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The Latest Cinema and Exhibition Industry News for 09-12-2009
Hello All,
Welcome to this weeks news digest, available as ever at: http://ping.fm/CbAvR
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Don't forget the BKSTS CTC Projectionist Training on Film Handling at Swindon Cineworld on 26th January 2010 - more details available from http://www.bkstsctc.org
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2009-12-09
Work begins on extra screen at Reel Cinema in Blossom Street, York - WORK has started on creating an extra screen at York’s Reel Cinema.
Source: York Press
2009-12-09
CHRISTIE® SELECTED AS EXCLUSIVE DIGITAL CINEMA PROVIDER FOR MOVIE PALACE’S NEW, ALL-DIGITAL MULTIPLEX IN WYOMING - Christie® was selected by Movie Palace, Inc., as the exclusive digital cinema provider for its new all-digital Studio City Stadium 10, a 10-screen classic multiplex theatre in Casper, Wyoming. It is the second Movie Palace theatre in Casper to use Christie digital projectors. The company has also installed the Christie CP2000 series projectors – the world’s most popular digital cinema projector – in its other locations in Cheyenne and Rock Springs, Wyoming.
Source: Digital Content Producer
2009-12-09
Vintage Mobile Cinema to hit the Devon roads again after 34 years - Movies on your mobile will mean something different with the former Ministry of Technology’s Vintage Mobile Cinema starts doing the rounds in March 2010. Emma Gifford explains the project
Source: Devon-Cornwall-Film.co.uk
2009-12-09
2010 World Cup kicking into 3D - The 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa will be offered in stereoscopic 3D.
Source: HollywoodReporter
2009-12-09
CINEPLEX ODEON CARLTON 1981-2009 - As the lights dim this weekend on the Carlton Cinemas, the city mourns the loss of another quirky cultural landmark on the block between Yonge and Church. Having swallowed the fruit-market-fate of Maple Leaf Gardens earlier this week, Torontonians now have to say goodbye to the Carlton, too
Source: Kelowna.com
2009-12-09
£1 million needed to secure new St Albans cinema - FILM fans supporting a scheme to restore the old St Albans Odeon as a cinema have to raise less money initially than was originally feared.
Source: Hertad.co.uk
2009-12-09
RealD Signs 3D Pact With Australias Greater Union, Event Cinemas, Birch Carroll & Coyle and Village Cinemas - RealD, the worlds leading 3D cinema provider, announced today agreements with top Australian circuits Amalgamated Holdings (Event Cinemas, Greater Union and Birch Carroll & Coyle) and Village Cinemas for the installation of a total of 139 RealD 3D screens. Installations have already begun across both circuits with completion expected by the end of 2009.
Source: PR Newswire
2009-12-09
WBPI strikes direct digital deployment deals with Asian circuits - Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) has entered into a slew of direct digital cinema deployment agreements with key Asian circuits.
Source: Screendaily.com
2009-12-09
Barco Announces Upgraded DP-2000 and DP-3000 Projectors - Toady, Barco has announced that they have teamed up with digital cinema solution provider GDC Technology to combine GDC’s Integrated Media Block with Barco’s cinema projectors, the DP-2000 and the DP-3000. Both of these projectors feature DLP display technology, a 2000:1 contrast ratio, and a 2K HD (2048 x 1080) resolution. “We are very happy to continue our strong partnership with Barco, and to offer the digital cinema industry a total solution with an integrated media block” said Dr. Man-Nang CHONG, founder and CEO of GDC Technology. “The GDC media block has been designed to meet the DCI v1.2 Specification ‘Media Block in Projector Configuration and supports 12-bit XYZ uncompressed playback for resolutions up to 4K. It further features lesser perimeter of security for content and keys compared to an external media server solution and requires less cabling between the media block and storage server.” Barco plans to display the projectors with the new IMB this week at the CineAsia convention from December 8th to the 10th.
Source: Aboutprojectors.com
2009-12-09
Crystal Palace cinema campaigners prepare for battle at planning meeting - After months of lobbying and campaigning, thousands of Crystal Palace residents hoping a vacant bingo hall will become a cinema and not a church will learn the buildings fate next Thursday.
Source: Yourlocalguardian.co.uk
2009-12-09
Digital Cinema Conversion - Whats Taking So Long? -
Source: Blockbustingbook [blog]
2009-12-09
GDC to add digital cinemas at Hong Kongs UA and Broadway circuits - GDC Technology closed deals with Hong Kong’s UA Cinemas and Broadway Circuit to supply DCI-compliant digital-cinema equipment under the virtual-print-fee (VPF) scheme.
