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Ballet beamed by satellite in Oz

Cinema goers in remote part of Australia will soon be able to watch live ballet from the Sydney Opera house at their local multiplex. It is the latest in the snowballing alternative content market for cinemas that truly began with the Metropolitan Opera’s live transmissions worldwide. The arti…

Plug for Swedish exploitation weekend

A small but shameless plug for an event I helped organise. Next weekend London’s ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art) is showing a four day retrospective of the best Swedish exploitation films from the 1960s and 1970s. While everyone likes to associate Swedish cinema with Ingmar Bergman, a film…

Russians re-discover cinema going

After several years of post-Soviet decline, cinema going is picking up in Russia on the back of new multiplexes and a boom in local production. Two articles highlight how the country has turned itself around from a state of rampant piracy (still prolific) and closing cinemas to a new found confidenc…

Pacific Equity Partner Acquires Hoyts Cinemas

Australian exhibitor Hoyts has been sold to Pacific Equity Partner in a defeat to India’s Pyramid Saimira Theatre, which had pursued the deal aggressively. James Packer’s Publishing & Broadcasting Ltd. and West Australian Newspapers Holdings Ltd. are reported to have sold Hoyts Austr…

Finally, an anti-piracy video with bite

Pearl Jam concert ‘exclusively’ in digital cimema

Apparently Seattle grunge rockers Pearl Jam are still around and will be appearing on a screen near you, at least if you live in one of a handful of US or UK cities, on 24 and 25 September. They are the latest act whose concert has been recorded in high definition an 5.1 surround soundRead More

UK’s Cineworld Sees Half-Year Profit

The United Kingdom’s first stock market listed cinema chain Cineworld has reported a profit for the first half of 2007 on the back of blockbusters and home-grown hits such as “Hot Fuzz” and “Mr Bean’s Holiday“. However, it was mainly the Hollywood blockbuster in t…

Do games work on the big screen?

Less than two dozen posts and we are fearlessly tackle the Big Questions About The Future OF Cinema in this blog, such as do games have a future in the multiplex. As games get more sophisticated in terms of graphics, plot and budget, attempts are being made to transplant them to the cinema environme…

Nobody wants to buy Vienna’s IMAX

While IMAX theatres are growing faster than bamboo in China, it appears that nobody is interested in acquiring the old IMAX cinema in the centre of Austrian capital Vienna. The large format (LF) cinema shut its doors two years ago and the property owners Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft (ironically enou…

Leaded, unleaded or a cinema ticket?

Indian refinery company Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) is branching out from petrol station – into forecourt cinemas. As income declines from retail petroleum products BPCL thinks that it can revive its fortunes by pumping out digital cinema features in halls all across India. Wit…