May 2010

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2010-05-25
Technicolor shows off 3D system at Cannes - Technicolor showed off its new 3D system for 35mm projectors, dubbed Technicolor 3D, to producers and exhibitors at the Olympia Cinema in Cannes on Monday.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

2010-05-25
Cineworld starts off year ahead - Cineworld plc, national cinema chain are ahead of expected total revenue by 13.9 pct. The UKs second largest cinema chain after Odeon, Cineworld has seen a growth of 13.9 pct mainly due to box office revenue from the success of films like Avatar and Alice in Wonderland.
Source: International Business Times

2010-05-25
Thousand cinemagoers flock to Kubrick festival - NEARLY 1,000 people flocked to this year’s Oxford Mail Film Festival, hosted by the Phoenix Picturehouse in Walton Street, Oxford.
Source: Oxford Mail

2010-05-25
`Avatar’ Digital Aliens Spell Doom for Europe’s Independent Movie Theater - The Prince Charles , a London movie theater that’s more likely to screen “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” than a James Cameron blockbuster, is struggling to pay for Hollywood demands to go digital.
Source: Industry News

2010-05-25
Appeal court rules on Odyssey cinema case - The High Court has been asked to make a new judgement on a cinema operators bid to cancel its lease at the Odyssey complex in Belfast due to noise issues.
Source: BBC

2010-05-25
Macao Digital Cinema Festival Convenes May 27 in China - The first annual, Macao, China International Digital Cinema Festival and Entertainment Technology Expo and Macao 3D Summit is being held May 27-29. China
Source: Digital Cinema Report

2010-05-25
International Datacasting Corporation Rolls Out 3D Live Networks Around the World - International Datacasting Corporation, /quotes/comstock/11t!idc (CA:IDC 0.28, -0.02, -5.17%) -the global leader in advanced solutions for broadband multimedia content distribution via satellite--announced today a series of new orders for its 3D live solution prompted by the upcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa(TM).
Source: Wall Street Journal

2010-05-25
Oxford cinemas get £500,000 facelift - TWO cinemas in Oxford city centre are being refurbished this month and next at a cost of
Source: Oxford Mail

2010-05-25
Leading Canadian Cinema Chain Selects Christie DLP Cinema Projectors to Double Capacity for 3D Showings - Christie® announced that Cinemas Guzzo, a Canada-based leading independent cinema chain has purchased 57 Christie Solaria™ series digital cinema projectors, which utilize Academy Award1-winning DLP Cinema® technology from Texas Instruments’ (TI) (NYSE: TXN).
Source: DCinema Today

2010-05-25
Multiplex Industry growth in Indian cinema exhibition industry - The cinema exhibition industry in India is growing at 10% per annum driven by multiplexes, which are expanding rapidly in major metropolitan cities as well as second and third tier cities.
Source: New Gadget World

2010-05-25
ShoWest and Our Future at the Movies - ShoWest is billed as the largest motion picture convention and trade show in the world. It brings together theater owners
Source: Kodak

2010-05-25
Bangkok cinemas burned by rioters - Several major Bangkok movie theaters have been reduced to ashes, victims of an ongoing uprising against the Thai government that claimed the lives of 44 people in the past week.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

2010-05-25
Work has officially started this week on the construction of Newquay - Work has officially started this week on the construction of Newquay
Source: WTW Cinemas

2010-05-25
Conservatives shelve plans to freeze TV licence fee - THE Tories have reined in plans to freeze the TV licence fee and force the BBC to reveal the salaries of its highest paid stars......He claimed there will be no
Source: Times Online

2010-05-25
XDC Has Begun Utilising A Eur 100 Million Credit Facility to Finance the Rollout of Digital Cinema in Europe - The loan, consisting of two tranches of EUR 50 million, has been structured by BNP Paribas Fortis with the participation of the European Investment Bank (EIB) and KBC Bank. XDC has fulfilled all the conditions required in order to proceed with the first drawdown of this loan facility on 21 May 2010.
Source: D Cinema Today

2010-05-25
Cinematic Change and the End of Film - On Thursday, the day after “Carlos” had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, I was surprised to learn it had been shot on 35 millimeter film.
Source: Arts Beat (BLOG)

2010-05-25
Kathy OMeara on how part of the Ward Anderson stable acquired Pearl & Dean cinema advertising - Most cinemagoers munching their comestibles in the back row of the local multiplex will be oblivious, but transitions within the cinema industry are set to cause reverberations of a scale equal to that of Eyjafjallajokull or any of its volcanic comrades.
Source: Marketing.ie

