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• The Rising of Holographic AR+AI Advertising 2020/08/14
   MobiusTrend, a market research company in Hong Kong, recently released a research report on ‘The Rising of Holographic AR+AI Advertising’. In the science fiction film ‘Ghost in the Shell’, the entire city sky is filled with the holographic projection advertisement. In the future world, with neon lights, holographic screens and 3D advertisements everywhere, there is […]
• Pakistan reopens restaurants, cinemas and gyms as COVID-19 counts drop 2020/08/14
  Government on Monday lifted almost all restrictions it had imposed since March.   Source: https://gulfnews.com/photos/news/pictures
• Canon transforms African film industry, unveils webinar program 2020/08/14
  Excitement is building over Canon sharing testimony from two leading African film directors who applauded the latest Cinema EOS range after exclusive use in their latest movies of Canon’s EOS C500 Mark II; Canon is also launching 42 pro-video webinar program called Canon Tech Talk Series in three languages to share the knowledge of industry […]
• EntertainmentShowcase Drive- In movies return to El Paso 2020/08/14
  El Paso Live and the El Paso International Airport are teaming up to bring the outdoor movie experience back to El Paso with drive-in showings throughout the month of August.  COVID-19 has brought back a revitalization of sorts to the popularity of drive-in movies. The El Paso area was once home to multiple drive-ins all over the region. The Ascarate, Bronco, […]
• Universal Hall to remain closed and scheduled season of films axed until further clarity over face coverings 2020/08/14
  The Universal Hall in Findhorn will remain closed until further clarity is gathered about wearing face coverings in cinemas across Scotland. This comes after the UK Government announced that people are required to wear face coverings in cinemas. The hall was gearing up to screen Jane Austen’s beloved comedy Emma, And Then We Danced and […]
• Venice contender ‘Never Gonna Snow Again’ is first film to enter Oscar race 2020/08/14
  ‘Never gonna snow again’ directed by Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert has been announced as the Polish candidate for Oscars 2021 in the Best International Feature Film category. The movie tells the story of Zhenia, a masseur from the east (played by Alec Utgoff known from ‘Stranger Things’) who enters the lives of the rich […]
• Seth Rogen says Marvel blockbusters make it difficult for comedy films 2020/08/14
  Seth Rogen says he believes that the prevalence of Marvel comedic blockbusters is making it harder for mid-level comedy films to survive. In a new interview with GamesRadar, Rogen says that the huge budgets of big Marvel films, which often lean into comedy territory, can’t be competed with. “Something that me and Evan [Goldberg, screenwriter and Rogen’s long-term collaborator] […]
• 50 Best movies of 2020 so far 2020/08/14
  This year has been turbulent for the movie industry, as much of the world has been at a standstill since March due to COVID-19. Movies haven’t really been released in theaters since then, but luckily we have other ways of watching them in this day and age. Streaming services have provided a much-needed way for […]
• MP says potential Runcorn Cineworld closure would be tragic 2020/08/14
  A DECISION by Cineworld not to reopen its Runcorn cinema would be a ‘huge blow’ for the town, an MP has said. Mike Amesbury, whose Weaver Vale constituency covers parts of East Runcorn, is urging the chain to find a compromise with the landlord of its Trident Retail Park cinema to ensure it can remain […]
• How the UAE’s Cinema Akil is raising funds for Beirut 2020/08/14
  As Beirut copes with the aftermath of a major explosion that ripped through the city’s port area on Aug. 4, killing at least 150 and wounding thousands, the cultural community in the UAE has stepped in to raise funds for the Lebanese Red Cross.   Source:https://www.arabnews.com/node/1717841/lifestyle
• Boundary-pushing films are more than their clickbait headlines 2020/08/14