Source: Filmjournal
Google News Reader
You can also view the news via Google Reader Shared Items, this service provides more stories, more frequently updated, but with less quality of information. You can also subscribe to the RSS FEED of the same information.
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Regards
Peter
Welcome to this weeks news digest, available as ever at: http://ping.fm/CbAvR
*****************************************************************************
Don't forget the BKSTS CTC Projectionist Training on Film Handling at Swindon Cineworld on 26th January 2010 - more details available from http://www.bkstsctc.org
*******************************************************************************
2009-12-09
Work begins on extra screen at Reel Cinema in Blossom Street, York - WORK has started on creating an extra screen at York’s Reel Cinema.
Source: York Press
2009-12-09
CHRISTIE® SELECTED AS EXCLUSIVE DIGITAL CINEMA PROVIDER FOR MOVIE PALACE’S NEW, ALL-DIGITAL MULTIPLEX IN WYOMING - Christie® was selected by Movie Palace, Inc., as the exclusive digital cinema provider for its new all-digital Studio City Stadium 10, a 10-screen classic multiplex theatre in Casper, Wyoming. It is the second Movie Palace theatre in Casper to use Christie digital projectors. The company has also installed the Christie CP2000 series projectors – the world’s most popular digital cinema projector – in its other locations in Cheyenne and Rock Springs, Wyoming.
Source: Digital Content Producer
2009-12-09
Vintage Mobile Cinema to hit the Devon roads again after 34 years - Movies on your mobile will mean something different with the former Ministry of Technology’s Vintage Mobile Cinema starts doing the rounds in March 2010. Emma Gifford explains the project
Source: Devon-Cornwall-Film.co.uk
2009-12-09
2010 World Cup kicking into 3D - The 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa will be offered in stereoscopic 3D.
Source: HollywoodReporter
2009-12-09
CINEPLEX ODEON CARLTON 1981-2009 - As the lights dim this weekend on the Carlton Cinemas, the city mourns the loss of another quirky cultural landmark on the block between Yonge and Church. Having swallowed the fruit-market-fate of Maple Leaf Gardens earlier this week, Torontonians now have to say goodbye to the Carlton, too
Source: Kelowna.com
2009-12-09
£1 million needed to secure new St Albans cinema - FILM fans supporting a scheme to restore the old St Albans Odeon as a cinema have to raise less money initially than was originally feared.
Source: Hertad.co.uk
2009-12-09
RealD Signs 3D Pact With Australias Greater Union, Event Cinemas, Birch Carroll & Coyle and Village Cinemas - RealD, the worlds leading 3D cinema provider, announced today agreements with top Australian circuits Amalgamated Holdings (Event Cinemas, Greater Union and Birch Carroll & Coyle) and Village Cinemas for the installation of a total of 139 RealD 3D screens. Installations have already begun across both circuits with completion expected by the end of 2009.
Source: PR Newswire
2009-12-09
WBPI strikes direct digital deployment deals with Asian circuits - Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) has entered into a slew of direct digital cinema deployment agreements with key Asian circuits.
Source: Screendaily.com
2009-12-09
Barco Announces Upgraded DP-2000 and DP-3000 Projectors - Toady, Barco has announced that they have teamed up with digital cinema solution provider GDC Technology to combine GDC’s Integrated Media Block with Barco’s cinema projectors, the DP-2000 and the DP-3000. Both of these projectors feature DLP display technology, a 2000:1 contrast ratio, and a 2K HD (2048 x 1080) resolution. “We are very happy to continue our strong partnership with Barco, and to offer the digital cinema industry a total solution with an integrated media block” said Dr. Man-Nang CHONG, founder and CEO of GDC Technology. “The GDC media block has been designed to meet the DCI v1.2 Specification ‘Media Block in Projector Configuration and supports 12-bit XYZ uncompressed playback for resolutions up to 4K. It further features lesser perimeter of security for content and keys compared to an external media server solution and requires less cabling between the media block and storage server.” Barco plans to display the projectors with the new IMB this week at the CineAsia convention from December 8th to the 10th.
Source: Aboutprojectors.com
2009-12-09
Crystal Palace cinema campaigners prepare for battle at planning meeting - After months of lobbying and campaigning, thousands of Crystal Palace residents hoping a vacant bingo hall will become a cinema and not a church will learn the buildings fate next Thursday.
Source: Yourlocalguardian.co.uk
2009-12-09
Digital Cinema Conversion - Whats Taking So Long? -
Source: Blockbustingbook [blog]
2009-12-09
GDC to add digital cinemas at Hong Kongs UA and Broadway circuits - GDC Technology closed deals with Hong Kong’s UA Cinemas and Broadway Circuit to supply DCI-compliant digital-cinema equipment under the virtual-print-fee (VPF) scheme.