2010-05-18
How environmentally friendly are 3D glasses? - Thanks to the success of Avatar and Alice in Wonderland, there are now millions of pairs of 3D glasses kicking around. But what happens to them?
Source: The Guardian

2010-05-18
France Looks Towards Digital Future - Grossing more money in Gaul ($155.90 million as of April 21) than in any other country beside the U.S., Avatar has turned France into Europe's digital frontrunner. UGC, which was initially reluctant to convert its theaters, inked a pact with Ymagis in February to digitize all of its 605 screens, including 373 in France. In April, the country's biggest circuit, Pathe/Gaumont combo EuroPalaces, added four digital Imax screens.
Source: 3D Cinecast (BLOG)

2010-05-18
Doha Tribeca Film Festival raises international awareness of new Arab cinema at Tribeca Film Festival in New York City - The Doha Tribeca Film Festival
Source: Arab News

2010-05-18
Has Cannes lost the plot? - If you want to know why film festivals (even Cannes, the biggest of them all) are struggling to maintain their relevance, start with Jean-Luc Godard.
Source: The Independent

2010-05-18
PVR Plans to Add 60 Cinema Screens - Cinema theatre operator PVR Ltd. plans to add about 60 screens to its network in the current fiscal year in a bid to keep pace with rivals Reliance MediaWorks Ltd. and Inox Leisure Ltd. in India's reviving movie-exhibition market.
Source: Wall Street Journal

2010-05-18
IDC to Expand Live 3-D, Digital Cinema Networks in Europe - (IDC) entered into a contact valued at 1.2 million euro ($1.5 million) contract with an unnamed pan-European content distribution company to provide its Superflex Pro Video product line for the expansion of the customer's 3-D live content and digital cinema content distribution networks, IDC announced May 10.
Source: Satellite Today

2010-05-18
Christie Chosen Again By D-Cinema Korea for Second Phase Digital Cinema Deployment - Christie®, a global leader in digital cinema, is pleased to announce that South Korea based D-Cinema Korea Co. Ltd. (DCK) has committed to installing Christie 4K-ready Solaria™ Series DLP Cinema® projectors in the second phase of their digital cinema deployments, countrywide.
Source: DCinema Today

2010-05-18
TMS Digital Cinema completes 250+ Sony 4K digital systems installations - Digital cinema engineering services provider, TMS Digital Cinema has completed 269 installations of Sony 4K digital systems in its first 180 days of operation at theater including Regal, Hollywood, and Muvico, among others.
Source: Business Of Cinema

2010-05-18
Christie projects at 63rd Cannes Film Festival - A new record has been set at this year
Source: Screen Africa

2010-05-18
MasterImage 3D Expands Operations with Launch of European Office - 3D company MasterImage 3D, LLC has expanded its operations with the opening today of its European office. Located in the UK
Source: Business Wire

2010-05-18
Global options: Alternative content gains momentum In cinemas worldwide - Alternative content (or additional content as some prefer to call it) in cinemas has been slow to develop. From the early days of digital cinema, a small handful of exhibitors have experimented with showing programming other than movies in their venues. They have been very much in the minority, with most exhibitors preferring to wait until digital technology became more widespread to contemplate one of its potential benefits.
Source: Film Journal

2010-05-18
Cinedigm Digital Cinema signs up 6 more theater owners for digital upgrades - Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp. said Wednesday it has signed six more movie theater owners to its program for converting movie screens to digital.
Source: The Washington Examiner

2010-05-18
First 3D cinema projector comes to Borehamwood - FILMS will take on a new dimension from Saturday with Borehamwood's first 3D cinema screening.
Source: Borehamwood And Elstree Times

2010-05-18
Europe: Digital Screens More Than Triple in 2009 with 3D as the Driving Force - Record growth for Europe
Source: D Cinema Today

2010-05-18
China Film Group orders 200 NEC digital-cinema projectors - Ballantyne Strong was selected to provide 200 NEC digital-cinema projectors for China Film Group Corp. in theatres throughout the People
Source: Film Journal

2010-05-18
Questor share tip: 3D gives a new perspective on Cineworld - CINEWORLD has invested heavily in digital and 3D cinemas across the country. It is therefore important to consider whether 3D films such as Avatar and Alice in Wonderland are a fad or a real, sustainable trend.
Source: Telegraph

2010-05-18
Apollo Cinemas: positive developments on digital - Discussions with Apollo Cinemas UK, which runs 17 sites nationwide, have produced positive statements on the future deployment of staff affected by digital projection.
Source: BECTU

2010-05-18
Ymagis and UGC Sign Agreement for the Deployment of Digital Projection Systems - Ymagis and UGC signed today their final agreement for the deployment of digital projection systems in all the complexes of the group. The deployment, which started in March 2010 in the four countries where UGC operates cinemas (France, Belgium, Spain and Italy), will continue in the coming weeks.
Source: D Cinema Today

