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10 Reasons Why Dolby’s Atmos Will Bypass Your Living Room for Your Headphones

Right from its launch, Dolby has made no secret of the fact that it sees a business for its Atmos immersive audio (IA) technology beyond the cinema. Part of the grand plan was just revealed at the Mobile World Congress currently underway in Barcelona – and it is a very different path from that…

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 27 February 2014

Research from Australia confirms what we have always suspected; cinema goers are a happier bunch than people who stay at home. Some 47% of Australians (more than 9 million people) go to the cinema at least once every three months, which means that only gardening is a more popular leisure activity. I…

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 26 February 2014

Our ‘Finally’ item from yesterday is today’s front page article; the opening of the first major multiplex in Jerusalem. Its opening is a big deal to the city. Many of Jerusalem’s movie theaters closed over the last two decades, leaving a dearth of silver screens in the city. For Ma…

Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 25 February 2014

Two article’s on the challenger to ROH’s event cinema opera supremacy in the UK. First is The Guardian’s take on ENO’s Peter Grimes showing and decision to hire rock music director Andy Morahan to film it. Overall positive, bar a few technical glitches. “English Nationa…

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 24 February 2014

A pop-up cinema in a former laundromat in New Orleans? We are intrigued. “Because films can be transferred through cloud drives and a presentation can be programmed on a basic computer program, almost anyone can show a movie now. And why not? Netflix may be convenient, but people will always c…

GUEST COLUMN: Review – The Lounge at Whiteleys by Sally Hurst

As both an ardent foodie and lover of film, this trend towards fine dining at the cinema, and I mean served right in your seat during the film, intrigued me. Quite often I find myself tempted to wait until a film hits Netflix so I can curl up on my couch with my favorite bowlRead More

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Will China Spoil the Party for IMAX in 2014?

Who doesn’t wish that they had bought IMAX stocks in 2001? Back then the once-great large format film company had been reduced to a penny stock on the back of US cinemas filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to get out of expenses leases and also costly contracts with IMAX. Digital was j…

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday-Saturday 21/22 February 2014 (bit late, sorry, but good one)

The alleged mastermind of the Peshawar adult cinema bombing that left at least 15 people dead has been arrested – in hospital, where he was being treated for grenade wounds. “The alleged perpetrators of the Shama Cinema blasts had taped hand-grenades to their thighs before entering the c…

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 20 February 2014

Econsultancy has done a good job of comparing and reviewing the ticket booking customer interfaces of UK’s three leading cinema chains: Cineworld, Odeon and Vue. This review has relevance for ticket booking experience over the web for every country, even though restricted to just three in one…

Cinema’s Dangerous Addiction to Sodas

The past couple of months have not only seen the 50th anniversary of the Beatles appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show and the premier of Stanley Kubrick’s nuclear satire Dr Strangelove: or, How I stopped Worrying And Learned to Love the Bomb. It is also 50 years since the landmark report Smoking…