The Latest Cinema and Exhibition Industry News for 05-04-2010

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2010-04-05

Entertainment-starved federal capital: No cinema house for 1.5 million Islooites - ISLAMABAD: The entertainment-starved 1.5 million people of the federal capital are waiting for revival of cinema house in the city to enjoy movies on big screen. The city

Source: Daily Times

2010-04-05

The much-awaited Mahinda Rajapaksa National Tele Cinema Park in Ranmihitenna has completed its stage one. This giant cinema village will be opened by President Mahinda Rajapaksa on March 30. - Ranmihitenna is situated between Tissamaharamaya and Kataragama about seven kilometres from Tissamaharamaya. About two years ago, LTTE had massacred some villagers there. But things have come a full circle now and it has become the scene of festivity.

Source: Daily News

2010-04-05

India's Reliance Media Works Takes Over UFO's E-Cinema Operation - This past week the digital cinema pipeline into movie theatres in India became a little more narrow - figuratively, not literally or technically. On Thursday Reliance MediaWorks (formerly Adlabs), one of India

Source: Celluloid Junkie

2010-04-05

INTERNATIONAL INDEX TO FILM PERIODICALS - Created by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) in Paris in 1938, FIAF is a collaborative association of film archives whose purpose is to ensure the proper preservation and showing of motion pictures.

Source: YUL News

2010-04-05

Through the 3D looking glass - HERE'S A QUESTION for you. If we say 3D game changer we're sure that most of you will think of James Cameron's record breaking Avatar, possibly the first film in a while to be widely acclaimed for its technological merit alone. However, it was the Lumerie brothers, inventors of the cinematograph, who staked the first claim as 3D game changers.

Source: The Inquirer

2010-04-05

Digital cinema takes off in Europe - 3D screens account for 74 per cent of all digital screens in Europe, having increased in number six-fold during 2009. The number of digital screens tripled over the same period. France is now the leading d-cinema territory in Europe, with close to 1,000 d-screens at the end of 2009.

Source: Screen Digest

2010-04-05

Agora shifts away from print with cinema deal - Polish media group Agora AGOD.WA agreed to pay 25 million euros for control of cinema operator Helios in a move to lessen its reliance on the hard hit newspaper business, pushing its shares to an 18 month high.

Source: Reuters

2010-04-05

3D Flicks Spark Cinema Price Hikes - Expect soon to see a marked increase in rabid, shock-horror puff pieces from Hollywood

Source: P2PNet

2010-04-05

Cinema Treasures, Odeon Manly - Located in the Sydney beachside suburb of Manly. The Rialto Theatre was located midway along the southern side of The Corso, the main street in town. It opened on 23rd July 1923 with John Barrymore in "Sherlock Holmes" and Wallace Beery in "Thirty Days".

Source: Cinema Treasures

2010-04-05

NAB 2010 - Another DVS Debut in DCI - Launch of Fuze - Highlighting its current product portfolio for post production and broadcast at booth SL3305, DVS presents the latest addition to its video systems family: Fuze stars with its Digital Mastering capabilities. At this year

Source: DCinema Today

2010-04-05

Davao City eyes digital theater - Davao City (31 March) -- Davao City has a good market for movie theaters with top-of-the-line facilities as can be observed with the first 3D cinema in the city run by SM.

Source: PIA Daily News Reader

2010-04-05

20th Century Fox sign up SmartJog - Twentieth Century Fox and TDF subsidiary SmartJog have announced a non-exclusive deal for the satellite distribution of digital cinema content to theatres in Europe.

Source: Tech Watch

2010-04-05

Contracts Exchanged on St Albans Odeon - THE sale of the former St Albans Odeon to cinema entrepreneur James Hannaway went through today. Contracts have been exchanged between Mr Hannaway and the owners of the Odeon, Wattsdown Developments, following a campaign to raise

Source: The Herts Advertiser

2010-04-05

Bring Back Movies to the Drive-In - The Southington Drive-in is one of the last of its kind, not only in Connecticut but the entire United States and there's a push to restore it to some of its former glory.

Source: NBC Connecticut

2010-04-05

Arts Alliance Media broadens digital cinema reach - UK digital distribution group Arts Alliance Media (AAM) has agreed an exclusive strategic partnership with Japanese company Broadmedia, in order that the latter may launch digital conversion programme in Japan.

Source: Screen Digest

2010-04-05

VUE HELPED BY RECESSION - Vue Cinemas has cut its losses by more than a third as recession-hit Britons choose to save money by going to the cinema rather than nightclubs or restaurants.

Source: Reuters
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