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Technicolor’s Digital Cinema Hub In Singapore Is Not The News It Seems

Timed to coincide with CineAsia, news goes out that Technicolor is to set up a digital cinema hub in Singapore. This announcement is a great success for the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), which together with the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA), has been working for…

French Servers For French D-Cinema

Much to no-one’s surprise, French cinema chain CGR will use Doremi servers for their digital cinema deployment with Arts Alliance Media (AAM). This has less to do with both companies being French (though it doesn’t exactly hurt) than with AAM’s new found love for Doremi after the c…

Technicolor’s Miniscule D-Cinema Sign Up Is Still Poke In The Eye For AccessIT

Sometimes companies must wish that they could gloat more in standard press releases and none more so right now than Technicolor in announcing their first three digital cinema exhibitor clients: Clearview Cinemas, iPic Entertainment, Cinemaworld. On a strictly numerical basis it is very little to cro…

French Cinema Converted To Digital Cause

Arts Alliance Media (AAM) has converted an exhibitor in the staunchest of anti-digital countries, France, to buy into its virtual print fee (VPF) model for deploying digital cinema. Circuit George Raymond (CGR Cinemas) will convert all of its 400 screens in the first deal of its kind that AAM has si…

Beowulf Spells Bad News For Digital 3D Business

‘Beowulf’, the first ‘grown-up’ digital 3D release, is out and while it conquered the box office and heaps were praised on the 3D animation, the underlying numbers spell bad news for digital 3D. There’s been an avalanche of press releases, news, announcements and commen…

18-wheel cinema from Scotland to Afghanistan

If you can’t get people to the cinema, bring the cinema to the people. More specifically, wheel the cinema to where people are, however remote and inhospitable the region. That is how the Screen Machine Mobile Cinema has come about: It consists of an articulated unit, the trailer of which expa…

Japanese all-women theatre via fibre optics in cinemas

Of all the alternative content that has been tried in cinemas, theatrical plays is one of the smallest of sub-categories. With the exception of the recent Swedish Strindberg play beamed in HD to local cinemas, the closest we have come to this is the musicals of Broadway TV Network. But it is operas…

The Beyonce Experience (not the least bit) LIVE!

Sometimes digital cinema operators should be slapped very hard with the Trade Descriptions Act, or whatever the US equivalent is. Particularly ones that advertise a ‘LIVE!’ concert (capital letters, exclamation mark and all) of Beyonce, which is actually a recording of her shaking her bo…

Kids urinating in cinema – problem in Dubai

Next time you curse stepping on a sticky patch at your cinema, consider yourself lucky that you are not living in Dubai. It could be something a lot less pleasant than some old soda spill. That seems to be the view of this female cinema patron from Dubai, despite the fact that the country isRead Mor…

The best ever eats on the big screen

Forget the stale popcorn and overpriced soda at the concessions counter for a while and feast instead on this article from UK’s the Guardian on food portrayed on the big screen: What is the most famous food scene in all cinema? Could it be Samuel L Jackson interrogating the men he’s been…