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Cinedigm Topper Adam Mizel Provides Industry and Company Update

As Show East got underway back in October North America’s largest digital cinema integrator, Cinedigm, published a press release that was meant to serve as an industry update on the digital rollout in the territory. According to Cinedigm there were 12,802 digital screens in North America out o…

First Run Movies Headed Into The Home At Premium Prices

The debate over motion picture release windows heated up again last week as two studios spoke openly about their plans for allowing limited home viewing of movies shortly after their theatrical opening. In addition, news came of a pricey new service looking to make films available in living rooms da…

Dutch Cinemas To Go Digital By 2012

Less than a year after the formation of The Foundation for Digitizing Dutch Cinema (Stitchting Digitalisering Nederandse Cinema), the group has found some of the financing required to convert Netherlands’ cinemas to digital. The organization was formed in July of this year by the Dutch Associa…

Prince William’s Royal Wedding May Be Broadcast In 3D

[/caption] When I first heard that Prince William and his longtime girlfriend Kate Middleton had become engaged to be married I certainly never thought I’d be writing anything here about their wedding. But when it was announced that the couple wanted their royal wedding to be a “people…

Odeon Selects Unique Digital’s Platform For Digital Rollout

Odeon & UCI Cinemas Group took another step forward in their digital cinema rollout this week by announcing their selection of Unique Digital’s software suite to help them manage digital content and equipment in converted theatres. With 1,802 screens spread across 202 venues in seven count…

Designer Brands Give 3D Glasses A Makeover

[/caption] Sometime last month I tagged a couple of blog posts about designer 3D glasses intending to write about them in the near future. After a Los Angeles Times story covered the subject yesterday, I figured it was about time to aggregate all the information into a post here. More than a year af…

Digital Domain Gets Dimensionalized With Acquisition Of In-Three

How important is 3D to the entertainment industry or is it just another fad? It’s a question that up until the release of “Avatar” was asked at every trade show and industry conference. But if anyone is still questioning the future of 3D in Hollywood, Thursday’s announcement…

Private Equity Firm Acquires U.K.’s Vue

Late last week Vue Entertainment, the United Kingdom’s third largest movie theatre chain, was sold to a private equity firm. Doughty Hanson & Co. will reportedly cough up GBP £450 million (USD $730 million) to take over the circuit. The news was picked up primarily by business and trade pu…

Fathom Brings Los Angeles Philharmonic To Cinemas

[youtube width=”560″ height=”340″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbvI2n_1Pb0[/youtube] After turning the New York Metropolitan Opera into a poster child for alternative content over the past five years, NCM Fathom is hoping to have the same success with the Los Angeles Philha…

Ballantyne Reports Strong Q3 Earnings, New CEO

Ballantyne Strong, Inc., a leading cinema equipment vendor and service provider, has been keeping their public relations staff busy this week with two important announcements. On Thursday the Omaha, Nebraska based company released their record breaking earnings for the third quarter of 2010. If you…