The Latest Cinema and Exhibition Industry News for 25-05-2010

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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
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