  The Melbourne International Film Festival is currently running online, but one movie announced at their program launch won’t be streaming. At the end of July, Sandra Wollner’s The Trouble With Being Born was withdrawn after the festival received “expert advice and following further community consultation”. The festival cited concerns over the “safety and wellbeing” of the public. […]
• Secret Cinema’s next big event will turn its audience into activists 2020/08/14
  The immersive movie company’s next screening will attempt to blend art with activism. Secret Cinema’s enormous, immersive productions aren’t something you’d normally associate with activism. Usually the focus is on escapism through familiar Hollywood movies that lend themselves to flashy set designs (its most recent real-life events were recreations of ‘Romeo + Juliet’ and ‘Casino Royale’). But […]
• Port of Long Beach, City Partner For Free Drive-In Movie Series 2020/08/14
  The Port of Long Beach is teaming up with the city for a “Twilight Cinema” series of free drive-in movies beginning Tuesday evening through Sept. 6. The movies are set to begin at dusk around 8:30 p.m. at the Granada Beach and Long Beach Convention Center parking lots, organizers said. Reservations are already full for […]
• Clevedon’s Curzon cinema to reopen in October 2020/08/14
  Before the coronavirus pandemic, Clevedon’s Curzon cinema was one of the longest continually-operating cinemas in the country. The cinema has been running since April 1912, when it opened with a fundraiser for relatives of the Titanic disaster. It stayed open through a complete rebuild in the 1920s and both world wars. Now, the community cinema […]
• Shanghai relaxes restrictions on cinema audiences 2020/08/14
  Local cinemas can operate up to half of capacity from Friday after the current 30 percent limit amid the COVID-19 pandemic was relaxed. Cinemas in Shanghai as well as those in Chengdu in northwest Sichuan Province said on Tuesday that they had received a notice from the authority. The two-hour restriction on viewing periods will […]
• Gathr Films Sets Worldwide Event Cinema Premiere of Emmy-Winning Director Paul Saltzman’s Feature Documentary Meeting the Beatles in India for September 9th 2020/08/14
  With new and vivid first-hand details and over 40 personal photos never-before-seen in any other movie about The Beatles, Emmy Award-winning Canadian filmmaker Paul Saltzman shares an extraordinary life experience in a new feature documentary, Meeting the Beatles in India. Gathr Films has set Wednesday, September 9th for the virtual World Premiere with a Live Filmmaker Q&A directly […]
• ‘Unhinged’ Holds Top Spot as U.K. Box Office Declines 2020/08/14
  As the mercury soared, collections plummeted as the heatwave across England took its toll on the U.K. and Ireland box office over the weekend. Russell Crowe’s “Unhinged,” released by Altitude Film Distribution, retained the box office crown with a weekend gross of £117,633 ($154,000), a decline of 34% from last week, despite increasing screen count from […]
• Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh digitally features 20 carefully selected films from the island 2020/08/14
  20, carefully selected, films from a variety of genres have been chosen to be ‘shown’ digitally at 2020’s Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh. Taiwanese Hokkien-Language cinema, also called Taiwanese cinema from the literal translation of Taiyupian, refers to Hoklo-speaking films produced in Taiwan between 1955 and 1981. The term is used to differentiate these Taiwanese films […]
• New Cinema Club Relaunches with Egalitarian Focus on Emerging Filmmakers 2020/08/14
  New Cinema Club Relaunches with Egalitarian Focus It was long before the worst of times that short-form filmmaking constituted a battle whose success rate we might call Sisyphean; or, quoting New Cinema Club co-founder Tymon Brown, “No one sees these things. The hardest part of making a movie is getting it seen. Nobody gives a […]
• Toronto Film Festival to Honor Anthony Hopkins, Chloé Zhao, Mira Nair 2020/08/14
  Anthony Hopkins, Chloé Zhao, and Mira Nair will be honored at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Hopkins, an Oscar winner for “The Silence of the Lambs,” will receive a TIFF Tribute Actor Award. Zhao, the director of “The Rider,” will receive the TIFF Ebert Director Award. Nair, best known for directing “Monsoon Wedding,” will be honored […]