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Kinoton Is Latest Victim of Switch to Digital Cinema

Venerable German cinema equipment manufacturer Kinoton is no more, becoming the latest victim of the switch to the digital projection of films. The company issued a press release on 31 March stating: We, the shareholders of Kinoton GmbH, have decided to dissolve the company and end its business oper…

Muppets most wanted

Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 1 April 2014

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dWQS8OCPUo[/youtube] Celluloid Junkie can exclusively reveal that Christie Digital is planning to counter Barco’s tri-screen ‘Escape’ system, launched at CinemaCon, by resurrecting the ‘Polyvision‘ triptych format invented in the…

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 31 March 2014

We’re back! With CinemaCon over, we resume normal service for the Daily. It was definitely an interesting show and in case anyone was wondering, yes, *we* saw 12 Years a Slave in the cinema. Apologies for those who were expecting to meet me in Vegas. Sperling flew the flag for Celluloid Junkie…

Nue multiplex Karachi

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday/Saturday 21-22 March 2014

Please note that there will be no Daily Cinema Digest next week during CinemaCon Cinema is enjoying a cautious renaissance in Pakistan, according to this long and detailed article in the WSJ. Squeezed as it is between the popularity of Bollywood from neighbouring India, which overshadows local film…

Wanda breaks RealD embargo

BREAKING NEWS: Wanda Breaks Embargo on Deal For 780 New RealD 3D Installations

CELLULOID JUNKIE EXCLUSIVE: It seems that China’s Wanda – the world’s biggest cinema operator and owner of American multiplex chain AMC – has broken its own embargo on an announcement for an expanded deal with 3D vendor RealD. It looks like this deal was set to be announced o…

Ceasar's Palace Las Vegas

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 20 March 2014

CinemaCon is just around the corner. The biggest annual get-together of cinema owners and operators from all over the world takes place 24-27 March and Celluloid Junkie will be there. Please note that there will be NO Daily Cinema Digest next week. Instead we will try to bring you breaking news and…

Brixton Ritzy worker protest

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 19 March 2014

A long running wage dispute between staff at south London’s Ritzy Cinema and the owners Picturehouse Cinema (owned by Cineworld) has intensified, with the the disgruntled workers releasing a new statement. Their latest statement – signed by the ‘Ritzy crew’ – disputes the accuracy of the stat…

is arthouse the new event cinema

Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 18 March 2014

SampoMedia asks if art-house films are the new event cinema. Given the recent complaint of the New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis that too many independent films get released, the question of how to stand out in a crowded marketplace that anyway competes with other entertainment platforms for…

Film Enters Its Vinyl (not Final) Age; Deluxe Closes Denham Lab as Cinelab and i-dailies Step In

The news that Deluxe is shutting its Denham lab on the outskirts of London is not so much another nail in the coffin of film as the announcement of the door-closing-ceremony long after the horse had bolted. Deluxe Denham had allegedly not been processing original camera negative for some time (as p…

Blitzmegaplex

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 17 March 2014

Having mentioned India and China as the interesting and important (respectively) Asian cinema territories in the last two Dailies, the time now comes to The One to Watch: Indonesia. South-East Asia’s most populous country is severely under-screened following decades of nepotistic governmental…