BARCELONA, Spain – (June 20, 2019) – ChristieÒ officially announced a worldwide* reseller agreement with Arts Alliance Media(AAM), the global leader in digital cinema software and services. The agreement will see Christie offering AAM’s full range of integrated theatre management software and services to its wide-reaching exhibitor base, and further strengthen Christie’s position as the pre-eminent cinema solutions and expertise provider.
“We are very excited to have AAM’s suite of theatre management software as part of our offering to exhibitors,” says Dale Miller, executive vice president, Cinema, at Christie. “Their software solutions are the most widely deployed and well-integrated theatre management systems in the world, and the perfect complement to our powerful, high-performance projectors and immersive audio solutions for cinema applications. As such, we can now offer exhibitors an end-to-end solution that delivers on all fronts.”
“Christie has been a long-time partner of ours and have a deep understanding of the global cinema market,” says Mark Kamiyama, SVP of Global Sales at AAM “It’s a powerful endorsement of AAM that Christie will now sell and support our solutions directly. We believe our new agreement with Christie represents an opportunity to expand our global footprint even further.”
Based in London, and founded in 2003, AAM offers a wide range of solutions to exhibitors which reduce costs, increase efficiency, and improve the cinematic experience for audiences. Their software solutions, such as their Theatre Management System, Screenwriter, are designed to keep everything running smoothly behind the scenes at cinemas. By automating cinemas’ hardware operations, schedules, playlists, and screenings, they can deliver maximum impact to exhibitor efficiency and audience satisfaction. AAM software has a global reach of over 40,000 digital screens.
Alongside the joint announcement with AAM, at CineEurope 2019(Barcelona June 17-20) Christie® is showcasing its newest addition to the CineLife™ Series, the Christie CP2309-RGB projector featuring RealLaser™ illumination technology. The company will also debut the Christie Vive Audio LA3i loudspeaker and previewing the CP4450-RGB to demonstrate its technology capabilities for the PLF spectrum cinema.
[*excludes Japan]