Source: Filmjournal
Google News Reader
You can also view the news via Google Reader Shared Items, this service provides more stories, more frequently updated, but with less quality of information. You can also subscribe to the RSS FEED of the same information.
http://ping.fm/7GjKE
Regards
Peter
George Lucas's Blockbusting: Digital Cinema Conversion - What's Taking So Long? http://ping.fm/PTSBN
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
The Latest Cinema and Exhibition Industry News for 01-12-2009 is now available at: http://ping.fm/8yb0c
The Latest Cinema and Exhibition Industry News for 01-12-2009
Dear All,
Welcome to this weeks cinema news stories, available as ever at:
http://ping.fm/xnCLi
***************************************************************************************************************************
NOTICES THIS WEEK:
1. The BKSTS CTC have launched their projectionist handbook, retailing at 15 pounds - details from http://www.bkstsctc.org
2. The next BKSTS CTC projectionist training course will be on 26th January in Swindon. More details at http://www.bksts.com
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The Latest Cinema and Exhibition Industry News for 01-12-2009
2009-12-01
Odeon installs evacuation chairs for mobility impaired - Odeon has specified Evac+Chair International to provide emergency evacuation chairs to the new cinema complex in Wrexham.
Source: Cinema Business
2009-12-01
Reel signs VPF deal with Arts Alliance Media - Digital cinema technology, content and deployment specialist Arts Alliance Media (AAM) has signed an agreement with Reel Cinemas to digitise Reel’s entire circuit in the UK
Source: Cinema Business
2009-12-01
Leicester Square redevelopment will threaten home of cinema - Cinema fans have hit out at the "highly destructive" development of Leicester Square which they claim threatens its future as the home of British film.
Source: This is London
2009-12-01
St Albans cinema plans - dream is in your hands - THE man trying to make a big screen dream come true for St Albans is urging people to put their money where their mouths are.
Source: Hartsad
2009-12-01
Cineworld plans Irish expansion - Britains second-biggest movie-theatre operator has said it wants to open up cinemas in Ireland because people of the high number of film-goers here.
Source: Irish Times
2009-12-01
Final stage of demolition work on old cinema takes place - MOST of the Art Deco frontage of the Doncaster Odeon was pulled down yesterday in the final stage of the buildings demolition, leaving the site ready for redevelopment in 2010.
Source: The Star
2009-12-01
Actress backs new cinema for town - Actress Tilda Swinton has backed efforts to reopen a cinema in Nairn for the first time since the 1970s.
Source: BBC News
2009-12-01
Vue takes over Wood Green Showcase cinema - SHOWCASE cinema in Wood Green will close this week for refurbishment and re-open as one of the Vue franchise.
Source: Haringey Independent
2009-12-01
Of Dollars and Values - The world’s exhibitors are in the process of spending close to $10 billion to transform their theatres from film to digital. One of the goals of this transformation is to enable exhibitors to offer their patrons the opportunity to see movies in clean, crisp 3D. And while I share the same passion that many of you do for movies of all kinds and I want the movie business to flourish and grow, I also believe strongly that there are more important applications for this technology than just having the ability to show Shrek Forever After in 3D. Someday soon, as was demonstrated at the recent annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, digital cinema technology may be used to save lives.
Source: Digital Cinema Report
2009-12-01
Cinemark, Imax Sue over XD - Cinemark USA and Imax Corporation have filed lawsuits against each other over Cinemark’s XD digital theaters. Cinemark, the third largest theater chain in the U.S., filed a suit on November 4 seeking to invalidate two patents Imax holds on “Conversion of a Cinema Theater to a Super Cinema Theater.” Imax countered on November 12 with a complaint that alleges fraud, breach of contract, misappropriation of trade secrets, and tortious interference, and seeks an injunction to prevent Cinemark from “producing, using, and selling its XD system.”??
Source: Digital Cinema Report
2009-12-01
£1m needed to buy former Odeon and start plans to open a new cinema in London Road, St Albans - FILM fans must help raise £1 million if their dream of a cinema in St Albans city centre is to become a reality.
Source: This is London
2009-12-01
Disneys A Christmas Carol breaks new ground as the first ever fully accessible 3D movie - This weekend marks a milestone in UK cinema - the release of the first ever 3D movie that is accessible to people with hearing or sight loss.
Source: Beecareful.info
2009-12-01
St Albans MP Anne Main backs London Road cinema project - AN AMBITIOUS project to transform the dilapidated Odeon in London Road into an art deco cinema has won the backing of St Albans MP Anne Main.
