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CJ@ECA Conference: Farsight Blueprint of the Future – Discussion Session

Christine Costello from More2screen introduces the session looking ahead by quoting Bill Gates about over/under estimating change in the short/long term, as well as getting it wrong (as Bill Gates and Microsfto did with the Internet). There is no panel, but an opportunity for discussion between Chri…

CJ@ECA Conference: Utilising the Intermission to Generate Ravenue

The second breakout session looked at revenue generating opportunities in the intermission, presented by Atena Simovic, head of event cinema department in a multiplex in Bucharest with 13 screens for past three years, during which they have had over 500 events, which inlcludes renting out the venue.…

CJ@ECA Conference: Marketing Event Cinema panel

The first panel of the conference is a ‘big sofas’ discussion on the major and challenging topic of marketing event cinema, with a panel of truly leading industry expert. Each sofa sitter introduces him/herself and provides a background to their company. There seems to b a friedly compe…

CJ@ECA Conference: Keynote by Melissa Cogavin & Niels Swinkles

The second Event Cinema Association conference in London with live reporting by CJ from the event on the day. Opening with keynote from ECA's Melissa and Universal's Niels.

RealD Founders Michael Lewis and Josh Greer

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 3 October 2014

RealD shares debuted at USD $16 when the company first went public but are now languishing at less than ten dollars, so this unsolicited take-over bid should not come as a surprise. RealD Inc. (RLD), the supplier of 3-D technology to cinemas, received a $12-a-share takeover bid from Starboard Value…

Billy Elliot

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 1 October 2014

Event cinema has a new hero and his name is Billy Elliot, having grossed more on the day it beamed than The Equalizer, the highest grossing film. Universal’s live stream from London’s Victoria Palace Theatre last night [Sept 28] danced its way to an extraordinary $3.1m (£1.904m), setting a new recor…

Chen Xing technology laser

China Special Cinema Digest – Thursday 25 September 2014

Today we catch up Chinese cinema news from the last couple of weeks, which I was unable to report while travelling. As always, the Google translation is not perfect, but as we do not have a journalist on staff who can translate perfectly from Mandarin (yet!), it will have to do. We are also savingRe…

ECA awards

Event Cinema Association Awards Nominations Out

One of the key feature of any cinema-related conference or event is the awards and recognitions of excellence in its field. So it is too for the Event Cinema Association, which kicked off with its inaugural conference and ECA Awards in London last year, where there was recognition for the likes of …

Iosono lab

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 24 September 2014

Barco is doubling down on its immersive audio efforts by hiring away IOSONO’s audio team and setting up what is now called Barco Audio Technologies [BAT?]. This could potentially mean moving away from a dependance on the Auro brand and Auro Technologies partnership, though the latter is quoted…

CJ@IBC ‘Laser Projection part 1 – Seeing is Believing’

Peter Lude’ (now with Real D) dives straight into the deep end of the many questions buzzing about laser ILLUMINATED (his emphasis) projecton, ranging from safety to speckling. He even provides a quick Cliff Notes answers to those questions (see above). He then outlines the afternoon (in two…