The Latest Cinema and Exhibition Industry News for 19-04-2011

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I hope you are well and enjoying the sunshine. Please find this weeks news headlines, available as ever from: http://www.madcornishprojectionist.co.uk/todays_news.php. If you ever view this email after midnight then you can see the news here: http://www.madcornishprojectionist.co.uk/news-apr11.php


2011-04-19
Not same frame game - Showscan Digital captures at 120 fps. At the SMPTE Digital Cinema Summit in Las Vegas on Sunday, Douglas Trumbull unveiled his latest endeavor: Showscan Digital.Just weeks after James Cameron threw down the gauntlet to the entertainment industry to improve moving images by upping frame rates, one of the pioneers of that concept has demonstrated a technology for combining the clarity of higher frame rates with movies' familiar 24 frame-per-second look.
Source: Variety

2011-04-19
Qube Cinema Unveils QubeMaster Xport at NAB - Qube Cinema is introducing QubeMaster Xport at NAB 2011 in Las Vegas, providing a full Digital Cinema Package (DCP) mastering solution for Final Cut Pro
Source: D Cinema Today

2011-04-19
Australia's major film entertainment companies join war on piracy - A SUPER-CONGLOMERATE of Australia's major film entertainment companies has mobilised to negotiate with telecommunications companies to stamp out online piracy.
Source: The Australian

2011-04-19
Bellevue Cinema won't reopen - David Beddow has settled for viewing films on Netflix now that his favorite movie theater, Bellevue Cinema 12, will not reopen.
Source: Tennessean

2011-04-19
Heritage groups perform U-turn over cinema plan - LEADING heritage watchdogs have joined the campaign against controversial plans to turn a rundown former cinema into an "arts hotel" - despite failing to object to the same plans when they were first put forward four years ago.
Source: Scotsman

2011-04-19
XDC and Odeon/UCI Cinema Group Agree To Deploy Digital Screens in Portugal - The Odeon/UCI Cinema Group, Europe's largest cinema operator and XDC, the n
Source: D Cinema Today

2011-04-19
BC, Omers Said in Talks to Buy Odeon Cinema Chain From Hands - BC Partners Ltd. and Omers Private Equity Inc. entered exclusive talks to buy the Odeon and UCI cinema chain from Guy Hands
Source: Bloomberg

2011-04-19
Projectionist gives insight into life at old Southfields cinema - A projectionist who worked at the old Southfields picture house in the 1950
Source: Your Local Guardian

2011-04-19
Outcry over lab - Tate Modern curator and leading artist head protests
Source: The Art Newspaper

2011-04-19
Cinesa to Buy France's UGC Cinemas in Spain, Italy - The move gives Cinesa 20% of the Spanish exhibition market.
Source: Hollywood Reporter

2011-04-19
Newmarket could get Odeon cinema - MOVIE giant Odeon could open a new cinema in Newmarket, the Journal can reveal.
Source: Newmarket Journal

2011-04-12
Sony digital cinema 4K projection achieves full DCI compliance - Sony Corporation has announced that its digital cinema 4K projection systems are the industry
Source: Film Journal

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