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RealD puts digital 3D on really big screens

There is only one place you won’t be able to watch ‘Beowulf‘ in 3D this weekend and that is at a really big conventional cinema screens. That is because stereoscopic cinema technology is ‘light eater’, which means that if you want to watch it on something larger than a…

Korean cinema rivals unite for digital

In the first international example of digital cinema bringing together exhibitor adversaries, South Korea’s CJ-CGV and Lotte Cinema have pacted for a digital cinema deployment venture. The two cinema majors have formed a 50/50 joint venture to accelerate digital cinema deployment in a country…

A cinema holiday bigger than Thanksgiving

That would be Diwali, celebrated in India, its neighboring states and NRIs (non-resident Indians) all over the world. The five-day Festival of Light has in recent years become the favourite holiday for the big ticket Bollywood film releases. And this year was the biggest of them all, with the head-h…

Emerging Pictures bring live Italian opera to US

US digital inde cinema pioneer Emerging Pictures will be bringing live opera from Italy’s most famous opera house, La Scala, to cinemas and other venues all over the US starting this December. It is a major coup for the indie digital veteran and should prove a boon for its business in targetin…

Indians Storm Texas Cinema Market

Indian exhibition company Pyramid Saimira Theatre (PSTL) has become the first Indian cinema operator to enter the US market with the acquisition of FunAsia cinema, radio and banquet halls (!) operation in Texas. The exhibitor operates 11 screens in Houston and six in Dallas where it mainly shows Hin…

AccessIT Signals Phase 2 of Digital Deployment

AccessIT, the company that kick started the roll-out of digital cinema in the United States, has given details of its ‘Phase Two’ deployment plans. With the goal of the first 4,000 digital screens now in sight, the speculation had been whether they could extend the first phase to the oft…

Digital Starts To Bite At Ballantyne’s Profit

Projector maker Ballantyne of Omaha‘s Q3 2007 figures are in and it is evident that digital cinema is starting to eat into the company’s revenue and profits. Net revenue is down 3.5 per cent compared to a year ago and gross profit was down from $2.2m to $2.1m – not a huge drop, but…

South Korean cinema industry sings the blues

All is not well in the South Korean film and cinema industry, or rather, not as well as it had been for the past few years. South Korea has recently been on of those rare territories where local films outperformed Hollywood imports. But now things are in decline and the slump is based on illegalRead…

IMAX vs. RealD Beowulf 3D smackdown at Regal

An epic battle is brewing at Regal Cinemas this month, with ‘Beowulf‘ going up against itself in on both IMAX analogue 3D and RealD‘s digital 3D systems. According to the Regal press release there is even two different names for the movie experience, depending on which one you opt…

Has Brazil cracked cinema-on-demand concept?

While Tivos and iPod have liberated consumers from the tyranny of fixed TV schedules and pre-set playlist orders of songs, cinemas remain a viewing-by-appointment medium. So could digital technology end this and make it a more show-by-show consumer demand oriented medium? The Brazilians appear to be…