Lionsgate UK has announced plans to stream four of its biggest movies for free to raise money for charity during the coronavirus lockdown. Beginning on Saturday, 2 May and continuing weekly as part of Lionsgate Live! A Night at the Movies the distributor will livestream the multiple award-winning La La Land, the uplifting biopic Eddie The Eagle, … [Read more...]
YouTube ‘urban explorers’ reveal state of former Odeon
The team who recently shot a video of the town’s former ABC have now done the same for its near neighbour on Westover Road. They described the Odeon – which only closed in 2017 – as in “way worse” condition than the ABC, with its foyer wrecked and the screen and seats removed from its main auditorium. However, they documented some of the … [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] 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 them. For the previous 20 years have been involved with both the showing of films as a projectionist and also … [Read more...]
Onyx Cinema LED: A Revolution in the 130-Year History of Cinema Technology – YouTube
Cinematographer Rick Malkames has a deep connection with the history of cinema. His father and grandfather were also cinematographers and film historians since the beginning of cinema’s history. They left Rick a collection of cameras and cinema projectors. The collection of cinema projectors especially shows the innovations in projection technology … [Read more...]
NEC Display Solutions attends CineEurope 2018 to bring magic back to the movies
Display experts will showcase technologies to create unique, engaging digital experiences from the foyer to the auditorium London, 7 June 2018 - NEC Display Solutions Europe will be attending CineEurope in Barcelona from 11 – 14th June to showcase the latest digital display technologies that can revolutionise the cinema experience. The … [Read more...]
Help me Obi Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope…: Holograms and their use in cinema
A version of this article first appeared in the March 2018 edition of Cinema Technology Magazine Plenty has been written about the technological future of cinema with, virtual reality being hailed as one of the most promising potential directions the medium will head. Here Peter Knight argues the case for another possible direction — … [Read more...]