Source: St Alban Reviews
Google News Reader
You can also view the news via Google Reader Shared Items, this service provides more stories, more frequently updated, but with less quality of information. You can also subscribe to the RSS FEED of the same information.
http://ping.fm/hxoBO
Regards
Peter
Welcome to this weeks cinema news stories, available as ever at:
http://ping.fm/xnCLi
***************************************************************************************************************************
NOTICES THIS WEEK:
1. The BKSTS CTC have launched their projectionist handbook, retailing at 15 pounds - details from http://www.bkstsctc.org
2. The next BKSTS CTC projectionist training course will be on 26th January in Swindon. More details at http://www.bksts.com
***************************************************************************************************************************
The Latest Cinema and Exhibition Industry News for 01-12-2009
2009-12-01
Odeon installs evacuation chairs for mobility impaired - Odeon has specified Evac+Chair International to provide emergency evacuation chairs to the new cinema complex in Wrexham.
Source: Cinema Business
2009-12-01
Reel signs VPF deal with Arts Alliance Media - Digital cinema technology, content and deployment specialist Arts Alliance Media (AAM) has signed an agreement with Reel Cinemas to digitise Reel’s entire circuit in the UK
Source: Cinema Business
2009-12-01
Leicester Square redevelopment will threaten home of cinema - Cinema fans have hit out at the "highly destructive" development of Leicester Square which they claim threatens its future as the home of British film.
Source: This is London
2009-12-01
St Albans cinema plans - dream is in your hands - THE man trying to make a big screen dream come true for St Albans is urging people to put their money where their mouths are.
Source: Hartsad
2009-12-01
Cineworld plans Irish expansion - Britains second-biggest movie-theatre operator has said it wants to open up cinemas in Ireland because people of the high number of film-goers here.
Source: Irish Times
2009-12-01
Final stage of demolition work on old cinema takes place - MOST of the Art Deco frontage of the Doncaster Odeon was pulled down yesterday in the final stage of the buildings demolition, leaving the site ready for redevelopment in 2010.
Source: The Star
2009-12-01
Actress backs new cinema for town - Actress Tilda Swinton has backed efforts to reopen a cinema in Nairn for the first time since the 1970s.
Source: BBC News
2009-12-01
Vue takes over Wood Green Showcase cinema - SHOWCASE cinema in Wood Green will close this week for refurbishment and re-open as one of the Vue franchise.
Source: Haringey Independent
2009-12-01
Of Dollars and Values - The world’s exhibitors are in the process of spending close to $10 billion to transform their theatres from film to digital. One of the goals of this transformation is to enable exhibitors to offer their patrons the opportunity to see movies in clean, crisp 3D. And while I share the same passion that many of you do for movies of all kinds and I want the movie business to flourish and grow, I also believe strongly that there are more important applications for this technology than just having the ability to show Shrek Forever After in 3D. Someday soon, as was demonstrated at the recent annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, digital cinema technology may be used to save lives.
Source: Digital Cinema Report
2009-12-01
Cinemark, Imax Sue over XD - Cinemark USA and Imax Corporation have filed lawsuits against each other over Cinemark’s XD digital theaters. Cinemark, the third largest theater chain in the U.S., filed a suit on November 4 seeking to invalidate two patents Imax holds on “Conversion of a Cinema Theater to a Super Cinema Theater.” Imax countered on November 12 with a complaint that alleges fraud, breach of contract, misappropriation of trade secrets, and tortious interference, and seeks an injunction to prevent Cinemark from “producing, using, and selling its XD system.”??
Source: Digital Cinema Report
2009-12-01
£1m needed to buy former Odeon and start plans to open a new cinema in London Road, St Albans - FILM fans must help raise £1 million if their dream of a cinema in St Albans city centre is to become a reality.
Source: This is London
2009-12-01
Disneys A Christmas Carol breaks new ground as the first ever fully accessible 3D movie - This weekend marks a milestone in UK cinema - the release of the first ever 3D movie that is accessible to people with hearing or sight loss.
Source: Beecareful.info
2009-12-01
St Albans MP Anne Main backs London Road cinema project - AN AMBITIOUS project to transform the dilapidated Odeon in London Road into an art deco cinema has won the backing of St Albans MP Anne Main.
Source: St Alban Reviews
Google News Reader
You can also view the news via Google Reader Shared Items, this service provides more stories, more frequently updated, but with less quality of information. You can also subscribe to the RSS FEED of the same information.
http://ping.fm/hxoBO
Regards
Peter
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