Next month, Cineworld will unveil two new cinematic experiences – VIP and 4DX – at its O2 Greenwich site, creating London’s largest cinema with more than 4,500 seats. The two movie screening offerings, which both feature Dolby sound and Barco laser projection technology, add to the cinema’s already impressive innovation-packed line-up which … [Read more...]
Cineworld readies London’s largest cinema | News | Broadcast
Cineworld has revealed its newly expanded cinema in the O2 entertainment venue making it London’s largest cinema. Source: Cineworld readies London's largest cinema | News | Broadcast … [Read more...]
Harrow’s hidden Art Deco masterpiece | Harrow Times
Between Harrow and Wealdstone, in north west London, stands a rather bleak looking cinema. It’s the sort of place you could go past and never give a second look. Cloaked in faded blue metal cladding, the Safari has seen better days. However, all is not as it seems; behind the cladding is an art deco cinema frontage that has not seen the light of … [Read more...]
Dancing orange hairpiece projected into imaginary corridor
An imaginary corridor with an orange hairpiece dancing in the wind has appeared in a wall at London’s Barbican arts centre, thanks to Christie laser projectors and media players. Source: Dancing orange hairpiece projected into imaginary corridor … [Read more...]
ODome Blog Post: How Domes and the big screen cinemas link back in history to military training technology
[This is a version of a blog post that I wrote for ODome in 2017, published in January 2019 and updated in January 2021 with additional information courtesy of Ewan Ward-Thomas] Introduction I was really pleased when I was contacted by the team at ODome, and even more so when I was asked if I would contribute a blog post to their site for … [Read more...]
2018 News Review
As 2018 comes to an end, and now with over 17,000 stories on the website, I thought that I would look at some of the news items over the course of the last 12 months in cinema and cinema exhibition: Mergers and Acquisitions 2018 has been full of mergers, buying, selling and the general consolidation of the global exhibition market. Back in … [Read more...]
