formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
VANDALS smashed a number of windows at an independent cinema in a Yorkshire village overnight.A total of eight windows in the front doors at the Rex Cinema on Coronation Street, Elland, near Halifax, were broken in the incident. Source: Windows … Continued
It is customary with retrospection at the end of the year. But rather than looking at the box office of the past 12 months, we wanted to take you back a whole century, to the start of the most important … Continued
With the adoption of digital cinema there seems to be fewer and fewer experienced motion picture projectionists working in the industry. Sadly the world now has one less. Indeed, Charles Aidikoff was such a fixture in Hollywood that his death … Continued
With even senior executives at US studios calling for change, the debate about shortening cinema’s exclusive windows around the world is again intensifying. Source: Are much shorter theatrical windows around the corner? | Features | Screen
Apple has been working diligently to convince major Hollywood studios to release movies to its iTunes service as early as two weeks after their theatrical release. And now it seems those studios have begun floating the idea to theater owners. Source: … Continued
Rarely a week goes by these days without someone proclaiming movies dead or dying or zombified and feasting on the brains of their victims. Mainstream Hollywood has seen better days, but film as an art form is just fine; in a world where Moonlight, … Continued