2010-05-18
Screening strategies: Harkness' Andrew Robinson eyes range of choices for digital-cinema conversions - In an exclusive Q&A, Andrew Robinson, managing director of leading screen manufacturer Harkness Screens, discusses the role of screens in the transition to digital projection, and the options open to exhibitors who want to maximize the impact of the new wave of 3D movies.
Source: Film Journal

2010-05-18
All films will be 3D in 25 years, says Avatar's James Cameron - Avatar director James Cameron today told technology and media executives that 3D will replace 2D as the standard format for film and television in less than 25 years.
Source: This Is London

2010-05-11
Vue cinema pushing me towards film piracy - For years, PC games companies have been pushing me towards pirating their games. Anti-piracy technology (DRM) has become so invasive that some games hardly work at all for legitimate customers, and we risk our computers being damaged if we dare to install a shop-bought game.
Source: Meejahor.com (BLOG)

2010-05-11
Digital cinema takes off worldwide - We are now 11 years into the global digital cinema conversion and the market has moved into mainstream conversion phase.
Source: Screen Digest

2010-05-11
Prince Of Persia to premiere at Westfield - The Vue cinema at Westfield will host the world premiere of Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time.
Source: 1

2010-05-11
Bangladesh anger over India films - Bangladeshi film-makers and actors say they have forced the government to reverse last weekends decision to allow cinemas to show Indian films
Source: BBC News

2010-05-11
UK Film Council Lets Multiplexes Catch Up - The British government has extended its Digital Screen Network scheme, giving multiplexes which have missed their film quotas time to catch up. The DSN scheme will now run until September 2012. Multiplexes that joined the DSN promised to show a quota of specialised films in exchange for free digital equipment. Instead, cinema chains including Cineworld, Odeon and Vue upgraded their DSN screens to 3D. Whereas other exhibitors have had to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds installing 3D digital projectors and screens, the big chains have been given a massive 3D leg-up courtesy of the public purse. It costs between
Source: Deadline London

2010-05-11
3-D here to stay in Vermont theaters - The excitement over digital projectors and 3-D movies
Source: Burlington Free Press (BLOG)

2010-05-11
British Film Institute announces - Major London project in the pipeline as BFI publishes OJEU notice for design team
Source: Building

2010-05-11
Global cinema explodes thanks to Suffolk - Cinemagoers have all felt that feeling of frustration. You
Source: EADT24

2010-05-11
Public Vote 3 to 1 in favour of Abbeygate Picturehouse - live opera from The New York Met on May 1st - The new owners of Bury St Edmunds
Source: Project PR (BLOG)

2010-05-11
D-BOX Technologies Inks First Deal with California-based Cinema West - D-BOX Technologies Inc. (DBO.A on the TSX Venture Exchange), a leader in innovative motion technology for the entertainment industry, announced today it has signed a multi-year agreement with California-based movie theatre company Cinema West, to install D-BOX MFX Seats in four of its movie theatres.
Source: PR Newswire

2010-05-11
Jersey campaign prompts 3D film showings - Jerseys only cinema has announced plans to show 3D films after pressure from an online campaign.
Source: BBC News

2010-05-11
Europe - Sony Professional, RealD and Apollo Cinemas take 3D to a new level with the creation of Europe
Source: D Cinema Today

2010-05-11
Cinema by Satellite: Cinedigm to Double Network of Satellite-Enabled Theaters by End of 2010 - Satellite Delivery Minimizes Hollywood
Source: D Cinema Today

2010-05-11
Ryerson University Asks Is Everything Better in 3-D? - From its heyday in the 1950s to its current resurgence, 3-D technology has gone from a cinematic gimmick to a box-office gold mine. James Camerons Avatar, heralded for its creation of a three-dimensional fantasy world, is now the highest grossing movie ever. So it seems that audiences are keen on three-dimensional media productions, but do they really like it better than 2-D and what do they like about it? According to one Ryerson University researcher, the truth behind viewers perceptions of 3-D media is in their faces and eyes.
Source: Broadcaster

2010-05-11
New ownership makes plans to convert Showcase Cinemas to Rave Motion Pictures - Showcase Cinemas West, formerly owned by National Amusements Theaters, has been bought by a Dallas-based theater company that plans to change its name, boost its digital technology and make other improvements over time.
Source: M Live.com

2010-05-11
Odeon, UCI ink deal with Universal - Odeon and UCI Cinemas said Sunday that a deal has been sealed with Universal Pictures International (UPI) through which UPI will provide digital versions of Universals movie releases in the U.K. and Ireland.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

