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As Petula Clark almost sang about the cinema

An article about an Irish man falling asleep during a screening at Arklow’s Gaiety Cinema Group Multiplex only to wake up to find himself locked in, during the Christmas holiday season no less, leaves out the most important detail. Which film was playing that proved a snooze fest for at least…

Kinepolis blames 2007 downturn on films

An interesting difference between perceptions of cinema in Europe and US is that the success of a film or cinema year is that admissions are counted by number of admissions in most European countries but in the US bucks at the box office is the only measure. Hence, 2007 was recently hailed as a grow…

Casper, WY To Get 10-Plex, Wal-Mart style

Movie Palaces Inc. are expanding their five theatre empire in Casper, Wyoming with one more ten-screen multiplex on the east side of town. The Casper Star Tribune reveals that because of parking and building size issues downtown the multiplex has to be situated at the east side of town. Randy Pride,…

7/10 of IMAX’s China screens to be digital

Large format (LF) film company Imax has recycled an old press release about a ten-screen deal with China’s Wanda Cinemas first reported here back in September 2007. The only major thing different about the new press release appears to be that seven of the ten deployments will be the as-yet unt…

Cinema is a good place for violence – official

Or, freakonomic goes to the movies. Economists experts have come up with a finding that won’t please those who consider the cinema a ‘family friendly‘ place or those advocating more U/PG films (that’s you, Mr Fithian) – showing violent films in cinemas doesn’t inc…

2007 – the Year of Opera at the Movies

If there was one true surprise in the digital cinema industry this year it was that people were prepared to pay a premium for a night at the opera at their local multiplex. It was the New York Metropolitan Opera (The Met) that kicked it off in the early days of the new year withRead More

No ‘Welcome’ For ‘Sweeney’ At multiplex

Marcus Theatres has pulled “Sweeney Todd” from showing on any of its 49 cinemas as they thought Paramount was asking for too much. From Variety: “Unfortunately, as a result of the negotiations with Paramount reaching an impasse, Marcus Theaters will not be showing ‘Sweeney To…

No, no, no – Internet distribution WON’T kill cinemas

Print and on-line media have been getting WAY over excited about the straight-out-on-Internet release of Paramount’s Jackass 2.5 (less so about Hammer Horror’s return to production with the S-o-o-I release of Beyond the Rave). For a film that came across in its first outing (Jackass 1.0?…

Screenvision’s Loss Is XDCs Gain

Pan-European digital cinema integrator XDC has poached the Benelux head of pan-European cinema advertiser Screenvision to head up its virtual print fee effort as the company get a 7.5m euro cash injection. Serge Plasch is replacing Laurent Minguet as head and will go head to head with the likes of A…

Was this really the worst movie trailer of 2007?

While most newspapers and magazines devote December to the Best Films of 2007 (and sometimes the worst too), the LA Times has gone one step further and polled its contributors on the highlights and misses when it comes to the 60 second Cliff notes version of the film meant to entice the masses to th…