement - License of Digimarc Intellectual Property Supports Thomson's Efforts to Deliver Digital Cinema, Forensic Tracking, and Other Audiovisual Watermarking Solutions to the Media and Entertainment Market.
2005-12-20
Kodak, REAL D to Roll Out Digital 3-D Cinema in Australia - Kodak Digital Cinema and REAL D have formed an alliance to roll out digital 3-D cinema throughout Australia. The companies expect to complete the installation of digital 3-D cinema systems in time for the country's upcoming premiere of Disney's "Chicken Little" in 3-D starting January 1, 2006.
2005-12-20
Carmike Cinemas Contracts to Install 2,300 Digital Cinema Projection Systems from Christie/AIX - MORRISTOWN, N.J. and COLUMBUS, Ga., Dec. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Access Integrated Technologies, Inc. ("AccessIT") (Amex: AIX) and Carmike
Cinemas, Inc. ("Carmike") (Nasdaq: CKEC) jointly announced today that Carmike,
the third largest national movie theatre circuit, has executed a contract with
AccessIT's Christie/AIX subsidiary, for the installation of up to 2,300
Digital Cinema projection systems throughout the United States. With this
agreement, Carmike and Christie/AIX will begin installing 2K DCI-compliant DLP
Cinema(R) projectors. The rollout is scheduled to begin in January, 2006 and
to be completed by October 31, 2007.
2005-12-20
The Year in Cinema.... - Hit movies, digital developments, the independent revival and great work from Orange, 3 and Sky made for a strong year, Christine Costello writes.
2005-12-20
Cinema reopens - THE QUEUE which snaked half the length of Western Road on Thursday made it obvious just how much cinema had been missed in Bexhill.
2005-12-20
Newsreels to roll again at cinema - Ambitious plans to restore a historic cinema to its former glory have been given a £3m boost.
2005-02-03
Digital Cinema Changes London's Film Landscape - Londoners in each of the capital’s 33 boroughs have new opportunities to get involved in film in their local communities thanks to Film London’s groundbreaking Local Digital Network scheme, which will provide eight fully portable cinema kits to groups wanting to organise film events across the capital.
2005-12-20
Newsreels to roll again at cinema - Ambitious plans to restore a historic cinema to its former glory have been given a £3m boost.