2010-05-11
Chinas cinemas set for record box office in 2010 - China could earn a record 10 billion yuan (1.5 billion dollars) in box office takings this year, as a growing number of well-off young urbanites flock to the cinema.
Source: Google

2010-05-11
PFEA criticises govt - The entertainment industry has once again been jolted by a notification issued by authorities, directing cinema owners to shut down their cinemas by 8pm.
Source: Daily Times

2010-05-11
Cinedigm to double network of satellite-enabled theaters by 2010 end - Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp plans to more than double its network of satellite-enabled theatre locations across the United States by deploying an additional 300 locations by the end of 2010. This will increase Cinedigm
Source: Business Of Cinema

2010-05-11
Nitrate: small victories are possible - The nitrate films which the BFI plans to screen are a form of social history, says David Gritten
Source: News Day

2010-05-11
Enthusiasts want one year to restore historic cinema - Campaigners battling to save and restore Preston
Source: Lanacashire Evening Post

2010-05-11
Exploring new alternatives at the multiplex - The main attraction at the multiplex will always be the latest movie blockbuster, without question. But adventurous cinemas are increasingly testing other forms of programming, and bringing new and varied audiences to their auditoriums.
Source: Film Journal International

2010-05-11
Cineworld opens website to publishers and social media fans - Cineworld is to allow external website publishers to use cinema, film information and performance schedules from its website through the Cineworld Cinemas application programming interface (API).
Source: Marketing Week

2010-05-11
New 3D cinemas for Nu Metro - Nu Metro cinemas is adding a new dimension to your cinema experience, with the addition of 11 RealD 3D screens to its circuit in the next few weeks.
Source: Times Live

2010-05-11
3D tickets fuel record price surge - Premium ticket prices for 3D movies fueled the biggest quarterly increase in average U.S. admission charges on record during the first three months of the year.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

2010-05-11
Ebert gives 3D a "Thumbs Down" - In a recent commentary posted at the Newsweek online Web site, legendary Chicago Sun-Times film critic and historian Roger Ebert has come out against 3D movies
Source: HDTV Expert (BLOG)

2010-05-11
Construction starts at Newquay on Monday May 17th 2010. - The long awaited construction of the new multi-screen cinema for Newquay has moved a step forward with the announcement from WTW Cinemas that work on the site of the former Vic Bars in Crantock Street will commence from Monday May 17th.
Source: WTW Cinemas

2010-05-11
Kinoton offers d-cinema remote online service - Kinoton has enhanced its extensive digital-cinema support by introducing a remote online service.
Source: Film Journal International

2010-05-11
Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp. Subsidiary Closes $172.5 Million New Credit Facility -- Funds to Refinance and Extend the Maturity on All Existing Phase 1 Senior and Mezzanine Non-Recourse Debt - Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp. ("Cinedigm") /quotes/comstock/15*!cidm/quotes/nls/cidm (CIDM 2.28, -0.25, -9.88%) today announced the closing of a $172.5 million credit facility co-led by Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking and GE Capital Markets.
Source: Marketwatch

2010-05-11
Reading International Announces 1st Quarter 2010 Results - Net Income of $353,000 for the 2010 quarter, compared to a net loss of $3.4 million in the 2009 quarter
Source: Marketwatch

2010-05-11
New digital cinema opens in Carmarthen - Exciting news for us
Source: Word Press (BLOG)

2010-05-11
Supervision Media to Use Arqivas Digital Cinema Platform on IS905 to Distribute Live Alternative Events to European Cinemas - Arqiva is providing events rights holder SuperVision Media with satellite distribution services via Arqiva’s Digital Cinema platform on IS905. This supports SuperVision Media's distribution and commercialisation of live sport and entertainment events into digitally enabled cinemas in Europe and around the world.
Source: DCinema Today

2010-05-11
TMS Digital Cinema Completes Over 250 Sony 4K Digital Systems Installations in First 180 Days Of Operations - TMS Digital Cinema, fast becoming the worlds leading independent provider of digital cinema engineering services, announced today that it completed 269 installations of state-of-the-art Sony 4K digital systems in its first 180 days of operation, satisfying unprecedented demand from leading theater chains across the country, including Regal, Hollywood, and Muvico, among others.
Source: Bradbenton.com

2010-05-11
European state aid for digital cinema - A successive run of Hollywood 3D blockbusters, like Avatar, Up and Alice in Wonderland have been largely responsible for an upswing in the number of digital cinemas in Europe. The success of these films have also heightened concern among smaller cinema operators who cannot afford the cost of digital conversion.
Source: Screen Africa