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Paramount Signs Up To Arts Alliance’s VPF Deal

Paramount has become the third Hollywood studio to sign on to the European VPF plan proposed by Arts Alliance Media. The press release comes just in time for ShowEast. From the press release we learn that: AAM is the only studio-backed digital cinema integrator in Europe. In June 2007, AAM signed Eu…

Regal Q2: BO OK, D-Cine and 3D Plans On Track

Regal Cinemas’ transcript of their Second Quarter Earnings conference call provides some interesting insights into their road map for digital cinema and particularly for digital 3D. Overall BO is up slightly, mainly on the back of the billion dollars earnings from the trinity of threequels tha…

Larry Jacobson To Join Digiserve

Industry veteran Larry Jacobson is joining Digiserve as President this month, leaving Kansas and his role as President of the Entertainment Division of where-are-they-now server manufacturer QuVIS. For those of you who have not heard of Digiserve (full name: Digital Entertainment Services, LLC.) the…

Never coming to a big screen near you

A fascinating look in this New York Times magazine article (‘The New B-Movie‘) about straight-to-DVD films trying to ride on the coat tails of big Hollywood releases – and succeeding! The IMBD page for ‘Transmorphers’ is hilarious. Plot keywords are: ‘Lesbian / Ma…

Only Eat Popcorn In The Cinema!

Don’t eat popcorn at home, it might kill you! Better to eat your price-and-volume inflated corn kernels at your local ‘plex. At least according to this article in the Washington Post (‘Popcorn Concerns Put Work Safety Back on Agenda‘), which tells us that microwave home popco…

Halo 3 Bigger Than Spider-Man 3, But…

The Hollywood Reporter is not fooled by Microsoft’s PR spinners’ claim that first-day sales of ‘Halo 3‘ is “the biggest entertainment launch in history,” noting in the article (which it nevertheless made an e-mail bulletin of) that: “Halo” not only pas…

Rain = good cinema summer in UK

It appears that cinema have been making hay while the sun didn’t shine. Most British newspapers and websites seem to agree that it is primarily the weather rather than the quality of the films on offer, that made 2007 a strong box office summer. Take this article from The Guardian (‘Wet…

What are digital cinema manufacturers up to

DCinematoday‘s creator and editor Bill Mead casts a State-of-the-Union eye on the activities of all the different digital cinema equipment manufacturers in this article from Film Journal International. The conclusion is the most interesting thing about the article: Overall, digital cinema vend…

Marcus Theatre quarterly figures positive

The Marcus Corporation, the parent company of Marcus Theatres, reported its 2008 first quarter figures, which are looking good on the strength of a strong start to the box office summer. Total revenue was up over 20 per cent and operating profit was 11 per cent. The figures were even better for the…

Hungary to get first IMAX cinema

While Vienna has lost interest in IMAX, neighbour capital Budapest will the first (and probably only) city in Hungary to get its own IMAX cinema. According to a report on the website MTI, relating a story from business daily Vilaggazdasag, the screen will open by the end of October: A special projec…