UK Film Council Lets Multiplexes Catch Up

The British government has extended its Digital Screen Network scheme, giving multiplexes which have missed their film quotas time to catch up. The DSN scheme will now run until September 2012. Multiplexes that joined the DSN promised to show a quota of specialised films in exchange for free digital equipment. Instead, cinema chains including Cineworld, Odeon and Vue upgraded their DSN screens to 3D. Whereas other exhibitors have had to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds installing 3D digital projectors and screens, the big chains have been given a massive 3D leg-up courtesy of the public purse. It costs between